And even those can be aborted if Congress and the President decide to. The biggest objection voiced on these threads is that we are giving up our sovereignty to foreign powers. That is total BS.
Even now we are in disagreements with the WTO. We have the choice to accept their rulings or not to, but the choice is ours and it is a choice Congress will make. No foreign power controls us.
Most opponents, imo, are backers of unions and others who can't stand the heat of competition. When they scream about all the harm these agreements are going to cause and you ask them to explain our present economy, they change the subject.
Same with those who fret over our trade with China.
So far, that's the way I see it. I've yet to see any of my sovereignty lost with the other agreements.
Most opponents, imo, are backers of unions and others who can't stand the heat of competition. When they scream about all the harm these agreements are going to cause and you ask them to explain our present economy, they change the subject. Same with those who fret over our trade with China.
Yes, this is the real issue and the one that Buchanan hangs his trade hat on. We have two issues to deal with. One, union wages frequently make our products uncompetitive with other countries and help lead to the deficit we are experiencing. The other is a two pronged problem. The low (in some instance, slave) wages paid in some countries, including China, and the subsidies given which make some products and services cheaper to export. The last is what most of the trade agreements were instituted to overcome. But they are still a problem with many countries.