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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Free-Trade Job-Loss Express Is Coming Straight At Us
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/08/13-2The giant multinationals are pushing a trade deal that will literally let them bypass our laws. This deal is called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and it is coming at us in the next few months. The corporations are trying to switch this gravy-train onto the Fast Track. For them this deal is the light at the end of the tunnel of democracy and self-government that has been trying to reign them in. We need to get this runaway train back on the rails or We the People will be begging for scraps thrown from the caboose. Call your Senators and Representative today and let them know that people are paying attention and oppose Fast Track trade authority.
Fast Track
President Obamas US Trade Representative (USTR) and lobbyists for the giant multinationals are asking Congress to yield its Constitutionally-mandated obligation to carefully review and amend the upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. They want Congress to give the administration Fast Track trade-promotion authority (TPA) so they can get the deal done ASAP. ASAP in this case means literally in the next few months.
Politico has the story inside their story USTR headed to Japan to attack auto trade barriers,
[The US trade representative's] trip comes as the Obama administration hustles to make a major trade deal with Japan and 10 other Pacific Rim countries happen by the end of this year.
The Obama administration needs Congress to approve fast-track authority guaranteeing that TPP would get a vote without amendments . The administration has a short window of opportunity before campaigning revs up for the 2014 election, making it a near-impossible environment to get such a massive trade deal done.
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The Free-Trade Job-Loss Express Is Coming Straight At Us (Original Post)
xchrom
Aug 2013
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Hillary Clinton's Business Legacy at the State Department (leading part in drafting TPP)
antigop
Aug 2013
#3
It's a sure thing, like Larry at the Fed. Nothing will stop this. Obama oddly gets stuff done.
Safetykitten
Aug 2013
#11
Lasher
(27,500 posts)1. Fast track = no amendments
and no filibuster.
4Q2u2
(1,406 posts)2. I guess we have our answer
That is not the light at the end of the tunnel, but a train headed right for us. Together we can trickle down. Down to nothing, I guess that is the true meaning of "Trickle Down Economics", we all end up at the bottom.
antigop
(12,778 posts)3. Hillary Clinton's Business Legacy at the State Department (leading part in drafting TPP)
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)9. That will piss off the Clinton center right DLC worshippers. n/t
antigop
(12,778 posts)10. it will? did you forget the sarcasm thingy? nt
there's a more than decent chance that the TPA will be shot down in the House.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/the-odd-bipartisan-coalition-that-could-sink-obamas-free-trade-legacy/276938/
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)7. where`s the teaparty on this issue?
the sound of crickets....
G_j
(40,366 posts)8. K&R for the Deathstar
Safetykitten
(5,162 posts)11. It's a sure thing, like Larry at the Fed. Nothing will stop this. Obama oddly gets stuff done.
When money and people that give him money are concerned.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)12. Oh Goody! More Hope and Change!