Posted on 08/30/2015 10:29:37 AM PDT by yorkie
During the August recess GOP senators were told to press for the passage of the TPP Trade Agreement. Yikes!!
Wikileaks has gotten their hands on a copy of Obama’s phony TPP trade bill. It contains 29 chapters but only 5 pertain to trade. Wikileaks will be publishing the entire bill and they have already released the chapter on Investment. It’s very interesting. It is written in a such a way as to give multinational companies a huge advantage on trade. If a public hospital is built close to a private one, the private hospital has the right to sue the country for expected losses. That is outrageous. Here is where you can find the chapter on investment:
https://wikileaks.org/tpp-investment/WikiLeaks-TPP-Investment-Chapter/page-2.html
Here are other chapters published by Wikileaks:
https://wikileaks.org/tpp-enviro/pressrelease.html
The agreement also regulates the internet and requires internet companies to gather certain data which they will be required to share with certain private companies. Many of the provisions will not only be secret before the vote in the House, but will also be kept secret for four years after the bill is signed. That means we won’t know what’s in it even after it’s passed.
According to the TPP, the United States will have to give up sovereignty on labor, immigration and the environment. The Sultan of Brunei that has just 417k subjects will have the same amount of clout as the president of the United States that has 320 million people. In fact, of the eleven countries in the TPP, an amendment can be added to the agreement with six countries and a total population of 82 million could defeat the other five countries with a total population of over 633 million.
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cruz supported this?!
Wasn’t he for it before he was against it? Meaning they help it pass, but then pretend it’s an outrage that they oppose and they’re powerless to stop — the usual charade.
Ted Cruz opposes all attempts by liberal Republicans and Democrats to give away American Sovereignty via treaties.
What is wrong with that???
In a very similar story, I lived in Shelbyville, Tennessee, when a local entrepreneur built a gym, "The Training Barn," at significant personal expense and hoped to recoup his investment by selling memberships. He did well for a time, with a clean well-managed facility equipped with good machines, free weights, and a large area for aerobics and such fitness classes taught by locally-hired people.
Then the city decided to put in a gym at the Civic Center, and asked about half as much for a membership - which they could do because they had no need to show a return on an investment.
All I could guess is that The Training Barn's owner must have refused to give a free membership to the mayor and city council...
The Training Barn was soon gone.
I like Cruz a lot. But he did indeed vote to give Obama fast track TPP authority. Then he called the leadership liars over it. But his vote let’s Obama skip senate 2/3.
At the best time to kill it, he voted to let it proceed. That’s a documented fact.
Global government. Evil.
Whats wrong is it is subjective as to how much income is lost. It opens the government to looting by government employees. Just pass a bill that builds some thing near a failing business and you could make a ton of money on the backs of the tax payer.
Better policy would be to get the government out of businesses that compete with private companies.
If there is not hospital then maybe offer a incentive to build one. Make the incentive open to everyone so that there is no one person that can use the government to get free money.
Sen. Cruz allowed this, and then tried to block it.
His allegiance was Obama, and to SECRECY,
and to his wife (and Goldmann Sachs)
and not his then-loyal supporters — and we left him.
Paging Ted Cruz defenders...
Yes he did.
“Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, defended his decision to vote for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) that would fast-track the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) and Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA)—among other deals—during a Thursday interview with the Hugh Hewitt radio program.”
In May, he voted to advance the TPA bill, which also included a worker aid package favored by Democrats. He also co-wrote an article in the WSJ with Paul Ryan
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/ted-cruz-no-support-tpa-trade-bill-119319#ixzz3kK8nU8cr
In June, he voted against. So he was for it before he was against it.
Another article:
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/06/23/ted-cruz-flips-on-trade-bill-on-eve-of-key-senate-vote/
“In May, Mr. Cruz voted for an earlier version of the bill that combined fast track authority with an extension of aid for U.S. workers hurt by trade”
When he got flak from the TeaParty, he then said that “he found “new troubling information” in details of the emerging trade deal that suggests that the fast track bill could make it easier for Mr. Obama to change federal immigration law”
If Diogenes was a conservative he would have stopped tpa.
Don’t kid yourselves. He really supports Obama and his own financial interests.
“Sen. Cruz allowed this, and then tried to block it.
His allegiance was Obama, and to SECRECY,
and to his wife (and Goldmann Sachs)
and not his then-loyal supporters — and we left him.”
He’s fooled us a few times now. That’s enough for me.
I believe that is true, but he should say so, or explain why he supported it. If it is strategy, he should explain it. People are not stupid, they will get it. So far, nothing.
Or i am wrong. I know how he voted, and i have heard speculation about putting it to a vote afterward, but voting for fast track is giving away leverage. Imho a tactical mistake from a guy who definately knows better. .. Why? I am interested to hear.
Huh?
Whut?
I dont understand what you are trying to say.
Are you saying Cruz supported the fast track, or that he did not?
It is an important question in my mind.
<“In May, Mr. Cruz voted for an earlier version of the bill that combined fast track authority with an extension of aid for U.S. workers hurt by trade”
When he got flak from the TeaParty, he then said that “he found “new troubling information” in details of the emerging trade deal that suggests that the fast track bill could make it easier for Mr. Obama to change federal immigration law”>
......Thank you. Too many here are too eager to condemn Cruz.
I must apologize - I was just informed that this article was previously posted by blueyon:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3295837/posts
(I received it in my email today, and chose to post it.)
I was trying to mock the more conservative than thou argument by Diogenesis.
I really like Cruz for President.
I do agree with free trade. I think democrats, unions, and liberals are opposed to free trade.
I do think Cruz did a good job of arguing these points within the framework of the senate.
I do think TPA and the actually trade legislation are separate items. Granting trade authority is an agreement that the President should achieve free trade.
It is increasingly evident that the trans pacific trade agreement does not achieve free trade.
I find the hyperbolic “we left him” statements against Cruz to be silly.
There is very good reason to believe that Cruz is the most conservative candidate running this fall.
The counter arguments depend upon appeals to ignorance. I don’t really know where the Cruz bashers stand this fall. It is quite common in this phase of the game that FR contributors play the conservative unicorn game.
I don’t like the hyperbole so I was mocking it.
I think Cruz supported TPA but not the actual trans pacific trade agreement. I think that was fine and I especially loved his speech denouncing Mitch McConnell for lying in order to get TPA.
Here is the liberal Dallas Morning News describing Cruz’s position: http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/ted-cruz-flips-on-obama-trade-agenda-after-months-of-support.html/
Question! Did you mean ‘left’ him or possibly ‘let’ him
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