Sen. John McCain okay with jobs and business losses from TPP.

Imagine the following audio comment from Sen. John McCain being said by Hillary or Obama. Imagine the Republican outrage!!!

Posted Friday, June 12th 2015 @ 8pm: Sen. John McCain joined The Chris Merrill Show to discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership Bill:

"There [are] some people who and businesses that can’t be protected, but frankly they shouldn’t be protected really, when you get down to it, if it means a lower cost to the consumer of some goods and services that then more Americans can afford them." -McCain

Greg Spotts' documentary "American Jobs" tells us what we need to know about TPP.

Greg Spotts directed what is still a relevant must see documentary, "American Jobs." With the Trans-Pacific Partnership threatening even more jobs in the U.S., it's time we look back at all warning signs.

Why do we have long term unemployment, declining wages and more people living in poverty? Well, we instinctively know the answer, trade deals that exported jobs, but political and corporate interests have done everything they can to obscure the truth. Research has shown "free trade" has hurt labor in the U.S., and diminished the middle class. From the myth of a "skills shortage," to guest worker Visa's for supposed labor shortages, something has to change. From 2005 or so, this CNN appearance:



See more here, from the dearly missed PBS show NOW:

Job Killing Trade Agreements!

From the Economic Policy Institute, research that proves free trade agreements kill U.S. jobs:

How does Selling our Cows to Vietnam create jobs in Wisconsin?

The conservative daily trash delivered to our house everyday, Wisconsin State Journal, had the most amazing editorial supporting the Vietnam (Trans-Pacific Partnership) trade deal: 

According to Paul Jadin, who leads the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation … Vietnam has the third fastest growing economy in the world, and it wants to buy more Wisconsin products, including dairy cows.

Dairy cows? It’s like selling the goose that lays the golden egg. Cows aren’t products, they provide the product, or am I missing something here? Once they're bred there, then Vietnam won't need anything else from us.

But in what can only be described as a surreal moment, the Wisconsin State Journal in supporting their case for a trade deal with Vietnam, claim the people there want taller children.

"They are coming right out and saying that 'We want your diet,'" Jadin said. Part of the attraction to Wisconsin food products is a desire by many Vietnamese people to have taller children, he added.

The Asian people are so short…?

One more point: Never having learned their lesson on offshoring our economy;

Trade, of course, is a two-way street. Some industries face tougher competition when barriers fall … Free trade allows more people access to more of what they want and need at better prices, which boosts the economy. It's not a zero-sum game.

Saving money at the checkout counter is a fair trade off for losing more jobs to offshore countries with slave labor like Vietnam? Really?