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Obama Was Against NAFTA - Video (Original Post) Unknown Beatle Jun 2015 OP
TPP is designed to redress the failings of NAFTA, as he promised. yallerdawg Jun 2015 #1
Then why was it done in secret, Unknown Beatle Jun 2015 #2
The fight... yallerdawg Jun 2015 #4
No, the fight is just starting. Unknown Beatle Jun 2015 #5
So he was against it before he was for it? tymorial Jun 2015 #3
politicians are against these trade deals when they're asking for your vote HFRN Jun 2015 #6
Right you are, HFRN. Unknown Beatle Jun 2015 #7
thank you - nt HFRN Jun 2015 #8
+1 nationalize the fed Jun 2015 #9
Obviously Obama thinks he can do it better, having learned from history. Hekate Jun 2015 #10

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
1. TPP is designed to redress the failings of NAFTA, as he promised.
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 05:57 PM
Jun 2015

That is why Canada and Mexico are both member-nations negotiating in the new Trans-Pacific Partnership, which has just had Congressional oversight and guidelines passed by Congress.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a negotiation with 11 countries in the Asia Pacific, including Canada and Mexico. Through the Trans-Pacific Partnership we are renegotiating NAFTA and instituting stronger, fully enforceable labor and environmental standards. These high standards will not only bring hundreds of millions of people under enforceable labor standards and protect endangered wildlife in one of the fastest growing regions of the world—they will also help level the playing field for workers and businesses here at home by ensuring our trade partners are playing by the rules.

To help deliver the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the President is also asking Congress to work together to pass bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority which will help guarantee that America speaks with one voice on trade priorities like protecting our workers and environment.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/issues/economy/trade

Unknown Beatle

(2,672 posts)
2. Then why was it done in secret,
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 06:15 PM
Jun 2015

with only corporations writing the legislation?

Why wasn't the full text of the TPP made public before passage or "Fast Track"?

Why was Elizabeth Warren told that "We won't make the information public because if people knew what was going on, they would stop it."?

It's easy to say one thing and then do another.

tymorial

(3,433 posts)
3. So he was against it before he was for it?
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 06:24 PM
Jun 2015

Does that make Obama the Bizarro Gore?

Sorry, I just couldn't resist (I happen to like them both).

 

HFRN

(1,469 posts)
6. politicians are against these trade deals when they're asking for your vote
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 08:06 PM
Jun 2015

but once they have the office, they take the plunge

deep into your back

nationalize the fed

(2,169 posts)
9. +1
Wed Jun 24, 2015, 09:25 PM
Jun 2015

Take a look into the past, when Democrats were pandering to AFL-CIO union members in 2007. You have to see it to believe it.

Skip to 18:18 for the Free Trade segment



Obama at 26:50 "Look- People don't want a cheaper t shirt if they're losing a job in the process"
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