Its curious that, given the history of the previous trade treaties of the past two decades and the current state of the US economy, the Times feels confident the TPP will do anything but continue to destroy the US economy. Of course, if you think the economy consists of stock prices, bond prices and GDP growth, then you might like these trade treaties. But if you think the economy consists of the economic welfare of the American people as a whole then the past decades of trade treaties have been massively destructive, offshoring/outsourcing of good jobs to poor nations and forcing desperate people into “mcjobs” that pay starvation wages all while enriching the predatory multinationals that actually write these treaties.
The Times is a firmly neoliberal establishment paper, and by ignoring the wreckage that is the US economy caused by four decades of trade “liberalization” and globalization, and by conflating and purposely confusing that which is good for American multinational corporations with what is good for the American people, they establish a massive lie in place of the obvious fact that another treaty like NAFTA will just add to the wreckage that is the US economy.
How does it feel to be so effectively propagandized you don’t even know you are being brainwashed? I imagine it feels pretty good. Until you wake up and you can’t find a job that will support your family anymore. But til then just keep drinking that kool-aid.
