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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums2 MILLION SIGNATURES Against The TPP Delivered; Trade Adjustment Assistance TREACHERY Discussed
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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arcane1
(38,613 posts)KoKo
(84,711 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)PatrickforO
(14,623 posts)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.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Proud of the Democrats who stood up.
aspirant
(3,533 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)appalachiablue
(41,332 posts)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.
truedelphi
(32,324 posts)CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)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)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.