And if I’m not mistaken, some Republican Senators voted for this garbage didn’t they?
Yep and Boehner too.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pat-choate/fast-tracking-obamas-trad_b_6590656.html
After the 2014 elections, Senate Majority Leader McConnell (R-KY) and House Speaker Boehner (R-OH) jointly and separately announced that they would support President Obama’s request for Trade Promotion Authority and give its implementing legislation a priority consideration.
Such support is baffling since President Obama, throughout the TPP negotiations, has refused to allow members of Congress or the American people to see the text of the treaty, claiming such transparency would impede negotiations. Now that the negotiations are effectively finished, Mr. Obama continues to keep the text secret, claiming that public disclosure of the text would impede ratification. The question, of course, is what mysteries and surprises lie therein?
The question really is what republicans will do more than give lip service to oppose it...
This treaty overrides our laws and Constitution to befit multi-national corporations...TPP is not about freeing trade. Rather, that’s the line being used to divert attention from the proposed content.......
TPP is more to do with enabling multinational corporations to exert control over policy making in the signatory countries......those countries are:
United States,... Japan,... Mexico, ...Canada,... Australia,... Malaysia,... Chile,... Singapore,... Peru, ...Vietnam, ...New Zealand ...and Brunei.
TPP would elevate individual foreign firms ‘to equal status with sovereign nations’, ...... by dragging governments to foreign tribunals to challenge public interest policies that they claim frustrate their expectations.”