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In reply to the discussion: Obama: Elizabeth Warren is "dishonest" [View all]denverbill
(11,489 posts)Anyone who supports this law supports a communist dictator imposing his will on the American people and usurping the Constitution.
And for those of you who actually think for yourselves, this is a fucking miserable treaty that will completely screw over American workers in favor of multinational corporations. As Adam Smith, the father of capitalism said,
The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public. To widen the market and to narrow the competition, is always the interest of the dealers.
The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it."
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The TPP was COMPLETELY written and negotiated by the 'dealers'.