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matmar

(593 posts) Tue Jun 19, 2012, 09:47 AM Jun 2012

WTF is Obama doing??

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/19/obama-trade-mexico-trans-pacific-partnership_n_1607318.html

Free Trade Trojan Horse

Lori Wallach of Public Citizen exposes the Trojan Horse of using the mantra of "Free Trade" as an end around domestic legislation that protects citizens from harm caused by the corporations that Obama is going to bat for in this deal.

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WTF is Obama doing?? (Original Post) matmar Jun 2012 OP

Go to the link and view the short video included in the article... truth2power Jun 2012 #1

truth2power

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1. Go to the link and view the short video included in the article...

Reply to matmar (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2012, 10:57 AM

Jun 2012

Re:the trojan horse - As Lori Wallach, of Public Citizen says: "The good name of trade is used to implement stuff that Congress has rejected domestically. They brand it a 'trade agreement' and march it right through." Thus the 'trojan horse' analogy.

Yes, what IS it that Obama is doing? Just asking.

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