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Joe Turner

(930 posts)
4. "The decades-old argument that major trade agreements boost both exports and jobs"
Mon Jun 8, 2015, 09:18 PM
Jun 2015

It is laughable that corporate trade supporters still try to say this with a straight face when this country has lost tens of millions of good paying manufacturing jobs and trade deficits run into the hundreds of billions every year. There is no argument. There is only lies and spin as the results of corporate trade deals have made ever so clear...over many years.

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"The decades-old argument that major trade agreements boost both exports and jobs" Joe Turner Jun 2015 #4
Thank you vlakitti Jun 2015 #5
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