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Segami

(14,923 posts)
Thu Jun 4, 2015, 10:55 PM Jun 2015

2 MILLION SIGNATURES Against The TPP Delivered; Trade Adjustment Assistance TREACHERY Discussed




So you most likely know about President Obama's push to fast-track a secret trade deal. There has been word from elected officials and WikiLeaks that it is going to harm American jobs, give corporations the right to sue governments for cutting into corporate profits via worker protections or environmental regulations, effect intellectual property laws, food safety regulations, and the right of Congress to negotiate future trade deals.

But have you heard of Trade Adjustment Assistance? TAA is how the government says sorry for shipping American jobs overseas. It sets up funding to provide assistance and training for those workers.


Guess where the TPP pulls that money from. MEDICARE funds. And as Congressman Ellison (D-MN) pointed out that's not just a senior issue, that is an everyone issue. The mega-corporations that are crafting this horrible trade deal are making children who live in poverty, the disabled and the elderly pay to retrain the men and women whose jobs they will ship to countries that enslave workers and/or pay them deplorable wages.


Thank you to the elected officials that were in attendance fighting for the American people. Obama wants this passed in secrecy and as Congresswoman Donna Edwards (D-MD) mentioned, this isn't about not loving the president, not loving trade, or not loving America. It's about loving Americans and doing her job, which is to look out for their best interest. Obama should be happy to share this trade deal with the public, transparently, so Congress can do its job. Click here to email your representative.


Oh, and Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL), thanks not only for the work you have done to fight this trade deal, but also for rocking those amazing shoes.




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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/04/1390552/-2-million-signatures-against-the-TPP-delivered-TAA-treachery-discussed?showAll=yes







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2 MILLION SIGNATURES Against The TPP Delivered; Trade Adjustment Assistance TREACHERY Discussed (Original Post) Segami Jun 2015 OP
One of them is MINE!!!! arcane1 Jun 2015 #1
Recommend...! Another reason to keep the Fight Going! KoKo Jun 2015 #2
K&R..... daleanime Jun 2015 #3
I had NO idea that the TAA training money came from Medicare. PatrickforO Jun 2015 #4
Kickety kick kick. Scuba Jun 2015 #5
Working for the people BrotherIvan Jun 2015 #6
Retraining them to what? aspirant Jun 2015 #7
Be WalMart cashiers. HooptieWagon Jun 2015 #9
At least, until WM goes all-self-checkout Art_from_Ark Jun 2015 #11
Funds for universities to train nurses and truck drivers according to a recent article. appalachiablue Jun 2015 #12
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ n/t truedelphi Jun 2015 #14
K&R CharlotteVale Jun 2015 #8
NO. NO. NO. to the TPP. JDPriestly Jun 2015 #10
Fake free trade deals don't cause job losses. Elwood P Dowd Jun 2015 #13
Clinton said NAFTA would create a million jobs, we lost 700,000 ~ Bernie Sanders appalachiablue Jun 2015 #15
That's COSTLY trade deals grahamhgreen Jun 2015 #17
Kick! grahamhgreen Jun 2015 #16

PatrickforO

(14,623 posts)
4. I had NO idea that the TAA training money came from Medicare.
Thu Jun 4, 2015, 11:09 PM
Jun 2015

I'm thinking they should cancel the F-35 fighter which has already surpassed 1 trillion and use that money to make college free for the first two years for all Americans. They should not rob Medicare for money to train people dislocated as a result of NAFTA or some other crappy trade act. Geez.

appalachiablue

(41,332 posts)
12. Funds for universities to train nurses and truck drivers according to a recent article.
Fri Jun 5, 2015, 01:00 AM
Jun 2015

Where I am many nursing and medical positions are held by visa and foreign workers. Truck driving will be affected by self-driving vehicles in the next 10 years. Germany's Daimler Co. NA just tested an 18- wheeler truck on the hwy. in Nevada.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
10. NO. NO. NO. to the TPP.
Thu Jun 4, 2015, 11:57 PM
Jun 2015

And YES. YES. YES. to Medicare for all and 90% tax on the top bracket percentile of the rich. And while we are at it, impose am extra high tax on money held abroad by US citizens who reside here and hold that money abroad.

And residence should be defined so as to collect the tax revenue from those who have homes here and spend a lot of time in other countries.

Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)
13. Fake free trade deals don't cause job losses.
Fri Jun 5, 2015, 01:24 AM
Jun 2015

Therefore, we are stealing billions from Medicare to help out all the people who.........
lose their freaking jobs.

Oh well, just give the creative liars and corporate crooks who infest our government a few years, and they will tell us TPP created 22 million net new jobs just like NAFTA. Once TPP is purchased from Congress and passes, every new job creation will be credited to TPP.



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