This whole strategery of pivoting to Asia is not going to turn out well for this country.

n/t

He's fucked up women's health care, cut monies to everything and everyone in the state except for big money and corporations.

Our schools, libraries, cities, towns, townships and infrastructure have all had money taken away.

There are jobs but the pay has stagnated and the employers are of the mind that you should be kissing the ground they walk on if you have a job.

Where there are jobs, the pay scale is what I and my wife were making 15-25 yrs. ago.

I can't stand the mealy mouthed bastard.

Hello,

According to the EFF, the TPP is a bad deal for all of us. I do not know why the administration is pushing this crap legislation.

See:
https://www.eff.org/issues/tpp

See also:
http://www.citizen.org/TPP

What Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)?

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a secretive, multinational trade agreement that threatens to extend restrictive intellectual property (IP) laws across the globe and rewrite international rules on its enforcement. The main problems are two-fold:

(1) Digital Policies that Benefit Big Corporations at the Expense of the Public: The IP chapter would have extensive negative ramifications for users’ freedom of expression, right to privacy and due process, as well as hindering peoples' abilities to innovate. Other chapters of the agreement encourage your personal data to be sent borders with limited protection for your privacy, and allow foreign corporations to sue countries for laws or regulations that promote the public interest,

(2) Lack of Transparency: The entire process has shut out multi-stakeholder participation and is shrouded in secrecy.

The twelve nations that negotiated the TPP are the U.S., Japan, Australia, Peru, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Canada, Mexico, and Brunei Darussalam. The TPP contains a chapter on intellectual property covering copyright, trademarks, and patents. The official release of the final TPP text confirmed what we had long feared: that U.S. negotiators pushed for the adoption of copyright measures far more restrictive than currently required by international treaties, including the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).

Expand Copyright Terms: Create copyright terms well beyond the internationally agreed period in the 1994 Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). The TPP could extend copyright term protections from life of the author + 50 years, to Life + 70 years for works created by individuals, and 70 years after publication or after creation for corporate owned works (such as Mickey Mouse).

but he is dead wrong on this one.

This is the perfect definition of selling out the country.You cannot tell me that those who are promoting this devastating piece of legislation don't know what they are doing.

They have a term for people who willingly do harm to the country and their countrymen...and I don't need to spell it out.

By the way,I read an article on Buzzfeed about the TPP Super Courts. It is chilling:



Imagine a private, global super court that empowers corporations to bend countries to their will.


Say a nation tries to prosecute a corrupt CEO or ban dangerous pollution. Imagine that a company could turn to this super court and sue the whole country for daring to interfere with its profits, demanding hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars as retribution.

Imagine that this court is so powerful that nations often must heed its rulings as if they came from their own supreme courts, with no meaningful way to appeal. That it operates unconstrained by precedent or any significant public oversight, often keeping its proceedings and sometimes even its decisions secret. That the people who decide its cases are largely elite Western corporate attorneys who have a vested interest in expanding the court’s authority because they profit from it directly, arguing cases one day and then sitting in judgment another. That some of them half-jokingly refer to themselves as “The Club” or “The Mafia.”

And imagine that the penalties this court has imposed have been so crushing — and its decisions so unpredictable — that some nations dare not risk a trial, responding to the mere threat of a lawsuit by offering vast concessions, such as rolling back their own laws or even wiping away the punishments of convicted criminals.

This system is already in place, operating behind closed doors in office buildings and conference rooms in cities around the world. Known as investor-state dispute settlement, or ISDS, it is written into a vast network of treaties that govern international trade and investment, including NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which Congress must soon decide whether to ratify.

The rest of the article:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrishamby/super-court?utm_term=.lpJ66D92bE#.feQVVmwXY5

If you're in bed with John Kasich on something, you KNOW you're on the wrong side. So massive fail.

Well of course they are!! It's a fact with these thieves called Republicons. They piss and moan over closed door meetings about the Affordable Care Act and when a POS legislation is being pushed by the corporate money dogs, Republicons are right there to show there false support. TPP is NO GOOD for anyone especially the USA!!!

This is why I can not praise him as much as some. I think he's hood winking the public on this. Perhaps there's something in it for him. I just do not understand. It will be a disaster for working people.

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If everyone ( at least on this thread )is against TPP

Then Get Out The Vote

Can you imagine if this is hanging and Trump is in and what he would do with it ? How much does Trump owe China or any other country ? Trump does not care what he does to this country as long as he takes care of himself and family . Period .

I do trust Obama to do the right by the USA ( I am not for or against TPP)


Kasich meeting with Obama I read differently , since he is from Ohio .

Edit to add , I also trust Hillary