wow you do live is a different universe...I'll take one thin book.  What little I've read about the real TTP, not the fantasy inverse version, is the same issue with all "free" trade, we tend to be a country of laws.  And Obamacare is the step in the right direction, if we can stop paying the vampires their trillion, we might actually have something akin to the very good system they have in Canada. The biggest tax increase on the middle class was R. Reagan's.