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In reply to the discussion: Pres. Obama tells Dems, on TTP: "Get informed, not by reading the Huffington Post" [View all]djean111
(14,255 posts)existing laws or regulations threaten profits. We are giving corporations more power than sovereign countries.
Also, I am not so naive as to think the US is going to sue Vietnam to make them pay our minimum wage. In all likelihood, the Vietnamese are going to win contracts in the US because they pay their workers so little. And - the amount of contracts the US can bid on in the other countries pales next to the contracts that the other countries can win here in the US. Not even in the same ballpark.
The TTP and TTIP are all about the global powers of the Investor State. The five "trade" chapters of the twenty-eight chapter TTP are window dressing. It is the other chapters that the corporations wrote in secret that are the killers.
In any event, if you think the TTP is fine and dandy - just don't contact your representative in Congress. Easy peasy.