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Looks like multi-national corporations are getting away with murder in trade deals again. Check out details of leaked preliminary TPP documents at link. Australia was smart enough to bail on this, the US, not so smart, unless we raise hell before it is signed.
http://www.citizen.org/documents/Leaked-TPP-Investment-Analysis.pdf
lunasun
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I am glad they are working on this and got this leak out but what it alerts us to is not so good and US is the real push for outside foreign investors having a big hand in the pot
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)and, of course, the Chamber of Commerce:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13/obama-trade-document-leak_n_1592593.html
Is this unstoppable?
UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)It's unstoppable. The backers of the lesser of two evils and the more evil are all for it.
inna
(8,809 posts)newthinking
(3,982 posts)They sure can when it comes to trade proposals....
So who is representing the people in this arena?????
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)On May 23, as the the Democratic Chairman of the Senate Finance Committees Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness responsible for overseeing US Trade negotiations, he
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002723257
More details can be found at the link.
As he said at the time,
http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/blog/post/iycmi-wyden-statement-introducing-congressional-oversight-over-trade-negotiations-act
Since that time, however, it's difficult to see that any action is being taken. His web site focuses upon other issues and does not call the attention of vistors to the his Bill and the fact that "the majority of Congress is being kept in the dark as to the substance of the TPP negotiations, while representatives of U.S. corporations like Halliburton, Chevron, PHRMA, Comcast, and the Motion Picture Association of America are being consulted and made privy to details of the agreement." The search function for his web site also does not appear to pull up related information.
http://www.wyden.senate.gov/
In addition, his Bill has not be referred to a Committee. The govtrack web site projects that the Bill has less than a 5% chance of being enacted.
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/s3225
It is possible that his Bill simply died.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Or were we just going to talk about it and listen to some Wavy gravy?
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)That's where the buck stops.
Matthew66
(8 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)with slave labor
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)Me neither.
He said he would include labor and environment in trade negotiations.
A total lie.
This is on top of crappy trade deals with Columbia, Panama, S. Korea.
Obama and Romney have nearly identical positions on this issue.
It's actually worse when Democrats do this because it silences many of the people who would be the most vocal opponents. It turns the Dems into just "GOP Junior" or something.
We shouldn't stand for this. We should put human needs ahead of corporate profits.
This trade deal is an attack on the American middle class.
It is at least as important as the Wisconsin governor recall election. I think a lot more important.
We really ought to fight this.
In 20 years of voting I've never voted for anything besides a Democrat. If the President joins the Republicans to pass this without protections for human rights, worker rights, environment, and democracy, I'm not voting for that anymore.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Freddie Stubbs
(29,853 posts)Although the rhetoric is different between the two parties, the outcome is similar.
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)Oops they forgot to check with the American people before reaching a consensus.
Trade without an ethical component is nothing but exploitation.