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Americans overall are lukewarm about the two major trade deals under negotiation – the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), a free trade agreement between the European Union and the U.S., and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a free trade deal between the U.S., Canada and 10 Asian-Pacific countries. About half (53%) of Americans see TTIP as a good thing and 55% say the same about TPP. Democratic support for both treaties is stronger than that of Republicans: 60% of Democrats see TTIP as a good thing compared with 44% of Republicans, while 59% of Democrats look favorably on TPP compared with 49% of Republicans.
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/11/07/why-cant-we-all-get-along-challenges-ahead-for-bipartisan-cooperation/
While a number of Tea Party Republicans voted in favor of the three Obama-promoted free-trade agreements in 2011, they are viewing the TPP differently because of its magnitude and due to pressure from the Republican base. “Because of its massive size, the TPP has captured a lot more attention from the Right than the Korea pact ever did,” Stamoulis says. “With Republicans’ base much more engaged on the TPP—the Tea Party Nation and others opposing it—I expect to see a lot more Republican opposition this time around, and indeed, we already are seeing that.” The visceral dislike of Obama by many on the Right may add fuel to rightist opposition to the TPP and the fast-track procedure, Stamoulis concedes, but he points out that opposition to corporate-style globalization has been mounting among Republican voters for some time. “Polls showed that Republican voters’ opposition to free-trade agreements existed back during the Bush administration as well,” he notes.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/22547-obamas-pacific-deal-would-deepen-income-divide
http://truth-out.org/news/item/22547-obamas-pacific-deal-would-deepen-income-divide
Thanks for the link Will. You rock.
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/stop-the-trans-pacific
We need another Full Court Press like this spring to again beat the Fast Track plan to turn Congress into a mute, non-deliberating, no input rubber stamp for a corporate spawned nightmare, that is attempting to produce a more expansive degradation in more diverse field (environmental law, worker safety, food safety, patent and copyright law, pharmaceutical pricing, the ability of local & state governments to carry out their constitutional duties to protect the general welfare, ETC) all in one, non-negotiable, no input, no deliberation of the corporate produced rules by the elected representatives of our democracy, up or down, last minute/under duress vote.
We've got to get the word out.
