Why Is President Obama Having So Much Trouble Selling TPP?

[JDPriestly]

52. Hoyt, do you lie in the US. We don't have "peasants" in the US.

We have farmers like one of my cousins who has degrees in his field and who farms acres and acres of land very profitably.

The people who are anti-TPP are sophisticated, knowledgeable and have seen the havoc reeked by the past trade agreements we so naively entered into.

I don't think you are in the US. You are not talking about our sophisticated, well prepared workforce.

The products we are getting from these third world countries are horrible compared to what we could buy before NAFTA -- buy at prices that were affordable with our pre-NAFTA wages.

I still have cotton sheets from pre-NAFTA times. They are still great. The weave of our textile firms, the close weave holds up over time. I bought some fabric a few years ago, made some pants, loved them, wore them. My sewing held. The fabric shredded. That can happen but the American fabrics were so much better than the lousy stuff we are importing. If you are young, you don't know the old products and therefore can't compare the new ones to them. But it is a big mistake which suggests ignorance about what our economy was traditionally to say that you don't think our "peasants were ready for high skilled jobs."

Boy, that is so far from the truth. The best washers, Maytag washers, were made in Newton, Iowa. The workers were skilled and had a wonderful work ethic. I have lived in other countries. No people on earth has a better work ethic than Americans.

Again. What country do you live in?