The hits keep coming. Obama embraces Bush's job killing free trade deal.

[Elwood P Dowd]

How many times does this man think he can stab us in the back and expect our support in 2012? He embraced some minor tweaks on the Korean NAFTA style trade agreement and prepares to send it to congress for a vote. He puts some lipstick on a pig and expects us to kiss the damn thing. Please check Out Public Citizen for the details......


http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/

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As Paul Krugman said, Korea FTA proponents are flat-out wrong about the economic impact of the FTA. In fact, the FTA will likely destroy jobs, increase the trade deficit, and hinder the U.S. economic recovery.  Now that the Obama administration has taken ownership of the NAFTA-style Korea FTA without substantive fixes, it should expect more job loss in the next few years and voter rage in November 2012.

http://citizen.typepad.com/eyesontrade/2010/12/obamas-decision-to-push-bushs-nafta-style-korea-trade-deal-without-real-fixes-is-major-policy-political-mistake-press.html

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Why the administration would consider moving another NAFTA-style trade deal is inexplicable, especially given that export growth under past U.S. free trade agreements was less than half of that to the rest of U.S. trade partners. Bush-era International Trade Commission studies show the Korea deal will increase America’s trade deficit, and Americans across diverse demographics are united in opposition to more-of-the-same trade policy.

Choosing to advance Bush’s NAFTA-style Korea free trade agreement rather than the new trade policy President Obama promised during his campaign will mean more American job loss and puts the White House at odds with the majority of Americans who, polling shows, oppose more-of-the-same job-offshoring agreements.

Merely tweaking the “cars and cows” market access provisions of Bush’s NAFTA-style Korea trade pact but leaving in place the offshoring-promoting foreign investor protections is a slap in the face to the majority of Americans who, according to repeated polls, oppose the same old trade policy that has cost millions of American jobs.

[aquart]

1. Is he gonna brag about this, too?

Or tell us again how helpless he is and how mean we are?

[bigwillq]

3. ....

:thumbsup:

[Jakes Progress]

14. Not just brag, but whine about how stupid you are

not to praise him for it.

[Hello_Kitty]

2. Shut up and smile you sanctimonious purist far left extremist!!

[Poboy]

12. He sounds like he needs to be drug tested!

[Dhalgren]

4. In the last depression, Herbert Hoover did better than this!

Is it beginning to sink-in with folks, yet? There is no place to go except the streets...

[Kalyke]

16. Or the Internet.

Wikileaks and their pals, Anonymous, seem to be putting the fear of Revolt into our Corporate Overlords.

[Laelth]

5. An alleged Democrat is doing this to labor?

It's as bad as NAFTA. I can not abide this Administration.

-Laelth

[griffi94]

6. i'm sure

someone will be along shortly to explain how this is a good thing.
and how obama was really for this all along, and how it's not his fault the gop made him do it.

[somone]

7. Obama: Tax deal could yield 'millions of jobs'

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5imWaniQyo75qkzOyAE_Y5SrP8jeQ?docId=b6fc926de7a9437594aacf419e3eb91a

Yep, the real secret for creating jobs is more tax cuts for the rich. :sarcasm:

[niceypoo]

9. That is the GOP supply side line we have heard for 30 years

Change you can believe in

[niceypoo]

8. Whatever happened to 'Hope'?

I notice his hardcore supporters have dropped that mantra completely.

[piratefish08]

17. things changed.

[Egnever]

10. This deal has more to do with strengthening south korea

As a bulwark against the north than creating jobs IMHO.

[Hello_Kitty]

13. And also allowing China to funnel more cheap goods through them. eom

[Egnever]

18. Yes because South Korea and China are such huge allies!

:eyes:

[Hello_Kitty]

19. Greed makes strange bedfellows. eom

[Egnever]

20. LOL

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Still a Democrat]

11. Too bad Nader brought us Bush in the first place

I wish he'd been concentrating on Public Citizen in 2000.

[lfairban]

21. No, not Nader . . .

. . . that was Gore that brought us Bush.

[RetroLounge]

22. Grow up

RL

[Karmadillo]

23. Who would have thought that the Obama administration would be such a disaster that his last ditch

supporters would be forced to be beat up on Ralph Nader to try to change the subject?

[Pale Blue Dot]

24. +1

:applause:

[fascisthunter]

26. a sign of the times

nothing honest seems to come from that direction.

[fascisthunter]

25. to bad that's a lie, huh?

.... only losers blame others for losing.

[Newest Reality]

15. I'm not suggesting that it all seems to be

going according to some sort of theme as if following a script, yet there is this jigsaw puzzle in my head that has new pieces falling into it as if it is self-completing.

My cognitive dissonance is resolving itself without any effort on my part! Yow!

The spokesmen for the official, government-issue Product(tm) are power-selling and the press conferences are starting to look, sound and feel like infomercials. I've been hearing that, once you buy it, it falls apart rapidly and the warranty is invalid upon receipt.

[DainBramaged]

27. News, travels slowly outside of Union circles

Bill Clinton lives in 2010.......