Robert Reich on the Real Reason the Corporate-Friendly TPP Is Nearly Dead

[jwirr]

46. I love that idea. Regional businesses could still make a reasonable profit and supply jobs.

Unfortunately that is not the plan of AID, IMF, WTO or the World Bank nor is it of any interest to the multi-national corporations.

Take for instance Africa - from small farms that fed their families to corporate farms that export crops to people like us while the former owners of those small farms set in huge cities with very few jobs.

We have made some huge mistakes when it comes to how we interfered in the development of these poorer countries. If we look at our own development here in the USA we once had those small farms and businesses who first satisfied the needs of our own people and only then started exporting on a larger scale. With poorer nations we skipped the whole idea of fulfilling their own needs first. Just went straight to multi-national corporations profits.

And the trade agreements we are have passed in recent decades are more of the same mistakes. Including TPA and TPP.