Posted on 06/10/2015 5:41:21 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Obamatrade would empower foreign companies to use foreign tribunals to enforce special privileges only available to them. Obamatrade would exempt foreign companies from EPA and other onerous regulations that American firms would still be forced to comply with. Under Obamatrade, foreign companies could actually go to an international tribunal and sue American taxpayers for cash awards to compensate them for costs associated with government regulations – something American-owned companies would not be able to do.
A White House news conference on April 28 with President Obama and Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe confirms the TransPacific Partnership will impact our immigration laws. PM Abe described the TPP as “a new economic sphere in which people goods and money will flow freely.”
That pathetic nonsene was addressed in a thread yesterday.
These TPP negotiations have been going on for six years. To claim TPA - if passed now - would put Congress in charge after six years of negotiations, with negotiations almost complete, is one of the biggest possible lies at this stage.
And all the blather being thrown around in support of TPP is the same used to advocate NAFTA and other trade agreements. Nothing new. It will open markets all over, increase exports and create a bizillion American jobs, etc., etc..
Actually, since NAFTA passed, our trade balance with Mexico went from a small surplus to an annual trade deficit of $60 billion, and thousands of factories and millions of jobs have left the US since all these trade agreements of the past 30 or more years.
Oh so that's why the bill itself is a closely guarded secret. Now it all makes sense.
I will be calling my representative tomorrow with instructions to vote against. The federal government is NOT trustworthy.
Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
A government bid enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.
When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as europe.
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
No free men shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Vote Kenny Marchant out at the very first opportunity. The (R) after his name is a joke!
I moved to Menomonie, MI in 2005. In 2006 Emerson electronics moved the entire division to Mexico. the city lost a lot of people, Jobs were lost on a massive scale. I was doing my 3000 hours for MSW in Counseling and there was a massive increase in personal crisis - financial, marital and suicides attempts. NAFTA took a lot from Michigan, Chrysler builds cars in Mexico. Volkswagen builds cars in Mexico too. (The original Vw beetle is still built in Mexico).
Congress will not be in charge it will Obama and his cronys
Similar stories all over the US, but that doesn’t stop those pushing these so-called free trade agreements from telling the same old lies: open new markets for American products, increase exports and create good paying American jobs.
These trade agreements are the reason the American middle class is dwindling and there are fewer and fewer decent paying jobs those for who don’t earn a marketable college degree.
Most all the apparel and textile plants left the US even before NAFTA, and NAFTA and China got whatever remained.
But food stamps rolls are growing, as well as Medicaid, welfare, bogus disability and all those government poverty programs that now cost a trillion annually. That’s where all those “savings” from free trade are showing up.
Thanks for posting. The perfidy of our government never ceases to amaze me.
has he read it???
Cruz?
Yes we must pass it so we can learn what is in it. Pelosi was right all along.
Cruz or this guy.
Needless to say, we deserve a full explanation of why any so called “representative” is for this travesty....and it’s a travesty if for no other reason than it’s secret.
They are destroying our republic.
Have the unions been bribed to not raise hell over TPP? I’ve heard rumblings but where are the street demonstrations like they whip up for their other causes.
Our so called leaders can’t be trusted. Which Republican has come out against this?
I vote to start trails against members of Congress that vote against the Constitution and sell out WE THE PEOPLE. Our life’s, liberty and freedom are being sold to the highest bidder by our own Senators and Rep. IT’S CALLED TREASON, high crimes against the people.
Some people eat crap sandwiches and call ham!
A Top Secret agreement that makes agreements transparent?
What kind of fools do these crooks take us for?
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