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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIndicting the TPP: Even One of These Counts Is Sufficient to Vote to Kill It!
Indicting the TPP: Even One of These Counts Is Sufficient to Vote to Kill It!
Wednesday, 29 April 2015 00:00
By Joe Firestone, New Economic Perspectives | Op-Ed
To really appreciate what a travesty the TPP is, and the scandal of the failure of our Congress to reject it, and the "Fast Track Authority" sought for it, out of hand, I'm going to list 23 negative consequences that would likely follow from it. Any one of these, would, by itself be sufficient for any representative of the people, Senator or Congressperson, to vote to kill it. I'll offer this list in the form of stanzas appropriate for a chant, except for the starting point in the list.
The tune of the chant that might be used is the tune used for Dayenu, the passover seder chant in which Dayenu means "It would have been sufficient," where the reference is to all the things the almighty is purported to have done for the Israelites on their way out of Egypt and during their wanderings in the Sinai. I'm sure the President is familiar with this chant since he has had seders at the White House more than once. I'm also sure that he never envisioned using Dayenu to highlight the horrors of one of his favorite projects, the passage of "Fast Track Authority," the TPP, and other "free trade" agreements such as the TTIP, and the TISA, all of which would get "Fast Track Authority" if the present bill passes.
The Stanzas of the Anti-TPP chant
1. The TPP makes it easier to offshore more jobs now performed in the United States.
2. If the TPP just made it easier to offshore more jobs and did not also generate increasing downward pressure on wages, it would still be sufficient to vote to kill it!
3. If the TPP just generated increasing downward pressure on wages and did not also empower another 25,000 foreign corporations to use Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) tribunals to gut our net neutrality, environmental, health, labor and safety laws and regulations, it would still be sufficient to vote to kill it!
4. If the TPP just empowered another 25,000 foreign corporations to use investor state tribunals to gut our net neutrality, environmental, health, labor and safety laws and regulations and did not also give big pharma new monopoly patent rights, it would still be sufficient to vote to kill it! .................(more)
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30499-indicting-the-tpp-even-one-of-these-counts-is-sufficient-to-vote-to-kill-it
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Indicting the TPP: Even One of These Counts Is Sufficient to Vote to Kill It! (Original Post)
marmar
Apr 2015
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Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)1. That's the way I feel
There is nothing so good they could suddenly include that could offset the corrosive effect even one of those points have.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)2. K&R