Q: Does the President consider the iPhone an "American product"?

[moondust]

He mentions the TPP being a good thing for "American products."

[arcane1]

1. I have been wondering if "exports" means more than just Blu-rays and financial instruments.

Very good question!

[pnwmom]

2. Which cell phones are American products? Why are you focusing on the iPhone? n/t

[moondust]

3. Incorporated in the U.S.

Headquartered in the U.S.

Largest market cap in U.S. history.

[delrem]

4. The US is very good at making bombs and their delivery systems.

I can't think of any way that any trade agreement, TPP or otherwise, could make war profiteering more cushy than it is today.

All I know is that the TPP is super secret, national security secret, so I have to trust the people putting it together, because it's for my own good.

Well, that seems reasonable to me.

[Jesus Malverde]

5. Of course he does.

Designed in california, built in china, it's success bolstering the US stock market seen as a benchmark for the American economy.

The stock market, not employment, is always the focus. There is no real benchmarks for the health of the american economy. Unemployment doesn't even count discouraged workers.

[moondust]

6. Okay then.

If it's good for Wall Street then it's good for working Americans.

Got it.

[liberal_at_heart]

7. part time, temp, and low wage jobs? No big deal. The stock market is doing fine so that means

the American economy must be doing okay.