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bvar22

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11. Good for Wall Street & the 1%... devasting for the American Working Class.
Thu Apr 24, 2014, 01:09 PM
Apr 2014
Korean Free Trade Deal devastating for US Workers
(The Korean Free Trade Agreement id the prototype for the TPP,
and contains much of the exact language)
What happened to the 70,000 jobs that the Korea Free Trade deal was supposed to create? They never materialized. Instead, U.S. workers lost 40,000 jobs in the first year of the agreement.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-cohen/koreaus-free-trade-agreem_b_4965492.html



"Obama Admin’s TPP Trade Officials Received Hefty Bonuses From Big Banks"
http://billmoyers.com/2014/02/20/obama-admin%E2%80%99s-tpp-trade-officials-received-hefty-bonuses-from-big-banks/


Study: "Trade" Deal Would Mean a Pay Cut for 90% of U.S. Workers
http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2013/09/the-verdict-is-in-the-trans-pacific-partnership-tpp-a-sweeping-free-trade-deal-under-negotiation-with-11-pacific-rim-coun.html



Nothing good for the American Working Class will come from this.


You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their promises or excuses.

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