I don't know if y'all have been following this or not, but it must be a bad bill for the American worker as both the GOP and Obama are in favor of it ... and both are keeping the details quite secret. Elizabeth Warren said, “Senators can go and read it but we’re not allowed to talk about it."
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/senate-finance-committee-backs-fast-track-obamas-trade-bill
Trade Bill
Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by Crabtownboy, Apr 24, 2015.
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Crabtownboy Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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TPA/TPP is not about trade. It's about investment. "Trade" (and especially "free trade") is used to make it sound better.
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Crabtownboy Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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Just another liberal hypocrite.
That being said, it's tempting to say that anything Obama is for, we should be against. He never has the best interest of America in mind. He has an agenda. Just don't know where this fits in just yet.
OTOH, if unions are against it, it could be a very good deal for the country.
The fact that Republicans are siding with Obama is not a surprise. they're weak and act more like democrats every day.
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church mouse guy Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
Left-wing Democrats who are urging those like like Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) to run have blasted Hillary Clinton, “who was involved in TPP talks while secretary of state under Obama,” for her and her husband’s ties to Wall Street and crony capitalism.
As the Huffington Post notes, “the Clinton presidency signaled the Democratic Party’s full embrace of the financial elite, reversing the tough-on-banks platform implemented by Franklin D. Roosevelt under the New Deal.” The Clinton administration also ushered in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Agreement treaties, as the Huffington Post noted. Ross Perot described NAFTA as making “a giant sucking” sound that would send American jobs south of the border.
Activists on the left have been dissatisfied since Obama, who ran on a platform of “change” and promised to “turn the page” on the Bush and Clinton years, took office and immediately brought in top members of Clinton’s economic team.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...cy-surrounding-trans-pacific-free-trade-deal/