Here's your chance! Come defend the TPP and the secrecy [View all]

[cali]

that crafting it is shrouded in.

In other threads I've seen people defending the administration on this.

So come defend the administration trying to reinstate Trade Promotion Authority or fast track so that when the Senate votes on the agreement, they can only vote up or down, no filibustering, no amendments allowed.

Come defend a tribunal that corporations can appeal to that supersedes the laws of nations.

http://www.citizen.org/documents/TPP-and-the-environment.pdf

Defend 600 Corporate advisors having input into the agreement, but Congress critters not being allowed to even see drafts.

Defend this:

From another leak, we know the pact would also take aim at policies to control the cost of medicine. Pharmaceutical companies, which are among those enjoying access to negotiators as “advisers,” have long lobbied against government efforts to keep the cost of medicines down. Under the agreement, these companies could challenge such measures by claiming that they undermined their new rights granted by the deal.

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And yet another leak revealed that the deal would include even more expansive incentives to relocate domestic manufacturing offshore than were included in Nafta — a deal that drained millions of manufacturing jobs from the American economy.

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and this

The agreement would also be a boon for Wall Street and its campaign to water down regulations put in place after the 2008 financial crisis. Among other things, it would practically forbid bans on risky financial products, including the toxic derivatives that helped cause the crisis in the first place.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/opinion/obamas-covert-trade-deal.html?_r=0