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Tuesday, August 13, 2013
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) cost United States workers 700,000 jobs. But another effect was to drive Mexican small farmers out of business.
In the brave new world of free trade, Costco makes tortilla chips and salsa in the US and trucks them to its stores in Mexico.
US Congress will soon debate whether to fast-track a trade deal that would make job-killers like NAFTA look puny. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is being negotiated by Australia, Brunei, Chile, Canada, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the US and Vietnam.
It would give corporations the right to sue national governments if they passed any law, regulation, or court ruling interfering with a corporations expected future profits.
More: http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/54739
djean111
(14,255 posts)Puzzledtraveller
(5,937 posts)We did it, so it has to be good, we as in (D).
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)agree with Obama on.
djean111
(14,255 posts)They will use all the worst parts (are there any good parts?) as campaign fodder against Dems. I think Dems may have to run as being against the TPP, when the secret secret details are revealed. When it is too late to do anything.
leftstreet
(36,117 posts)mick063
(2,424 posts)Probably divided among many, many issues.
What a perfect time to slip this "mickey" in our drink.
antigop
(12,778 posts)according to Business Week:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=67554