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In reply to the discussion: Obama: Elizabeth Warren is "dishonest" [View all]OrwellwasRight
(5,312 posts)Joseph Stiglitz and Robert Reich both heavily criticizing the TPP. They are not politicians and not "fundraising" for anyone. What about Jared Bernstein, who used to be in the Administration, saying the TPP should be defeated unless it has enforceable currency provisions in it? Who is he "fundraising" for?
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/15/on-the-wrong-side-of-globalization/?_r=0
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-reich-trumka-tpp-trade-fast-track-20150303-story.html
http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/no-negotiating-a-currency-chapter-in-the-tpp-will-not-cause-and-trade-war-or-cost-us-jobs/
And what's your interest here in keeping the deal a secret? Why are you not interested in seeing the text and being able to weigh in on it to be changed as citizens can do with any other piece of developing legislation? How does it make America a better democracy to keep these deals, which have the force of law, secret until it is too late to fix the damaging provisions in them? Would you have liked the Affordable Care Act to have been done that way? I sure wouldn't.