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mindem Donating Member (353 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 08:43 PM
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Why do we need another trade agreement??
Have we had one single friggin' trade agreement that hasn't cost jobs? I wish they would shitcan that idea.
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Brickbat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 08:45 PM
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1. There are still some people in manufacturing jobs who need to be in some kind of service
job that offers half the pay and a third of the benefits. New free trade agreements are efficient ways to get people into those kind of jobs, or out of the job market altogether.
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OhioChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 08:45 PM
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2. Because corporations aren't wealthy enough...
Free trade only costs the US jobs, period.
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 08:51 PM
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3. Because the "job creators" want to bring more prosperity to...
themselves.
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Cool Logic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 09:05 PM
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4. So that the world's "in-crowd" of middle men can decide how to divide the rest of us up.
Why do you think trade agreements have so many pages?

Answer: So that they can have more of these § and these ¶.

You see, if you are "in," one of the those little things above, written by you and for the benefit of you, is on one of those pages.

What...? One of your's is not in there? Uh-oh...
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Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-05-11 09:40 PM
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5. How long before the three resident DU free trade nincompoops show on this thread to
tell us about the wonders of free trade and that we need even more?
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JoeyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 04:24 AM
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6. Because workers in the countries we have free trade agreements with are starting to organize.
Can't have that shit. Time to open up the markets to areas where you can hire a right wing death squad to fix your union problem before it can start. Then you can get your comfortable shoes manufactured for pennies on the dollar.
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-06-11 05:17 AM
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7. What we really need is Fair Trade. . .
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