Its ESSENTIAL to get Hillary to discuss the HUGE problems caused by GATS-

[Baobab]

The 1995 trade deal signed by her husband Bill.

GATS appears to have been what led to the repeal of Glass-Steagall Act and then the 2008 financial disaster. many American families lost a large chunk of the equity they had because of the huge liability this change placed on the American taxpayers, basically a liability to pay off the speculators for gambling with the country's money, at 100%. And GATS's successors - which we are pushing, hope to make the same mistakes- again.


GATS is also the real reason our health care is so horrible and its ideology as carried on in additional new deals we are trying to get passed, like TPP - The trade ideology is designed to be inflexible and to put money above morals and human needs.

THIS REALLY HORRIBLE TRADE IDEOLOGY is the reason we seem to always have to get the worst deals of all.

But, its being hidden from the public. IT is the real difference between Hillary and Obama and the other backers of this corporate-first ideology, and the few dissidents like Bernie and Elizabeth Warren who disagree with it.

there are a lot more of them than we realize, which is intentional, they want people to think its just a fluke when they vote these things in. It isnt, and our ignorance on them is extremely dangerous. Any one of them could block Bernie's whole agenda from ever happening.

the existing GATS may already do that and need to be gotten out of.

[larrysanders]

1. one of a complexity of reasons

Are you saying that Hillary + Obama are in the same camp on this? I couldn't follow your meaning. I think they are + that Bernie differs from them.

[Baobab]

2. On trade deals, yes, Hillary and Obama are both neoliberals, they are both

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privatizers, they are both heavily bought into the globalization GATS FTA scheme which is trying to dismantle public services GLOBALLY.

Here is a good post on GATS and Public Services


Pitting the workers of the US against the would be service workers in developing countries, pitting the two struggling groups against one another to lower wages and preserve corrupt governments and bad business models.

Yes. And its a very bad thing for all of us.

Jane Kelsey has a book on GATS, which is online for the reading.

Its called "Serving Whose Interests".

There is also a lot of content on GATS here: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/search/site/GATS

Here are some others:

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTRANETTRADE/Resources/C13.pdf

http://www.citizen.org/documents/PC_Gats_Backgrounder_05-05.pdf