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In reply to the discussion: I Simply Do Not Understand Obama's Support Of The TPP. [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)I've emailed both of my Senators to tell them how bad TPP is and how much I oppose it...only to be told how wrong I am and how it's a boon that is going to create American jobs by the millions, increase wages both here and abroad, open foreign markets to US products and protect US intellectual property from foreign counterfeiting. I've talked to other people with Democratic Senators from across the country and the spectrum of the Democratic Party who have gotten the same response almost point-for-point like the entire Democratic Senate Caucus is working off the same think-tank-supplied talking points.
Senators Mikulski and Cardin are not conservative Democrats by any measure. I expect this from my Congressman, Chris van Hollen...we agree on very little and I feel he only represents the interests of an entrenched insider to DC politics who hasn't listened to what his constituents are saying for years.
Why can't they accept that the will of the American people is that TPP not be ratified? I'm yet to meet any American, from the generally-apolitical and the Tea Party through the mainstream GOP and the mainstream Democratic Party to the progressive left--any American who knows what the TPP is and doesn't want to see it killed.
Not one.