Posted on 06/20/2015 5:15:31 PM PDT by dragnet2
GOP presidential candidate and billionaire businessman Donald Trump slammed President Obama’s trade agreements – especially the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) – which Obama argued the United States needs in order to better compete with China.
However, according to a recent report by Politico, China may be trying to enter the TPP – defeating Obama’s main argument for finalizing the deal.
“Of course China wants to join the trade negotiation because the deal is so pathetic and so bad,” Trump told Breitbart News.
He added that China would continue to take advantage of America’s stupid politicians, who don’t know what they’re doing.
Trump warned several weeks ago that China could come in through a docking agreement, which would allow a country – like China – to come into the agreement at the back end.
Trump said Obama’s negotiations are “so weak and so pathetic,” adding that America has “incompetent people” negotiating this agreement
Trump said the TPP would be a terrible agreement for jobs in this country, and that America is already losing a fortune to China – adding that it is hard to believe it’s going to get worse.
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I am all for trade deals that doesn’t result in more American job losses. Jobs for Americans are more important than how much more money XYZ Inc. can make moving operations to 50centsanhrland in Asia.
I am for protectionism over enlarged export markets, because larger export markets that don’t result in more jobs here are economic suicide.
TPP is the worse of them all and we don’t even know all the dirty details. TPA guarantees TPP, and increases the likelihood TPP will be more harmful to us than without TPA.
Note: this topic is from 06/20/2015. Thanks dragnet2.
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