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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPlease DU this poll on "Fast Track"
US News & World Report is doing a debate club on whether Congress should pass fast track.Senator Bernie Sanders and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka take the "NO" view while Senators Pat Roberts and John Thune wrote the "YES" view. Please take a moment to read and vote for fair trade, not secrecy and corporate influence. Also, please share this widely.
Link is here: http://www.usnews.com/debate-club
Exceprt:
Exporting Jobs, Importing Inequality
By Richard Trumka April 20, 2015
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Instead, Congressional leaders are rushing to consider legislation called Trade Promotion Authority (also known as fast track). Yes, thats right: They are fast tracking fast track! Fast track would expedite the approval of trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It would force Congress to give trade deals a yes or no vote with limited debate. Worse, it would rob Congress of its constitutional authority to amend deals that are harmful to the middle class. It couldnt even send a not ready for prime time deal back to the bargaining table if the Congressionally approved negotiating objectives are not met.
And with respect to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, fast track is a fiction in any case the agreement is near completion, so any Congressional negotiating objectives are simply a feel-good exercise.
Fast track is bad news for working families and for anyone who is not an executive in a multinational company. Thats because corporations are the primary beneficiaries when Congress rubber stamps deals that lead to more outsourcing, lower wages and fewer good jobs.
The trade pact, as it stands, would give a pass to countries that unfairly manipulate the value of their currency to gain a competitive advantage. Japans currency practices have already robbed America of nearly 900,000 jobs, according to the Economic Policy Institute.
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http://www.usnews.com/debate-club
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Please DU this poll on "Fast Track" (Original Post)
OrwellwasRight
Apr 2015
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daleanime
(17,796 posts)1. K&R.....
and done.
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)2. Thank you!!
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)3. Done....thanks. nt
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)8. Thank you!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)4. The only poll on that page relates to the death penalty for the Boston bomber.
daleanime
(17,796 posts)5. It's set up kind of weird...
with four up or down choices assigned to four different people, it towards the bottom.
So please vote on all four.
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)9. Yes, did you find it?
You can vote each piece up or down. Thanks for your interest!
99Forever
(14,524 posts)6. K&R and...
... done.
I have to however, what a lousy format for a "poll." The only obvious poll on the entire page was about the death penalty for the Boston bomber. But then, most everything about USA Today sucks.
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)10. LOL.
Yes, well, we live in the age of the death of journalism. . .
City Lights
(25,171 posts)7. Done. nt
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)11. Thanks!
Takket
(21,644 posts)12. done.
Trumka +112
Sanders +98
Thune -87
Roberts -85
well done DU
OrwellwasRight
(5,170 posts)13. Yay!!
Thank you!