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Playinghardball
Mar 2016
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)1. TPP is bad for this country
We need fair trade not free trade
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)2. H. Clinton is on the wrong side of the Free/Fair Trade issue. nm
n2doc
(47,953 posts)3. And the apologists who said the losses all happened before NAFTA can go pound sand
zentrum
(9,865 posts)4. She advocated for the TPP
when she was SoS, as well as for fracking in various countries.
Can't imagine why she's against them suddenly now. What a mystery.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)8. She isn't actually against the TPP.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)9. You're absolutely right of course.
and I meant fracking, not tracking!
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)11. and she plans only to "enhance"
social security.
kristopher
(29,798 posts)5. Maybe the lie about Nancy Reagan was to divert away from trade deals.
The lie about the Reagans will cost her far fewer votes than the constant drumbeat about her position on free trade deals.
Thanks for posting this.
PatrickforO
(14,569 posts)6. 'Free trade' as it exists under NAFTA, CAFTA and TPP
is not good for me, my family, you or your family. The American people have suffered with neoliberal capitalist bullshit LONG ENOUGH. It's time for BERNIE!
Ivan Kaputski
(528 posts)7. Free trade is only free for corporations.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)10. And on CBS Nightly News last week...
Nancy Cordes reporting, said that CBS had talked to an "expert" (UNNAMED) that said that job losses due to NAFTA were negligible!
artislife
(9,497 posts)12. Kick
senz
(11,945 posts)13. Hillary's sponsors are all pro-NAFTA, pro-TPP
This is her constituency.