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TPP was a long term deal before the US would see an advantage. The problem is it would have bleed a lot of jobs and to make it be viable the US govt would have to invest heavily in retraining programs for those who lost jobs.
The end goal was to force China to be held accountable for IP rights and forcing them to be an equal trade partner and end the theft & counterfeiting. The problem is we all know the US govt wouldn't spend heavily on job retraining as the govt didn't do it for NAFTA and it would of taken 10+ years to see results in our favor..(but even then it would only be a gain for big business)
With that considered I didn't like TPP. It was just going to further fuck the middle class because we know our govt wouldn't do what was needed to protect the MC, but was just worried about the end goal of protecting IP rights for big business.
I have no issue with Trump doing this, but it's still a wait and see on how he deals with China..
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