A Tip of the Hat to Ed Schultz . .

[FairWinds]

For yesterday challenging Obama's support for the rotten "Trans Pacific Partnership".

It's amazing that democrats promote trade deals that entirely omit protections for workers and the environment. Clinton did the same thing with NAFTA - which, by the way, Obama promised to re-negotiate.

As Ed points out, these deals also undermine sovereignty - but not just for the U.S. - for all the signatories.

Fast track ? Secretive process ? Excluding labor & independent analysts ? It's all rotten to the core.

[G_j]

1. K&R!

[newthinking]

10. No stopping projects like Keystone if this passes. Clear sailing for any environmental catastrophie

TPP is probably the most important issue of our time.

It will be as impactful and destructive to Democracy as Citizen's United. We really need to increase visibility on this.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. kick

[djean111]

3. Fast track? Secretive process? Excluding labor & independent analysts? It'sall rotten to the core.

It would seem so.

[Octafish]

4. NAFTA by Fukushima

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"FukushimaTPP" means "to be given the atomic of screwings."

[silvershadow]

5. I saw this. Bump. nt

[gopiscrap]

6. agreed

[gopiscrap]

7. welcome to DU

[antigop]

8. Hillary Clinton's Business Legacy at State Dept (leading part in drafting TPP)

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=67554

[grasswire]

9. Ed asks why the constitutional right isn't screaming about this

The giving of authority that would cede sovereignty is an issue made for RWNJ. But there's total silence on it.

[Enthusiast]

25. The "Powers" haven't told the screamers to be outraged about it.

Because it serves their purpose. They just don't want to be identified with it.

[bvar22]

11. DURec.

If this is passed, it will be the last nail in the coffin for America's Working Class.

It is clear that Candidate Obama was aware that NAFTA (and Free Trade Deals) "devastated" the American Working Class. He freely admits this during Campaign 2008,
and was one of the very few policy issues that differentiated him from Hillary.

Did the "immediate phone calls" to Mexico and Canada "amending" NAFTA ever get made?

Are representatives of the American Working Class, Organized LABOR, Environmental Protections, and Human Rights included in the secret TPP & TTIP talks,
or have then been purposely excluded?

Does anyone here seriously expect the Global Corporate lobbyists & lawyers writing these new treaties ("NAFTA on Steroids&quot to protect LABOR, the Environment, and Human Rights?

The secrecy and demands for Fast Track surrounding these negotiations is unacceptable,
especially for the "Transparency" President.

[tblue]

12. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!

Why do we have to beg you to reject something this noxious?

Mr. POTUS, PLEASE DON'T DO THIS!!!

Thank you, Ed.

[fadedrose]

13. This is very bad stuff

Time to email the President!

https://www.citizen.org/tpp

Have you heard? The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “free trade” agreement is a stealthy policy being pressed by corporate America, a dream of the 1 percent, that in one blow could:

offshore millions of American jobs,
free the banksters from oversight,
ban Buy America policies needed to create green jobs and rebuild our economy,

decrease access to medicine,
flood the U.S. with unsafe food and products,
and empower corporations to attack our environmental and health safeguards

[FairWinds]

14. Just Checking . .

Is it acceptable for DU posters to be critical of the President?
Or are we to be dismissed as "Obama Haters" or victims of "Obama Derangement Syndrome"?

[riderinthestorm]

15. I can't rec this enough. Awareness of TPP and prioritizing stopping it remains critical nt

[awoke_in_2003]

16. like that t shirt from the 90s...

Not
Another
Free
Trade
Agreement

[mountain grammy]

17. So the same right wingers who blocked the UN treaty that would have

set worldwide standards for disabled access because, you know, freedom, are silent over this multinational corporate takeover of the world? Just wondering why, if Obama is for it, we haven't heard the rage against it.

Very bad deal. I have been contacting my representatives and the president regularly with my opposition.

[haikugal]

18. BUMP!!!!

This has to be defeated...we're all being sold on the open market.

[madrchsod]

19. end of our sovereignty,trade unions, and the middle class.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

20. Kucinich ran on cancelling NAFTA and it was met with MASSIVE applause....

But he's "unelectable",.....right?

[polichick]

26. That's the Dem establishment mantra...

Anyone who would put people or the planet over corporate profits is unelectable.

You can hear it repeated over and over again on DU every day.

[KittyWampus]

28. as I recall he ran on Fair Trade not Free Trade. Replacing NAFTA with something. Not just cancelling

it.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

29. Right, but he would START with cancelling NAFTA since it was so toxic.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

21. K&R!

[Quantess]

22. K & R

[Enthusiast]

23. K&R! I hope MSNBC doesn't punish Ed for this.

Seriously. He stepped clear outside the cardboard cubical.

[Mosaic]

31. It is good to see someone here admit the obvious

That msnbc, as much as I enjoy it, I admit reluctantly, sometimes, is as corporate to its core as Faux noise.

[polichick]

24. Ed must be wrong - Pres. Obama would only put the workers first...

Ed doesn't get the chess game, that's all.

[Overseas]

27. K&R. I add my thanks to Ed for bringing the dangerous multinational corporate dream more exposure.

Too much of the agreement is still secret because those promoting it know citizens would be outraged by how much power is given to multinational corporations.

http://www.citizen.org/TPP

Have you heard? The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) “free trade” agreement is a stealthy policy being pressed by corporate America, a dream of the 1 percent, that in one blow could:
offshore millions of American jobs, free the banksters from oversight, ban Buy America policies needed to create green jobs and rebuild our economy, decrease access to medicine, flood the U.S. with unsafe food and products, and empower corporations to attack our environmental and health safeguards.

Closed-door talks are on-going between the U.S. and Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam; with other countries, including China, potentially joining later. 600 corporate advisors have access to the text, while the public, Members of Congress, journalists, and civil society are excluded. And so far what we know about what's in there is very scary!

[senseandsensibility]

30. I agree, but the other hosts on MSNBC should be talking about it too

Some of them seem more concerned about who said something mean to the Prez.

[Mosaic]

32. It is us enlightened noble citizens against a dark, secretive enemy

We elect those who betray us. Simple truth. As always I look, we, the noble, look, for solutions.