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In reply to the discussion: The Final Leaked TPP Text is All That We Feared [View all]Egnever
(21,506 posts)22. Do you always base your labels on things you haven't seen?
It is amazing to me that people are so ready to make judgments on things they have zero knowledge of.
The TPP may be horrible but until it is released officially the hair on fire nonsense level is quite a spectacular show.
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Hillary had to respect Obama, she waited until it was finished: We only have one President at time!
lewebley3
Oct 2015
#107
She opposed it the minute she said she opposed it. That's all we can count on.
cui bono
Oct 2015
#57
She claimed she didn't like that it would costs us jobs! Hey... H-1B ALSO costs us jobs!!!
cascadiance
Oct 2015
#78
Let me guess... n'th dimensional super crazy amazing chess and we wee pawns could never understand?
Fearless
Oct 2015
#36
The thing is we are not ignorant about the TPP. There are lots of clues to make us skeptical.
rhett o rick
Oct 2015
#112
Why should I trust corporations building an agreement in secret. Not secret from corporations
rhett o rick
Oct 2015
#138
Do you have a link to where it says it will be published in a few weeks for all to see?
rhett o rick
Oct 2015
#150
Of course. Being liberal means standing for certain things so when there is policy that crushes
cui bono
Oct 2015
#58
More than likely they were never a liberal. What one thing in the TPP will help the 99%. nm
rhett o rick
Oct 2015
#111
People love Krugman when he supports their position. I think his latest opinion on TPP
Hoyt
Oct 2015
#14
Indeed-- I never heard Krugman come out for the TPP and I read him religiously
Fast Walker 52
Oct 2015
#155
He's going to fix it all in his third term. Besides, the Republicans are making him do it.
GoneFishin
Oct 2015
#90
The crowning achievement of 35 years of reaganbushonomics. Done by Democrats, SAD!
Dont call me Shirley
Oct 2015
#7
It is the leak of "what is believed to be the 'essentially final version'" of one chapter.
pampango
Oct 2015
#12
Just because we are told that Big Pharma and Big Tobacco are unhappy with the
JDPriestly
Oct 2015
#24
The same scheme was used to pass the Patriot Act. Rush it through before any discussion.
GoneFishin
Oct 2015
#91
"Let's see the final text. I bet it is far, far more generous to Big Pharma, Big Tobacco, Big every
pampango
Oct 2015
#100
No, and that is my point. I'm fine with the current system. I disagree with those
pnwmom
Oct 2015
#61
So are you saying that you support the TPP? If you do, please let us know why. nm
rhett o rick
Oct 2015
#64
Those that have seen parts of it are in two camps. One camp says that there isn't
rhett o rick
Oct 2015
#110
Paul Krugman is now leaning toward favoring it, and he's on the side of the 99%.
pnwmom
Oct 2015
#118
In all seriousness, the manipulation of copyright terms can be laid at the feet
hifiguy
Oct 2015
#35
If copyrights were eternal, Disney would have been violating some big ones when
JDPriestly
Oct 2015
#54
Thank you KamaAina for pulling the first loose thread. I think crowd sourcing the reading and
GoneFishin
Oct 2015
#26
New Leak of Final TPP Text Confirms Attack on Freedom of Expression, Public Health
eridani
Oct 2015
#81
And yet they won't explain what that 'grave threat to global freedom of expression' derives from.
randome
Oct 2015
#94
So if a court doesn't rule against a company 100% of the time, the TPP is bad?
randome
Oct 2015
#145
A goddam fucking UNELECTED corporate-appointed tribunal should not make these decisions
eridani
Oct 2015
#147
If Hillary or a republican is elected, this will be just the tip of the iceberg.
Zorra
Oct 2015
#103
So all those that said they could decide until they saw the completed document are going
rhett o rick
Oct 2015
#117
I'd like to think that we, as Democrats, also care about how the TPP will impact average people in
stillwaiting
Oct 2015
#121
With NAFTA the promise was that if we moved jobs to Mexico their standard
rhett o rick
Oct 2015
#139
Yep! Transparency at its finest. I'm so disappointed with the transparency charade. n/t
RKP5637
Oct 2015
#151