The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a corporate/investor rights agreement

[UCmeNdc]

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a corporate/investor rights agreement, not a "trade" agreement. "Trade" is a good thing; TPP is not. Using the word "trade" in association with TPP is helping the other side.


Calling TPP a "trade" agreement lets the pro-TPP people argue that TPP is about trade instead of what it is really about. It diverts attention from the real problem. It enables advocates to say things like, "95 percent of the world lives outside the U.S." as if that has anything to do with TPP. It lets them say, "We know that exports support American jobs" to sell a corporate rights agreement. It enables them to say nonsense like this about a corporate rights agreement designed to send American jobs to Vietnam so a few "investors" can pocket the wage difference: "Exports of U.S. goods and services supported an estimated 9.8 million American jobs, including 25 percent of all manufacturing jobs ... and those export-supported jobs pay 13 to 18 percent higher than the national average wage."

Trade is good. Opening up the border so you can get bananas and they can get fertilizer is trade because they have a climate that lets them grow bananas and you already have a fertilizer plant. Enabling companies to move $30/hour jobs to countries with $.60/hour wages so a few billionaires can pocket the difference is not trade.

Calling TPP a "trade" agreement lets TPP supporters say people opposed to TPP are "anti-trade."

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/05/stop-calling-tpp-trade-agreement-it-isnt

[djean111]

1. Exactly.

As I understand it, only 5 or 6 chapters out of 28 or 29 have anything to do with "trade".
Pull them out, and let them stand on their own.

Sickening as hell to see people defend Fast Track because "the GOP will add amendments that have nothing to do with trade".
Guess what - most of the damned TPP has NOTHING TO DO WITH TRADE. It is about global corporate rights over sovereign nations.
And that is why the people shilling for it don't want us to see it in all of its "glory" - not until not a word can be changed, deleted, or added. That is the ONLY reason.

[UCmeNdc]

2. It seems this message is not being received by the MSM

or anybody else.