Once upon a time...

[kentuck]

...there was a great country.

Their citizens had jobs and they worked. They labored long and hard.

And they had food and shelter. They had respect. They were happy in life.

Then one day a dark prince rode into the village. He hitched his horse to a post and went in to see the little shoemaker. "Can you fix the soles on my boots", he asked the little fellow? "I sure can! And do it at a good price, too", the shoemaker said.

But the dark prince saw that he could get those boots fixed at a better price in that country over the oceans. There would be so much more profit left after the job was done. And he shipped the little fellow's job over the seas.

And he and his friends did it with the carpet makers and they did it with the dressmakers and with whomever they could make a profit. Soon, these people had nothing to do. They were not happy. They were just a number.

The great country had lost its respect. The little people, the farmers and the general store owners, were very patriotic toward their country. They did not like that the dark prince and his friends had taken their jobs and left such a sadness.

The people gathered in the middle of their villages and discussed the problem. They knew they had to change it. They knew that when people lost their jobs, they lost their respect. They were not happy and their families were unhappy also.

But the dark prince and his friends were not accepting of any suggestions from the little people.
They had divided the countryside into redshirts and blueshirts and they seldom talked with each other like they did in the old days. They had the power and they were not going to give it up.

So, the little folks grew restless. They wanted their country to be great again. So the redshirts began talking to the blueshirts and the blueshirts said, "Why are we wearing these stupid shirts?"

And they united and defeated the dark prince and his friends that had made the great country so unhappy.

[Enthusiast]

1. That has a happy ending, kentuck.

If there is one issue the American working class people are united on, it is on the outsourcing of jobs.

But the President, against the wishes of nearly the entire nation, is pushing the TPP.

WTF?

Mr. President, what kind of a person are you, anyway? Who do you think you are?

[No Elephants]

2. TPP is one scary mofo.

[No Elephants]

3. It's taken 5 or 6 administrations to get us where we are.

Depending on whether you count Carter.

(The more I learn about his administration, the more I think he should be counted, but, for some reason, I hesitate when it comes to him.)

Would that it were as easy as defeating a single prince.

P.S. It's the brown shirts that worry me.