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Wall Street and Big Corporations Got What They WantedThis Time
6/24/15
Fast track passes. Our Congress the supposed representatives of We the People voted to cut themselves and us out of the process of deciding what the rules for doing business in the 21st Century will be.
How do the plutocrats and oligarchs and their giant multinational corporations get what they want when a pesky democracy is in their way? They push that pesky democracy out of their way.
Because of fast track, when the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and any other secretly negotiated trade agreements are completed Congress must vote in a hurry with only limited debate, cannot make any amendments no matter what is in the agreement, and they cant be filibustered.
Nothing else coming before our Congress gets that kind of skid-greasing, only corporate-written trade agreements and it doesnt matter how far the contents go beyond actual trade.
Fast track takes Congress out of the picture, just in case the checks arrive late and our Congress decides to act like it is supposed to. Fast track means that representatives of Wall Street and giant corporations and our plutocrats negotiate with the plutocrats and corporate interests of other countries to divide up the economic pie, and Congress agrees not to meddle with the result, only to rubber-stamp it.
Public Rising Up
In spite of a near-blackout of information in the major media, majorities of the public opposed fast track. Word got out anyway and left and right activists and grassroots and media were against it. Calls and letters to the offices of representatives and senators were running heavily, heavily against it. People were appealing to representatives and senators with petition after petition containing hundreds of thousands of names each. People were even showing up and protesting at the offices of representatives and senators all around the country....
....
This time it is The Money telling Congress to set aside our democratic deliberative process, to pass something that says they the bodies that represent the people cant amend, cant have extended debate. They are doing this for a secretly negotiated agreement, the result of a rigged corporate-dominated process. They are afraid of We the people so they are trying to find ways to get us out of their way.
Fast Track is The Money directing Congress to go utterly against what vast majorities of people actively say, going utterly against what movements of people are fighting for.
This goes beyond the Iraq War vote because there were blocks of the public on both sides of that fight even if the pro block was largely manufactured by propaganda.
This goes beyond the public bailout of Wall Street (but not the rest of us) because there was no time for opposition to rally, and there was no crisis or panic to manipulate.
This time they just went ahead and did it and didnt care how it looked....
http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/06/24/wall-street-and-big-corporations-got-what-they-wanted-this-time/
6/24/15
Fast track passes. Our Congress the supposed representatives of We the People voted to cut themselves and us out of the process of deciding what the rules for doing business in the 21st Century will be.
How do the plutocrats and oligarchs and their giant multinational corporations get what they want when a pesky democracy is in their way? They push that pesky democracy out of their way.
Because of fast track, when the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and any other secretly negotiated trade agreements are completed Congress must vote in a hurry with only limited debate, cannot make any amendments no matter what is in the agreement, and they cant be filibustered.
Nothing else coming before our Congress gets that kind of skid-greasing, only corporate-written trade agreements and it doesnt matter how far the contents go beyond actual trade.
Fast track takes Congress out of the picture, just in case the checks arrive late and our Congress decides to act like it is supposed to. Fast track means that representatives of Wall Street and giant corporations and our plutocrats negotiate with the plutocrats and corporate interests of other countries to divide up the economic pie, and Congress agrees not to meddle with the result, only to rubber-stamp it.
Public Rising Up
In spite of a near-blackout of information in the major media, majorities of the public opposed fast track. Word got out anyway and left and right activists and grassroots and media were against it. Calls and letters to the offices of representatives and senators were running heavily, heavily against it. People were appealing to representatives and senators with petition after petition containing hundreds of thousands of names each. People were even showing up and protesting at the offices of representatives and senators all around the country....
....
This time it is The Money telling Congress to set aside our democratic deliberative process, to pass something that says they the bodies that represent the people cant amend, cant have extended debate. They are doing this for a secretly negotiated agreement, the result of a rigged corporate-dominated process. They are afraid of We the people so they are trying to find ways to get us out of their way.
Fast Track is The Money directing Congress to go utterly against what vast majorities of people actively say, going utterly against what movements of people are fighting for.
This goes beyond the Iraq War vote because there were blocks of the public on both sides of that fight even if the pro block was largely manufactured by propaganda.
This goes beyond the public bailout of Wall Street (but not the rest of us) because there was no time for opposition to rally, and there was no crisis or panic to manipulate.
This time they just went ahead and did it and didnt care how it looked....
http://www.nationofchange.org/2015/06/24/wall-street-and-big-corporations-got-what-they-wanted-this-time/
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