Letter: Trans-Pacific deal hurts U.S. workers
Shipping containers are loaded and unloaded at the Georgia Ports Authority Garden City terminal on Jan. 27, 2014, in Savannah, Ga. Credit: AP
I am sick of seeing workers and the middle class being tossed aside in favor of greedy corporate profiteers. The newest issue is the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Every trade deal we've made in the last three decades has cost us manufacturing jobs and lowered our wages. These deals help a few while hurting the many. These deals are made for only one reason: to find cheaper labor.
Now that China's wages are rising, greedy businesses need a new slave-wage teat to suckle, once again leaving the rest of us high and dry. Serve it any way you want; this dish still stinks!
Carl Singer, Hicksville
