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Baobab

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8. If you count GATS as part of TiSA, this has been planned for 22 years
Sat May 28, 2016, 10:55 PM
May 2016

its just been in negotiations much of that time, and they keep falling apart over several issues, one of them is so called Mode Four, movement of natural persons to provide services.


This is why Medicare for All is out of the question.


You cannot globalize a professional public service and turn its jobs into bargaining chips. the same goes for education. Privatizing education is big money. Water too.

For health care they have a scheme to offshore patients to sacrifice our nurses and doctors on the altar of profitability.

I have been telling people this was in the pipeline for years, few Americans outside of the activist community understood what I was getting at until recently.

Bookmarking. thank you /nt think May 2016 #1
Services might be privatized by GOPers, but not by this. Hoyt May 2016 #2
Has nothing to do with national laws, TiSA is in a supranational system of private international law Baobab May 2016 #19
oh fuck no. undergroundpanther May 2016 #3
I left out the oh and the no, but otherwise passiveporcupine May 2016 #20
What could possibly go wrong for workers? n/t Hydra May 2016 #4
Economic analyses of winners and losers Baobab May 2016 #5
I hope we have slowed down the neoliberal march to madness. Baitball Blogger May 2016 #6
If you count GATS as part of TiSA, this has been planned for 22 years Baobab May 2016 #8
Thank you for spreading the word. Baitball Blogger May 2016 #13
Bookmarking. Thank you. nt silvershadow May 2016 #7
A coporate coup. We don't need any of these agreements to have fair trade. JDPriestly May 2016 #9
Who is we? Are you a trade negotiator/lobbyist? Baobab May 2016 #18
The republicans and DINOS can't wait to give away everything possible Doctor_J May 2016 #10
Since the late Reagan Administration, thats true. Baobab May 2016 #12
Why does PBO want this? Do you think he doesn't know what is in it? AllyCat May 2016 #11
I think he was put there to hammer it through Baobab May 2016 #15
Nafta, TPP, TiSA in fact all international trade agreements have evolved from the goal of free Monk06 May 2016 #14
People dont have any way to have power, because their jobs are going away. Baobab May 2016 #16
They would be very happy if people just moved away to someplace cheap and lived off their savings. Baobab May 2016 #17
K&R!!!!!! burrowowl May 2016 #21
Locking - analysis tammywammy May 2016 #22
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