Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership good for everyone?

[fstarcstar]

[Dylan]

I don't think anybody has said legislation has to be made effective before anyone can read it, and I really don't think anybody said that. I do think the legislation was forced through as a quickly as possible, but as a political move it made sense since it was so contentious. Just getting a bill like that out of committee can be challenging.

Obama tried to force a window for passage. Most transformative legislation requires an organic event to spark it (CR eras, New Deal, Civil War, etc. as big examples, financial regulation following busts being the more mundane). This didn't have one so it was always tenuous. Anything but some legislation on the topic meant he wouldn't be able to move on it for the rest of his presidency most likely.

And Obamacare is pretty cool.

[jimmyz]

[Saz]

[Indy]

[spacemonkey]

This is the post nafta flea market. Job creation has not kept pace with the six billion alive today. Never has, never will. More fighting for less, that's our future.

[John Galt]

a few democrats stopped being obstructionists hellbent on stopping the president's agenda and joined with republicans and got this fast tracked, which is great news. if it hadn't happened soon this whole deal would have been put off for two years pending the election

[wormwood]

Why is this great news john? What's so bad about waiting? Was there a specific provision you were waiting on?

[John Galt]

[wormwood]