President Obama addresses workers (White House photo)
Posted on 11/05/2015 10:19:10 PM PST by Perseverando
President Obama addresses workers (White House photo)
UNITED NATIONS – The Obama administration’s release Thursday of the more than 2,000 pages of the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, known more commonly as Obamatrade, has prompted a rash of criticism from both the political left and the right.
Critics charge the pact undermines U.S. sovereignty by establishing a secret, unaccountable TransPacific Partnership Commission with sweeping regulatory powers over 40 percent of the world’s economy while sending jobs abroad.
“This trade agreement would allow foreign corporations to challenge our health, safety and environmental protections in a foreign tribunal outside our legal system, and it would weaken those bedrock safeguards in the United States,†said Jake Schmidt, international program director at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “While there are some positive conservation measures, the agreement’s substantial shortcomings should lead Congress to reject it.â€
Chapter 28 of the TPP agreement, titled “Dispute Settlement,†specifies that trade disputes will be adjudicated by a three-person panel in accordance with international law, including any World Trade Organization obligations that have been written into the various sections of the TPP agreement.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, head of a union known for supporting Democratic Party political candidates and causes, said that from what he and his colleagues have reviewed so far, “we are deeply disappointed that our policy recommendations and those of our trade reform allies in the environmental, consumer, public health, global development and business sectors were largely ignored.â€
Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government, said the TPP “will continue to outsource American jobs overseas, fail to do anything about currency manipulation, and once adopted, will create an international, unelected commission with broad authority to implement and interpret the agreement without any votes of Congress.â€
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You know folks, there is really no downside to electing a house and senate leader that campaigned on working with Obama. None at all. We won. And thats what matters.
Thank g\God no one listened to those purist voices that wanted conservatism. Thank God we compromised! Imagine how bad this would have been!
It’s a lesser evil. No matter what.
The only way Obama escapes a charge of treason is by classifying him an enemy combatant.
Who charges him? Mitt Junior or Mitch?
Patriots
Don’t misunderstand me. I agree with you. He ahould be. As should every person involved. But that leaves very few people with actual constitutional authority to do it.
“Patriots” have done it for 7 years. What we say isn’t enforcable without a civil war. People that sent these POS to DC are not going to do that.
So now what?
Anyone still doubt that BHO was not a Trojan Horse from the start?
Anything POS Obama is for is bad.
He has not done one good and decent thing for America.
Same for the GOP. He could have accomplished none of this alone.
I think it is past time to inject some spine in those cowards in DC. They need to hear from us that signing off on this deal or allowing Zero to EO the thing will mean the end of their feeding at the public trough or maybe a little worse than that.
How dare you question our great leader, Emperor Zero. It simply is not fair that radiated Japanese products cannot be sold to everyone in the Pacific. So they will now force you to buy them. Btw - They have metered deadly levels of radiation now outside one of the reactors. Just 45 minutes of exposure and you be glowing 6 feet under. Only getting worse over time for 50 years or more.
If Obama was the CEO of Ford he would tell you to try a Chevy...
It is condemned by the Socialist Left and Socialist Right.
They have one hatred in common; Economic Liberty.
Can someone at least tell us which public companies benefit from the TPP so we can at least make money off their stocks?
Even this trade bill, for heaven's sake. We cyber-screamed with Cruz not to deal with the devil on "trade reform" that made this possible. So how about he use his legal genius to put that genie back in the bottle?
The world's so crazy. Maybe Bernie Sanders will be able to stop it; "Our side" is too busy approving with selling us out.
Obama has treated the Constitution like toilet paper. "Our side" and the judiciary have done the same thing to pages that provide checks and balances.
Most of the GOP will vote for it.
Can't vote for a conservative if nobody does what it takes to get one on the slate and fund him. I'm willing to bet that even on FR, 80% of those who say they support Cruz haven't donated a dime to his campaign.
So why does this STUPID congress vote for anything they cannot read? Bribes? Payoffs? What other explanation is there?
It’s also interesting that Trump seems to be characterized by more of a communitarian spirit than Cruz. That’s a major key to getting support, getting people to accept and believe that they are part of the game instead of virtually powerless spectators.
Communitarian is kept from dissolving into socialist by a God view. Trump pushes no distinct theology, but in some ways acts as though he does have a God view, and is very sanguine to the idea of a free Christian community.
ANY agreement (or law, for that matter) with more than a dozen or so pages isn’t worth sh*t.
See: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights.................
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