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In reply to the discussion: My swan song, come get your grave dancing on, if that's your thing. [View all]Bubzer
(4,211 posts)The TPP will grant corporations privilege over sovereign countries. Which means they externalize all costs... and will not bother with environmental controls, and so, will dramatically increase pollutants into the environment. That is absolutely a pro corporatist movement.
Fracking has long been identified by scientists and environmental groups as incredibly destructive to the environment, and as having cause earthquakes. Energy companies don't care... they just want money... and they wont have to pay a dime for the consequence. Effectively making that a real world example of what externalizing costs look like. It's all more pro corporate bullshit.
Especially the part where the focus was on profits, and supposedly strengthening exports, and oh, we need to embrace incremental change... and blah blah blah... it's all corporatist bullshit talking points. Not buying it.
Lastly, I didn't mention "our leaders"... those are YOUR bullshit words... not mine. Corporations want the TPP to pass... they see all the benefits they can get through it's thousands upon thousands of pages. Obama didn't lead the TPP's creation... Hillary did. Her and all the corporations standing to benefit from it. Obama only knows what he's been told... he's been given a misrepresentation of the agreement... not the ugly reality of it. So, no, Obama is not trying to deliberately destroy the country. He's being lied into it.