Who lobbied for what on the TPP- Nifty Charts. We're the losers. The Winner is

[cali]

Pharmaceutical companies, and you can see it that they're posed to do really well under the TPP and fuck us from here to... Vietnam.


In 2009, four years before the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was a widely-debated trade deal, few would have noticed a new issue popping up in a handful of lobbying reports. That year, 28 organizations filed 59 lobbying reports mentioning the then far-off trade agreement. Almost half of those organizations were pharmaceutical companies or associations.

It was an early clue as to which industry would take the most active role in trying to shape the trade agreement while it was still secret from the public. From 2009 until mid-2013 (the time during which the language of the agreement was still reasonably fluid), drug companies and associations mentioned the trade agreement in 251 separate lobbying reports – two and a half times more than the next most active industry (at least measured by lobbying reports).

It is an investment that appears to have paid off. The TPP is quite friendly to drug manufacturers, strengthening patent exclusivity and providing protections against bulk government purchasing (should it hurt profits). At the behest of the pharmaceutical industry, the U.S. is also pushing to limit the ability of national regulatory agencies to support generic drug development. All of this suggests that the active lobbying has paid off.

But the pharmaceutical industry is not alone in lobbying to shape the trade agreement (see Figure 1 below). Next on the list are auto manufacturers (101 reports), followed by clothing & accessories (89 reports), milk and dairy products (82 reports), and textiles and fabrics (82 reports). Figure 1 visualizes the top 20 most active industries, measured by lobbying reports that mention the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP by name.

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http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/03/13/tpp-lobby/

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Pharmaceutical companies are profit making companies. There's something wrong about that. nt

[cali]

2. There is indeed, and there's something with an administration

that supports and pushes for the agenda of big Pharma.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

3. Your phrasing is utterly incorrect. You should've said....

"there's something with a COUNTRY being led by a 43-year-old trend or fad (which I call Republican capitalism) which encourages SAVAGE CAPITALISM, and has been supporting and pushing for ALL corporate AGENDAS."

Stop blaming the monsters created and promoted by right wing ideology on 1 person, as if that person were king or magician and could do away with all the damage done over 43 years.

[cali]

4. No. It's entirely correct. President Obama

has pushed the TPP and his appointments at the TPP, Froman and Siddiqui and others have absolutely sided with the likes of big Pharma and big Ag. To deny this is just denying facts.


Stung by overseas patent rulings that could undercut U.S. companies, the Obama administration is trying to expand protection for the makers of the world’s most advanced medicine through trade rules that critics argue could lead to higher global drug prices.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/with-protections-set-to-lapse-on-advanced-drugs-us-presses-strict-rules-overseas/2014/03/13/68b24258-83af-11e3-8099-9181471f7aaf_story.html

[Sarah Ibarruri]

5. That's purely delusional thinking, to blame 1 person for the ills of 43 years.

History and current control (STILL) by Republicans and Republican thinking, make your statements incorrect. The thinking of Republicans and a handful of so-called libs that Obama singlehandedly is some kind of God that can REBEL against the systems in place alone without any support.

While leads me to this: What are YOU doing to change the current thinking and its in-place systems, besides pointing your finger at one person?

[cali]

7. bzzzt. fail. first of all, I'm not blaming only him

but he is the President and this is the trade deal HE IS PUSHING. What's delusional is to deny that, my dear friend.

You seem to be suggesting that he has to push it and that he was forced to appoint Siddiqui, a former Monsanto lobbyist who has fought against GMO labeling, forced to appoint Froman, Citigroup bankster, and forced to appoint Holleyman, SOPA lobbyist to lead the USTR and shepherd the TPP through passage. You seem to be suggesting that the President is being forced to push fast track in the Congress.

That's just baloney. utter nonsense.

[tkmorris]

9. Of course it's nonsense

I really am starting to feel sorry for people who feel like it's their duty somehow to defend this kind of thing. When it comes to politics we aren't supporting a bloody football team. We need to find real world solutions to problems, and while I recognize that Democrats do a better job of this than Republicans do overall (and it isn't close), NO ONE gets a free pass just by hanging a 'D' on their office door.

The TPP is Obama's baby. He owns it. It reeks like a truck full of old potatoes that's been sitting in the tropical sun for a week, and denying it doesn't make the stink go away.

[cali]

10. He has said that it's central to his foreign and trade policies

so the denials are in the outer realm of ridiculous.

The TPP is dreadful, the TTIP is equally dreadful and the administration and this President have pushed for them for years.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

11. Again, you're blaming only him. nt

[reformist2]

14. Should we blame Reagan every time Obama advocates a right wing or capitalist policy???

[Sarah Ibarruri]

15. We should put blame where it belongs - the right wing FAD and the right wing fascists, then

we (the ordinary folk) need to support all our libs, and create a movement to change the country back to some semblance of normalcy from the madness that begin in the 80s and is still with us. How about it?

[Enthusiast]

12. +1 a whole bunch!

I agree. Baloney and utter nonsense.

[jsr]

6. TPP is a game changer. Obama owns TPP if he signs it.

[cali]

8. He already owns a big damn chunk of it.

He's said himself that it's integral to his foreign policy- it's the "pivot toward Asia". He's pushed it. He's appointed SOPA and Monsanto lobbyists to the USTR.

[Enthusiast]

13. +1 a whole bunch!