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stillwaiting

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8. The problem with that line of thinking is this:
Mon Mar 30, 2015, 10:16 AM
Mar 2015

1. There are more vital and robust middle and working classes in many other OECD countries today.

2. All of the world's resources and wealth that have been accumulated from other countries has gone to a tiny sliver of assholes in America (My apologies to the VERY tiny sliver of Americans within that sliver that aren't assholes).

3. The TPP will undoubtedly hurt many Americans in the middle and working classes, but it won't hurt that same tiny sliver of assholes.

4. No, the TPP will be a vehicle where that tiny sliver of assholes will greatly expand their wealth and power, and it will come from the world's resources and wealth that you referenced.



I have little doubt that the TPP will make things more difficult for many people in many countries on a number of fronts (pharmaceutical prices in developing countries being one), but the capitalist class will be VERY well rewarded.

The TPP will punish the middle, working, and poverty classes. The very people who are struggling in this country. It's not going to punish the .1%/financial elite. They will continue to use up more of the world's resources and wealth.

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