Free trade? Try shipping something to Canada with UPS.
Yeah, well, aren't these the SAME trade pact that Dubya kept asking the moron Demonrats to pass, and they wouldn't? Now Hussein wants to claim credit.
Hussein is a punk.
"Reap" 250,000 jobs? I'm sorry, but I'd believe IBD if they said the pacts would export 250,000 jobs.
These free-trade treaties are victories for the banksters and people owning Stateside stocks with large overseas presence -- multinationals, in other words.
On the analogy of NAFTA, this will cost jobs bigtime.
These days politicians and 'experts' pull these numbers out of thin air and just spit them out. Just once I would like to see somebody ask them to put up the proof. Their numbers are completely meaningless. If half of what they say is true, we would have 600 million people employed in this country by now. It reminds me of the old body counts of enemy dead in Viet Nam. I think we wiped out the entire population of the country three times over before we ran away
The US needs to reward those who will trade freely and honestly with us and punish those who don't.
I’ve heard it several times and it has been verified by experts as being true: “even a blind pig occasionally finds an acorn”. I think the Food Stamp President and his lackeys are counting on this adage to prove that they are not total failures.
free trade with countries that have lower pay, lower taxes and lower tariffs will probably send jobs to those countries. Not that its necessarily bad except when leftists have made the US a bad place to invest, then its a bad thing.
Probably in South Korea, Columbia and Panama where the actual benefits will be realized at America's expense, per usual for these so-called free trade agreements.
“It’s a fact these treaties will bring new orders for factories, save family farms, strengthen strategic alliances with countries well worth having as allies, and open up breathtaking new opportunities in fast-growing markets.”
Lies. If any of this were true then NAFTA would have ushered in a golden age of prosperity, which it did not. The factories that get new orders will be in the other countries staffed by slave labor, the family farms saved will be outside the US, the treaties will tie us mostly to 3rd-world dungheaps with lots of slave labor, and the only breathtaking thing will be how fast our standard of living will drop as our own citizens struggle to find employment, because there is no competing with .35/hour wages.
This is a small piece of good news in an ocean of crud. But I’ll take it.
Obama had nothing to do with this. So everything good that happens is a “victory” for him and everything bad is tea party Republicans faults?
Free trade bad, government job good.
Long live the revolution!
Maybe we're waiting to see if this 'free trade pact' nets us the same kinds of 'benefits' that all other similar deals have over the past 30 years.
Who knows, maybe this time it'll be different.