Posted on 06/13/2015 4:07:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I am so weary of reading about this so I’m putting my one last hope in being able to understand it this way...Thanks.
The Trade Bill is a secret document. Had TPA Been approved we would have 60 days to read it before a Congressional vote. As it stands we are not getting to read it and I have no idea what the process is going forward.
In any case it is the norm that Trade Bills do not pass except via a TPA based system. So, with the failure of TPA, the Trade Bill is likely to fail as well.
Also note that, had it passed, it would be effective for 6 years including the First Term of the Ted Cruz Presidency.
I don't believe that for a second. Look elsewhere and it becomes "supported by trade". And it looks like they include retail jobs such as Walmart, you know, all those retails jobs "supported" by goods imported from China.
So, all the jobs related to the import, distribution and sale of goods once produced in the US are counted as jobs that depend on trade.
More Than One in Five U.S. Jobs Depend on Trade
Great, we've discovered how to bring greater prosperity to America. Send all jobs possible to cheap labor nations and then count all the new jobs needed to distribute and sell the products exported back to the US.
If Jenner can be a woman, and Dolezal can be black,
“Toast” Cruz can present himself as a CONSERVATIVE.
But he is, by his own action, NOT.
I suggest you call Cruz’s office at (202) 224-5922 on Monday and ask them.
Take a look at the “born-on” dates of some of these people. LOL
This misses the point. Obama is not to be trusted with anything more substantial than a putter. Giving him the opportunity to negotiate away our nation by creating an EU among third world nations (and others)is not my idea of smart. Can he be stopped? Nothing yet has demonstrated he can.
I like Cruz. I like him a lot. He is not yet the prez and as a lowly senator he does not have the clout to stop Obama. Obama is the problem, not Cruz.
These negotiations have gone on for 6 years. They can continue for another 2. Let’s get the fascists out of government before giving government more power.
Too bad Ted and Marco couldn’t just draw up a bill and put it in the hopper that lowers the corporate tax rate to 7.5% and brings billions of off shore money back into the US. No free trade agreement needed.
How about we the people and the plain language of the constitution?
Sorry Cruz but the GOP can’t be trusted on this trade issue since they’ve lied and lied and lied about defunding obamacare, defunding the amnesty and stopping Obama big spending.
“born-on” dates do not trump Truth.
The fact is that a random computer,
a rabid monkey or human two year old,
would each make the correct choice more often
than Congress ... and that includes “Toast” Cruz.
Cruz is correct on the technicalities, but horribly wrong on substance (I’ll admit that setting up the House Democrats to kill the bill was good domestic politics, and setting the Obama up to provide something to run against later are smart politics for Cruz). For six years, Obama has screwed up everything he touched, like a King Midas of excrement. If he desired with all his heart to negotiate an agreement that competently serves US interests, Obama is utterly incapable of delivering it. The chances that he would somehow produce an agreement worthy of approval are nil. If you believe otherwise, please explain. (I am not anti-Cruz, just anti-Obama).
Since Obama is not capable of producing an approvable bill, why on earth give him what amounts to a vote of confidence? Why risk that we’ll have another set of tricks and bribes a la ObamaCare?
Cruz believes in Trade Agreements.
Trade Ageements only make it through Congress via a TPA process.
He is going to vote against the TPP (I’m betting)
If the TPA had passed we could push through a Trade a Bill to our liking in 2017.
This isn’t Rocket Science. To me Cruz has exactly the right strategy. Get what we will need later right now. Turn thumbs down on the Obama bill. Pass the Trade Bill we really want in 2017.
We owe about 18,000,000,000,000 to the rest of the world, if you net out how much is owed to us. Now I don’t care if we “have been doing it this way”, it isn’t working for us so it’s time to try something else.
So did Romney. So did Obama.
I know it's difficult to focus while in the grip of righteous hysteria, but go back and read it again.
The ad says that telling us what we want to hear is what OTHERS will do. Not Cruz.
I’ve got mixed feelings because good and bad come out of them.
However trade deals happen all the time with no notice. All governors go on trade missions overseas and most people don’t even know their governor has gone anywhere let alone what deal they’ve made. Hell I can be proud that my state does business with Israel while so many others (individuals & nations) are engaging in the economic terrorism of boycotting Israel. All due to a “secretive” trade deal.
In another “shady deal” Canada is building us a bridge.
Get what we will need later right now. Turn thumbs down on the Obama bill. Pass the Trade Bill we really want in 2017.
you’re naive and waaayy too trusting.
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