Posted on 06/13/2015 12:40:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
TPA, or similar a law, has existed for decades. The recent vote in the U.S. Senate was a renewal of the TPA, and Senator Ted Cruz, perhaps the foremost constitutional conservative in the Senate, supported it because it created a process in which the president could be held accountable. TPP was never voted on in the Senate or the House, and its language has not even been finalized.
My objection, at this point, to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is that it is secret, and only members of congress are permitted to read it. Ted Cruz has read it, and has issues not only with the secrecy, but on other points that he intends to address in the Senate. He especially wants to insist that any trade agreement with any of our Pacific partners under the TPP will get an up or down vote in congress within 60 days.
Trade in the Pacific has become crucial, because the un-named elephant in the room is communist China, who wants to dominate the region. Some sort of TPP must be passed; there is more than free trade at stake here, national security is tied to this....
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You never quit do you?
Pathetic.
Why should I? Because you object to my opinions? Sorry, that ain’t a deal killer for me, I assure you. And keep pestering me and I’ll flood you with articles like this.
The issue is not TPA (the enabling legislation) itself, but the super-secret TPP, which Obama is going to great lengths to hide from the public and trade experts. If TPA passes, then TPP skates into irreversible law. So Cruz’s whole argument is disingenuous at best, dishonest at worst.
Well, TPA will certainly help his wife’s firm. Us, not so much.
What kind of comments do you expect from the Ted is a traitor, Pelosi is a hero crowd? LOL
Personally I don’t love it but I know we will now eat a far worse crap sammich and the rest of the candidates are cowards for slinking away after supporting and even lobbying for it.
There’s a custom here of CC’ing a poster when you talk about him, or didn’t you know that?
Like so many other things, Ted is right on this one also.
Yeah, no ****. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
Pathetic post for Obama, Goldman Sachs’ Trade Agreement
Dept., and to support a bad judgement by “Toast” Cruz
now costing Cruz a large fraction of his supporters.
They tried using an article from a VERY FAR-LEFT union & environmental whacko website to impugn him yesterday and when I called the thread poster on it and showed him their board of directors, he just said “the truth is the truth.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3299719/posts?page=15#15
My comment on this article goes to this, from the article itself:
“Trade in the Pacific has become crucial, because the un-named elephant in the room is communist China, who wants to dominate the region. “
I will just point out that China is so much the un-named elephant in the room, because AMERICAN COMPANIES, are all sold out and buying everything from China. Just last year we set (yet another) in a long line of ever-increasing trade deficits with China, we are now at 342 billion last year, and it’s still growing.
That is the big problem.
We don’t need more free trade agreements, we need to bring businesses back to America.
All these wonderful trade agreements have done is help us lose hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs. The furniture, textile, and so many others are all gone now.
Billy Bob Clinton said we were going to train the 55 year old textile worker to do a higher paying computer job. Laughable. Both parties have sold American workers down the river.
I can take you to areas of the nation that were once thriving that are now broke. Enough is enough. I am tried of all the Chamber Boys in the republican party.
The Chamber of Commerce is now controlled by big dollar elitists — Wall Street, Silicon Valley, etc. Republicans = Chamber Boys.
The Chamber wants illegal immigration. They want TPA and TPP too.
I’m willing to give Cruz the benefit of the doubt on this.
I disagree with him on this, but he’s still the best option we have.
The president currently cannot be held accountable. This is because, even after three election cycles low-information voters have failed to elect the constitutionally required 2/3 senate majority needed to discipline a lawless, House-impeached president.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and corrupt senators along with it.
You never quit do you?
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Hopefully.
We need people who post the type of articles posted by 2ndDivsionVet. He should be commended. So I’m doing so.
Stick to your guns, we need you on this forum to refute all of these characters that crop up from time to time.
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