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Baobab

(4,667 posts)
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 05:10 PM Apr 2016

Trade Deal Make Virtually All Of Clinton's "Promises" less than Meaningless!

In order to change policy, the trade Deals have to be dumped.


Its not enough to try to do what the Europeans are doing because the entire FTAs are based on these corporate entitlements to sue nations and taxpayers for any changes forever- So they really have to be dumped.

Clinton cannot agree to that.

See here what we're doing in them and you may understand-

1.) Biopersistant Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals are causing a gradual increase in innumerable diseases caused by these chemicals in plastics and other mostly lipid soluble man made chemicals (they build up in fat) The cost is astronomical and there are liability issues because caring for people with these issues is very costly, they could eventually make the planet toxic if not stopped See Estimating Burden and Disease Costs of Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in the European Union - jc.2014-4324 http://press.endocrine.org/doi/pdf/10.1210/jc.2014-4324 or http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4399291/?report=printable

What is the response in the FTAs?

Attack public health care (By means of servizes FTAs like the already existing general agreement and the one pending in geneve
Attack public education - same two deals as above
Attack laws against harmful chemicals that are stronger than the lowest common denominator between 48 countries - trans atlantik deal
Attack medicine, attack teachers, attack incomes, poor people, even ones with educations, cannot fight anything - services"Mode Four" provisions have been negotiating for 20 yrs and are almost done in a scheme to throw everybody in skilled fields into the same labor market and - in developed countries first- privatize the public sector and then put it up for competitive bidding procurement through an e-tendering system. Contracts will go to the lowest bidding firms forcing wages to fall Claim its to help developing countries, but in fact its to prelong and protect corrupt regies both here and there, pitting the working people of developed countries against developing countries instead of together.


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Trade Deal Make Virtually All Of Clinton's "Promises" less than Meaningless! (Original Post) Baobab Apr 2016 OP
There was zero hope that any positions co-opted from Bernie would actually be implemented. The only GoneFishin Apr 2016 #1
Nope, she can't mention that, ever. Baobab Apr 2016 #2

GoneFishin

(5,217 posts)
1. There was zero hope that any positions co-opted from Bernie would actually be implemented. The only
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 05:56 PM
Apr 2016

question is what excuses she would use to slough the blame off on someone else. I think the oldie but goodie "But Republicans!" could rack up some pretty high mileage. But I also think "Sorry, out of my hands, trade deal" will be trending too.

Baobab

(4,667 posts)
2. Nope, she can't mention that, ever.
Fri Apr 29, 2016, 06:04 PM
Apr 2016

>I think the oldie but goodie "But Republicans!" could rack up some pretty high mileage.

Shame that that reason is totally fake.

> But I also think "Sorry, out of my hands, trade deal" will be trending too.

Nope, since thats whats really happening you wont hear a single peep on it.

Hundreds of thousands more "excess death" amenable to improved health care and things will get worse and worse because of their big lies.

But the buy or die system will be preserved.

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