If TPP is so good for us, why does Wall Street pay negotiators millions in bonuses?

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6. For some reason, Corporate McPravda is not telling this part of the TPP story.

This story should have legs, on un-democratic principles alone.

Obama’s TPP Negotiators Received Huge Bonuses from Big Banks

By RT

A controversial trade deal being touted by the White House is expected to give American corporations broad new authority if approved. Now according to newly released documents, big banks gave millions to the execs that are now orchestrating the agreement.

Investigative journalist Lee Fang wrote for Republic Report on Tuesday this week that two former well-placed individuals within the ranks of Bank of America and CitiGroup were awarded millions of dollars in bonuses before jumping ship to work on the Trans-Pacific Partnership on behalf of the White House.

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In Fang’s report, he noted that such hefty bonuses aren’t unusual on Wall Street.

“Many large corporations with a strong incentive to influence public policy award bonuses and other incentive pay to executives if they take jobs within the government,” he wrote.

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When WikiLeaks released a draft version of a section of the TPP last year, the anti-secrecy group warned that “Particular measures proposed include supranational litigation tribunals to which sovereign national courts are expected to defer, but which have no human rights safeguards”

“No wonder they kept it secret,” internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom told RT at the time. “What a malicious piece of US corporate lobbying. TPP is about world domination for US corporations. Nothing else.”

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http://www.globalresearch.ca/obamas-tpp-negotiators-received-huge-bonuses-from-big-banks/5370423

I think I'm with you, pa28. I prefer people with integrity -- meaning no outside conflicts-of-interest -- making policy.