Just transcribed an interview by a Japanese news station of one of Clinton's top NAFTA negotiators, talking about the TPP. It was deja vu all over again. She was really sweet, really nice, seemed like she really thought TPP was just a wonderful thing for "Japan" and "The US" and "GDP growth" but said there will be some problems Japan will have to address if they agree to it, including widening their safety net and worker "retraining."
I remembered a Tom Tomorrow cartoon from the mid 90s about the millions of workers who'll lose their job due to NAFTA will be "retrained", and the last cell was some middle aged guy flipping burgers. That sure came to pass... in yet another transcribing job I did for this Japanese news station a couple years ago with a high school ROTC coach in the south, the guy told the Japanese interviewer so many kids join the military because kids that age used to be able to get jobs at McDonald's but now their parents have all those jobs. And now here's this same woman spouting the same line. She also said, "No country has ever gotten poorer because of a free trade agreement." Well yeah, Mexico now boasts the richest man on earth, so I guess "Mexico" is doing just great!
It's just really chilling to hear people who are right up there at the top of the list of people responsible for ruining America, or at least the little economic slice of America me and mine occupy, who are completely oblivious to the damage they've caused, and want to keep causing more. And are sparkly and bubbly and very nice about it!
I remembered a Tom Tomorrow cartoon from the mid 90s about the millions of workers who'll lose their job due to NAFTA will be "retrained", and the last cell was some middle aged guy flipping burgers. That sure came to pass... in yet another transcribing job I did for this Japanese news station a couple years ago with a high school ROTC coach in the south, the guy told the Japanese interviewer so many kids join the military because kids that age used to be able to get jobs at McDonald's but now their parents have all those jobs. And now here's this same woman spouting the same line. She also said, "No country has ever gotten poorer because of a free trade agreement." Well yeah, Mexico now boasts the richest man on earth, so I guess "Mexico" is doing just great!
It's just really chilling to hear people who are right up there at the top of the list of people responsible for ruining America, or at least the little economic slice of America me and mine occupy, who are completely oblivious to the damage they've caused, and want to keep causing more. And are sparkly and bubbly and very nice about it!
