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In reply to the discussion: I have realized I don't give a shit if Ellison or Perez wins the DNC chair job [View all]grantcart
(53,061 posts)21. You mean the TPP that peer review analysis shows will add $ 300 billion to US wages?
It amazes me how Democrats will recommend peer review analysis of climate change to Republicans but not accept it for economics.
https://piie.com/publications/wp/wp16-2.pdf
And what are the countries that want to be part of the TPP
Canada
New Zealand
Singapore
Japan
etc
And Bernie's REASON for being against the TPP? Let's go to his official "Feel the Bern" Website
http://feelthebern.org/bernie-sanders-on-china/
Bernie firmly believes that current trade relations with China are detrimental to job growth and wealth equality in the United States. Referring specifically to the 2015 Trans-Pacific Partnership, Bernie has decried trade deals with China as being designed to protect the interests of the largest multi-national corporations at the expense of workers, consumers, the environment and the foundations of American democracy.
A growing trade deficit with China has led to the loss of over 2 million U.S. manufacturing jobs since 2001.
This is nonsensical jibberish. The TPP is not an agreement with the Chinese, it is a grouping of countries that want to fight Chinese economic expansion.
It was originated by the developed and fast developing countries of the Pacific that want to find an alternative to China over the next century. They have two basic alternatives, US or Europe.
China's neighbors have long term concerns about China and are looking for a trade deal where their lower wage, lower capital, lower skill products can find a market here (in factories that haven't done well in the US for decades) and want to buy high wage, high capital, high skill products like this:
http://www.geekwire.com/2016/boeing-seals-deal-11-3-billion-sale-737-max-jets-vietjet-airlines/
So I wonder if Elllison is also against the TPP because it is so generous to the Chinese (as Bernie mistakenly thinks) when it is in fact an anti Chinese trade platform.
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I have realized I don't give a shit if Ellison or Perez wins the DNC chair job [View all]
La Lioness Priyanka
Feb 2017
OP
Let's have co-Chairs and get over it! We need to get to work and fast. We need to campaign
nikibatts
Feb 2017
#63
Ellison said he would step down from his Congressional role if he wins.
La Lioness Priyanka
Feb 2017
#5
It was Sanders very high level endorsement of Ellison that made this into a fight of surrogates.
grantcart
Feb 2017
#22
You mean the TPP that peer review analysis shows will add $ 300 billion to US wages?
grantcart
Feb 2017
#21
Agree completely. Said it all along. I like bernie ok, but that is flawed thinking
Alice11111
Feb 2017
#53
no one is pushing for TPP now, and china could not be happier about that
La Lioness Priyanka
Feb 2017
#41
I still have a preference, and it's for all the reasons you named. Tom Perez for me. n/t
Tarheel_Dem
Feb 2017
#27
i would have preferred O'malley as he remained neutral during the fucking primaries
La Lioness Priyanka
Feb 2017
#39
!!! I still want Dean. He wants to work on all 50 states! He's aggressive. Doesn't take stuff from R
Alice11111
Feb 2017
#54
I used to not care ... until I discovered that Susan Sarandon adores Ellison. Then ...
NurseJackie
Feb 2017
#42
sarandon is a overprivileged idiot, i cant take her endorsements or anything seriously
La Lioness Priyanka
Feb 2017
#43
I will support whoever the chair is and hope they're nowhere near as disastrous as DWS.
PatsFan87
Feb 2017
#51
This is turning out to be a fight between state level parties and big money consultants.
killbotfactory
Feb 2017
#64
Perez himself slammed Debbie Wasserman Schultz's DNC performance as simply atrocious recently
Warren DeMontague
Feb 2017
#75