No jobs bill, but at least the trade deals the Dems used to oppose will sprint to approval!

[Karmadillo]

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/1005-trade/186413-marathon-trade-bill-fight-poised-to-end-with-quick-sprint-to-passage

Marathon trade bill fight poised to end with quick sprint to passage
By Erik Wasson - 10/09/11 05:25 PM ET

The House and Senate are poised to move with lightning speed this week to approve three trade deals with South Korea, Colombia and Panama submitted just last week by President Obama.

Wednesday votes are set in both the House and Senate on the deals and approval is on track just in time for a Thursday joint address to Congress by South Korean President Lee Myung-bak.

Technically Congress could have debated the deals for 90 days. The sprint on the trade deals comes after a marathon political struggle reaching as far back as 2007 when Democrats told President George W. Bush not to bother submitting the pacts for approval.

The South Korea deal is by far the largest and is the most important trade deal since the U.S. agreed to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the early 1990s.

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[OhioChick]

1. Rec'd to 0

[yourout]

2. We all knew the "Jobs" bill would end up being nothing more than another round of NAFTA.

[Donnachaidh]

3. oh yeah -- big fat NAFTA with some populist trimmings(jobs) to make it seem palatable

WHO is going to make the most cash on this *jobs bill*? Follow the money -- it ain't the 99%, that's for sure.

photo-op jobs bills -- yeah, that's the change we can believe in....

[midnight]

4. K&R

[OHdem10]

5. Will the House pass the trade bill????Boehner said they would

cause a Trade War.

I do not expect the Democrats to agree on anything.

[Skittles]

6. corporate whoring at its finest

[Chiquitita]

7. very bad news

there was a good piece on Democracy Now about occupiers against the trade agreements today:http://www.democracynow.org/2011/10/11/colombian_korean_and_panamanian_activists_condemn

[msongs]

8. the JOBS for foreign workers bill = "trade" agreements, I'm with Alan Grayson on this matter nt

[workinclasszero]

9. Lighting speed on the kill more American jobs bill

No surprise here. The only ones that can save us from the robber barons are US!

[Dragonfli]

10. The legislation that will be passed (some grouped together some separately)

Will be what is in this letter http://www.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/110905_jobs_letter.pdf

It is what the Third way Republicans and the GOP Republicans both want. It is no surprise that a large portion of it will be "free" trade deals.

They have purchased the leadership of both houses and the Presidency and will get their monies worth.
There will also be austerity and cuts to "entitlements" because that is desired by the Third way and GOP Republicans as well.

Call it a "prediction", I am usually correct when it comes to for sale, pay to play legislation.

[Maven]

11. HOPE AND CHANGE!

HOPE AND CHANGE!

HOPE AND CHANGE!

etc. etc.

[yourout]

12. I really think all the "American Jobs Act' retoric was nothing but a smoke screen to ram through....

this garbage.

Obama knew damn well nothing useful was going to passed but the moneyed elites saw this as a chance to set up some sweet tax havens.

[Odin2005]

13. There should be TARIFFS on all imported goods made by CHEAP LABOR in developing countries.