Republicans Use TPP Trade Deal To SLASH MEDICARE

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5. A tax cut to help pay for healthcare when you're unemployed? How about a tax break for

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gasoline for commuting, and for a new home, and for sending your kids to college- WHEN YOU'RE UNEMPLOYED?
Just how absurd and evil can this corporate Trade Deal for the benefit of multinationals get?
And for people who lose their jobs, it's been posted on DU that funds will go to universities to retrain them for jobs in Nursing and Truck Driving. What do these unemployed people live on while they're 'retraining'? Those two fields are also very uncertain- nursing and most medical jobs even clerical, in the large metro area where I am are filled by foreign workers, mostly on visas.

Advanced technology to eliminate or reduce the number of human truck drivers with self driving vehicles is well underway. Drivers salaries are some of the highest trucking companies pay and want to dispense. What's with these half as*ed inclusions and ideas to assist displaced American workers from this global corporate Coup?
More than 600 Reps. from corporations are reported to have worked on the TPP deal for 10 years. How many LABOR Reps. have been involved in the 10 year TPP planning and negotiations? NONE that I've heard.

Well before the 2014 Midterm Election losses and total GOP control of Congress, the scenario often seems that Democrats are reacting to what Republicans want, are going to do, to them. It's a clear defensive position and/or rationale that's become beyond worn except for the great group of vocal Reps. and activist citizens we have fighting neoliberalism and austerity every day.

*GERMANY'S DAIMLER SELF DRIVING LONG HAUL TRUCK



USA TODAY, May 7, 2015
By Chris Woodyard

"Why Big-Rig Trucks, Not Cars are Best for Self Driving Tech"

While the world has focused its attention on self driving cars, the greater near-term potential when it comes to autonomous vehicles may turn out to be long-haul trucks. When Daimler Trucks North America became the first to license a self-driving big rig this week in Nevada, it was pointing the way to a future that could become embraced by the trucking industry for one simple reason: safety.

>SNIP< Daim says it will probably be 10 or 15 years before drivers can actually get out from behind the wheel of a big rig while it drives itself.

Read more...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2015/05/07/self-driving-trucks-daimler/70952162/

VIDEO Demo of Daimler Autonomous Truck in Nevada, May 7, 2015
http://www.usatoday.com/videos/money/cars/2015/05/07/70912772/