Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumSanders Statement on Senate Vote on Job-Killing Trade Bill
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) issued the following statement today after the Senate voted to advance a bill that would grant President Barack Obama accelerated power to complete a massive trade accord with 11 other Pacific Rim nations:
The Senate just put the interests of powerful multi-national corporations, drug companies and Wall Street ahead of the needs of American workers. If this disastrous trade agreement is approved, it will throw Americans out of work while companies continue moving operations and good-paying jobs to low-wage countries overseas.
Bad trade deals like the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership are a major reason for the collapse of the American middle class and the increase in wealth and income inequality in the United States. This agreement, like bad trade deals before it, would force American workers to compete with desperate workers around the world including workers in Vietnam where the minimum wage is 56-cents an hour.
Trade agreements should not just work for corporate America, Wall Street and the pharmaceutical industry. They have got to benefit the working families of our country, Sanders said. We must defeat fast track and develop a new policy on trade.
http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sanders-statement-on-senate_vote-on-job-killing-trade-bill
Cleita
(75,480 posts)FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)peacebird
(14,195 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)reason why we have so few working for the people rather than their Corporate sponsors.
Bernie owes the wealthy nothing, so he is free to act on behalf of those who sent him to DC.
Nothing makes the corrosive influence of Big Money more clear than how our Reps vote for Wall St every chance they get, except for a rare few like Bernie who is not beholden to them.
Autumn
(45,064 posts)TBF
(32,056 posts)Hillary has been a "chief advocate for Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)"
http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Hillary_Clinton_Free_Trade.htm
Autumn
(45,064 posts)Was the last I heard her say, but sometimes the wind it changes Thanks for that link.
ruffburr
(1,190 posts)Who can save the country and us from corporatist politicians. A VOTE for BERNIE is a VOTE for our America
Thanks Bernie
MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)they take in, we are reaping what we sewed.
Politicians like Bermie are almost non-existent. Let's not make them extinct!
Robbins
(5,066 posts)Someone is standing up for americans.
General discussion is turning into a sad state of affairs along with sellout by Obama and many dems.
At least Bernie is leading fight against it.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)jalan48
(13,861 posts)Divernan
(15,480 posts)Because it really doesn't matter to them - they'll support her either way.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)tomsaiditagain
(105 posts)Nada, nothing, zilch, zero is what we can do to stop Wall Street and the underground shills of the world. Money is going to be the downfall of the world. One world money is closer everyday. The TPP is a knockin on the door.
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)cstanleytech
(26,286 posts)are willing to fuck the American people over and sadly its looking like more than a few of them are supposedly Democrats including Obama
merrily
(45,251 posts)This is the bill Secretary Clinton was negotiating, even though she now seems undecided about it.