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In reply to the discussion: Elizabeth Warren Details Obama's Broken Trade Promises [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)to to push Obama to enforce the labor and environmental provisions in these agreements and they have done NOTHING.
Elizabeth Warren was patient. If you read her report, you will learn that the facts that she reports have been known for years. If Obama wanted to push another dirty, money-losing, anti-American trade agreement on us, HE should have had HIS staff research whether the labor and other human rights standards were being enforced and made sure they were.
Obama needs to rethink his options.
The TPP is not going to fly.
If you want to know why, go listen to the video of Elizabeth Warren presenting a speech before the 2015 California State Convention in Anaheim. The moment that she raises the issue of the TPP, the huge crowd of dedicated, hard-working, loyal California Democratic Party members goes WILD.
The Democratic Party core, the loyal members, the do-or-diers in the Democratic Party do not want the TPP.
Obama had better just take count of his losses and retreat on this one because Democrats don't want it. NAFTA and the other trade agreements have hurt our country too much and helped only the greediest of the scoundrels who shoved and kicked their ways to the top of the economic heap.
No to the TPP. It is a corporate coup.