Washington Post: "TPP will help neither workers nor consumers"

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

40. "...on what anyone informed on the matter already knows"

Which we only know because it was leaked, AGAINST the wishes of the administration and the huge number of corporations involved with drafting it?

Remember, no one here would have been 'informed on the matter' until 4 years AFTER it went into effect, if all had gone as those in power wanted.

And btw, 'It's geopolitical' is a nice soundbite, but it's not. It's 'geocorporate'. This is an agreement to benefit multinational corporations. It's not to benefit workers, it's not even to benefit countries. It's an agreement to make it easier for companies to take more money FROM countries, FROM taxpayers, to allow them even more power over people (who aren't rich). That's the 'academic' truth out there.

Sure, they'll tell you countries will benefit, just like they told us that about NAFTA and CAFTA and all the rest. But it's 'trickle down' writ large. It's the claim that 'What's good for Goldman Sachs is good for America.' That because companies will 'make more revenues' (ie, separate more people from more money and give them things that are worth less than they actually paid for them) there will be more 'economic growth' that will benefit countries and citizens. And we've all seen what a lie that is.

The 'economy' grows, while most of the world gets poorer, and a few get richer. They ought to call this the Hokey-Pokey Trade Agreement, because that's what it's all about.