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Trans-Pacific partnership trade deal reached

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Obama Returns From Trade Summit With 5 Stout Ships Full Of Cardamom, Silk, And Indigo

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WASHINGTON— Exhausted, berimed with salt, and haggard from his long sea journey, but nevertheless triumphant as he guided his fleet to port following the completion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, President Barack Obama is said to have made harbor in Washington, D.C.’s anchorage Monday, his five sturdy galleons choked to the very gunwales with the finest silks, casks of redolent cardamom, and great cakes of vivid dye-of-indigo retrieved from the far Orient. “Come, ye gentles, ye merchants, ye noble tradesmen of America—witness the riches of the East and rejoice!” said the president from the quarterdeck of his flagship, the Laissez-Faire, as he cracked open a chest of cherrywood to display to his cheering welcomers dazzling jade and delicate urns of porcelain retrieved from the very rim of the world. “I have made commerce with the Mandarins of Far Cathay, and the brahmins of Calcutta, and yea, even with the savages of Java. And they did return my gifts of metal and glassware with great stores of enchanting spices, teas of all scents, the finest opium, and a vast wonderment of small brass trinkets shaped by the cunning hands of Siam’s artificers. And best of all, before God and my fellow man do I declare that I have received promises and guarantees of safe trade and passage for our likes o’er the entire expanse of the great Eastern Ocean!” The president also confirmed that his largest vessel was packed brimful with the latest low-cost computer chips and imitation handbags.
 
So this was his Alice in Plunderland visit to SE Asia?
 
It will be interesting to see if Trump comes out against this the same way he came out against NAFTA...
 
Donald Trump is going to have a field day with this.
 
Liquid Karma said:
Donald Trump is going to have a field day with this.
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He'll be so angry I wouldn't be surprised if he does the slanty eyes thing with his fingers as he rails against the TPP. He and Bernie will be denouncing it. Biden will be for it. Clinton is already predictably waffling on the TPP (she and Bubba are pro free trade - they just don't like labor and liberals to know it). Carson will be against it, once he takes his foot out of his mouth after victim blaming the Oregon victims. I'd think Bush 3 and Kasich would be for it.
 
Talking about American business is generally the one thing Trump can do without sounding batshit crazy. It's his niche.
 
Liquid Karma said:
Talking about American business is generally the one thing Trump can do without sounding batshit crazy. It's his niche.
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But you'd think that as a big business owner he'd be pro free trade and immigration and not a protectionist. Yet he's down with Bernie on all of those issues and against the Chamber of Commerce. I'd like to chalk that up to the fact that he's running as a populist and trying to appeal to the tea baggers and that he's just being cynical. But with folks like Trump and Carson, you just don't know.
 
i haven't heard much specific reporting about the deal yet. apparently Big Tobacco and Big Pharma didn't like some details of the deal, gotta say I don't have much sympathy for those guys. Anybody seen a good story that explains the deal and the trade-offs involved?
 
Deacon923 said:
i haven't heard much specific reporting about the deal yet. apparently Big Tobacco and Big Pharma didn't like some details of the deal, gotta say I don't have much sympathy for those guys. Anybody seen a good story that explains the deal and the trade-offs involved?
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Yeah, few specifics yet, but a lot of posturing both ways. But read our tariffs are generally lower anyway than the tariffs the other countries involved have on us. So you'd think that'd generally be good for our exports. Maybe not great for our auto industry but good for our wine industry. Good for US consumers. I've read conflicting reports on the environmental effects, so not sure there, but you'd think a trade agreement with environmental standards being imposed on the growing countries shouldn't have negative environmental effects.
 
China loves that. Won't help rural jobs one bit.
 
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