I tend to lump all recent US manufacturing killing “free trade” deals into one disgusting lump. Rep Kowalko admonishes us to pay attention to the singularly onerous TPP.
Why aren’t any of you focusing on the clear and ominous economic threat of TPP which if/when approved will allow non-signer China to provide a monopoly of slave-wage, environmental and health destroying manufacturing capabilities to the other 11 countries who can sell the finished products here with no repercussions written into the treaty.
This agreement is more threatening to the economy and jobs and planet than any “gold-standard” trade agreement ever written. I confirmed these facts with Obama’s deputy trade official in Seattle before the NCSL resolved to oppose TPP. Malaysia’s significantly horrid human-rights record forbade them from being a negotiating partner until our own state department upgraded their human-rights rating from a 3 (murder nuns and activists in the street) to a 2 (murder them behind closed doors) to allow them into the negotiations.
More info if you wish but everything about it is disgraceful and economically immoral. We can also discuss Dupont and Johnson Controls construction of brand new manufacturing facilities in China with absolutely no tariff or trade restrictions in play.
Representative John Kowalko
