Warren On Trans-Pacific Partnership: If People Knew What Was Going On, They Would Stop It - RawStory

[kristopher]

61. About 90% of the public wants universal background checks.

We can't get them because a group of corporations manipulates public opinion in key areas; effectively stopping this popular legislation in its tracks.

In any number of areas (ie energy and environment) international norms are more progressive than those embodied in US law.

The possibility exists that an agreement sacrificing a degree of US sovereignty might actually achieve some liberal legislative objectives that would otherwise not be possible. For example, a price on carbon could possibly follow from such an agreement.

The point is that, given the impotence of the public and the iron fist of corporate influence in the legislature, the secrecy might be designed to stop groups like ALEC from killing key provisions that make the difference between a trade agreement that good for the public and one that serves only the interest of the corporations.

Then again, maybe Obama is everything Fox News says that he is; that does seem to be the consensus on this 'progressive' forum.