How Can Obama Be For Workers & Support TPP? TPP Is A Bad Deal For US Jobs.

[TheMastersNemesis]

TPP is the kind of deal that will send even more well paying jobs out of country. The only jobs left are low paying service jobs that cannot be off shored. Besides we are importing a lot of foreign workers for those jobs.

The reason for stagnating pay is trade agreements. Competing with the global economy means working for global economy wages. Corporations are actually pushing WAGE PARITY with the global wage level. That level is well below even our present minimum wage.

He will be like Clinton and pass a REPUBLICAN bill in all actuality. NAFTA has really worked for us.

So look for falling wages in the future. But Americans will never elect someone like Sanders he is too pro worker and a Communist.

[HooptieWagon]

1. Answer: Obama isn't for workers. He's for Wall St.

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. Sigh. I Know. Is Any Legislative Bastard On Workers' Side?

Future workers are doomed economically short and long term.

[Renew Deal]

3. The Obama Admin believes TPP will create 650,000 new jobs

“Estimates are that the TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] could provide $77 billion a year in real income and support 650,000 new jobs in the U.S. alone.”

–Secretary of State John F. Kerry, in an opinion article titled “Alliances for Peace,” Jan. 14, 2015

“Completing the Trans-Pacific Partnership provides the opportunity to open up markets, lower tariffs and, according to the Peterson Institute, increase U.S. exports by $123 billion and help support an additional 650,000 jobs.”

— Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, in an interview with the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report, Jan. 26, 2015


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2015/01/30/the-obama-administrations-illusionary-job-gains-from-the-trans-pacific-partnership/

[HooptieWagon]

5. They always promise that. And gullible voters believe it.

Maybe they should be made to fulfill previous 'free trade' agreement promises before letting them sign another?

[AzDar]

10. This was said about NAFTA, too... was it not?

[Renew Deal]

11. Yes

[djean111]

4. Because Obama is not for workers. Simple as that. n/t

[jwirr]

6. And that is not the only question we should ask. TPP has a

section regarding medications that is going to make his ACA look ridiculous. I don't see this as good for his legacy.

[Doctor_J]

7. He can't. Duh.

Who ever thought he's for working people?

[mmonk]

8. Impossible.

[pampango]

9. FDR was for workers and he supported the ITO which GATT was part of. I doubt TPP is nearly as good

as the ITO would have been if republicans had not defeated it in congress. The proof and the devil will be in the details.

[Zorra]

12. The main function of Third Way legislators is to promote Wall St. profit interests.

Third Way legislators are permitted be socially liberal, but their socially liberal policies must first be approved by Wall St.