LOL - and now the leftwing candidates must compete to demonstrate how left wing they are.... I am enjoying this after all the criticism on the GOP for their candidates trying to demonstrate how right wing the are.... Anyone want to talk about hypocrites????
http://news.investors.com/ibd-edito...or-free-trade-or-watch-tpp-crash-and-burn.htm
Yet amid all the very real and likely results, it's going to be an exceptionally hard sell for the president. There's an atmosphere of disinformation and suspicion that his own party has largely fostered against free trade, business, banks and markets in general.
And the upcoming election season will have politicians on both sides playing up to public fears and ignorance — just as candidate Obama did when he first ran for the presidency in 2008.
That's the old bipartisan election game of the past few cycles — to condemn free trade, and then get to work on it when the economic benefits are realized.
The bulk of the opposition comes from the left, which loathes free trade and, indeed, the very idea of freedom.
"Wall Street and corporations have won again," growled socialist Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, who without even reading it, called it "disastrous."
Big Labor, another foe of free trade no matter what the particulars, cursed it, too. "Now that negotiators have rushed to reach a final deal, the world will see how bad #TPP really is" tweeted AFL-CIO labor federation boss Richard Trumka, also without having read it.
http://news.investors.com/ibd-edito...or-free-trade-or-watch-tpp-crash-and-burn.htm
Yet amid all the very real and likely results, it's going to be an exceptionally hard sell for the president. There's an atmosphere of disinformation and suspicion that his own party has largely fostered against free trade, business, banks and markets in general.
And the upcoming election season will have politicians on both sides playing up to public fears and ignorance — just as candidate Obama did when he first ran for the presidency in 2008.
That's the old bipartisan election game of the past few cycles — to condemn free trade, and then get to work on it when the economic benefits are realized.
The bulk of the opposition comes from the left, which loathes free trade and, indeed, the very idea of freedom.
"Wall Street and corporations have won again," growled socialist Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, who without even reading it, called it "disastrous."
Big Labor, another foe of free trade no matter what the particulars, cursed it, too. "Now that negotiators have rushed to reach a final deal, the world will see how bad #TPP really is" tweeted AFL-CIO labor federation boss Richard Trumka, also without having read it.
