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32. Yeah, that'll fix it!

Thu Jan 23, 2014, 12:31 AM

Jan 2014

As First Way Manny put so well, caring about inequality and pushing the TPP are VIOLENTLY MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE.

Fuck the TPP. It's worse than you think.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023401331

The TPP: If you want to see how corporations and government work together to screw their citizenry
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024062919

Why the Tribunals in the TPP are so bad and how we know that.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023216358

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): An Extremist 1% Global Attack - IMPORTANT
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002936339

Thom Hartmann: TPP...fast track to poverty in America
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017169491

Study: Mega-Trade Deal Would Make Most Americans Poorer
http://billmoyers.com/2013/09/17/study-mega-trade-deal-would-make-most-americans-poorer/

TPP Is a Race to The Bottom -- We Need a Race to the Top
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023826847

Charlie Pierce: The TPP is a Million Ton Dunghammer Aimed at the Middle Class
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024340998

Nothing demonstrates the corporate control of our government like the TPP
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4042753

Because corporations don't have enough rights and power: The TPP & "investor rights"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023455457

TPP: Corporate rights expand and democratic rights decrease.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101649524

"A Corporate Trojan Horse": Secretive TPP Trade Pact, Would Rewrite Swath of U.S. Laws
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017159011

How bad is the Intellectual Property Rights Chapter of the TPP? Beyond odious and beneath contempt
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024030797

Secret TPP Deal will void democracy.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023209078

Wikileaks Exposes the TPP as a Capitulation to Corporate Interests
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017159214

TPP: The Terrible Plutocratic Plan
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023314206

TPP -- if this doesn't scare the crap out of you, nothing will. NAFTA ON STEROIDS
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023737075

Obama's TPP Disaster for Labor, Environmental Protections, Consumer Protections, Human Rights, and Democracy Itself
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101734264

Workers Speak Out about the TPP
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017142588

TPP. TPP. TPP. Bad for the U.S., Bad for other countries. Excellent for big Pharma
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024124545

TPP: The Biggest Threat to the Internet You've Probably Never Heard Of
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023092564

The TPP in less than 4 minutes
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024059278

Three Things about the TPP you need to know and share.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017126764

What the TPP means for you regarding the internet
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023734769

Trans-Pacific Partnership undermines health system
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023270583

The TPP's potential impact on the ACA
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024068410

Monsanto, the TPP, and Global Food Dominance.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101679408

Control over food is at stake with Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/112747655

The TPP and ill health
http://www.democraticunderground.com/111644140

Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders): Don't Trade Away Health With The TPP
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023788866

TPP threatens access to generic affordable medicines, say NGOS, Doctors Without Borders
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023182266

Another Reason to Hate TPP: Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023925427

Rep. Zoe Lofgren: TPP 'would lock in really backwards provisions' of copyright law
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024144674

Tobacco "Smoking Gun" Shows Real TPP Agenda
http://www.democraticunderground.com/111640155

Krugman does a no-show on the TPP - Dean Baker rebutts, NC digs deeper.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024193197

"Of The TPP's 29 Draft Chapters, ONLY 5 Deal With Traditional Trade Issues."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024324994

The Corporate Propaganda Machine: TPP Defenders Take To The Internet To Deliver Official Talking Points
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024115535

Not only will Obama's TPP make you and your family poorer, it will make you more unsafe
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024360384

Association of University Faculties: TPP a Trojan Horse
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101674503

By Pushing the TPP, Obama is Extending the Assaults of NAFTA
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024317882

Trade Expert: Why TPP — “NAFTA on Steroids” — Must Be Stopped
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024308737

What is wrong with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023820069

The Impact of the TPP on One State: Maine
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024275215

Madison Mayor on TPP: 'Enrons Will Become Commonplace'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023892026

Screwing Over America with TPP "FAST TRACK"--Bi-Partisan Senate Does the Deed..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1269569

13 Cities Mobilized to Shine a Light on TPP: “Don’t Fast Track a Train Wreck – FLUSH the TPP!”
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024037394

Noam Chomsky: The TPP: Corporate Attack on Democracy
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101782234

Noam Chomsky: The TPP: Kicking Away The Ladder (TPP)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017169091

Major Political Donors Have Access to TPP Documents. Everyone Else? Not So Much.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024347897

The TPP: 600+ "Trade Advisors" with access- Practically all of them corporate
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023734647

Industry powers with access to TPP plans lavish money on Congress
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024360863

Preventing TPP essential for all workers.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/16/sen-bernie-sanders-lambastes-democrats-and-republicans-over-trans-pacific-partnership/

Bloomberg columnist questions "why the secrecy" surrounding TPP negotiations....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024211801

TPP: Obama's Free (but not Fair) Secret Trade Agreement
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023182246

Papantonio: Obama MUST Drop the TPP
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017158723

TPP: Poison for Community Resilience
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024335233

Thinking About What the TPP Threatens
http://www.democraticunderground.com/111643896

Bill Moyers: Yves Smith and Dean Baker on Secrets in Trade (TPP)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017155918

Bill Moyers: Why are the contents of the TPP being deliberately kept from the American people?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023964411

The defenders on the TPP: "You don't know that" and "It's just speculation". Bullfuckingshit.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3688119

What TPP will bring: Some Awful NAFTA Chapter 11 Arbritration Cases- and a chart
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3701483

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What is the Democratic Party solution to economic inequality? [View all] kentuck Jan 2014 OP

A few speeches about it? Autumn Jan 2014 #1

^^this^^ Puzzledtraveller Jan 2014 #56

No shit, the Wall Street Democrats Warpy Jan 2014 #76

Well of course theHandpuppet Jan 2014 #145

All we can do right now is keep waking other people up Warpy Jan 2014 #147

+1 whatchamacallit Jan 2014 #86

That's all. Just speeches. While TPP gets slid up our asses sideways. nt Nay Jan 2014 #115

Form a commission and get back to us in 3Q 2016. Octafish Jan 2014 #132

good jobs. nt geek tragedy Jan 2014 #2

TPP? polichick Jan 2014 #3

Yeah, that'll fix it! woo me with science Jan 2014 #32

I was being facetious. polichick Jan 2014 #71

I know. woo me with science Jan 2014 #74

I'm glad you posted such important info - just don't want you to think... polichick Jan 2014 #88

Ask CEOs to pay people more? Send everybody to college (more income, even if more loans to pay back) Mass Jan 2014 #4

To reach across the aisle in bipartisan friendship FiveGoodMen Jan 2014 #5

^^^ Le Taz Hot Jan 2014 #50

Not sure about party solution but PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #6

errrr.... no thanks. Adrahil Jan 2014 #13

How do you know? You may very well be better off. PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #14

Yeah, well naturally I'm not interested in.... Adrahil Jan 2014 #19

I don't favor equal outcomes. I do favor a fair shake. PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #21

But your solution would wipe out everything I've done my whole life. Nt Adrahil Jan 2014 #34

Wipe out everything you have done your whole life PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #36

uh sure hfojvt Jan 2014 #70

honestly PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #72

I came up with similar schemes when I was under 30 Warpy Jan 2014 #77

You do not know me PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #81

I said nary a single word about you Warpy Jan 2014 #85

You assumed my taxes would fall PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #89

you mean hfojvt Jan 2014 #78

For capitalists that is the only thing of any importance - TBF Jan 2014 #123

"In all reality, that is nothing more than monopoly money." NCTraveler Jan 2014 #134

"I got mine"....no NM_Birder Jan 2014 #60

No fucking way! badtoworse Jan 2014 #35

Saved? Saved for what? PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #38

A comfortable retirement instead of subsistence controlled by the government. badtoworse Jan 2014 #40

how much per year PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #41

What difference? badtoworse Jan 2014 #42

The freedom to cut my own path. NM_Birder Jan 2014 #65

that is all you have now PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #68

LOL....... NM_Birder Jan 2014 #69

Even among liberals and progressives, ronnie624 Jan 2014 #82

Glad I am not the only one who sees it. PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #83

"Hoodwinked" NM_Birder Jan 2014 #92

There are many things that can bring genuine happiness and a sense of fulfillment: ronnie624 Jan 2014 #100

love makes the world go round......... NM_Birder Jan 2014 #109

As expected, ronnie624 Jan 2014 #114

"rich"........no I would not say that NM_Birder Jan 2014 #118

Civilization is a resource hoarding process The2ndWheel Jan 2014 #119

Your's is the most offensive, asinine thread I've seen on DU in a very long time. badtoworse Jan 2014 #99

"Central Managed Asset Distribution" nice ring to it huh....... NM_Birder Jan 2014 #62

Stalin would have loved it. badtoworse Jan 2014 #64

at least we can all agree that liberarian style capitalism sucks arely staircase Jan 2014 #75

well...sort of I agree, however I am a believer in Capitalism. NM_Birder Jan 2014 #90

so what would you raise the minimum wage to arely staircase Jan 2014 #91

why not 25 ? NM_Birder Jan 2014 #97

you are right it should be 25. lots of people here make only the current federal minimum arely staircase Jan 2014 #103

25 is what it would be in my scenario PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #108

That is the funniest post you've made so far, I want to play NM_Birder Jan 2014 #112

The United States of America. n/t PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #113

No kidding....lol...or more appropriately ...DUH ! NM_Birder Jan 2014 #122

The moment it hits the blocks PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #125

bummer............ thought you might have at least thought it out THIS far. NM_Birder Jan 2014 #127

Is there anything besides personal attacks that you have to offer? PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #129

No, not a lost cause, gave you opportunity NM_Birder Jan 2014 #131

You continually say nothing of consequence. PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #136

lol... NM_Birder Jan 2014 #138

It is extreme PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #141

the Putin pole dancing thing is still funny. take care. NM_Birder Jan 2014 #143

Post removed Post removed Jan 2014 #163

What do I have to do to get my share? clffrdjk Jan 2014 #137

That may be true PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #139

Again what do I have to do to get my share? clffrdjk Jan 2014 #144

You will work. PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #146

Are you going to put me in jail if I don't find a job I like? clffrdjk Jan 2014 #149

What do you do now? PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #150

I am a trained monkey for Autozone clffrdjk Jan 2014 #152

Please do not add words to my statement. PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #154

I didn't add anything clffrdjk Jan 2014 #156

Why would I continue to do the same job for less than half the money? Adrahil Jan 2014 #166

So basically you're advocating communism. Yeah.... NO. NT Adrahil Jan 2014 #164

easy don't spook him, NM_Birder Jan 2014 #140

This perplexes me. EVERY citizen? Adrahil Jan 2014 #162

Point missed. Your fiscal understanding is zero. take care. NM_Birder Jan 2014 #110

ok maybe 25 is too high (I would likebto hear what a Keynesian economist like Krugman thinks it is) arely staircase Jan 2014 #159

the solution is not to raise the pay of a minimum skill job NM_Birder Jan 2014 #160

Mostly agree. Adrahil Jan 2014 #168

the gold standard? arely staircase Jan 2014 #94

read the post before responding please. n/t PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #95

Why aren't you in Davos? oldhippie Jan 2014 #148

I had never heard of Davos. PowerToThePeople Jan 2014 #153

Permanent tax cuts for the wealthy, austerity, cuts to SS, and more "free trade" nt Demo_Chris Jan 2014 #7

YES!!! Puzzledtraveller Jan 2014 #58

what democrat is promoting the first two. arely staircase Jan 2014 #105

MUCH higher taxes on wealth. alarimer Jan 2014 #8

In the age of very mobile wealth, that doesn't make sense... Adrahil Jan 2014 #169

The Democratic Party has been infiltrated frwrfpos Jan 2014 #9

According to This...PBO thinks the "Earned Income Tax Credit" solved all the problems... KoKo Jan 2014 #10

and yet he didn't say that at all arely staircase Jan 2014 #106

Windfall profit surcharge (since the word "tax" is a no-no), higher income taxes over 5 million, and kelliekat44 Jan 2014 #11

Promise zones with tax breaks for job creators? Fumesucker Jan 2014 #12

Being slightly less offensive than the GOP still makes them the "opposition." 1000words Jan 2014 #15

My solution. Adrahil Jan 2014 #16

THE One And ONLY Question... WillyT Jan 2014 #17

Health care ProSense Jan 2014 #18

a significant increase in the minimum wage would be a start arely staircase Jan 2014 #20

Not while supporting TPP, it won't. woo me with science Jan 2014 #23

raising the minimum wage is the first step that needs to be taken arely staircase Jan 2014 #24

If accompanied by a fight FOR the TPP, it means LESS than nothing. woo me with science Jan 2014 #29

I support a minimum wage increase, regardless. nt arely staircase Jan 2014 #47

You don't get it ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2014 #155

oh I know arely staircase Jan 2014 #158

It sure would. Studies show that such an increase not only helps low-wage workers but pampango Jan 2014 #44

exactly arely staircase Jan 2014 #48

This ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2014 #157

Just keep blaming Republicans solarhydrocan Jan 2014 #22

have you called your congressional rep about the minimum w age? arely staircase Jan 2014 #25

Have you called yours about the TPP? /nt Marr Jan 2014 #80

of course not arely staircase Jan 2014 #96

Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2014 #26

Minimum wages hurt the poor because companies will move offshore and they won't have jobs? Better uppityperson Jan 2014 #27

It is physically impossible to have a 'solution' to income equality... Shandris Jan 2014 #28

One of the most honest assessments I have seen here. Puzzledtraveller Jan 2014 #59

Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2014 #30

Do you favor raising taxes on the rich? hrmjustin Jan 2014 #33

I'm eager to see one, a plausible, structural, direct one anyway. TheKentuckian Jan 2014 #31

What ever it is, it will never get a start as long as the crazies control the House. demosincebirth Jan 2014 #37

Absolutely true! randome Jan 2014 #49

Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2014 #39

What FDR did in the 1930's and what Europe is doing today. Don't have to reinvent the wheel. pampango Jan 2014 #43

Greece & Spain, 26% unemployment & the rest of Europe ain't doing so well either. El_Johns Jan 2014 #98

Europe has its problems but still has among the world's best distributions of income. pampango Jan 2014 #101

We had a good chance of what you say, especially protection for unions and the card-check demosincebirth Jan 2014 #102

Well said. n/t pampango Jan 2014 #111

Another insane trade deal. B Calm Jan 2014 #45

What SHOULD it be? This ... Scuba Jan 2014 #46

The Progressive Caucus' Budget would be a wonderful thing. Thanks for posting it, Scuba. n/t pampango Jan 2014 #51

Here's the one from 2012 fredamae Jan 2014 #54

+1 grahamhgreen Jan 2014 #121

That's 2 different questions. LWolf Jan 2014 #52

'Banning' trade will hurt us, as well. randome Jan 2014 #53

I don't want to ban trade. LWolf Jan 2014 #161

Kill all the rich people and feast on their entrails. Arkana Jan 2014 #55

Calling Bill Gates an idiot seems to be a popular response /nt demwing Jan 2014 #57

OK, we all know what the solution is. ananda Jan 2014 #61

I'm afraid there will be no solution until Republicans take control of the entire government... kentuck Jan 2014 #63

+1 uponit7771 Jan 2014 #116

Change FLSA laws. lumberjack_jeff Jan 2014 #66

We have to figure out a way to address this issue as well as climate change. raouldukelives Jan 2014 #67

Which part of the Democratic party? L0oniX Jan 2014 #73

Their solution is Third Way politics. Marr Jan 2014 #79

they don't have one..nt G_j Jan 2014 #84

How about treating a corportist DC insider Proud Public Servant Jan 2014 #87

Aggrieved frowns, platitudes, and pleas for campaign contributions. Tierra_y_Libertad Jan 2014 #93

Um, er, uh, hmm... Rex Jan 2014 #104

I like the Buffett plan Gothmog Jan 2014 #107

Listen to their high dollar contributors BKH70041 Jan 2014 #117

Tax the wealthiest & their corporations, increase minimum wage, end the costly trade agreements. grahamhgreen Jan 2014 #120

They shoukld talk to peopel like Bernie Sanders and get their minds right /nt Armstead Jan 2014 #124

Apperently this is the solution Phlem Jan 2014 #126

nothing can be done for those outside of america....understand that first beachbum bob Jan 2014 #128

Apparrently, the solution is the TPP. Oakenshield Jan 2014 #130

^^ best answer in the thread ^^ nt TBF Jan 2014 #167

During the recession/depression is when the serious work on income inequality... NCTraveler Jan 2014 #133

A sternly worded internet petition... Alkene Jan 2014 #135

It would have to be a political solution. kentuck Jan 2014 #142

The only reasonable solutions are opposed by everyone in the government Taitertots Jan 2014 #151

Triple the minimum wage & tax corporations TBF Jan 2014 #165