Posted on 06/17/2015 2:40:05 PM PDT by familyop
On Friday, Congress disrupted President Obama’s plan for a sweeping transfer of U.S. sovereignty to an unaccountable group of foreign busybodies. Hurray for the stalwart Americans who resisted the demands of Obama, the Republican leadership, and the big-donor claque, but Speaker Boehner plans to give Congress another chance this week to make this dangerous mistake.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would turn over to globalists the power to issue regulations about U.S. trade, immigration, the environment, labor and commerce. It’s called a “living agreement” which means the globalists can amend and change the text of the so-called agreement after it has gone into effect.
That reminds me of our supremacist judges who invented the term of a “living” Constitution, which they can rewrite to comport with their own updated ideology. The globalists claim that this “living” document (TPP), now called Obamatrade, has all the powers of a treaty to commit the U.S. to new foreign obligations, although it certainly did not comply with any U.S. constitutional provisions for treaty ratification.
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has frankly warned about this giveaway of U.S. sovereignty. Not only would Congress give up its powers to negotiate and write the terms of a treaty, but Congress also gives up its power to debate and amend the deal, to apply a cloture vote in the Senate, and to require a two-thirds vote in the Senate.
The secrecy wrapped around TPP is appallingly un-American. Whatever happened to Obama’s promise of “transparency”? TPP was negotiated and agreed to by Obama’s trade representative and a bunch of foreigners in a secret room, and the American people are not allowed to know the details until after it’s a done deal.
TPP puts us in a new political and economic union before a single private citizen is told about it and with public opinion running five to one against it. Remember when Nancy Pelosi said we had to pass Obamacare in order to find out what is in it?
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) warns, “TPP calls for the formation of a permanent political and economic union known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission, which will have power to issue regulations impacting not only trade but immigration, the environment, labor and commerce. He added, Congress “will have surrendered its legislative prerogatives. Before a word, line, paragraph, or page of this plan is made public, Congress will have even agreed to give up its treaty powers.”
Senator Sessions made it even more emphatic, saying that Fast Track “authorizes the President to form a new transnational governance structure…. it confers the power to both compel and restrict changes to U.S. policy, to commit the U.S. to international obligations, and to cede sovereign authority to a foreign body.” This new global body could even add new member countries (such as China).
Senator Sessions continued: “Congress would be pre-clearing a political and economic union before a word of that arrangement has been made available to a single private citizen. This has the earmarks of a nascent European Union,” and Americans certainly don’t want to belong to a European union (that’s why we fought the American Revolution).
Rep. Hunter also warns that the new global governance institution would be “authorized to issue policies and regulations affecting our economy, our manufacturers, our workers, our immigration procedures, as well as current, labor and environmental practices.”
TPP is separating us from the U.S. Constitution and from national sovereignty and replacing both with a global governance superstructure. TPP has wrapped its audacious global governance plan in the mantle called “free trade,” which is a misnomer if there ever was one.
“Free trade” means Americans must obey a bunch of rules written by foreigners (which we can’t veto), but China can ignore those rules. TPP didn’t even touch the subject of currency manipulation against us by Asian countries.
While the American people are denied the right to read TPP, thanks to leaks from WikiLeaks we have learned that Obamatrade includes ten pages to unilaterally alter our current U.S. immigration law. Senator Sessions says TPP will give Obama a backdoor to increase immigration, and the same lobbyists who are pushing for Obamatrade are demanding open borders.
Republicans need a bold program to bring back jobs that have been lost to Asian countries. Michele Bachmann summed up a pro-American verdict on TPP: “I hate it. It would empower the president, cut out congressional influence, and lead to American jobs leaving the U.S.”
I don’t think anybody on here is advocating for TPP to pass. We’d just like to have TPA for the next President, who will not be Hillary.
God bless you.
Women Senator Sessions votes Yes, then I’ll be for it!
God bless you.
When Senator Sessions votes Yes, then I’ll be for it!
‘I don’t think Americans have the will to fight tyranny as they did in the late 1700s.”
You missed Milwaukee Sheriff David Clark arresting 75 of Holder’s goons when they tried to block I-94.
You also missed South Carolina throwing Holder goons into state prison for 10 to 30 years.
Boston in no way represents a font of dedicated patriots.
“She also fails to mention it is a long way from being completed or voted on. TPP will not pass”
According to this article, TPP is 1 week away.
However, as Breitbart News previously reported and numerous Congressmen have confirmed, several hundreds of pages of Trans Pacific Partnership are available for review in a secret room only for individuals with security clearance. Therefore, there is in fact a trade deal in existence, and Australian Financial Review reported it is near completion.
“We are literally one week of negotiation away from completing this extraordinary deal across 12 countries and 40 per cent of the world’s GDP,” said Andrew Robb, Australia’s trade minister.
Me too!
....also Phyllis Schlafly and Mark Levin affirm it.
IF they affirm it......which they won’t!
My conservative Republican representative Steve Pearce stood up to Boehner and voted it down, as did the Rats (but for different reasons). For that sin he was booted from the Republican Whip leadership
I cannot believe what Boehner & Co are getting away with. The firing/booting of these fine Reps - who stood against this cr@p sandwich - and FOR the American people, is beyond the pale.
I called Bonehead’s field offices and told them as much....FWIW.
When Senator Sessions votes Yes, then I’ll be for it!
I believe Phyllis.
never heard of the book. I will look it up, thanks.
Yea, right.
No President needs to have TPA.
It certainly won't if TPA fails so why risk it? TPA is similar to a Cloture vote in the Senate, no bill that fails Cloture will ever get a vote. If TPA passesTPP will become law no matter how many times you make a post denying it.
How exactly does the TPA strengthen US sovereignty?
There is a clause in the 2015 version of TPA that reinforces the sovereignty of our laws which cannot be undermined by anything in trade agreements. There is also the clause on immigration written by Cruz and Sessions.
The House is voting on the rule for TPA now, to be followed by debate and vote on the TPA as a stand alone bill:
On C-Span now:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?326582-1/us-house-debate-vote-tpa&live
Call your Congresscritter-TPA vote should be by noon today.
I thought that clause only said that the trade partners could not force news laws on us—but they could still not allow us to make changes to our current laws. E.g., further restrict work permits.
But no matter, the TPP is a giveaway of new laws, such as permitting foreign companies to freely transfer employees in and out of the US.
An example of how these deals hamstring the US is how an international tribunal has determined that we can’t label the country of origin of meat—because that disadvantages Mexican meat sales in the US.
Sessions is scathingly against TPA, as he just detailed again yesterday:
NAFTA didn’t stop us from making and changing our laws. I don’t think TPP will pass.
But why do you keep saying they won’t try to pass it until just before the 2016 elections, when TPA, the first step, just passed and the word is they want to get it through by this fall?
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