Go talk to the Greek people... see your future...

Thanks for the post n2doc !!!

We're just peasants to be shaken down by multi-nationals.

Checks & Balances would have been a way to avoid this .

I hate Obama. And I also must hate poor Vietnamese farmers.

I wish there was something I could do besides shake my little fist and promise to never vote for anyone who has voted yes on this or shilled for it.

This is projection. The only reason they support the TPP is because they love Obama. Therefore, the opposite must be true. The difference is that authoritarians blindly follow and liberal progressives have open minds. It comes from their childhood. They were taught to blindly trust authority. Don't question your teachers, your coaches, you scout leaders, and your priests.

Have been told the same thing in another thread, and they can't argue their reason supporting TPP rationally, so they fall back to "who's loyal" and who isn't in their minds. And those that aren't just "hate Obama", just because so many Republicans also hate Obama.

When we see what's been negotiated, let's have good, hard long look at it. I'm still waiting on those side agreements on labor and environmental protections from NAFTA.

And, since the Supreme Court ruled just today that, in effect, environmental regulations are mooted if it costs polluters too much, I want iron-clad language and enforcement mechanisms that hold corporations accountable for poisoning the land, water and air and injuring or killing their employees. Wage and hour laws in force. Adequate provision made for workers to organize into unions and collectively bargain for their rights, wages and benefits.

That's just baseline stuff, because there's a lot more I want to see in this "partnership."

I'm sure they're working hard on it right now. Everybody promised.