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Odd Bedfellows, Lying Together (The TPP) [View all]
Posted on Truthout.org,By Jim Hightower, OtherWords April 16, 2015
Come one, come all. Step right up and buy your ticket for a ride on the splendiferous, phantasmagoric, and miraculous Trans-Pacific Partnership!
...such odd-bedfellow boosters as Secretary of State John Kerry and the US Chamber of Commerce both exclaim that the 12-nation scheme will "support 650,000 new jobs.”
Wow, 650,000 new jobs. If that's true, it's an incredibly small number. But it turns out it's not true. Who would have thought.
Glenn Kessler, who writes The Washington Post's "Fact-Checker" column, dug into that number in January. He found that it was incorrect, misleading, and silly. In fact, he wrote, "The correct number is zero."
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