New Trade Deals Unpopular

The Sovereign Debt Problem will make sovereign countries and their citizens take a second look to their own economies.  This sets up the TPP and other fledgling trade agreements for questioning about the net effect of such agreements. After all, these are the same governments who got us in this mess, so what makes us think they have these trade deals right ?

If the US wants the TPP to protect intellectual property from foreign pirates, good luck. I doubt that these countries will do anything about it.  All we need is an intellectual property mutual agreement with countries that says we will protect each-others’ intellectual property.  If they don’t agree, we don’t do business with them.

If the US wants to sell rice and pork to the Japanese, good luck. Island nations always protect their own food supply. Our own US citizens would consume all the food we can manufacture in the US if we get the mix and the price right.

If the US wants to sell cars and tractors to these countries, I would ask how many of their citizens can even afford them and why wouldn’t they make them off-shore closer to these customers.

US workers will oppose looser immigration policies for service companies to lay them off and import more phony H1b visa holders. Companies who engage in this kind of scheme will immediately soil their reputations and future competitors will be encouraged to enter their markets.

US workers will oppose losing even more manufacturing to other countries. They will head to their garages and invent devices to make current products obsolete.

Face it. The only manufacturing we can attract is durable goods using highly automated production processes, being made to be sold in the US.  We are waiting for the economic advantages of having everything made in China to evaporate.

Foreign car manufacturers, and aerospace companies are already here.

We already do trade with the countries listed in the TPP, so why do we need to form “trade cartels”? That doesn’t even sound like “free-trade”. Free trade is really trade between companies with no government interference.

Why would we expose ourselves to law suits by foreign companies in courts controlled by the corporate global “puppet masters”.

Why would we trust the same corrupt government who squandered trillions of dollars and put us in this mess? We don’t think it’s about trade. We think it’s another “open borders scam” coupled with exporting our sovereignty to the global “puppet masters”.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader