[expat_panama]

fwiw, here's the TPP Full Text.  My bet is that the deal will be on ice until it's passed in late December, and the deciding votes in favor will magically be anyone already leaving office.

[central_va]

Global fascism.

[867V309]

The maniac-stream-media demagogs Trump as anti-trade, when he has said from the beginning he wants deals better for the U.S.

I can't begin to express the hatred and disgust I have for the media liars.

[Albion Wilde]

the trade policy of today has moved far beyond that of the 1990s. Now multinationals operate global supply chains. Large and small firms alike must operate seamlessly with each other... ...digital trade chapter seeks to establish a free, open market for digital goods and services and limit countries' abilities to restrict information flows...

What does that have to do with manufacturing businesses? That's what we want to bring back within our borders.

[WRhine]

It ain't worth much. IBD used to favor trade policies that worked in America's favor. Yes, that was a long time ago before Wall Street explained to the newspaper what their trade policies should be...or else.

TPP will pretty much end America's remaining sovereignty as a independent nation state. If this abomination is enacted our laws and regulations concerning business will be decided by faceless international bureaucrats accountable to no one.

And you know a deal stinks when party leaderships have politically dead politicians do the dirty work. This is so today.

[pangaea6]

“Critics of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, such as Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, were convinced months ago that it would harm the United States... “

Hillarity a critic of TPP? Since when? Now they are trying to slowly make Hillarity a Populist. And months ago for Trump? The guy has been talking about the bad TPP deal since early last year. AARRGG this media is so dishonest!

[jdege]

I’m all in favor of free trade. It makes everyone richer.

But it doesn’t take thousands of pages and hundreds of secret agreements to make a free trade deal.

These “free trade” agreements aren’t about free trade, their about rent seeking.

[factoryrat]

Outsourcing, specifically to China, has become a vicious cycle. Nobody can compete with a communist regime that will steal everything that isn’t nailed down, and has a relatively unlimited slave labor force. In order to get ahead, or to be able to make anything at all, you now have to turn to china to make anything at all.

The US has basically moved their entire manufacturing base to China, and handed it to a totalitarian communist government.

So what are you going to do when the communist Chinese decide that ALL of that belongs to them now?

You have jack shit as a response.

[Lorianne]