Hillary Clinton: Bernie Sanders is "reflexively against" any trade deals
Sanders really has not offered an alternative. --that I know of.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-is-reflexively-against-any-trade-deals/
By Stephanie Condon CBS News March 14, 2016, 8:35 PM
Hillary Clinton: Bernie Sanders is "reflexively against" any trade deals
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton attends a town hall meeting hosted by MSNBC in Springfield, Illinois, March 14, 2016.
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Democatic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has taken heat from the left wing of her party for being slow to express opposition to international trade deals that could hurt American workers. However, Clinton on Monday suggested that her opposition to such deals was more thought out than her opponent's.
Bernie Sanders, she said in a Springfield, Illinois town hall televised by MSNBC, is "reflexively against anything that has any international implication."
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"I know you have to trade with the rest of the world," Clinton said, remarking that the U.S. can't forgo the economic potential of international trade, given that the U.S. is home to only 5 percent of the world's population. Clinton said she isn't sure if Sanders generally supports international trade.
"His position is so anti, he's against things before they're finished, before they're read," she said.
Clinton added that she's "learned some things from the 1990's," when the Bill Clinton administration passed NAFTA, "and I've put that to work." She noted that she voted against the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) as a senator in 2005.
Clinton also explained why it took her a relatively long time to come out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP], which the Obama administration supports. "I hoped that we could deal with currency manipulation...it turned out when it was all said and done, it didn't meet my standards," she said. ................
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Bright, wonky, compassionate, determined. She is going to be such a great POTUS. 
Like a broken clock he is bound to be right eventually, and then he will say he always knew--it was his superior "judgment" and he is so proud of himself. 
from the town hall.
bill that corrects the bad in previous trade bills - just as Obama had said he would do as president. It was one of his many campaign promises.
The TPP strengthens environmental protections (missing in other trade deals), worker protections (sorely lacking in other trade deals), the right to assemble and join a labor union (weak protections and membership countries were only allowed to write "a strong letter rebuking criminal behavior against violators), to stop international corporations from suing govt's (like a corporations suing and winning a huge settlement against Mexico - the country *for $15 million - called the Metaclad case!) and blame them for the lack of profits, to stop corporations from gaming the system, and to give governments the power to prosecute violators of those rights (like murdering labor workers and union members - for which there is NO recourse today by other countries other than to write a "strong letter of rebuke"
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And above all else, let's not forget, even though the United States doesn't have to participate in ANY trade deal, those trade deals will move on and become law with or without us.
Do we seriously want a strong economic country like China to write the terms and laws for trade deals that will affect U.S. goods, services, and environmental concerns?
Edited to add a sentence where the * is, and to add link.
As an ardent admirer of irony it appears to me that what Bernie seems to propose cannot happen within a USA vacuum.
Everything from manufacturing, trade, healthcare, drug prices, arms, to addressing climate change will REQUIRE international trade agreements; Global Citizens.
