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Misinformation Campaign Threatens Free Trade Deal
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 05/11/2015 | Staff

Posted on 05/12/2015 3:40:51 AM PDT by IBD editorial writer

Free Trade: Thirteen years and 11 free trade deals after Congress last gave a president "fast track" trade authority, it's unclear whether President Obama will get it back. Misleading claims from the right aren't helping.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; braking; jeffsessions; obama; opinion; tpa; trade
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To: central_va

Ao how about a Job Impact Study and build in yearly adjustments to protect our jobs?


41 posted on 05/12/2015 8:35:08 AM PDT by ex-snook (To conquer use Jesus, not bombs.)
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To: IBD editorial writer

No - Secrecy is killing the “deal”. When the actual content is secret, you cannot complain about “misinformation”.


42 posted on 05/12/2015 8:35:37 AM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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To: IBD editorial writer

President Jefferson negotiated the Louisiana Purchase with out congressional approval. Which was probably unconstitutional but nobody cared since it was the real estate deal of the millennium and done in the open.


43 posted on 05/12/2015 8:41:11 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: IBD editorial writer; All
I will go with what Senator Jeff Sessions has to say on this: Sen. Jeff Sessions: Top Five Concerns With Trade Promotion Authority

Well worth reading, Senator Sessions speaks truthfully, as he always does.

44 posted on 05/12/2015 8:49:57 AM PDT by zzeeman ("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality.")
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To: IBD editorial writer

Republicrat / Chamber of Commerce secret treaties bump for later...


45 posted on 05/12/2015 9:03:42 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: Reverend Wright

That is the market at work. That is in fact exactly how itworks

Think of Houston circa 1980 and now. Time is a factor

“If you build it, they will come”


46 posted on 05/12/2015 9:04:11 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: bert

“Isolationist claptrap is just that. Most that oppose trade have not a glimmer of knowledge of how global trade enhances our daily lives. “

I’m old enough to remember what the USA was actually like when we were broadly middle class and before we were sold a bill by those that put the desire for imported cheap labor over country, and consolidation of business and media over the tangible benefits of competition.

Failure to defend our markets and economy and security, along with bailouts and crony capitalism running rampant, and never ending M&A are counterproductive to the nation. Money buying policy is not a solution to good government.

As one example lack of airline competition is one reason most of us see the flight as the worst part of travel. It’s why the media feeds us propaganda instead of facts. It’s why public CEO managers (not entrepreneurs) are getting mega bonuses instead of required to provide better service and make better products. Competition forces such outcome.


47 posted on 05/12/2015 9:05:29 AM PDT by apoliticalone (Free speech and the 1st A is dead when it becomes illegal to criticize illegals or any others.)
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To: bert
You may be right.

There may be "misinformation" circulating around this agreement.

The cure for that is to publish the full details of the plan.

48 posted on 05/12/2015 11:15:52 AM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon (I wish someone would tell me what "diddy wah diddy" means.....)
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To: IBD editorial writer
I think you are the one with the misinformation, pal.

No new "free trade deals" if Zippy isn't allowed to pack his own secret sauce into an agreement?

How 'bout you go dig a hole to China, and maybe stop about half way?

49 posted on 05/12/2015 11:24:04 AM PDT by BlueDragon
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To: IBD editorial writer
Article:...."TPA is an abdication of Congress's authority, it would increase trade deficits, cede sovereign authority, reward currency manipulation and cause a flood of immigration...'Jeff Sessions'....

I absolutely agree with sessions on this... I will also add it will allow for 'a giant step' regarding the Globalist Agenda overall.....by removing the Authority of our Congress over trade it puts it all in the lap of the Globalists to determine regardless of how it might affect our nation....and then the door will swing wide for further losses to the US as a Sovereign Nation.


50 posted on 05/12/2015 11:33:07 AM PDT by caww
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To: apoliticalone

If this goes thru you can be guaranteed so will amnesty and furtherance of bringing vast numbers of third world “employees” into this nation.


51 posted on 05/12/2015 11:34:55 AM PDT by caww
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To: central_va

hEY thats supply and demand in action. no one wants the book so he has to jack the price so high that when one fool buys it it will cover the printing cost.


54 posted on 05/12/2015 12:07:53 PM PDT by Colehill1999 ("Walk the Walk with Men Who Do" - Walker/Cruz 2016)
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To: CMB_polarization

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!

Support your local Conservative Party and Union Leaders who are Conservative.


55 posted on 05/12/2015 12:11:04 PM PDT by Colehill1999 ("Walk the Walk with Men Who Do" - Walker/Cruz 2016)
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon

It was plainly stated on recent TV by a number of officials from previous administrations involved in past trade negotiations that the need for secrecy outweighs the public need to know. Such negotiations have always been confidential.

I can accept that especially knowing that the public could not understand the various points at various stages of ongoing negotiations.


56 posted on 05/12/2015 12:24:49 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: bert
I can accept that especially knowing that the public could not understand the various points at various stages of ongoing negotiations.

Secret deals involving corporations and governments usually don't bother fascists.

57 posted on 05/12/2015 12:27:57 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

you wouldn’t know a fascist if you met one on the street.

Your anti business attitude is reprehensible and more suited to an avowed moonbat.


58 posted on 05/12/2015 12:31:57 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: IBD editorial writer

If this bill is so great, how come it’s still classified?

This is not a report on a clandestine military operation against a hostile power. It’s a trade bill.

This ain’t no way to run what’s left of our republic.


59 posted on 05/12/2015 12:32:18 PM PDT by mojito (Zero, our Nero.)
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To: bert
The people of the world have moved far beyond your isolationist thinking.

Spoken like good compliant citizen of the world. The sadistic corrupt in D.C., Wall Street and the world banking cartels totally concur.

Brilliant.

60 posted on 05/12/2015 12:42:03 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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