To properly understand the headline in Friday’s paper (“Pence pitches trade pact: New U.S.-Mexico-Canada deal ‘a win’ for everyone, the vice president says”), one must understand GOP-ese.
“Everyone” doesn’t mean “everyone.” It means “everyone who counts,” that is, the GOP’s big donors.
The proposed United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that Donald Trump and Mike Pence want approved would hurt everyone else, by giving drug companies monopoly protections so that they can block competition from generic drugs and charge more in Canada and Mexico, as well as in the U.S., keeping drug prices obscenely high.
It also does not provide for strong enough labor and environmental protections, so companies can continue to pollute the environment and outsource jobs to countries like Mexico where they can pay workers less.
So it is a “win” for you only if you don’t take any medications, won’t need any in the future, don’t breathe the air, and don’t have a job that can be outsourced.
Paul Simmons, Murray
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