Chuck Schumer upchucks at sight of TPP

[KamaAina]

http://jimhightower.com/node/8584

Sen. Chuck Schumer, leader of the corporate wing of congressional Democrats, never met a global trade deal too ugly to hug. So when even he says, "This is really troubling," you know his eyes have been singed by something truly hideous.

That "something" is the trade scam called Trans-Pacific Partnership. The scam is that TPP only masquerades as a trade deal, while actually being a gross enlargement of multinational corporate power over our people's sovereignty. Specifically, a chapter of this secretly-negotiated, 12-nation deal empowers foreign corporations to challenge America's laws, rules, and court rulings – whether local, state, or national – by suing our governments in private, corporate-run tribunals set up by the United Nations or the World Bank.

That's what made Chuck nearly upchuck. "Savvy, deep-pocketed foreign conglomerates," he gasped, "could challenge a broad range of laws we pass at every level of government, such as made-in-America laws or anti-tobacco laws." Exactly....

Even the corporate and governmental elites who have secretly negotiated this raw deal knew that its uglies would gag you, me, and even Schumer. So they added an extra layer of secrecy, mandating that the sovereignty-busting chapter not be declassified until four years after TPP is approved.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. If TPP goes thru, then there is no reason to participate in the system anymore

[Cali_Democrat]

5. Then how can you change the system if you refuse to participate in it? nt

[Cheese Sandwich]

9. Stuff like Occupy Wall St.

Solidarity networks and stuff like that.

[Cali_Democrat]

10. Doesn't changing the political system require voting as well?

Isn't that participation in the system?

[Cheese Sandwich]

12. Uh... probably

It's a good idea to vote but I thought you were asking how can people change the system without participating in it.

People sometimes organize to challenge dominant systems in, ya know like, other ways.

[progressoid]

13. If your participation is meaningless, why do it?

Why vote for someone who passes bills that serve corporations and not the people who voted for them? To be clear, I'm not advocating not participating, but if TPP passes, and most of America doesn't want it, I can see how people will be turned off by the political process.

[hifiguy]

2. This abomination seems to have scared every objective person

who has seen it fourteen shades of shitless.

Now who is pushing this thing again? Who negotiated it? Makes ya wonder, don't it?

[KamaAina]

3. These guys?

[hifiguy]

4. It does have a sort of Krusty the Klown feel to it.

[KamaAina]

6. That was the Simpsons version of the Illuminati

the Stonecutters.

[hifiguy]

7. If Homer is in the Illuminati,

they are in a lot of trouble.

[KamaAina]

8. He didn't last long

[Cheese Sandwich]

11. meh I think this is theater and they are doing a con job on the American people

They know there is a popular movement against TPP and so they have to pretend to care and "fix" it before passing it.

Schumer and a few other big dogs will come in a say Oh My God we found all this horrible stuff in the TPP. OK we're taking it out now so all your movements can stand down with the outrage. Then they pass a so-called compromise or "fixed" version of the deal, but it will still screw workers, the environment, etc.

The only acceptable result is NO TPP. It can not be fixed because it is rotten to the very core. The only purpose of TPP is to serve corporate power.

[GeorgeGist]

14. So they're going to pull an Indiana.

That the gist of your view?

[GoneFishin]

15. From Schumer? I think you are right. From Warren I would have faith, but not from Corporate Chuck.

A blanket NO to TPP.

You are correct :

It can not be fixed because it is rotten to the very core.

It can not be fixed because it is rotten to the very core.

It can not be fixed because it is rotten to the very core.

[Faryn Balyncd]

21. Agree.

The TPP is fatally flawed and must be defeated, not "fixed".

[nationalize the fed]

24. +1 just like 2007-8

They know they can say whatever they want because the people never hold them accountable. Many can't even remember last week.

[Dont call me Shirley]

16. Call your Senators, Representatives and Whitehouse to express your opposition to this global

corporate coup' d'états.

Whitehouse Comments: 202-456-1111

United States Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121

I called yesterday. Be polite and show gratitude.

[Octafish]

17. It's good for the rich, though. And that's who counts.

In an oligarchy. Ask Phil Gramm:

http://financialservicesinc.ubs.com/revitalizingamerica/SenatorPhilGramm.html

[Jack Rabbit]

18. After responsible people retake Congress

We need to have hearing in which Senator Warren asks the idiots who negotiated this deal what they thought they were doing.

[WillyT]

19. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. Holy shit

Quite a surprising response

[Wilms]

22. Surprisingly good news. n/t

[WinkyDink]

23. N S, S Schumer.

[NanceGreggs]

25. In what alternate universe ...

... does the statement "This is really troubling" equal "Schumer upchucks at sight of TPP"?

"So they added an extra layer of secrecy, mandating that the sovereignty-busting chapter not be declassified until four years after TPP is approved."

It is the drafts (working papers re negotiations) that will be declassified after four years, NOT the chapters of the final agreement themselves.

It's sad to see this kind of hyperbolic, fact-free "information" being disseminated - no less believed.

[lumberjack_jeff]

27. Irony. We won't participate in the International Criminal Court, but will submit...

... to the corporate kangaroo court.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_International_Criminal_Court

[KamaAina]

28. Kangaroo court?

Is it going to be based in Sydney?