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truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
Wed May 27, 2015, 04:37 PM May 2015

No Elected Official can be for both ending the impact of humans on Global Climate Change & also for

The Trans Pacific Plan.

The President came out last week for the TPP. (No surprise there - he has been one of the major architects of getting it passed, and of getting it passed quickly.)

But then this week he is all about ending the human equation side of Global Climate Change?

What a bit of forked tongue tomfoolery!

Has no one explained to him that when American jobs in manufacturing go over to third world nations, those third world workers do not have any environmental regulations in place? (This is one of the cost saving reasons that America's One Percent so highly favor basing our needed manufacturing in those third world nations.)

Anyway, I suspect the Great Speechifier knows all of this full well, but he wants that Quid Pro Quo.

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truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
3. I knew that the minions for the One Percent would be on this like
Wed May 27, 2015, 04:45 PM
May 2015

white on rice, but I didn't realize that they would hit it within three minutes of my posting it.

 

Egnever

(21,506 posts)
4. Yes everyone who can hold more than two thoughts in their head at the same time
Wed May 27, 2015, 04:48 PM
May 2015

Are minions of the one %

Two for two now going for three?

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
6. If one thought is totally contradictory, to the other thought, then I remain dubious
Wed May 27, 2015, 04:50 PM
May 2015

About the reality of what is going on.

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
5. And fracking supporter Ed Rendell, former governor of Pennsylvania,
Wed May 27, 2015, 04:48 PM
May 2015

Is now doing real well inside the executive suite of a Texas Energy firm.

People in Pennsylvania, who can no longer drink their own well water, not so well.

 

NYC_SKP

(68,644 posts)
9. There are good Democrats, and then there are Ed Rendells.
Wed May 27, 2015, 04:55 PM
May 2015

To me he was kind of stinky during the last big election, 2008.

Gregorian

(23,867 posts)
7. Not only that, but for growth in general.
Wed May 27, 2015, 04:52 PM
May 2015

We have a huge dilemma. It's the result of obtaining our global size, and now needing the energy (and resources) maintaining that size.

To simply maintain who and what we are means contributing to climate change. No amount of engineering can help that either. Greenwashing is just that, a fractional change that doesn't amount to enough to be meaningful. This is the inconvenient truth that both liberals and conservatives alike refuse to see and discuss.

TPP or no TPP.

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