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Thom's blog
TPP/SHAFTA-Ross Perot is still right...
At one debate during the 1992 presidential campaign, Perot said that, “To those of you in the audience who are business people: pretty simple. If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for a factory worker, and you can move your factory south of the border, pay $1 an hour for labor, hire a young -- let's assume you've been in business for a long time.
You've got a mature workforce. Pay $1 an hour for your labor, have no health care -- that's the most expensive single element in making the car. Have no environmental controls, no pollution controls and no retirement. And you don't care about anything but making money. There will be a job-sucking sound going south.”
Nearly 23 years later, Ross Perot’s words still ring true.
All across America, abandoned factories, which were once part of America’s economic engine, are crumbling to the ground. So-called “free trade” deals like NAFTA and CAFTA have decimated the American economy, screwed over working-class Americans, and shipped millions and millions of good-paying jobs overseas.
Now, lawmakers in Washington are getting ready to sign on to yet another so-called “free trade” deal: the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). I prefer to call it the Southern Hemisphere Asian Free Trade Agreement - or SHAFTA.
-Thom
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Daily Take: TPP/SHAFTA...Ross Perot is still right
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Tuesday's Daily Stack 
Article: " Nazism" by Wikipedia.
Quote: " Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis -- German National Socialism." - Hermann Goering". Quote: " Education is dangerous - Every educated person is a future enemy" - Hermann Goering".
Quote: " Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. ~ John F. Kennedy" - John F. Kennedy.
Hour Three: Is it too late to attain FDR's ideas for the US?
The state of progressive media- Jan Frel, Alternet 
Article: " Jester" by Wikipedia.
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Thom's Poll
Should more Senators call for the release of the TPP language?
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