If President Obama declared that all firstborns be put to the sword...

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49. How could any thinking person agree with Obama on the TPP?

Another trade deal is the last thing we need in this country.

NAFTA nearly killed our economy.

How anyone can see anything positive in another trade deal of this kind is beyond me. The TPP is a corporate coup.

Please read this Stiglitz article.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-secret-corporate-takeover-hidden-in-the-tpp-2015-05-13

The TPP is no less than a corporate coup.

And if you think that any country is going to import more of our products because we sign this agreement, you are utterly wrong. If that were possible, we would be exporting more to Canada and Mexico which have strong cultural ties to us and which as our neighbors could import from us at low transportation costs.

No. The TPP is another way to grab American jobs (what is left since NAFTA and computers grabbed so many) and money.

The TPP is a corporate coup. The courts it will set up will make us pay and pay. We may not have lost cases yet but we will. And just the cost of defending our country against huge multinational corporations is a waste. We have an excellent judicial system. It was set up by our Constitution. We do not need to allow corporations to over-ride the legislative and judicial systems set up by our Constitution and that is precisely what the TPP courts are intended to do.

The horror of it cannot be exaggerated.

No to the TPP. It is a corporate coup.

You have only yourself to blame. Remember this ten years from now if it passes. You will regret it. As will we all.