My understanding is that TAA is only a job displacement/unemployment bill that has no legal restriction preventing the president from using the just passed TPA to fast track bills such as the TPP. How do you see it?
Supposedly all three pieces of legislation are supposed to pass or it goes back to the senate. But of course this being caesar’s congress, so the rules are flexible and in the end, they’ll do whatever they damn well please. And if it screws the middle class, so be it. Actually they see that as a twofer.
TAA looks to be an essential part of TPA. TPA can’t move forward unless TAA gets passed later, or it gets stripped from TPA and TPA and gets re-voted on floor votes again both the House and the Senate...
” ...Even with the TPA approval, the bill can’t move forward without all of its provisions[TAA] winning approval. John Boehner himself moved to reconsider the TAA measure later today, but that wide margin on TAA’s defeat, it’s still looking like Mission Impossible. “
More here and see the updates:
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/06/12/breaking-taa-crushed-126-302/
This money may help the government cronies, but it's not going to help the displaced workers because after they train there won't be any jobs. We already have a high unemployment rate disguised because currently people can't collect unemployment for very long. It was two years of unemployment when Obama first came into office. Now it is a lower weekly amount and 20 weeks in some parts of the country. People have given up finding jobs or are working at low waged part time jobs. They no longer count as unemployed. These displaced workers will just join the ranks of the unemployed. And if the trade deal was so good, why should there be displaced workers in the first place.