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    TPP/SHAFTA-Ross Perot is still right...

    TPP/SHAFTA-Ross Perot is still right...
    Jan. 6, 2015 12:23 pm
    By Thom Hartmann

    Ross Perot is still right. During the 1992 presidential campaign, Ross Perot arguably played the role of spoiler. But he also played the role of realist. Throughout that campaign, Perot made it a point to highlight just how harmful so-called “free trade” agreements were for the United States.

    At one debate during the 1992 presidential campaign, Perot said that, “To those of you in the audience who are business people: pretty simple. If you're paying $12, $13, $14 an hour for a factory worker, and you can move your factory south of the border, pay $1 an hour for labor, hire a young -- let's assume you've been in business for a long time.

    You've got a mature workforce. Pay $1 an hour for your labor, have no health care -- that's the most expensive single element in making the car. Have no environmental controls, no pollution controls and no retirement. And you don't care about anything but making money. There will be a job-sucking sound going south.”

    Nearly 23 years later, Ross Perot’s words still ring true.

    All across America, abandoned factories, which were once part of America’s economic engine, are crumbling to the ground. So-called “free trade” deals like NAFTA and CAFTA have decimated the American economy, screwed over working-class Americans, and shipped millions and millions of good-paying jobs overseas.

    Now, lawmakers in Washington are getting ready to sign on to yet another so-called “free trade” deal: the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). I prefer to call it the Southern Hemisphere Asian Free Trade Agreement - or SHAFTA.

    Fortunately, not all lawmakers are on-board with the latest ploy to give corporations and the wealthy elite even more power. Senator Bernie Sanders has asked the United States’ top trade representative, Michael Froman, to release the full text of the TPP.

    Sanders is asking for the release because the TPP has been written largely in secret, and even members of Congress have been kept in the dark about the agreement and its text.

    In a letter sent to Froman, Sanders writes, “It is incomprehensible to me that the leaders of major corporate interests who stand to gain enormous financial benefits from this agreement are actively involved in the writing of the TPP while, at the same time, the elected officials of this country, representing the American people, have little or no knowledge as to what is in it.”

    Sanders goes on to say that, “Members of Congress must have the opportunity to read what is in the TPP and closely analyze the potential impact this free trade agreement would have on the American people long before the Senate votes to give the President fast track trade promotion authority.”

    Finally, Sanders ask Froman to, “explain why you think it is appropriate that the representatives of the largest financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, media conglomerates, and other major corporate interests not only have access to some of these documents, but are also playing a major role in developing many of the key provisions in it.”

    While the TPP has been negotiated on and written in secret, many of its key details have been leaked, and those leaks paint a very disturbing picture about the effects that the TPP would have on the American people and economy.

    For example, according to Public Citizen, the TPP would give foreign corporations the power to go after any laws and regulations in America that they don’t like, and would allow them to seek taxpayer compensation for expected but lost future profits that are hurt by American regulations.

    Public Citizen says the TPP would also expand the monopoly powers that pharmaceutical companies have on drugs, while restricting access to potentially life-saving drugs for millions and millions of people across the globe.

    Next, they point out, the TPP would require the U.S. to import foods, like meat and poultry, that don’t meet our own safety standards. In other words, the TPP could get a lot of Americans very sick.

    Finally, the TPP would reward corporations for shipping American jobs overseas. Think about that for a second.

    Corporations would be rewarded for leaving millions and millions of Americans without jobs. That’s insane!

    No matter how you look at it, the Trans-Pacific Partnership is NAFTA and CAFTA on steroids. It's truly deserving of the name SHAFTA. It represents a serious threat to our economy, our health and to our overall freedoms. It's a bad deal for working-class Americans and it’s a bad deal for our country.

    Call your members of Congress, and tell them that it’s time for America to kick its addiction to job-destroying, economy-crushing, so-called “free trade” deals once and for all. Don't just end the SHAFTA of TPP, let's roll them all back.
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    Liberal voters, my ass. You seem to forget whose signature was on that wretched NAFTA document.....


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    I don't totally agree with the kneejerk anti-NAFTA stuff although there are points. But Ross Perot's montage of imaginary high paying America factory jobs were already mostly gone by 1992...
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    Quote Originally Posted by FORD View Post
    Liberal voters, my ass. You seem to forget whose signature was on that wretched NAFTA document.....
    First of all, because NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good-paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement. -------

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    How Our Economy Works (and why SHAFTA sucks ass) in words and pictures

    http://economixcomix.com/home/tpp/

    Way too much to copy & paste over here, but this guy sums it up in an explanation so simple even a teabagger could understand it.

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    13 DLC Cowards Vote With Corporatist Republicans To Advance SHAFTA

    13 Senate "Dems" vote with GOP to advance trade bill

    By Seung Min Kim

    6/23/15 1:25 PM EDT

    Updated 6/23/15 1:40 PM EDT

    Thirteen Senate "Democrats" on Tuesday helped advance fast-track trade powers for President Barack Obama after overcoming their own concerns about whether a related aid bill for workers would pass the Republican-controlled Congress.

    The final tally on the procedural vote for granting Obama trade promotion authority was 60-37. Five Republicans — including two running for president — broke with the GOP and voted against advancing the bill.

    The 13 "Democrats" were:

    • Michael Bennet, Colorado

    • Maria Cantwell, Washington

    • Tom Carper, Delaware

    • Chris Coons, Delaware

    • Dianne Feinstein, California

    • Heidi Heitkamp, North Dakota

    • Tim Kaine, Virginia

    • Claire McCaskill, Missouri

    • Patty Murray, Washington

    • Bill Nelson, Florida

    • Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire

    • Mark Warner, Virginia

    • Ron Wyden, Oregon

    Republicans who voted against advancing the fast-track bill were:

    • Susan Collins, Maine

    • Ted Cruz, Texas

    • Rand Paul, Kentucky

    • Jeff Sessions, Alabama

    • Richard Shelby, Alabama

    Those were the same senators who voted against the measure in late May, with the exception of Cruz, who announced his reversal Tuesday morning. (Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah was also a “no” vote in May, but he did not vote Tuesday.)


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    Guess which two Senators just lost FORD's vote forever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FORD View Post
    Guess which two Senators just lost FORD's voTURD forever.
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    Ross Perot was right then, Bernie Sanders is right NOW


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    The rat's are being exposed but they are doing a lot of damage exposing themselves.
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