What’s Wrong with the Administration’s Trade-Deal Arguments

[HomerRamone]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/eric-zuesse/62575/what-s-wrong-with-the-administration-s-trade-deal-arguments

The system in these ’trade’ deals does not allow nations to sue international corporations, but it does allow international corporations to sue any signatory nation that, a given suing international corporation alleges, has violated the treaty’s international standard — in other words, that has applied or instituted a standard higher than the international treaty allows...

So: what’s really at issue here is a transfer from national democratic sovereignty to, instead, international-corporate sovereignty, in which international corporations will have locked-in an international dictatorial control over a large portion of what it is that national governments do, and necessarily must do, in order to serve the public good.

The whole thing is a corrupt con-job.

What is at stake here is nothing less than whether the future of the world will be national democratic governments, or instead an international fascist government. Regardless of whether the old ideal of an international democratic world-federalist government (the old idea of a world government) was a good one, the bringing-about of an international corporate dictatorship is a monstrosity: the very opposite of an international democracy.

[djean111]

1. You nailed it.

And soon you will hear about how this helps poor Vietnamese farmers.
Who will also get screwed.
I have called and emailed and signed, but I think this is in the bag. AF1 trips for the recalcitrant Dems, I hear.
So all I can do is never vote for anyone who votes yes on this, or anyone who helped to craft it, or anyone who has shilled for it.
And Obama endorsing Dems who vote yes, to help them with the next elections? Oh, as if THAT would change my mind. Bwah! The guy who is in bed with the GOP for this, thinking an endorsement from him for someone I won't vote for because they voted yes? What kind of logic is that?

[TheKentuckian]

2. It is the same bullshit "arguments" as always. We are supposed to buy because it is a new salesman.

Then down the line if there is any meat left to pick off the bones there will be another salesperson using the same pitch and as always "this time it will be different" will be declared as another pig in the poke is shoved down our gullets.