Joni Ernst articulates Republican, corporate position on TTP, TTIP:

[Faryn Balyncd]

"Let’s tear down trade barriers in places like Europe and the Pacific....

The president has already expressed some support for these kinds of ideas. We’re calling on him now to cooperate to pass them."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/transcript-sen-joni-ernsts-post-state-of-the-union-address-as-prepared-for-delivery/2015/01/20/67a70b2e-a112-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html

[woo me with science]

1. United oligarchy, not divided democracy.

TPP, war, police state.

Bipartisan.

[djean111]

2. Thing is, there are not many trade barriers. The TTP and TTIP are really about tearing down

sovereign laws and rules and regulations, and a race to the bottom for wages.
They are really about not regulating banks, about taking away the ability of poorer countries to have low-priced generics, about not letting us see where our food comes from. About giving corporations the ability to claim eminent domain wherever they see a profit, and suing if they cannot get rid of any laws or regulations that impede their profit.

Yeah, the TPP is a GOP and libertarian wet dream.

[Faryn Balyncd]

3. Absolutely.

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. "trade barriers" such as "national autonomy" n/t

[Scuba]

5. Bingo!

[Faryn Balyncd]

7. "Trade barriers" are anything that gets in the way of corporate sovereignty:

Environmental protections
Labor laws
Food safety protections
Food labeling laws
Net neutrality
Intellectual property laws that don't provide the corporate owners (such as the corporation that stloe "Happy Birthday" from the public domain) with the ability to eliminate competition for eternity.

[Nye Bevan]

6. How is their position on these deals different from President Obama's? (nt)

[Faryn Balyncd]

8. They differ in that only Obama tells us it is our job to hold his "feet to the fire" and

.....tell him when he is wrong.


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