Almost.
I’ve read about TPP a lot. Elements of it refer to ‘resources.’
America’s bled dry. Our Middle Class is almost gone. Now, they’re coming-in a corporatist mode for now-for the goodies, and voila: TPP.
And those "resources" would be where? On land. How does one gain access? Via permits.
Voila: government control of land use, as I said.
That gambit has been in process since Nixon went for the NEPA, CWA, ESA, & CAA after the collapse of Brettonwoods, to socialize the mineral estate as collateral for the debt. They just needed a pretext to move it east of the Mississippi. Yet the reality is that the bondholders call those shots at the auction window, and it is delivered via preferential bureaucratic treatment. Therefore, they need the control of the assets with which to deliver said "access to resources."
Hence what I posted about government control of land use.