Leaked TPP Document Reveals No Regard for Environment in Trade Agreement

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8. When Obama was elected president, I was more hopeful for the future than I had ever been in my life.

I truly believed that the U.S. had made the greatest of all possible choices for POTUS. Though I had never been a fan of the ACA and thought that a single payers system would have been better, I thought that it would be a good step in the right direction. Then there were issues here and there that I had concerns about, like his always trying to offer the Republicans any and every deal. Next was the NDAA that he signed in 2011. Goodbye Habeas Corpus and Posse Comitatus, hello permanent detentions. On and on it has gone. Now we have TPP which largely hands over economic control to corporations, taking all legal rights away from “we the people”, when dealing with said corporations. I am sorry but that is Oligarchy. That is rule by the rich when we lose all power to redress. The state of things really bothers me and I am more concerned about the future now than I think I even was before Obama was elected. Was it all him? No. He has been, perhaps, the greatest enabler that the corporations and the Right could have ever wanted though. If Bush had tried to pass any number of these, the left would have been screaming bloody murder. It’s sad that but for a few exceptions; Warren, Sanders etc. that the difference between the Democrats and Republicans largely seems to be in name only.