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djean111

(14,255 posts)
2. A couple of weeks ago one of the guys who works at a big grocery store, with my grandson,
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 05:43 PM
Dec 2015

came up to me at the checkout and asked me if I had heard about the TPP. He was just finding out about it and was pretty angry.
Evidently this came up in the break room!

I told him, yeah, it was bad - and told him to remember which politician was against it, and which politician shilled for it.
I am going to use info about the TPP to influence the primary whenever I talk to someone about Bernie, and I was actually astonished that a 22 year old guy had heard of it, and knew enough to be pissed off, and that this is discussed by employees in the break room. Then I remembered that people this age, like my grandson, get their information online, not from TV. Yes!!!!!!!!!!

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