Does the TPP frighten you?

Yes.

Hadn’t heard of this until now. Sounds pretty ominous.
Off shoring is nothing new though, it has already wiped out massive amounts of american jobs.
We, here at the ranch, try to only buy made in america products and are pretty successful most of the time.

Honestly, while far from an extremist, survivalist, doomsday type, living on property where you can be, at least, partially sustainable is the only way to go anymore.
At least you can pretend that you are not really a part of this insanity and IF, something dreadful occurred you have more survival power than many.
My friend and I make hand woven , colorful, custom horse cinches and crocheted boot cuffs and sell them to our local boot and saddlery shop for a good price. What could be more american than catering to the cowboy crowd.

No outsourcing in this line of work. The chinese don’t wear cowboy boots and ride horses. lol

I’m leary and skeptical due to the lack of transparency to date, and the results of other trade agreements that have contributed to the decline of the middle class.

President Obama says that this deal is different. However, like that old guy in the eighties used to say, ‘trust but verify’! ~

“Here’s”: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/congress-fast-track-authority-trade-deals/ a less biased article.
In my opinion, without the fear mongering, this idea still sounds bad and anti-american

I am afraid as it means even more power being transferred from governments and the people into the hands of big business and we don’t have a say in the matter or the right to know what is happening!

Yes, and I’ve been actively trying to fight against it ever since I heard about it. It’s no good.

Nope

Absolutely it does and especially since all negotiations are taking place in secret. If something isn’t ominous, why can’t they be honest about what they’re discussing and proposing? If the outcomes will be positives, why do they need to be hidden in the shadows until it’s too late for the citizenry to complain and oppose the agreed tems.

Yes and the sad part is that my elected borons thinks that it will bring jobs.

This will be Obamas NAFTA, which most Americans will ignore, just like the fact that Clinton passed NAFTA.
“But, but, but, Clinton left office with a surplus, so he was a great president…..”
TPP is another great example of how BOTH parties and the media can work very well together to continually screw the American people, although our ignorance is doing that perfectly well on its own.

@SquirrelEStuff Yes, but remember that just as with NAFTA, ignorance on the part of the American people is REQUIRED for the thing to get off the ground. That is why secrecy is rigidly enforced.

I’ll bet not one American in ten thousand has figured out that NAFTA was directly responsible for the abrupt deluge of people hopping our Southern border as well as the reduction of Mexico and the bulk of Central America to narco states. While the purpose of NAFTA is of course to fatten corporate profits, it was clear from the outset that this was to be achieved by rendering small farms impossible. NAFTA merely extended the model that destroyed rural life in the United States to Central America. Only, unlike the United States, rural life in places like Mexico is virtually ALL there is. While just as here, the elimination of small farms renders rural economies untenable, places such as Mexico are DEFINED by rural economies, and the elimination of small farms is equivalent to forced starvation.