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In reply to the discussion: 100% corporate. 100%. All of the advisors to the admin on upcoming trade deals. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Your own post substantiates the argument that the Obama administration names to committees and posts pro-corporate and corporate representatives in numbers that far, far exceed those of representatives of consumer or employee or public interest organizations. The Obama administration can be said to the a corporate administration, and almost entirely corporate administration.
Your own post has definitively persuaded me of that fact. You would think that working people had no interest in limiting or expanding trade agreements, in fact almost no interest at all in the substance and fine print of the agreements. That seems to be the Obama administration's attitude on it judging from the information at the links to your post.
I encourage everyone interested in the trade policies of the Obama administration to follow the links provided in ProSense's post above. The information is quite revealing. I would like to read some comments by other DUers on what they find at those links. Some of you may recognize names or companies and add to my impression or even correct me. But I think those very links substantiate the argument that the Obama administration's trade policies are virtually dictated by the corporations. Any union or consumer participation is just for window-dressing. The majority of the citizens who are union members, working people indirectly represented by unions or consumers are in the minority on Obama's committees and advisory councils -- window-dressing at most. It most be frustrating to be a token union representative on one of Obama's trade commissions.