Still not buying your rather veiled apologist’s defense of what is clearly a wretched (for ordinary people everywhere) trade deal. Is someone paying you to do that?
One thing I keep hearing about the TPP is that American workers will be put into direct competition with those in other countries that are paid tens of times less. Also that the deal will send thousands MORE American jobs overseas.
Overall, as one study warns:
The TPP would lead to higher inequality, with a lower labor share of national income. We expect competitive pressures on labor incomes, combined with employment losses, to push labor shares of national income further down, redistributing income from labor to capital in all countries. In the USA, this would exacerbate a multi-decade trend.
This deal was drafted and signed in secret by corporate and government elites because they knew that ordinary people won’t like what it has to say. I’m not liking what you’ve had to say in defense of it either.
