Posted on 06/11/2015 5:08:44 PM PDT by jazusamo
Constitutional conservatives don't like it. Trade unions abhor it. Obama critics hate it. Environmentalists despise it.
Outside the Beltway bubble, a broad coalition of voters from the left, right and center opposes the mega-trade deal getting rammed through Congress this week by the Republican establishment on behalf of the White House. Here's why.
The Obama administration, House GOP leader John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have sold out American sovereignty. Their so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission will have sweeping authority over trade, immigration, environmental, labor and commerce regulations.
As alert watchdogs U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest and U.S. Rep Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., warn: "By adopting fast-track, Congress would be formally authorizing the President to finalize the creation of this Pacific Union and will have surrendered its legislative prerogatives. Before a word, line, paragraph, or page of this plan is made public, Congress will have agreed to give up its treaty powers. ... In effect, one of the most sweeping international agreements seen in years will be given less legislative scrutiny and process than a Post Office reform bill."
The Obama administration, House GOP leader John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have sold out legislative transparency. Boehner smugly asserts that so-called Trade Promotion Authority puts Congress in charge and promotes "more openness" on trade talks. Nonsense. Under the Boehner/Obama plan, Congress gives up its ability to amend any trade deals under fast track, severely limits the ability to debate and lowers the vote threshold in the Senate from 61 to 51. The 11 international parties negotiating with Obama on TPP refuse to sign their dotted lines until Congress agrees to pre-agree to behemoth global trade pacts — sight unseen.
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What is radical is what we are doing -no tariffs. Free traitors are like the guy helping the rapist, holding the victims wrists and telling them to just lay back and enjoy it.
“I believe having a special tax on foreign made products makes those products more expensive.”
Import tariffs protect American industry. The United States became the premier economy in the world because of tariffs. The Constitution, when written, specified that tariffs would support the government. If you don’t have a job and no money, it doesn’t matter how cheap something is. As the guy on the Remington commercials once said, the way things are moving with American manufacturing leaving the country, all that will be left is for us to start selling insurance policies to each other.
The one thing that really gets me is that they think anyone that hates income taxes and promotes tariffs must be pro union. Well the factories we are shutting down, Ford not withstanding, are 90% non union and pay very reasonable wages.
“They (free traders) do not view the USA like a patriot, but view the USA as an economic zone.”
Needs to be repeated.
I guess I am just a silly jingoistic fool.
Excellent article.
Yes, get rid of the administrative agency bureaucracy, or at least trim the staff to bare bones, and make the courts do their job of restricting their authority to the STATUTORY LANGUAGE.
And they should be hung.
So the general public don’t care about shipping millions more jobs elsewhere? And you what don’t think 93 million Americans unable to find employment is a large enough number of unemployed Americans?
I drive a Ford built in a plant about 2 miles away and work in a plant that supplies it. It has 40% Canadian and Mexican content (including a German transmission). God Bless NAFTA, and Ronald Reagan, who brought it to us.
Bill Clinton signed NAFTA into law. Is the plant inside the USA?
Incidentally, NAFTA has cost the USA hundreds of thousands of American jobs.
I already have family members who I no longer trust with anything..
NAFTA was Reagan’s idea. It’s just that some protectionists have selective memories.
That’s what the Democrats say.
I don't think so.
Both are in Wayne County, Michigan. Motown, if you will . . . .
I’ve proven it to you countless times. You simply don’t think.
While we’re at it, let’s thank Reagan for pushing the creation of the WTO over the goal line.
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