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"Job-creating" ObamaTrade Requires Subsidies for Displaced U.S. Workers
The New American ^ | 12 June 2015 | C. Mitchell Shaw

Posted on 06/14/2015 9:58:19 AM PDT by VitacoreVision

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1 posted on 06/14/2015 9:58:19 AM PDT by VitacoreVision
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To: VitacoreVision
Creating jobs by eliminating jobs?


2 posted on 06/14/2015 10:01:30 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Claire Wolfe should check her watch. It's time.)
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To: VitacoreVision
Oh, the irony, from these Transnational Progressivists!

And we still have pro-ObamaTrade Cruzbots shilling for him and the destruction of America here on the Free Republic.

Un-friggin-believable!

3 posted on 06/14/2015 10:04:47 AM PDT by WIBamian (I will not be abused by liars.)
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To: VitacoreVision
If it creates an even larger idle class when manufacturing jobs are shipped overseas, it will add to the domestic problems we have. Everything in DC about trade should be on "time out" until some of those already existing trade deals are fixed or repealed.

The paradox in this bill in itself should've been enough for everyone to vote against it.

4 posted on 06/14/2015 10:05:46 AM PDT by grania
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To: VitacoreVision
Great piece from C. Mitchell Shaw.

It has been said that in America we have the stupid party and the evil party. Sometimes they get together and do something both stupid and evil. This, we call bipartisanship.

5 posted on 06/14/2015 10:08:20 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: VitacoreVision

Obama Trade = the real Capitalist Pigs.


6 posted on 06/14/2015 10:08:27 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Why are none of the news folks asking the Congress-critter of the day:"Why do you support this (process/agreement etc) when 2/3's of your constituents are opposed to it"?>p>http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/10/poll-majority-of-americans-oppose-obamas-trade-agreement-hurts-american-workers/

In what is left of the industrial cities, the number of surely smaller.

According to the Congressional Research Service 3.5 million MANUFACTURING jobs were lost in the US as a result of NAFTA alone.

Why is this data never cited?

Does ANYONE, on this forum or anywhere believe the US benefited to an extent that mitigates the loss of 3.5 million manufacturing jobs?

If so, make you case.

7 posted on 06/14/2015 10:12:15 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/10/poll-majority-of-americans-oppose-obamas-trade-agreement-hurts-american-workers/


8 posted on 06/14/2015 10:14:17 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18 - Be The Leaderless Resistance)
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To: VitacoreVision

Displaced American workers proves this Obamatrade deal is not in
America’s interest.

More welfare for American workers is not a good deal.
It is a bad idea.


9 posted on 06/14/2015 10:14:56 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: VitacoreVision

TAA was an attempt to pacify big labor that failed. That’s all.


10 posted on 06/14/2015 10:16:13 AM PDT by bkepley
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If so, make you case.

Probably wouldn't be able to get so much cool disposable stuff at the dollar store?

11 posted on 06/14/2015 10:18:43 AM PDT by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.)
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To: VitacoreVision

everyone goes on ObamaWelfare ?


12 posted on 06/14/2015 10:19:19 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: VitacoreVision

You have to lose jobs before you can get jobs. LOL! They think we are all as stupid as dogs.


13 posted on 06/14/2015 10:28:35 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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93 Million out of work. How many more have to be put out of work in order for the deal to work? The few whom are employed are already supporting way too many whom are not working. so senators and House representatives i would like to know what is the estimated amount of people this travesty would have to be retrained and for what specific jobs for retraining is to take place. The textile manufacturers are hit in the 62 page amendments to TPA.

What goodies will be added to Buy the votes to pass TAA. The bridge from Detroit to Windsor, Fast Rail in California. More Condoms and whatever. The bill already cuts Medicare reform - so the elderly and disabled will be hit and to what extant. Funny the disabled will not be able to get employment if there is a glut of job seekers because employers could not afford the modifications, nor would they have o hire anyone needing a modifications. So in essence the bill will blow up in the face of the elderly and disabled!


14 posted on 06/14/2015 10:32:04 AM PDT by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: VitacoreVision

Brilliant article. Thanks for posting.


15 posted on 06/14/2015 10:41:56 AM PDT by kabar
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the (Trans Pacific Partnership)

(TPP), (the Trade in Service Agreement) (TISA).

the (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) (TTIP) — has been kept hidden from the American people.

Not entirely....and maybe the lost jobs were in part due to refusal to change 'addresses'....people lose their jobs all the time, the government doesn't owe them a cent...Socialism v Capitalism 101.

16 posted on 06/14/2015 10:46:44 AM PDT by yoe
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What goodies will be added to Buy the votes to pass TAA.

That is what is really happening. The Dems are using it to squeeze more concessions from the so-called Rep controlled Congress. The Dems know that the Reps really want TPA and the agreements that follow, i.e., the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Trade in Service Agreement (TISA), and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

I predict that there will be a deal that will give the Dems (and Obama) all kinds of goodies in return for the passage of TAA - something the Dems really want. The net result will be a Dem victory that will portray the Dems as the defender of the American worker, however phony that may be, and cast the Reps as the corporatists who protect the wealthy. Total scam. The big loser: American workers once again.

Civilian labor force participation rate


17 posted on 06/14/2015 10:54:11 AM PDT by kabar
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Not entirely....and maybe the lost jobs were in part due to refusal to change 'addresses'....people lose their jobs all the time, the government doesn't owe them a cent...Socialism v Capitalism 101.

When government policies distort the marketplace, who should be held accountable? Why are we bringing in 1.1 million LEGAL PERMANENT IMMIGRANTS a year and 640,000 guest workers annually? When you have a surplus of labor, and we do with the lowest labor participation rates in 38 years, why do we need more foreign labor, which take American jobs and depress wages. We have brought in 30 million LEGAL PERMANENT IMMIGRANTS since 1990.

The rights of the American worker versus mass immigration. Do you think that there might be a connection between declining wages, low labor participation rates, and bloated welfare rolls and mass immigration? Capitalism 101. The corporate and political elites have made this all possible.

18 posted on 06/14/2015 11:02:38 AM PDT by kabar
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What I recall from the wave of eliminating manufacturing jobs was that those displaced workers would be retrained in high-tech jobs, like IT workers.

Now they’re increasing the number of H1-B visas, to help eliminate the jobs of those high tech workers. I wonder what new careers the IT workers at Disney will be re-trained to do... Maybe to wear the Mickey & Minnie costumes in the Disney parks for minimum wage...

Mark


19 posted on 06/14/2015 11:21:55 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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They should just outlaw being an American.


20 posted on 06/14/2015 11:22:42 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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