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Because we expect him to renegotiate the agreement in a similar fashion to how he renegotiated his promise to clamp down on Chinese currency manipulation and making Mexico pay for the wall.
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You can't just label someone a currency manipulator. They have to meet certain criteria for the Treasury to label another country a currency manipulator but of course you would not know that.
And then what? American democracy is destroyed. The millionaires and billionaires cloister themselves in their mansions while the rest of us breathe poisoned air and drink foul water. For what? We're headed towards a Mad Max scenario
Big, big fight in the white house over this. Bannon and Stephen Miller went toe to toe against Kushner, Ivanka and the entire Trump family to push this through. It's an essential part of dismantling the Global world order as Bannon see's it.
After all is said and done it has nothing to do with climate change, coal jobs, cost to the US, etc. It's all about Bannon kicking over the established order of America and it's allies.
Looking at this from a purely objective and business standpoint, perhaps how the US handles international agreements needs to change. The longterm impact of a single president being able to sign such an agreement then the next being able to renege on a whim?
There is mechanism for this, you take it to the Senate and with 2/3 vote it's legally binding agreement.
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If I was doing business with a company run like that,
If you were doing business with a company I would assume you would first make sure the person you were dealing with had the legal authority to enter into such an agreement? Europeans did not enter into this blindly, they were well aware that what Obama signed was not legally binding.
The Paris Agreement allowed India to double it's coal production, Europe to build more coal plants, while forcing the USA to stop it's coal industry. Horrible.
Paris Agreement = Huge transfer of wealth and jobs from the USA to the rest of the world.
Do it the right way and involve Congress. Obama doesn't work here and the new boss has a different vision for how the world is allowed to suck us dry.
I absolutely agree that entering/reneging on international agreements should be done with more checks and balances rather than on the whim of a single person (in this case, the president). As it stands, all that's happening is that our country is giving the appearance that we cannot be trusted to maintain or follow through with signed agreements.
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