TPP Trade Deal Will Be Devastating for Access to Affordable Medicines

[rhett o rick]

29. Response to your first comment ...

"There is no agreement." Nice dodge.

Response to your first answer. "I generally support trade agreements as they are necessary for trade." Trade agreements are good for trade. Yes, if they are good agreements. "I don't know what the agreement will look like." Funny how you would vote Yes on it w/o knowing what it looks like. Is this where you tell me you have total faith in the President?

Response to your second answer, "I'm undecided on fast-track". Again nice dodge. Seems to me that we by-pass our balance of power when we allow the President to ram-rod thru agreements made in secret with little debate. Neither democratic nor Democratic.

Of course it's not an "agreement" yet (duh!), but people have seen parts and parts have been leaked and it looks like this "Trade Agreement" contains much more that trade agreements. From the sounds of your post, you don't care what it might contain and are willing to Fast Track it thru.

Sen Sanders says no to Fast Tracking and no to the TPP because:

1. TPP will allow corporations to outsource even more jobs overseas.
2. U.S. sovereignty will be undermined by giving corporations the right to challenge our laws before international tribunals.
3. Wages, benefits, and collective bargaining will be threatened.
4. Our ability to protect the environment will be undermined.
5. Food Safety Standards will be threatened.
6. Buy America laws could come to an end.
7. Prescription drug prices will increase, access to life saving drugs will decrease, and the profits of drug companies will go up.
8. Wall Street would benefit at the expense of everyone else.
9. The TPP would reward authoritarian regimes like Vietnam that systematically violate human rights.
10. The TPP has no expiration date, making it virtually impossible to repeal.

I stand with Sen Sanders against the corporations that would take all our wealth (it's their nature). The President apparently stands with the corporations.

Supporting conservative Democrats is supporting the status-quo. We need change.