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

[pragmatic_dem]

289. Related: Slums of China and India

It's hard to know the exact number but estimates show about 500,000 to nearly a 1,000,000 jobs a year go to China and India.

Yet income disparity and poverty figures remain horrible. And you literally cannot breath in Beijing because of pollution.

And I am also aware of corporate strategies in high tech that are mandating 20% US 80% India.

The profits? Tax breaks that literally put cash in the hands of CEOs who offshore to Asia in form of rebates, refunds, and deductions for capital expenditures/restructuring for outsourcing.

The tax breaks are being used to flood US markets with H1Bs as well.

So while you are paying higher taxes so your school district can teach power point to kindergarteners, your job is going to a 24 yr old in India who is using a computer for the first time.

Meanwhile democrats and republicans are crying rivers over standard test scores. Yet China and India can't get clean water or electricity to more than half their population.

The country that built nuclear submarines and space travel was educated by public schools - yet "new democrat" hipsters are just dying to be more like India where 650 million people work for less than $2 a day.

Sad fact is neither Democrats nor Republicans want to talk about the elephant in the room - shoveling cash, jobs and training to China and India for pennies on the dollar.

Wall Street skims a nice percentage off the top - and that helps fund elections.

TPP is as bad or worse than Citizens United - it is politicians from both parties lying on the floor with legs spread hoping to earn some easy money for next campaign.