Obama Ready To Defy Base In Order To Advance Trans-Pacific Partnership [View all]

[Teamster Jeff]

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President Barack Obama is ready to buck his liberal base in order to advance the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the pro-corporate international trade deal currently being negotiated in secret by the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries.

In a speech before the Business Roundtable, an association of conservative CEOs of major U.S. corporations, Obama indicated that he was ready to go head-to-head with Democrats, labor unions, and environmentalists—core groups that oppose the TPP and other so-called “free trade” pacts—in order to move the controversial deal forward.
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http://www.mintpressnews.com/obama-ready-defy-base-order-advance-trans-pacific-partnership/199643/


Good for Corporations. Train wreck for everyone else.