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You may be willing to 'bend the knee' to corporate overlords but I'm not.
We shouldn't be dealing with China,
Instead you think it's a good idea to turn the entire world into China?
That's what the TPP and all these massive trade bills would do.
The only way to compete with China is to adopt their labor and environmental policies which is what we'll get if these deals go through.
This is a good thing in your opinion?
My point was that China has no labor or environmental laws protecting it's own people. Zero regulations for businesses, for manufacturing because that limits profits. That's what will happen to us via tribunals.
originally posted by: Kali74
a reply to: CranialSponge
My point was that China has no labor or environmental laws protecting it's own people. Zero regulations for businesses, for manufacturing because that limits profits. That's what will happen to us via tribunals.
Anything Nancy Pelosi is for, I am against. Period.
That woman cannot read. She has to pass a bill to see what's in it.
originally posted by: Ultralight
a reply to: Kali74
Anything Nancy Pelosi is for, I am against. Period.
That woman cannot read. She has to pass a bill to see what's in it.
originally posted by: beezzer
a reply to: ProfessorChaos
Congress is openly treasonous with this thing.
It'll be a game-changer for the American people.
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: House Republicans are set to push for a vote as soon as Friday on approving a measure to give President Obama fast-track authority to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal. The secretive TPP deal involves 12 countries and nearly 40 percent of the global economy. On Wednesday, WikiLeaks released a leaked draft of another chapter of the secret negotiating text, this time the TPP’s so-called Healthcare Annex. Newly revealed details of the draft show the TPP would give major pharmaceutical companies more power over public access to medicine and weaken public healthcare programs. The leaked draft also suggests the TPP would prevent Congress from passing reforms to lower drug costs. One of the practices that would be allowed is known as "evergreening." It lets drug companies extend the life of a patent by slightly modifying their product and then getting a new patent. This is a video explaining the practice, produced by Doctors Without Borders.