They are doing just fine now;
The problem with trade is not with the rest of the world - just Asia.
If the deal is so good, why is it secret?
Free trade is a good thing. Above all, its efficiency and benefit is based on simplicity - equal terms and mutually accepted conditions among all participants.
Why then does Obama need to negotiate in secret?
The only foreigners the Rats want are uneducated and unskilled and likely to vote for Rats.
It has absolutely CRUSHED US manufacturing and very nearly destroyed the middle class.
The lower classes have no "next rung up" on the ladder.
American Capital has funded the rise of our enemies and it's siphon has nearly bankrupted all of us.
The mercantilists of the world now circle like buzzards over a dying corpse that used to be a great nation.
Wasn’t Mitch trying to push this deal for a yes vote?
Tens of millions of our people out of work, and the best the idiots can do is champion more of what resulted in what’s going on now.
They were told trade with China would gut our economy and labor force.
Now that our economy and labor force are gutted, they come back to offer more of the wonders of trade.
Pure insanity.
Califoprnias economy has transformed into a service sector economy rather than a manufacturing economy.
I love these comments that less people are working because our workers today are more productive.
I guess nobody is employed in China making things for sale in the U. S. then. Good to know.
Bull stuff!
If the free trade is so hunkydamndorry, then it does not need the secrecy. But its the nigglingnaggling details and sidebar agreements hidden within that cause the angst and suspicion.
Negotiate the trade deal...then examine it in a very public senate debate.
This authority enables all sorts of mischief. After 6 years of lies and deceits, you would think the author might be a bit suspicious himself.
Commies ABANDON Free trade.?....
When were they ever for it?...
MAN.... can people be so dense...
Seems few know what communism is anymore..
-OR- even that it’s, in fact, SOCIALISM...
Huge payoffs for politicians - while selling American workers down the river.
So? We already have agreements with some of these countries. Then there should already be low tariffs for imports to these countries. Also, the main point is for bringing in more imports to here, China might be large, but their purchasing power is not as great as ours.
We just did a trade agreement with Korea. How is that working out for US?
Didn't Democrats already do away with those with their Cash for Clunkers program, money which then went towards the purchase of foreign-made cars?
-PJ
Time to put America first. I didn't always agree with Pat Buchanan, but I damn sure do on trade. NAFTA killed us.
They are doing just fine now;
The problem with trade is not with the rest of the world - just Asia.
True free trade wouldn’t involve these treaties and government actions. But, we’ve never been that free and never will be.
skittles and unicorns will be flying out of my butt with expanded free trade!
what a shill
If you want free trade just remove tariff's and restrictions against the other nation.
These are managed trade deals, that is why they have to be kept secret.