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TPP is a terrible idea and is bad for America. TPP is being negotiated in secret and will not be made public. Obama is waiting for the primaries to be over to present it to Congress. They will attempt to pass it through some secret backroom deal.
1 posted on 04/27/2016 3:27:04 PM PDT by detective
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They will attempt to pass it through some secret backroom deal.

I agree, but Mr Trump might have something to say about it, in which case it just might be SCRAPPED completely and force Congress to actually Denounce something Obama wants.


2 posted on 04/27/2016 3:30:44 PM PDT by eyeamok
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One might think all the non issues such as bathroom usage, extensive coverage of celebrity, and other non political content could be to divert attention away from issues such as TPP, and perhaps other points the political class decide we should be less involved than they.


3 posted on 04/27/2016 3:33:10 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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British govt’s own TTIP assessment says US-EU deal has ‘lots of risks and no benefit’ The British government’s sole assessment of the shadowy Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) deal indicates there are “lots of risks and no benefit,” according to documents seen by Global Justice Now. In February a freedom of information (FoI) request was made to the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) to find out whether risk assessments had been carried out in relation to the secretive deal, which is currently in its 13th round of negotiations. The BIS reported that the only assessment had been carried out by the London School of Economics (LSE), which found “little reason” to believe the “EU-US investment chapter” – as the deal is sometimes called – would give the UK significant political or economic benefits. The report also examined the issue of secret courts, where investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) proceedings would allow US firms to sue national governments. The authors argue that “we would expect an EU-US investment chapter to be regularly invoked by US investors against the UK for governmental actions that would normally not be challengeable under UK law.” Global Justice Now director Nick Dearden gave a withering assessment of the deal and of the government’s analysis of it. He called it “staggering” that that government was pushing the UK into a system of “secret corporate courts under TTIP” with “almost no assessment of what the risks are for our policy makers or the taxpayer.”


4 posted on 04/27/2016 5:00:42 PM PDT by StCloudMoose
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