Comments on: The Troubled Trade Deal With South Korea

By: gottamouthoff

gottamouthoff — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 17:06:00 +0000

That is one of my biggest hang-ups with my Democrat party. Why are we getting into all these treaties that cost us so many jobs? I know we benefit from the many products that may be imported but the trade-off in the loss of American jobs has gone way to far. We have to many unemployed to buy all those goods. Eventually the credit so many use will be way overextended and we will be in deep crap.

By: ChuckT

ChuckT — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:14:00 +0000

This is not rocket science , our legislators are amateurs , inept and border on brain dead , it is hard to believe they can authorize and embrace these one sided deals that don’t take into account the real ramifications to America’s eventual demise.

By: Dominick Vila

Dominick Vila — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 13:12:00 +0000

Most of our trade agreements during the past 50 or 60 years have resultd in increased trade deficits and jobs losses in the USA. The main reason for that is that we can not compete effectively against nations where labor costs are sometimes one tenth of ours. Conversely, most of the trade agreements we have negotiated resulted in huge profits for our corporations. Unfortunately, those profits were, more often than not, invested overseas rather than in the USA. An example of the complicity of our government in the advancement of corporate interests, even when doing so is detrimental to the American people, took place last week when Congress rejected President Obama’s proposal to fine companies that outsource jobs overseas and reward those that invest and create jobs in the USA.

By: bcarreiro

bcarreiro — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:26:00 +0000

to the editor david: what u think and what you know are two different things : u forget that bush nailed us americans to the wall and obama has an open mind set and strategy. its ok to be cautiously optimistic not pestimistic. do they(mitts campaign) pay u to slander obama on his trade agreement.