Sanders Statement on Trans-Pacific Partnership

[Donkees]

Monday, January 23, 2017

BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 23 – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement Monday after the White House said President Donald Trump would withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership:

“I am glad the Trans-Pacific Partnership is dead and gone. For the last 30 years, we have had a series of trade deals – including the North American Free Trade Agreement, permanent normal trade relations with China and others – which have cost us millions of decent-paying jobs and caused a ‘race to the bottom’ which has lowered wages for American workers. Now is the time to develop a new trade policy that helps working families, not just multi-national corporations. If President Trump is serious about a new policy to help American workers then I would be delighted to work with him.”


http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-statement-on-trans-pacific-partnership

[The Polack MSgt]

1. (I-VT) please post this to IU. nt

[NWCorona]

3. Fyi

Indeed, the elevation of Sanders adds the party's most high-profile disrupter to the leadership ranks. He'll join Warren, who was part of Reid's leadership circle.

Sanders, however, will continue to identify as an independent, an unusual situation for a Democratic leader to be in, to say the least.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/senate-democrats-settle-on-leadership-team-sanders-elevated-231481

Yes, Bernie is indeed unique in that he is an independent from VT while also being on the Democratic leadership team.

[unblock]

2. i fail to see how turning it over to the chinese will improve the standing of workers.

china will fill the void left by our departure and forge a trade alliance without us.

it will be even worse for workers internationally, which will only increase downward pressure on american workers' wages even if we aren't directly involved in the china-led trade alliance.

we might be able to temporarily achieve marginal gains for workers with donnie's bilatetral agreements and protectionist barriers, but they can't last long with companies competing against even cheaper international workforce thanks to a new china-led agreement.


donnie talked about renegotiating nafta. he just had that opportunity with tpp. instead, he walked away from it and handed all influence in that area to the chinese.

[TrekLuver]

5. China will be calling the shots.

[msongs]

4. dear bernie the TPP has been dead and gone for months. praise the new order all you want but

don't be so enthusiastically delusional