welcome back to the ed show. love hearing from our viewers. thanks for the questions. tonight, first question from tom in ask ed. if the tpp passes, how quick until the economy tanks? well, tom, it depends upon which economy you re talking about. first of all, wall street is not going to tank. this is a great deal for wall street because they re going to get merging markets, go places where maybe they haven t been in other countries. and so i don t think that this is going to hurt wall street at all. but i do think it s going to hurt the middle class. i think it s going to depress wages in this country, and i do believe that the tpp could run us into double-digit unemployment for a long, long time. and this conversation we re having right now about long-term unemployed and extension of unemployment benefit, we ll have that conversation for a long time too. it will be a slow drip, but it will be a consistent drip and it
transpacific partnership deal. these two things are completely opposite. and one negates the other. and, of course, we know that income and equality is like climate change. there s a bunch of deniers out there. democrats know that the tpp is a highway to send american jobs overseas. no trade agreement has ever created american jobs. not one. now, we spoke about the most recent example earlier this week, the korean free trade agreement. the numbers are clear. in 2011, the government promised that this deal would support 70,000 u.s. jobs. we ended up losing 40,000 manufacturing jobs. 4,000 of those jobs were in the steel industry. and if the tpp passes, the job losses would be even worse than what they have been. instead of one country like south korea, this trade agreement could end up including as many as 13 countries. i know the republicans want to talk about benghazi but this is