Robert Reich takes on the Trans-Pacific Partnership

[Faryn Balyncd]

From MoveOn:

TPP = NAFTA on steroids



By Jo Comerford. Wednesday, January 28 2015


Republicans in Congress want to work with the Obama administration to fast-track the passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

The TPP is the largest—and worst—trade deal you’ve never heard of, having been devised in secret by representatives of some of the world’s largest corporations.

It’s so big and has the potential to do so much damage, it’s been likened to “NAFTA on steroids.”

Will you help spread the word about fast track and the TPP by watching and SHARING the video right now?


http://front.moveon.org/tpp-nafta-on-steroids/

[pa28]

1. Best short pitch I've seen yet describing the dangers of TPP.

Pass it around.

[Faryn Balyncd]

2. Reich has always been a good communicator. And he knows what is important..

[pipoman]

3. Too bad he didn't have the guts to say these things

When he actually was somebody. ...instead he chose to lie and for this he is a traitor to US labor

[nationalize the fed]

4. ^ Thanks for the updates on this outrageous sellout

^ this stuff has to be seen to be believed.

[Elwood P Dowd]

5. K&R

[AZ Progressive]

6. So basically with TPP, Corporations will basically have a RIGHT to make a profit

that if that right is denied to them, they can sue?

WOW, and you thought things were already really bad...

I tell you, you really can't imagine how bad things can get if these corporations aren't stopped...

[Faryn Balyncd]

7. The "investor-state dispute" tribunals, exempt from judicial appeal, amount to a corporate coup.

It seems almost unbelievable that an agreement which contains such a provision, as well as radical expansion of patents and copyrights, which would have profound negative impact on generic drug availability and price, and on the survival of the internet, would be pushed as a "trade deal" which should have no input or amendment from elected representatives.

[StopTheTPP]

8. K&R

Thanks Faryn. (Nice name)

Call your senators and representative to let them know you're opposed to fast track.
Help stop it.

[KeepItReal]

9. K&R

Thank you for the heads up!