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Related: About this forumObama in Vietnam: American workers and American businesses are better off if we get TPP passed
Published on May 23, 2016
Obama on TPP @11:15
Obama confident TPP will be ratified in US despite intense opposition
23 May, 2016
Even though ratification of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has stalled in the US, President Barack Obama said hes still confident the trade deal will earn the support of Congress.
"I remain confident we are going to get it done, and the reason Im confident is because it is the right thing to do. Its good for the country, its good for America, its good for the region, its good for the world," Obama said during a joint press conference with Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang in Hanoi.
Leaders signed the 12-nation TPP, which includes the US and Vietnam as members, back in February, but it still requires ratification from each countrys lawmakers before it can go into effect. That process has stumbled, though, as public outcry against international trade deals increases. In the US in particular, all three major-party presidential candidates have come out against the deal.
In Vietnam, Obama reiterated why he believes the TPP is so important, noting that the Asia-Pacific region is the fastest growing part of the world and represents a huge market for the US. He said the TPP would eliminate some 18,000 tariffs that have been placed on American goods sold in Asia.
"I have not yet seen a credible argument that once we get TPP in place we are going to be worse off, he said. We are demonstrably better off. American workers and American businesses are better off if we get this deal passed.
However, opponents have railed against the TPP from the outset, criticizing the secret, years-long negotiations and arguing that it will primarily benefit large corporations, not workers. Protesters have argued that many of the regulations that would be stripped away would negatively affect laborers and the environment.
It would make it easier to offshore American jobs, and it would push down their wages by putting them in direct competition with workers in Vietnam who dont make but 65 cents an hour, Lori Wallach, the director of Public Citizens Global Trade Watch, a non-profit consumer advocacy organization, told RT
Read More: https://www.rt.com/usa/344120-obama-vietnam-tpp-trade-deal/
The more Americans hear about TPP, the less they like it - Director of Global Trade Watch
Ed Shultz talks about the TPP
Published on Feb 23, 2016: President Obama is asking governors to push the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But is this a last chance at passing the TPP? A closer examination of some of the pro-TPP studies reveals some fishy data. RTs Ed Schultz is joined by Lori Wallach, Director and Founder of Global Trade Watch, to discuss what could be Obamas legacy.
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Obama in Vietnam: American workers and American businesses are better off if we get TPP passed (Original Post)
nationalize the fed
May 2016
OP
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)1. He hasn't seen anything to give him doubts?
Nothing?
Fascinating. Frightening, also.
nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)3. +1
This will be his main legacy if he manages to ram it through Congress. This and the law that requires everyone alive to pay insurance companies for the rest of their lives- without the promised public option and the complete destruction of Single payer (Thanks Baucus)
djean111
(14,255 posts)2. That's because Obama is not actually looking.
Or hearing. Simple as that.