Enough! Can we stop the divisive anti-TPP @#$%-stirring?

[JDPriestly]

221. I don't claim to know the details of the negotiations or the deal.

I do know that those details are being kept secret. And I conclude that they are being kept secret because we from whom they are being kept secret would be furious, absolutely incensed if we knew the details. I base that on past experience.

I am extremely opposed to these trade deals that set up international court systems for the specific purpose of enforcing the agreements.
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I am extremely opposed to trade deals that permit corporations or other countries to interfere in our country's democratic decision-making or that create institutions or entities or courts that supersede our national and state courts.

I don't need to know the details of the deal to know that this agreement will impose some sort of supra-judicial entity that will impose its autocratic, authoritarian will on the American people.

And what is more, we as a nation a re not united enough to compete in "free" international trade. We are disorganized with regard to industrial development. One state competes with the other for industry and for jobs. We have no strategy with regard to what kinds of services and products we can offer to other countries.

Our trade deficit tells the story. The United States is not ready to compete in the world. We are failing badly at it.

I oppose the TPP. I know what I am talking about.

We will relinquish our sovereign rights to decide things like the lengths of the duration of copyrights and patents. That is a well known aspect of the agreement. That means that Obama's little clique that is negotiating this agreement will be taking from Congress its enumerated power to legislate regarding aspects of patents and copyrights. See Article
I, section 8 of the Constitution.

The TPP will be bad for America. It will mean more job losses. We already trade with Japan, and the other countries on the list, or most of them, are too poor to buy our products. This trade agreement will harm America.