Harry Reid says ‘hell no’ to Barack Obama’s attempt to fast-track Trans-Pacific Partnership legislation
Barack Obama is trying to fast-track legislation named the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and is calling for a vote on the legislation this year. I have to admit that I do not know much about this legislation but it is being met with quite a bit of opposition. Here is what the opponents of the legislation have to say about it:
The TPP is a massive, controversial “free trade” agreement currently being pushed by big corporations and negotiated behind closed doors by officials from the United States and 11 other countries – Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam.
The TPP would expand the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) “trade” pact model that has spurred massive U.S. trade deficits and job loss, downward pressure on wages, unprecedented levels of inequality and new floods of agricultural imports. The TPP not only replicates, but expands NAFTA’s special protections for firms that offshore U.S. jobs. And U.S. TPP negotiators literally used the 2011 Korea FTA – under which exports have fallen and trade deficits have surged – as the template for the TPP.
Although it is called a “free trade” agreement, the TPP is not mainly about trade. Of TPP’s 29 draft chapters, only five deal with traditional trade issues. One chapter would provide incentives to offshore jobs to low-wage countries. Many would impose limits on government policies that we rely on in our daily lives for safe food, a clean environment, and more. Our domestic federal, state and local policies would be required to comply with TPP rules.
The TPP would even elevate individual foreign firms to equal status with sovereign nations, empowering them to privately enforce new rights and privileges, provided by the pact, by dragging governments to foreign tribunals to challenge public interest policies that they claim frustrate their expectations. The tribunals would be authorized to order taxpayer compensation to the foreign corporations for the “expected future profits” they surmise would be inhibited by the challenged policies.
We only know about the TPP’s threats thanks to leaks – the public is not allowed to see the draft TPP text. Even members of Congress, after being denied the text for years, are now only provided limited access. Meanwhile, more than 500 official corporate “trade advisors” have special access. The TPP has been under negotiation for six years, and the Obama administration wants to sign the deal this year. Opposition to the TPP is growing at home and in many of the other countries involved.
And many unions and even some prominent Democrats also oppose this legislation: Barack Obama said that liberal icon Elizabeth Warren was “simply wrong” about the facts of the deal, and even socialist Bernie Sanders called the deal “disastrous.”
And now Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has weighed in on Barack Obama’s attempt to fast-track TPP, when asked if he supported the legislation he said, “not only no, but hell no.”
With so many Democrats opposing TPP why is Barack Obama pushing it so hard? Who is the “middle class warrior” in bed with? And on a side note, Harry Reid had better be careful or he might end up with another black eye…
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When they try to fast track things, it means it would stand the light of day. They’ve sold us out once again!
Leslie
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It certainly appears that way!
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IF THAT IS THE CASE, THEN WAY IS REID SO APPROVING OF THE ILLEGALS. SEEMS TO ME, THIS IS NOT A DOUBLE DECKER CHEESEBURGER, IT IS A DOUBLE DECKER LIE.
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The man cannot be trusted, it makes you wonder what he is up to…
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Thanks for bring us this information, Steve. I’m stunned that Reid and I agree about something. We cannot let this happen!
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You are welcome Laura! It is actually kind of scary to think we actually agree with Harry Reid. It makes you wonder what his motive is!
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HA! You read my mind Steve. Hmmmmmm.
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Politics make strange bedfellows…
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Reblogged this on Nevada State Personnel Watch.
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Thanks again!
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When I hear the words “trade” and our buffons are negotiating the deal, we have to know we are on the losing end. I guess they have done away with the “Free trade” lingo.
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And now Dick Morris is saying there is unrestricted immigration hidden in the deal but I have not had time to check it out yet.
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http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/dont-put-your-hope-in-conservatives/
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I sure don’t!
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The simple fact that it is a shoot off of NAFTA, is what sends up a red flag to me. When the Democrats are against it, there MUST be something very wrong.
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Might as well drive the last nail into the coffin of the American worker I guess…
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This, all while the unions are blaming the Republicans for their problems. They have bigger problems than the Republicans, if they only opened their eyes and looked.
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So true Lou, the unions need to wake up for this is not the first time Obama has let them down. They are still upset over Obamacare because they found out the hard way they were not exempt. They are being played…
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Crazy. I didn’t like the TPP before, now with even Harry Reid delaying it, I figure it’s got to be even worse than I knew.
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LORETTA LYNCH, HARRY REID, AND OBAMA WILL FAST TRACK TOGETHER. HARRY REID WAS JUST COVERING HIMSELF, FOR HER NOMINATION AS US ATTORNEY GENERAL. WE ALL KNOW THEY ARE COMMUNISTS, AND FOR THE LIFE OF ME, I CAN NOT FIGURE OUT WHY THEY INSIST OF COVERING THEIR MOTIVES. NOW THAT SHE HAS BEEN NOMINATED, TPP WILL BE FAST TRACKED. LORETTA LYNCH IS SAID TO BE TWICE AS BAD AS ERIC HOLDER.
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Sadly you are probably right about that…
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Yeah Dr. Jeff, it makes you wonder what in the hell is going on!
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It brought to mind a section of a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson in the Charge of the Light Brigade:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
I feel like we are in that situation with this Administration. They tell us what they want us to hear, they tell us what we should think and they tell us how to respond to it. We, as a whole, in America are becoming “non-thinkers”. relying on what they tell us. This is dangerous!_
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Yes, lou, very dangerous for those who refuse to comply….
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NO ONE IS STOPPING HIM EITHER, CONGRESS, CONSERATIVES, MILITARY, ETC….AND ETC….AND ETC….!!!:::
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2015/04/24/george-soros-funding-plan-to-naturalize-millions-of-immigrants-for-the-2016-elections/
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It sure is dangerous and I am about to do a post on Hillary Clinton explaining how they have to change the way we think when it come to abortion. Stay tuned…
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US CHRISTIANS AND JEWS SHALL KEEP “COMPANY” TOGETHER:
http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2015/04/killing-jews-is-worship-posters-will-soon-appear-on-nyc-subways-and-buses-3142134.html
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Nevermind my last comment, I decided not to post it because I did not like the way it came out.
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