NPR on TPP: "It's A Beast"

[JDPriestly]

25. This agreement imposes on the signators in other countries obligations they cannot enforce

like respecting our copyright and patent rights. We will end up at war trying to enforce our rights under the agreements. The government of Mexico either cannot or will not enforce drug laws.. Similarly a lot of other countries cannot enforce or will not enforce other provisions in the TPP.

I predict that the TPP will either fall apart as the Euro group is or that we will end up in wars or violent skirmishes over broken agreements in the TPP.

The TPP is a waste of time. It is best to have a system in which you can stop trading with a country with which you have a trade dispute or in which the enforcement of international law is too lax.

The TPP will prohibit us from retaliating peacefully against countries that violate our rights as a nation.

Corporations like it because they think that the sons and daughters of Americans like me will fight the wars that are required to enforce the agreement which doesn't give me or you any additional advantages but will promise to protect corporate interests. The TPP is a CORPORATE COUP.

Stiglitz says it in different words but agrees with me about much that I say.

You may not like to hear what he has to say, but he is a brilliant man and an expert on economics.

The TPP will lead to more war, not less.

Promises (like the TPP) are made to be broken. Sorry, but that is how the world works.