and it will only get worse.
Both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party Leadership agree 100% on "Free Trade".
If YOU oppose it, as do a large MAJORITY of Americans,
[font size=3]Well, Tough Luck for YOU![/font]
The next round of "Free Trade" is currently being "negotiated" in secret by the Obama Administration,
and will make things much worse.
Critics call it
"NAFTA on Steroids".
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, which would grant enormous new powers to corporations, is a massive assault on democracy.
"Think of the TPP as a stealthy delivery mechanism for policies that could not survive public scrutiny. Indeed, only two of the twenty-six chapters of this corporate Trojan horse cover traditional trade matters. The rest embody the most florid dreams of the 1 percent—grandiose new rights and privileges for corporations and permanent constraints on government regulation. They include new investor safeguards to ease job offshoring and assert control over natural resources, and severely limit the regulation of financial services, land use, food safety, natural resources, energy, tobacco, healthcare and more.
The stakes are extremely high, because the TPP may well be the last “trade” agreement Washington negotiates. This is because if it’s completed, the TPP would remain open for any other country to join. In May US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said he “would love nothing more” than to have China join. In June Mexico and Canada entered the process, creating a NAFTA on steroids, with most of Asia to boot.
Countries would be obliged to conform all their domestic laws and regulations to the TPP’s rules—in effect, a corporate coup d’état. The proposed pact would limit even how governments can spend their tax dollars. Buy America and other Buy Local procurement preferences that invest in the US economy would be banned, and “sweat-free,” human rights or environmental conditions on government contracts could be challenged. If the TPP comes to fruition, its retrograde rules could be altered only if all countries agreed, regardless of domestic election outcomes or changes in public opinion. And unlike much domestic legislation, the TPP would have no expiration date.
http://www.thenation.com/article/168627/nafta-steroids#
The TPP will avoid Congressional debate, thanks to its
Fast Track status.
It WILL have an
Up or Down vote, probably on a Friday afternoon.
You will wake up one Saturday morning, and the TPP will be LAW.
Sorry, Virginia.
There is NO such thing as "Free Trade".
The RICH made that shit up,
and used smooth talking politicians to sell it to naive Americans.
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