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Showing Original Post only (View all)Does the White House Really Think People Are That Stupid? [View all]
http://www.workinglife.org/2014/02/19/does-the-white-house-really-think-people-are-that-stupid/#sthash.EM8STsW3.dpuf
from the Working Life blog:
Does the White House Really Think People Are That Stupid?
Posted on 19 February 2014.
Cmon, seriously, has it gotten to the point of such desperation to pass middle-class crushing, poverty-enhancing trade deals that drive inequality that the White House treats its allies, members of Congress and activists as if they are idiots? Thats a rhetorical question.
This is a head-slapping, WTF moment:
Michael B. Froman, the presidents trade representative, tried to reassure Democrats on Tuesday that the administration would be sensitive to their concerns about workplace and environmental standards in putting together the new trade pact, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP. He noted that as a candidate, Mr. Obama promised to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as Nafta.And thats exactly what were doing in TPP, upgrading our trading relationships not only with Mexico and Canada but with nine other countries as well, Mr. Froman said in a speech at the Center for American Progress, a liberal research group in Washington.
That assertion drew scorn from critics. I dont think that expanding on the Nafta model and extending it to nine more nations was what the unions, environmental groups or Democratic Party activists had in mind when Obama said he would renegotiate Nafta, said Lori Wallach, a trade expert at Public Citizen, a liberal advocacy group.
Uh, well, first, in case Mr. Forman and the White House cannot add, candidate Obama existed roughly six years ago. I think that campaign ended already, no? In the period since, the president has done nothing, zilch, nada to renegotiate NAFTA.The opposite: he continues to press for trade deals that as Lori Wallach points out above are precisely in the NAFTA-mold, including the TPP whose passage he so badly wants that he is willing to sacrifice the environment, which is precisely NAFTA-like.
And the Orwellian speak of Froman promising upgrading our trading relationships via the TPP is the exact opposite of renegotiating NAFTA.
Its locking in that very model.
Stop lying.
Stop treating peoplein theory, your on base, your supporters, the middle class, workerslike idiots.
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How can anyone here criticize the President in the face of what just happened in SC? Y
kelliekat44
Feb 2014
#9
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren were two of only four to vote against Froman
MannyGoldstein
Feb 2014
#16
What about when a protected group comes out here and tries to treat a hapless participant
RC
Feb 2014
#81
Same with the BOG. That kind of discrimantory behavior is a real ugly and dangerous side of DU.
cui bono
Feb 2014
#63
I never miss voting, but if my choice is Hillary or some Republican fool, both picked by the 1%,
JDPriestly
Feb 2014
#60
I'm in California. My vote for Hillary won't make much difference. But if I vote for her, I will
JDPriestly
Feb 2014
#72
Would normally agree with you. But Hillary? I don't see much about her that is Democratic.
JDPriestly
Feb 2014
#108
Clinton-Sachs isnt the same as the Republican clowns. No one here is saying that.
rhett o rick
Feb 2014
#93
Some are making a mistake thinking that our enemy is the Republican Party.
rhett o rick
Feb 2014
#118
Really? That's your post? I blame Republicans but they have had some help.
rhett o rick
Feb 2014
#124
I have just 1 question, why all the secrecy if you are pushing our interests?
Dustlawyer
Feb 2014
#10
Secrecy is good for presents. I'm sure the White House has a very nice present to surprise us with.
jsr
Feb 2014
#11
I gotta say, in terms of the conversation your remark seems to fit and I didn't take
Autumn
Feb 2014
#67
If 'free trade' caused poverty and inequality, Europe would be the poorest and most unequal place
pampango
Feb 2014
#27
Spain's standard of living was improved hugely by the EU--it's in Sherrod Brown's book
Kolesar
Feb 2014
#87
Austerity is indeed stupid, terrible fiscal policy. It has nothing to do with trade.
pampango
Feb 2014
#90
That is not what Obama said. He is the master of double-talk, and people fall for it.
JDPriestly
Feb 2014
#59
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2014
#64