2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: What specific POLICY POSITIONS show Sec. Clinton to be "Not Liberal" or "Not a Democrat?" [View all]Baobab
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1.) attempted and arguably has been successful in attacking public services of all kinds throughout the world making affordable health care impossible for us and tying US state ideology to this really bad set of corporate goals that attempt to lock down the future world into really bad models
2.) Lied about it more and more audaciously and eventually drew almost the entire US political and media establishment into various schemes to cover up this growing body of lies.
3.) Continue to use more additional trade deals that use the same bad models to expand the scope of this global takeover making public education FTA illegal in countries that want to trade with the US and making the US into a global army of corporate domination - completely against the nations will and without virtually any of our knowledge. One can verify this easily by looking at the paper in my .sig and then googling key phrases from it. Another eye opener is to google the name of that trade deal or other trade deals in the context of various countries like india, for example and education. one will quickly find out that that deal is among the worst things in the world right now -
4.) that same deal, and a newer spinoff from it now almost finished in geneva- which you can read about in a document from the CTPC, hopes to irreversibly lower skilled wages by pitting workers in developing countries against those in developed countries in competition for the same jobs-first privatizing large chunks of the public sector with only the most narrow exception for services supplied in exercise of governmental authority - but that exception causes numerous interpretation difficulties. The approach applied in this exception is criticized for not taking into account to a sufficient extent the nature of the public services. Instead, it refers to the economic circumstances of the supply of the service, and whether it is "supplied neither on a commercial basis, nor in competition with one or more service suppliers" a test which virtually ALL "public services" fail, for example, education and health care in the US. therefore they must be privatized and soon that pipeline likely will feed them into a procurement pipeline which will award those jobs to the lowest international bidders. In essence this system is being set up to trade jobs for trading concessions like "national treatment" or "most favored nation". 20 years and seemingly hundreds of thousands or perhaps millions of man hours would not have been invested into these plans - including maybe a dozen huge conferences in cites around the world, to set up a system with the tiny scope it has today, no, this system is being set up to attack all of us.It could turn overnight into a real disaster for the country, also it will put large chunks of the economy under WTO, not US final jurisdiction.
5.) This same 1994 deal has already played a key part in creating a huge financial crisis in 2008 which devastated many families - that also has been covered up- and it could cause far more damage at any time, one of the worst things is this giving away our rights to change domestic regulations to these corporate courts which are there only to fine countries huge amounts of money for making any changes which impact corporate profits, This is what Obama and Elizabeth Warren were really arguing about a few months ago.