Obama Liberal - This deal has strong positive results for the US while coming at a minimal cost. The US has managed to denuclearize another country without having to sacrifice anything other than lifting economic sanctions. Iran is allowed to keep nuclear power only to the enrichment of being able to use it for energy, 3.67%. Iran is also down in cerntrifuges and is under strict international inspection to prevent any attempt at use for bombs. Before the deal, Iran had enough Uranium for ten nuclear bombs. Now they don't have enough to complete 1. To maintain peace internationally, the US needs to do its best to retain stability. Adding another country with nuclear power would destabilize international relations. This is a win for both sides. The US will help keep international stability while Iran can finally lift the economic sanctions tearing through their economy.

It is not just against one religion. It just so happens that that religion is the one posing a threat, so they seem to be the forefront when in actuality this will be a system put in place for all of them.

There is a limit to where we as Americans can tolerate no more. We are granted rights as citizens of the United States, so we should be held accountable to follow that code. People should be allowed to practice their religion, but if that practice becomes an actual danger to those around them then they must be stopped. The role of the government is to protect the people, and that especially includes against murder, no matter the reasoning behind it. More government isn't a bad thing. Complete freedom is not possible, so we need to accept stop having that picture in our mind. It is better to be well protected than striving for a false sense of complete freedom.

Mr. Thames, accidentally was logged into this account but this is my argument. Izzy Strickler

Although is may be hypocritical not to tolerate the intolerant because then we are being intolerant, but to allow to extremist to extend their freedom of speech and successfully suppress the speech of others with opposing views is contradictory as well. So, intolerance should be tolerating in some situations, but the line needs to be drawn when people are getting harmed and hate speech is being blasted influencing other generations to hate. Such as Muslims preaching to their followers to kill people and justify it with their religion. But allowing someone to voice their opinion on how they hate gays is a step back from what America has worked so hard to get, although their speech in this case shouldn't be limited. A healthy alternative is they should be made aware of their illogical beliefs with a rational discussion.

In 2015, Mexico had $24.8 billion in remittance revenues. A crazy stat about that number... It is more than amount of income of their oil revenue. Almost all of this remittance stems from the United States economy. While not all of this is from illegal immigrants, they do play a major role in this staggering number which continues to rise. It rose 4.75% from 2014 to 2015.

The Wall is a good idea for the fact that it protects our borders and allows the United States government to fulfill its duty of serving its own citizens. There can be many arguments against the wall such as a raise in the price of Mexican imports, a division between nations, and the fact that some data shows that immigrants are not that bad for the economy. While i do acknowledge these reasons, I do not agree that illigal immigrants deserve the right to enter our country. They create competition, but at the end of the day if they are stealing our citizens lower class jobs because they are willing to work for cheaper we are losing out as a country. They are avoiding federal taxes and leaving many lower class citizens reliant on welfare. In addition, not all the money they make is going back into our economy. A good amount of it is sent back to families in Mexico. Trump has provided us a way to pay to protect our borders with minimal repercussions, not to say there are none at all. We need to come to the realization as a country that while it is okay to sympathize with those less fortunate, we need to keep our own safety and economical interests on the forefront.

These are pretty solid selling points, but Mexico isn't our only source of these products. in addition the governments biggest job is to protect its own people, and these immigrants hinder that ability by taking jobs and avoiding Federal taxes. While prices of Mexican imports will rise, that is a price well worth paying when considering the benefits of keeping our borders under control.

The TPP does have positives, but are those positives in favor of the US economy? You say that there are protection requirements, but we are surrendering our own policies by agreeing to the deal and will have to oblige by their terms. A Minimum wage would be a plus as workers in Vietnam are working for as low as $.56 per hour; however, the fear of currency manipulation should trump all. How can we trust these countries not to manipulate their currency to help boost their income from the trades. That is putting alot of trust into a deal that seemingly has no end to it. It is in the best interest for the US to take care of itself before surrendering sovereignty and jobs for the betterment of other countries.

How is this true? By agreeing to the TPP we would be relying a lot more on foreign imports. Thats where the job loss argument stems from because our jobs would be outsourced to countries who do it cheaper. It may boost overall numbers, but does that take into account the gigantic and continual growth of the gap in wealth distribution?

We have the power in this situation. Why would we give up our jobs to tap into these countries that will out produce our middle class? While the prices would go down on items circulating in our economy, so would wages leaving few able to support themselves and consume these new products. Im not saying that the TPP is a bad thing for the world, but shouldn't our own problems and costs be the forefront?

You don't seem to be too bought in to your own argument... While international relations are important, can they really outweigh the fact that we are outsourcing tons of jobs over there. No wonder they will be happy with us if we are hand delivering them American middle class jobs. What good is money flow if there is no one in our country who will be able to support it when the middle class is gone from our economy?

While there haven't been examples of countries completely shutting down outside sources or turning down new technologies, plenty of countries have moved to a system more towards protectionism to reboot their economies. For example, both Germany and France succeeded in doing this after WWII. They did not completely shut down trade or go against the trade, but they kept as much internal as possible for the betterment of the nation. Im not saying all global trade needs to be shut down; the TPP just does not favor America and its lower/middle class as it does these other countries involved. Before we can go help the world, we need to be concerned with helping our own economy

Here is a link about the NAFTA job losses. It states that trade deficits with the countries involved pose an even greater threat than that of Mexico and NAFTA.

The TPP is not overall beneficial to the United States. In an economy where jobs are already needed, we as a country cannot afford to lose hundreds of thousands of jobs due to outsourcing by major corporations. This was seen through NAFTA where the US lost 700,000 jobs. The US workers will not be able to compete with some of the overseas workers and won't be able to work for as cheap of a price. As a result of this, wages and jobs that would normally belong to Americans will go over to desperate workers overseas who will work for a fraction of the cost. Many farmers and manufacturers will be left out of luck in the US.

In addition to losing jobs, The United States will also lose sovereignty by being forced to follow the laws of the TPP and not our own regulations. This will shift power from the country to major corporations. This is a shot to our own power and will also not allow us to help monitor the environment as the corporations will be profit seeking.

Globalization has gone too far. We need to help ourselves before we seek out to help other needy nations. American workers need to be the forefront.