America's chronic massive trade deficits show we've lost $8+ trillion of national wealth to other nations since we dropped our overall balanced trade practice in the 1970’s. NAFTA-style Free Trade policies have cost us 60,000 US factories lost since NAFTA, and 5.5 million manufacturing jobs just since 2000. This is why we must convince Congress to vote NO on the "Fast Track" legislation for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Free Trade treaty, aimed at spreading NAFTA-style agreements to our Asian and Latin American trade.
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