“Trans-Pacific trade pact benefits San Diego.” ???

[OxQQme]

snip> OPINION COLUMNS PUBLISHED in California newspapers over the last year in support of the Trans-Pacific Partnership use language nearly identical to drafts written and distributed by public relations professionals who were retained by the Japanese government to build U.S. support for the controversial trade agreement.

Take this column by former San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, who now serves as the president and CEO of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce, in the San Diego Union-Tribune, titled: “Trans-Pacific trade pact benefits San Diego.”


more ---> https://theintercept.com/2016/04/10/tpp-lobbyist-opeds/

[djean111]

1. The corporate TPPers are just releasing the same boilerplate that ALEC does.

ALEC on a global scale, really - suborn the governments, fuck the people.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Trust me, the pivot to the pacific is a talking point

At city hall. Been this way for a while

[KamaAina]

3. "pivot to the Pacific"?

Wouldn't you need more than one flight to Asia (Tokyo-Narita) to pull that off? Even San Jose just added Beijing to Tokyo!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_International_Airport#Airlines_and_destinations

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yes, but they mean commercial

And business opportunities for the Cali-Baja region. I posted a story on this over a year ago

[KamaAina]

6. Hard to do that without flights

All the action will gravitate to LA and SF otherwise.

Turns out TJ will have a China flight as of August.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tijuana_International_Airport#Airlines_and_destinations

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Japan Airlines flies to Taj regularly

And one of the two vehicle import facilities in SoCal are Long Beach and San Diego. People always forget about that one.

[Wounded Bear]

4. Getting similar stuff here in Seattle area...

I suppose it might be true for local people, especially dock workers, but for the country at large? I wonder.

[Octafish]

7. Guy's bucking for a promotion.

Maybe some day he'll be on the Business Roundtable. Now those sonsofbitches know how to make a buck of TPP.

Meet the CEO’s Who Want to Cut Your Social Security

National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare

We’ve written before about the billion dollar anti-Social Security lobby, led by Wall Streeter Pete Peterson and his myriad number of astroturf front groups, here, here and here. These CEO and Wall Street friendly groups are spending a lot of money to convince Congress that grandma and grandpa’s Social Security is to blame for our economic woes rather than talk about the real problem...$1 trillion in corporate loopholes and income inequality which is destroying the middle class.

Hats off to the Institute for Policy Studies and the Center for Effective Government for their new report detailing the truth behind America’s CEO-led campaign against Social Security. Thanks also to the Huffington Post for this terrific infographic highlighting the report’s key findings:

$12,000: median retirement savings of U.S. workers near retirement age

$14.5 million: average retirement account of Business Roundtable CEOs

CONTINUED...

http://www.ncpssm.org/EntitledtoKnow/entryid/2040/Meet-the-CEO-s-Who-Want-to-Cut-Your-Social-Security

They're sweethearts.