Thread: Jeff Sessions To Debate Moderators: You Must Ask Candidates About Whether They Suppor

Ted Cruz supports free trade agreements. He supports the bad free trade agreements. He supports trade agreements that harm American Workers and allow more imports into the US which is the sole purpose of these agreements. Figuring out Ted Cruz is like figuring out a white collar criminal investigation. It's not easy. But here is the deal on Ted Cruz and TPP.

1. Ted Cruz supports TPP
2. Ted Cruz promoted the TPP with Paul Ryan with personal interviews with the media to promote its advantages
3. Ted Cruz and Paul Ryan wrote an article promoting the TPP explaining its advantages to readers of the Wall Street Journal
4. Ted Cruz voted for the TPA to Fast Track TPP
5. Ted Cruz also wanted to terminate the EX IM Bank, 81 year old program that helps our US based manufacturers
6. Ted Cruz was furious when Ex Im Bank was reauthorized by the US Senate
7. Ted Cruz calls Mitch McConnell a liar on Senate floor for 20 minutes over the Ex Im Bank vote
8. Ted Cruz votes against TPA after that to get even with Mitch McConnell over the Ex Im Bank deal
9. Ted Cruz knew the TPA would pass the Senate because Marco Rubio was going to vote the 60th vote for closure
10. Ted Cruz tells public he voted against the TPA the second time because of immigration issues and provisions regarding the Ex Im Bank.
11. Ted Cruz votes against House Amendment to the TPA bill that would have authorized spending to assist US workers laid off by the trade agreement he supported.

Bottom-line:

1. Ted Cruz supported and still supports TPP without TAA (Trade Assistance Adjustment to help laid off US workers who lose their job when their factory closes and moves to another country under the TPP). This is the original version of the TPP that Ted Cruz wrote the Wall Street Journal article promoting with Paul Ryan and this is the TPP that Ted Cruz and Paul went on a big PR sprint to promote to media. At this same time, Ted Cruz is "leading the fight" to terminate the Ex Im Bank that provides export financing for US based manufacturers and believes he's won that fight. This is also the version of the TPP that Ted voted for.

2. The Ex Im Bank is re-authorized by the Senate. Ex Im Bank has nothing to do with the TPP document and never did and Ex Im Bank has now been re-authorized by the full Congress and signed into law by Obama until 2019, it comes up for renewal every 3 years. So Ted Cruz lost his "fight" to end "crony capitalism" that helps our companies export their US produced products.

3. Ted Cruz in the melee he caused trying to defeat Ex Im Bank which left it terminated for 6 months, caused Boeing who uses the Ex Im Bank program to sell its US produced airliners to decdie for the first time in its long history to produce outside the US and announced a new plant in China in September 2015 citing the loss of export financing through the Ex Im Bank as the case. General Electric also announced the closing of 2 plants due to the same thing, and I'm sure there will be many others who did likewise before it was eventually renewed in December 2015.

4. Ted Cruz supports the TPP that we don't want.

5. Ted Cruz opposes the TAA to help workers laid off by TPP that we do want if you pass a TPP.

6. Ted Cruz opposes the Ex Im Bank that US manufacturers want and thus we want because it protects US jobs and US factories in the United States, and we do want.

7. Ted Cruz supported increasing H1B visas from 65,000 to 300,000 per year and doubling green cards from 675,000 to 1.3 million, which we do not want.

8. Ted Cruz supported legalization of illegal aliens, which we do not want. He changed his position on December 15, 2015 in the GOP Debate and lied to the public about his past positions.

In sum, Ted Cruz is a menace to the United States and the American Worker.