Failure of TAA/TPA in the House, Col Mike Walker, USMC (retired)
All,
The Trade Adjustment Assistance/Trade Promotion Authority did not pass today.
The consequences are simple to comprehend.
If you are an isolationist and believe that America's interests end at the ocean shores then you are happy. The hell with the rest of the world.
If you understand that when America quits a major world stage we are weakened then you get it.
The failure to pass TAA/TPA in East Asia is tremendous victory for China who will fill the vacuum in East Asia as quick as it can.
This is just one more victory for China in its cold war to marginalize America (on the heels of hacking four million gov't employees private data). Shame on us.
Semper Fi,
Mike
