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Old 08-08-2017, 11:59 PM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Rochard View Post
Where do you get that from? The TPP never went into effect so it's impossible to say it's "proven to lost jobs".

You need to understand that without the TPP we have no effective bargaining with all of Asia, which puts the world's largest economy at a complete disadvantage. This also allowed China to take charge of collective bargaining for ALL of Asia.
You can't compete with countries that have a much lower workforce than yours. The effects of this are why wages are stagnating. Removing the one thing that protects your country from this isn't a good thing. What needs to be done is to impose a higher tariff on countries like Mexico, Vietnam Brunei, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Peru, Singapore, etc.
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