ZOMBIE Apocalypse "Trade" deal TPP: Back from The Dead.

[99th_Monkey]

What the Zombie Apocalypse really looks like.

House GOP Eyes Clean Fast-Track Trade Bill Without TAA Funding
06/16/2015 * by Laura Barron-Lopez & Jennifer Bendery * HuffPo

WASHINGTON -- After the House of Representatives dealt a setback to President Barack Obama’s trade agenda last week, GOP leadership is considering stand-alone legislation to give the president expedited authority to shepherd trade deals through Congress.

The bill, also known as Trade Promotion Authority, would allow Obama to "fast-track" major trade deals, like the one he is currently negotiating with 11 Pacific nations, through Congress without filibuster threats or amendments. House Republican leaders could take up the stand-alone bill as early as this week, two House GOP aides told The Huffington Post, after which it would be sent to the Senate.

On Friday, the same fast-track bill passed the House 219-211, with 28 Democrats voting in favor, but it was attached to legislation providing funding for Trade Adjustment Assistance, a worker aid program. An overwhelming majority of Democrats voted TAA down in an effort to kill Obama’s trade agenda, rendering the fast-track vote essentially irrelevant.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/16/gop-trade-bill_n_7598488.html

[NewSystemNeeded]

1. Oligarchy never sleeps. nt

[arcane1]

2. "GOP leadership is considering stand-alone legislation to give the president expedited authority"

Back in 2008, I bet very few of us ever expected to see THAT phrase!

[villager]

4. Or that *this* would be what our "hope and change" President finally, actually fights for

n/t

[sadoldgirl]

3. If the House does that,

could the Senate Dems not filibuster it?

[djean111]

5. What a surprise. Not. Boy, it is so adorable, how cooperative the GOP are with Obama! BFFs.

This was my red line, though, so it will affect my voting from here on out. And my regard for endorsers and such.

[Maedhros]

6. Man, this trade deal is unkillable.

Think of all the people trying to knock it down, and Obama keeps propping it back up.

Totally different than the Public Option - he didn't even try.

[brush]

7. This is so disappointing . . .

This president openly siding with the repugs against his party.

What the f_ck is going on?

He seems to be risking his whole legacy over this.

I don't get it. The country can do without this. We need to use some of the tariff policies that other countries use to keep their economies strong. We let foreign goods come in without duties anywhere near what other countries charge and thereby undercut our own manufacturers, or whatever is left of them and their jobs here.

We let the job and factory exporting get out of hand as goods formerly made here are now imported in and the companies that used to make them here don't want tariffs on the stuff they're bringing back in. That way they make even more obscene profits from paying foreign workers chump change compared to what they used to pay American workers.

Even with shipping costs back here they still make out like bandits — the companies were profitable before paying Americans living wages but the greed I guess of paying foreign workers less than a dollar a day got too hard to resist.

There is no future in that for the country. Sooner of later a turning point is reached where there aren't enough remaining workers with jobs who can afford anything but the cheapest imported goods.