TPP Would Fuel Climate Chaos and Empower Corporate Polluters

[Ferd Berfel]

http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/tpp-would-fuel-climate-chaos-and-empower-corporate-polluters

Many pundits were caught off-guard by the transpartisan fury over America’s trade policy rocking the presidential primary season. But it’s no surprise to me. I grew up in a working class family in Kenosha, Wisconsin. So I know why Americans have had enough of shiny promises, job-killing trade deals and Wall Street bailouts that propel ordinary people into an economic nose dive.

Hard working Americans of all political stripes recognize when the rules have been rigged against them, because they live day-to-day with the results. No doubt revolutionary change is an appealing alternative.

Since the North American Free Trade (NAFTA) and World Trade Organization agreements in the mid-1990s, America has lost more than five million manufacturing jobs net. Millions of service sector jobs also have been offshored.

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It’s not hypothetical. Under similar NAFTA provisions, TransCanada is now demanding $15 billion in U.S. taxpayer compensation because our government (rightly) opposed construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.


Obama, Hillary and the DNC are on the wrong side of History and the American People on this .

[Hoyt]

1. Somebody needs to investigate that Friends of the Earth group for EEOC violations or something.

I take it they aren't much interested in Mexicans -- here or there -- or Asians benefiting from world trade.

I assume the lack of diversity is just a local thing in this particular case.

[Ferd Berfel]

2. Help e out here

I'm having a Senior moment. FOTE isn't mentioned in the article

[Hoyt]

3. That's what the photo is. Hope that helps.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. KnR