Does this really need to be explained on a liberal dem discussion site? yep.

[TBF]

269. 700K jobs lost due to NAFTA -

that number is from a Huffington Post article of two years ago: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/12/nafta-job-loss-trade-deficit-epi_n_859983.html

TPP is only going to speed up those losses.

I think the frustrating part is that while I like to see other parts of the world advance their standards of living (which is the only argument that dems can really use to justify this behavior), it is very hard to watch the decline of our country while others prosper. Especially since it is often leaders prospering rather than the workers who are making .22/hour or whatever the going rate is right now in Bangladesh.

But this is capitalism. This is what the system is designed to do - bring down costs, speed up production, absurd profits continue for those at the top.

We reign in (or kill) capitalism or it keeps going. It's not any easy answer but it's the right one.

And in the meantime we vote "no" on TPP to slow them down.