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>It is universally recognized best practice. It is universally recognized best practice for politicians to decide which industries/businesses in their respecti

>It is universally recognized best practice. It is universally recognized best practice for politicians to decide which industries/businesses in their respective countries should go under and lose out on the deal and which industries in both respective countries should be the winners with as little opposition from the losers as possible. I'm sure that there are many people all over the political spectrum that think that politicians are abusing their power by essentially deciding without anyone's input, (except for those with the deepest pockets) who should be sacrificed for the economy's sake and who should stand to gain pretty much everything.

zymhan 11y ago
> politicians are abusing their power by essentially deciding without anyone's input Well the deal isn't negotiated by elected officials, mostly it's negotiated by experts/bureaucrats, and congress will just vote the whole thing up or down. If you oppose the TPP, circulate petitions and call on your congresspeople to oppose it. The average Joe doesn't care about a lot of policy debates, but the economic effects of free trade agreements are apparent to most.
tbrownaw 11y ago
Adversarial negotiations require not telling your negotiation opponent too much about your goals and priorities. This unfortunately doesn't interact well with country-internal public discussion.