100% corporate. 100%. All of the advisors to the admin on upcoming trade deals.

[JDPriestly]

44. Add up the environmental and trade union and consumer representatives and they are

a tiny, tiny minority of the total membership. Yet those under-represented groups of people make up the vast majority of Americans. Sorry, but the citizens of the US are getting a bad deal in these trade deals. The trade deals are the means through which big corporations profit from the overly indebted US markets, realize the profits in the third world at extremely low if any tax rates and then "invest" in the slavery of the third world's indigents. It is a racket, and the Obama administration is running it just as every Democratic and even worse, Republican administration has since at least 1985, maybe 1980.

Face it. "Free" trade is the way that our governments fool us into think that we can still buy something with our dollars. Imports are cheap. That makes Americans feel fat and happy when in fact we are, as individuals, living on borrowed money and borrowed time. Cheap imports are the substitute for good labor policies, policies that reward work and ingenuity. It's a crying shame, but as long as we have the dollar stores and Walmart and other import stores selling junk at prices we can afford, we can be turned into a "service economy" (read impoverished, dependent economy) to the profit of the corporations and their managers.

It's a scam. And the media presents it so that people don't really stop to look and see for themselves and think through how they are being scammed. Might as well put soda pop in a pretty bottle and sell it as fine wine. That's the kind of scam we are being sold.