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Showing Original Post only (View all)Remember when candidate Obama Promised to Renegotiate NAFTA? [View all]
And talked about labor being involved.
And talked about ordinary people being involved.
And talked about the problem of corporate lobbyists involvement in creating NAFTA
And wanted NAFTA to work for Main Street as well as Wallstreet
And called NAFTA a mistake.
Where did that guy go?
A major union's opinion on the TPP and their involvement:
http://www.aflcio.org/Issues/Trade/Trans-Pacific-Partnership-Free-Trade-Agreement-TPP
Corporate lobbyists that helped create the TPP:
http://www.flushthetpp.org/tpp-corporate-insiders/
Your elected representatives involvement in drafting the TPP:
They can only vote YES or NO on the agreement.
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I really don't know. But it would seem that he has gone to the other side on this issue.... /nt
think
May 2015
#4
Are we really going to start expecting our Representatives to tell us the truth?
raindaddy
May 2015
#6
"Where did that guy go?" Elected twice President of some country...I think. I will get a link.
Fred Sanders
May 2015
#10
Did you watch the video? Can you comment on Obama's own words in comparison to his current actions
think
May 2015
#12
Maybe when BO is old he'll write a memoir about what really happened along the way
erronis
May 2015
#24
When I've brought this up, I'm scolded for not understanding people make shit up to get elected.
whereisjustice
May 2015
#25
1st lesson: He told us everything we wanted to hear. The bigger lesson: I won't be fooled again.
mother earth
May 2015
#31