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have to allow them to bring the goods they produce at what would be slave wages in the US into our country.

The trade agreements are lowering the standard of living in the US. The Flint water crisis is just a harbinger of the devastation to come if we continue to have our trade agreements.

The Pfizer deal, it's planned merger is typical.

Pfizer wants to merge with a company outside the US in order to avoid paying US taxes.

So what is wrong with that?

Our military budget is huge. We cannot afford our military budget on the taxes that are taken out of the paychecks of America's middle class and working people. When companies like Apple, Pfizer and the many, many other tax-shirkers move or merge or produce in other countries in order to avoid paying American taxes, their fair share, then our tax revenue is reduced and we cannot maintain our current level of military expenditures.

It is amazing to me that the hawks do not understand this.

We cannot raise enough tax revenue from $15 much less $7.50 an hour wages to support our aircraft carriers much less the planes on them or the rest of our huge, bloated military.

Not going to happen.

The cost of the trade agreements in terms of American wages and tax revenues is just enormous.

Don't vote for Hillary. She just does not understand how to think from point A, cause of event A through to effect A. She gets lost somewhere along the way.

Bernie on the other hand is truly brilliant. That is why his vote against the IWR is so important. It is not just that he voted against the war but rather that he had the intelligence and the ability to ask the right questions to think through what the true risks were of voting for that and of going to war in Iraq.

Unfortunately, Bernie's intelligence, reasoning and thought was much, much better than Hillary's.