Friday, April 17, 2015

Trans Pacific Partnership put on Fast Track and supported by Obama


The Trans Pacific Partnership is an anti-democracy trade deal that has been negotiated completely in secret and Congress has now put in on the "fast track" meaning that it could become law very soon.

The deal gives foreign corporations the ability to avoid our domestic laws and regulations with respect to labor, the environment, taxation, patents, industrial policy, etc.

This is diktat by the global corporatocracy that subverts our democracy, our sovereign status.

Why the fuck do we vote? For this??

(Why the fuck do we vote, anyway?)

Call your Congressional representative and tell them you stand against this terrible deal that will lead to more outsourcing, more wage destruction, more pollution, more exploitation.

Central planning at its finest. This is why we have surging income inequality under Obama. For all his phony concern for workers and the Middle Class, he is nothing more than a puppet of the corporate elite.

5 comments:

Tom Hickey said...

Another bummer from Obummer.

Tom Hickey said...

Of course, Americans are concerned about how this affects them negatively.

But the implications for the emerging world are much more dire. It's basically a plan to force the emerging world to "play by the rules" set by transnational companies in order to play the game and participate in the global economy.

It's going to be a huge turn off wrt "capitalism" (neoliberalism) globally that will increase inequality and plutonomy radically. Blowback sure to ensue.

Matt Franko said...

I listened to his presser today and it sounded like he was looking at it as these deals would open up foreign markets for US exporters. .

.. I just dont see certain export oriented nations ever buying US goods.. these nations are biased towards their own goods..

Tom Hickey said...

Matt, the idea is that they be forced to buy imported goods that are "competitively priced."

The EU is already complaining that the Russians are violating trade agreements by import substitution as a response to sanctions.

Shows the twisted thinking of the plutocrats. They are psychopaths with zero empathy, bordering on sociopaths (serial killers) as NATO gears up for nuclear war with Russia.

Peter Pan said...

I wouldn't put all my eggs into the TPP basket.