https://ustr.gov/tpp/ https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp
In the midst of a wide-ranging discussion with my intensely Christian neighbor who expects to vote for Trump, he explained his experiences as a missionary in some of the NAFTA countries where he claims to have seen the bad effect of the agreement on the poor. I did my ignorant best to talk about the TPP as an improvement over deals like NAFTA, despite my being programmed by my clique to dislike the deals. I somewhat buy the argument that the TPP gives us leverage in our competition with China. And I also buy the arguments that the deal falls way short of democratic ideals (in both the way it was developed and the policies it would put in place). But I'm bouncing between 2 (or more) bodies of rhetoric and I'd like to know what y'all think, even if, pragmatically, it's doomed because Congress won't ratify it. -- ☢ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
