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In reply to the discussion: Fast-Track Treason and the Coming Corporate Coup: Calling Out TPP Traitors [View all]Hoyt
(54,770 posts)countries. More BS from people bent on scuttling something that might be beneficial to us.
You can read about the current US Trade Representative here:
https://ustr.gov/about-us/biographies-key-officials/united-states-trade-representative-michael-froman
Now, I'm sure people who have worked in industry are on advisory committees, etc., in the Trade Rep's Office, as they should be.
While I love him, I don't think the "Rent is Too High" Guy would really help negotiating international agreements with complicated legal, economic, human/worker rights, environmental, etc., implications.
And I'm sure corporations are lobbying for things beneficial to them, but that doesn't mean countries involved with bend over to them. These large corporations do have interests in these agreements.
When all is said and done, I hope corporations make trillions of dollars more than the do now under new trade agreements (assuming they are held to environmental, worker/human rights, etc., improvements). That's just more money available for improving wages, education, healthcare, welfare, guaranteed incomes, quality of life, etc. Of course, we have to make em pay, pass significant increases to minimum wages, etc.
I still think we should give Obama a chance. Assuming it's brought to a resolution within the next couple of years, he'll produce the documents, explain its implications, etc., before doing anything. If it's not completed soon, it'll be a big part of the 2016 campaign and could even derail HRC if she takes an unpopular stance on it.