{"id":17870,"date":"2014-07-31T09:53:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T13:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=17870"},"modified":"2014-07-31T10:01:51","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T14:01:51","slug":"hillary-clinton-and-trade-deals-that-giant-sucking-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/07\/31\/hillary-clinton-and-trade-deals-that-giant-sucking-sound\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton and Trade Deals: That \u201cGiant Sucking Sound\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Naked Capitalism<\/em> has the article Hillary Clinton and Trade Deals: That \u201cGiant Sucking Sound\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oopsie. I guess \u201cthe little time-out\u201d was over when the Korea deal rolled around. And Clinton at State must have \u201cevaluated\u201d the \u201cproposed agreement\u201d and exercised her \u201cjudgment\u201d and given the deal the big thumbs up, or it would not have have passed. And guess what! We \u2014 and by \u201cwe,\u201d I mean American workers, not the political class \u2014 \u201clearned the hard way\u201d again, as 40,000 jobs were lost. Granted, the Korean dealmakers aren\u2019t in NAFTA\u2019s league, where almost 700,000 jobs were lost<\/a>, but they\u2019re in there punching all the same. Kudos..
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\nNOTE I know Warren says a lot<\/a>, and good for her, but leftish Democrats have an unfortunate tendency to think that performative utterances<\/a> are a large subset of speech acts, when in fact they are an extremely small one. \u201cI do\u201d is a performative utterance; it changes a real social relation. A speech on the rubber chicken circuit, or on YouTube, or even at Netroots Nation, no matter how fervent, is not. I am seeing speeches from Warren. I\u2019m not seeing hearings. I\u2019m not seeing investigations. I\u2019m not seeing bills. I\u2019m not seeing things done that legislators do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article quotes from Clinton’s new book:<\/p>\n

It’s safe to say that the TPP won’t be perfect — no deal negotiated among a dozen countries ever will be — but its higher standards, if implemented and enforced, should benefit American businesses and workers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This stance sound reasonable until you realize that there is no proof that these secret negotiations include “higher standards” that relate to improving working conditions.\u00a0 I have only heard about the secret parts that would undermine individual national attempts to improve working conditions.\u00a0 Is Clinton mouthing platitudes that have no basis in fact?<\/p>\n

This is why I think Hillary Clinton is the problem and Elizabeth Warren may<\/strong> be the solution. Note the emphasis on “may”.\u00a0 I’ll have to follow Elizabeth Warren’s activities in this arena before I can be more sure.<\/p>\n

When trade between nations becomes problematic, nations get together to make treaties.\u00a0 Well, workers’ issues are now problematic, we need to see nations getting together on treaties to solve these problems.<\/p>\n

One of the above links is to the article Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton<\/a>, which lays out the case even more starkly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Naked Capitalism has the article Hillary Clinton and Trade Deals: That \u201cGiant Sucking Sound\u201d. Oopsie. I guess \u201cthe little time-out\u201d was over when the Korea deal rolled around. And Clinton at State must have \u201cevaluated\u201d the \u201cproposed agreement\u201d and exercised her \u201cjudgment\u201d and given the deal the big thumbs up, or it would not have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17873,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17870\/revisions\/17873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}