Ok here's some reality. TPP was grossly unfair to the USA. Again it makes us pay for the ineptitudes of other governments, particularly the socialistic ones that always implode on themselves. Furthermore, you must have completely missed the most controversial chapter of the TPP that was kept top secret until it got leaked... the part about intellectual property. The IP provisions of the TPP would have allowed Chinese style censorship here in the USA, which is what the establishment wants. Go read the TPP sometime... then tell me how I'm wrong.


At some point someone has to give the country the bad tasting medicine. Previous socialistic policies have created a recipe for disaster, much like every other socialistic country in the world. Have you checked the utter disasters called the E.U., Cypress, Italy, Venezuela, Mexico? If the trade inequalities don't get fixed, we would eventually get to the point those other countries got to. Trade is good, unfair trade is bad. Why should we accept unfair trade policies? Why are you complaining about making the playing field equal?



p.s. it's been legally tested - I doubt you can claim that.



The Railway Labor Act Simplified



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Cypress is a tree.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/04/us-p...na-mexico.html


'We are the casualty:' US pig farmers brace for second round of pork tariffs from China, Mexico

"We put a halt on all investment, not just because we will be losing money, but because we don't know if growing in the U.S. is the right move if we won't be an exporting country," said Ken Maschhoff, chairman of Maschhoff Family Foods and co-owner of the nation's largest family-owned pork producer.

Maschhoff said the farm industry has been "asked to be good patriots. We have been. But I don't want to be the patriot who dies at the end of the war. If we go out of business, it's tough to look at my kids and the 550 farm families that look us into the eye and our 1,400 employees."

And speaking of going out of business:

70% of BMW's output from their factory in Spartanburg, South Carolina is exported to overseas markets. If Trump expands this trade war into the auto sector, those jobs get shifted to plants outside of the US and the customers will still buy those BMWs. But, those 9,000 good-paying jobs in Spartanburg disappear.

Trump is clueless and vindictive. If he expands this trade war into the auto sector: Brace for impact. Trump country will be hurt the most.

I'm voting to take the deal that's on the table. I'm voting Yes.

 

It's a beautiful place too...

• Cyprus
• With Greece on the brink, let's remember what happened when Cyprus' banks shut down

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At some point you have to do triage and put a bandage on it to stop the bleeding... we can't subsidize the world at our expense. Medicine always tastes bad, but it sometimes keeps you from dying of infection.



I'm voting NO to TA 1.0, and looking forward to TA 2.0.


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I'm sure a lot of jetblue pilots find the socioeconomic situation of an island in the Mediterranean very relevant in their yes-or-no decision.

 

Everything is connected. One grain of sand in Egypt affects things here in the USA. Right now the economy is strong and is getting stronger now that economic inequalities are being fixed. This means that we're in a record place of negotiation leverage after the slump caused by leftism influencing American politics. If the country goes back to the left, balance sheets will suffer and the economy will hide its money again and we will lose economic leverage. What happened in Cyprus is just one example of what could happen in a few years (in fact, business journals were speculating about it happening in the USA at the time!), leaving us with only a shadow of the bargaining leverage that we have now. It's a fact that airlines are making record profits, alongside record numbers of people traveling. If we don't capitalize now to get a good contract, we'll be stuck with an inferior contract for a looonnngggg time. TA 2.0



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Top secret, huh? Let me guess, only Fox “News” found out about this secret provision that managed to circumvent the Constitution. Gotcha.

That is hilarious. You might want to look at the GDP of those countries compared to the U. S. Then you might look into an Economics 101 course.

 

No... Fox News is part of the establishment. They stood to benefit from it. It came out in Wikileaks and also civil liberties lawyer organizations fought it. It allows corporations to have even more power to effectively censor free speech to an even greater extent than how Google, Facebook, Twitter, CNN, MSNBC, and even Fox put out fake news now. Perhaps you never heard of "shadow banning"?

• https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

And by the way, Obama and his friends in the UN *did* try to circumvent the U.S. Constitution.

• https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...s-of-american/

Fortunately the President can't just do whatever he wants; checks and balances stopped it, but the left will keep trying to dismantle the Constitution article by article with rationalizations.




I've taken economics 101. It didn't help anyone predict the current state of the economy, particularly for those with the letters P H D after their name. You can't always simplify complex scenarios into simple academic equations.



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Is that why good approval rating keeps rising?