TPP is all about numbers not jobs. The numbers are

[CK_John]

US has 280 million customers, while India has 1 billion plus, China has 1 billion plus, the rest of Asia has 2 billion plus.

So who has the loudest voice in these meetings, not the US. We are just a blip in the world customer base. Also we only produce and sell models for others to copy and sell back to us at 1/2 the price.

We are in a new era where productivity can only produce jobs for 30-50% of the world population.

So what ever we can get from the TPP is better than nothing.

[polichick]

1. Yikes...

[Mika]

2. If we just shipped all of the US jobs to said other nations, we'd have more customers.

[CK_John]

3. We have no jobs to ship.

[Mika]

9. Silly & uninformed hyperbole

[X_Digger]

4. Fuck.the.TPP.

Bill, is that you? Go tell Hillary you fell off the wagon again.

[CK_John]

7. Always snark and never a reasoned opinion of your position. Boring.

[X_Digger]

8. I gave your post all the intellectual attention it deserves. Not a bit more. n/t

[Cali_Democrat]

5. oh boy

[Cleita]

6. I call it spreadsheet politics.

It's two dimensional economic thinking in a three dimensional world. Somebody articulate, like Elizabeth Warren or Paul Krugman, have to speak up about it in public.

[Armstead]

10. Um, here's a simple solution

Why not push for a return to more domestic manufacturing of products for domestic markets?

India has 1 billion plus consumers. Seems to justify making investments in plants that make cars for Indian consumers, that are based in their own economies and conditions. Likewise for the US.

That would be a way to lift all boats, rather than the current form of "free trade" corporate globalization that is dragging all workers (and consumers) down to the lowest level.