Just in case you are buying the "18,000 tax cuts" argument . . .

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5. I get it

I do. Let's be honest and realistic with all this TPP fear-mongering. No one can say with any real authority what all the details are in this treaty and there actual and not percieved, short- and long-term implications are going to be for the U.S. Not yet.
I can say that it will not result in the Chinese Red Army kicking in my front door and slapping me in shakles to be a slave in a factory somewhere making socks.
At the end out the day, the objective of a trade pact is not to bankrupt or dramatically disrupt the very economy that it needs to hopefully profit from, or else what would be the point?
It makes as about much sense as China selling off all the U.S. debt they own (roughly 17%) to bankrupt and "own" our country. First and foremost, it doesn't work like that. Money systems are not that simplistic.
Nor are trading sytems.
When someone implies that TPP will crush us and destroy our freedoms and turn us into slaves, the first question you have too ask is "why? What is the end game?" Broken economies don't have money.
Plus, given the massive Asian component in this, it sometimes comes across as xenophobic.
Not saying it's all rainbows and unicorns, just wait to see how it all plays out. Nothing is set in stone.
Treaties are written on paper for a reason.