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NAFTA on Steroids: Consumer Groups Slam the TPP as 12 Nations Agree to Trade Accord (Original Post) Cheese Sandwich Oct 2015 OP
Hillary did a good job of greasing the skids Geronimoe Oct 2015 #1
I'm utterly aghast 90-percent Oct 2015 #2
 

Geronimoe

(1,539 posts)
1. Hillary did a good job of greasing the skids
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 04:55 PM
Oct 2015

While Sec of State, Hillary did a good job to get this approved. This might be why she can raise so much corporate money to win.

90-percent

(6,829 posts)
2. I'm utterly aghast
Wed Oct 7, 2015, 08:39 AM
Oct 2015

Why don't multi-national corporations just get together for five years in secret and enact new trade agreements that re-legalize slavery, indentured servitude, and shanghai.

As determined by a net worth of, say, less than 100K?

I mean, thats where this corporate take over of the planet is heading. Peons will never again be allowed on the Oligarch's divine right to own all of the wealth the planets working proles produce through their labor and sweat.

All men are created equal, and rich and powerful men are innately more deserving of the good life because of their natural superiority and they must enslave us for our own good, cuz we don't know any better and we're not wealthy, so we're defective.

-90% Jimmy

and, just in case:

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