TPP Explained....Interactive Links at "Public Citizen"

[KoKo]

PUBLIC CITIZEN:
https://www.citizen.org/tpp

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Job Loss, Lower Wages and Higher Drug Prices, Unregulated Agricultural Imports

Have you heard? The TPP is a massive, controversial "free trade" agreement currently being pushed by big corporations and negotiated behind closed doors by officials from the United States and 11 other countries – Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam.

The TPP would expand the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) “trade” pact model that has spurred massive U.S. trade deficits and job loss, downward pressure on wages, unprecedented levels of inequality and new floods of agricultural imports. The TPP not only replicates, but expands NAFTA’s special protections for firms that offshore U.S. jobs. And U.S. TPP negotiators literally used the 2011 Korea FTA – under which exports have fallen and trade deficits have surged – as the template for the TPP.


In one fell swoop, this secretive deal could:

offshore millions of American jobs,
roll back Wall Street reforms,
sneak in SOPA-like threats to Internet freedom,
ban Buy American policies needed to create green jobs,

jack up the cost of medicines,
expose the U.S. to unsafe food and products,
and empower corporations to attack our environmental and health safeguards.

Although it is called a "free trade" agreement, the TPP is not mainly about trade. Of TPP's 29 draft chapters, only five deal with traditional trade issues. One chapter would provide incentives to offshore jobs to low-wage countries. Many would impose limits on government policies that we rely on in our daily lives for safe food, a clean environment, and more. Our domestic federal, state and local policies would be required to comply with TPP rules.

The TPP would even elevate individual foreign firms to equal status with sovereign nations, empowering them to privately enforce new rights and privileges, provided by the pact, by dragging governments to foreign tribunals to challenge public interest policies that they claim frustrate their expectations. The tribunals would be authorized to order taxpayer compensation to the foreign corporations for the "expected future profits" they surmise would be inhibited by the challenged policies.

We only know about the TPP's threats thanks to leaks – the public is not allowed to see the draft TPP text. Even members of Congress, after being denied the text for years, are now only provided limited access. Meanwhile, more than 500 official corporate "trade advisors" have special access. The TPP has been under negotiation for six years, and the Obama administration wants to sign the deal this year. Opposition to the TPP is growing at home and in many of the other countries involved.
.

AT THE LINK: https://www.citizen.org/tpp

TPP Corporate Empowerment Map: See which foreign corporations near you could use NAFTA-style investor rights to challenge laws and regulations under TPP

Factsheet Series: Learn how TPP's investment rules harm Public Access to Essential Services, Public Health and the Environment

Flyer: Get all the quick facts on TPP and then spread the word

Find out more on the blog: Read the latest on TPP on Eyes on Trade

https://www.citizen.org/tpp

[SamKnause]

1. No person who cares about the economy of the U.S.

would be in favor of the TPP.

No person who cares about the middle class or the poor

would be in favor of the TPP.

No person who cares about the stability of the U.S.

would be in favor of the TPP.

No person who cares about the sovereignty of the U.S.

would be in favor of the TPP.

No person who believes in equality and justice

would be in favor of the TPP.

No person who cares about how this will effect the countries and their people

would be in favor of the TPP.

No person who believes in FAIR TRADE

would be in favor of the TPP.

Ask yourself one question;

What kind of person would support fast tracking the TPP ??????????????????????

Are you tired of the lies, deceit, and deliberate destruction of this country ????????????????

[lunasun]

2. Thank you once again public citizen

[Faryn Balyncd]

3. Generic drug prices, already skyrocketing, would literally go through the roof if TPP is passed.

[Populist_Prole]

4. Thanks for the post

Bookmarked for reference.

[Octafish]

5. Government of the Corporations, by the Corporations and for the Corporations.

Brought to us by Goldman Sachs.

[KoKo]

6. Kick ...because it's a Good Group...and whether one agrees or disagrees....

Their "Interactive Website" gives good information for working forward.