I now think the whole thing in 2008 was sophisticated manipulation.
Because if it was real things would have come out that are crucially important to health care success - related to what we have already tried and failed at, but didn't.
If you go to Google's advanced search and look at the India press, or the India top level domain TLD (.in) and type in words relating to their accession to the WTO, GATS, and the right to education, you'll see a whole dialog being discussed there which we should have had here in 1994 over WTO and its "GATS" but didn't, and which we should be having here over the pending trade deals, now, because they last forever, and coud make drastic changes - ones we dont expect could happen, like sudden opening of the worklaces to subcontractors from firms from other countries, here on L1 visas, making US minimum wages or Third World wages, which then we likely could not even know (because they will be between the firms and their employers and would be paid overseas) Politicians acts should have a time limit attached to them, even their signings of trade deals, otherwise one corrupt Administration can doom a country forever to some horrible situation, with no escape possible. If their signatures expired after say 15 or 20 years, and whatever they had approved expired at that date, then at least there would be "hope" that corruption could be reversed. Someday. But with trade deals that don't expire, its forever.
Losing all public K12 education to globalized private chains that employed the cheapest degreed workers they could find, from all around the globe, at subsistence wages, because we had a few private schools, a few charter schools, would be nuts, but that's the path we're on because of the way the deals are designed.
Nobody knows that. These are core issues about whether or not our children will be able to go to school fter they are no longer needed as cogs in the machine, because jobs are automated. Becuse by midcentury, machines will think so hiring humans will be a luxury that's done for sentimental reasons, basically. The GOP and Hillary are pretending that none of these changes are happening and that we're living in some past which simply is a intentional deception.
American investment protection strategy should also be to protect small investors, not to try to eliminate checks on big banks and put the US taxpayer first in line to pay off the gambling debts of the ultra welthy with bailouts of free money. Which is what we are doing with TiSA.
We shouldn't be trying to force countries to end public higher education (thats what we've been doing with the GATS since 1994 and thats what we are doing with TiSA, TPP and TTIP - all virtually unknown parts of our global "progressive liberalisation" goals. (basically that means one way privatisation with a lock in, noose-like ratchet that prevents any reduction in any specific privatization or re-enactment of any regulation that was eliminated, after the relevant standstill dates in 1994 and 1998.)
Also, I refuse to vote for a candidate who clearly wants wages to fall anywhere (US policy on Haiti in 2011 was to block a increase in the minimum wage there, which was approved unanimously by the government) and I especially refuse to vote for a candidate or party that wants wages to fall here, but doesn't have the maturity to be open about it. If thats what they want, then everybody is going to need an advanced education to get a job because the WTO and other tade deals require objective criteria to be used in determining the specifications for procurement awards and pricing and that means education, not citizenship or origin of the firm, so basically, people who want to make good money will need lots of edducation because that is the way jobs will eventually be valued, not by citizenship. Right now Americans often make ten times more what somebody in a developing country to do the exact same job. Its clear that they want to end that, but they are pretending they don't.
Sanders clearly sees what a disaster that would be in an environment where loans cannot be forgiven, where education is no longer public, where health care cannot ever be public, which is what GATS says, because public health care is framed as a theft of market access from foreign corporations.
The same with education. This is extremely important. Its literally a make or break issue for this planet because of the evermore powerful nature of these neo-liberal global governance institutions which elevate corporate (framed as investor, but basically, corporations exist as people, people just exist as markets - rights to which and service in the form of cookie cutter "objective criteria" standardized parts that belong to their corporate owners, their firms, their labor to be traded like poker chips) This new "amoral system" was designed to silently replace our historic system while we were diverted with a phony left versus right skit which was shifting the Overton Window to reduce the expectations of all Americans
In a sense its as if the pod people in invasion of the body snatchers were replacing humans with napa cabbage people who had no heart or soul, but externally appeared normal, with only a few clues as to their lack of humanity. When humans slept, they would be replaced by their napa cabbage evil twin, which had also taken their soul. Those fils were about narcissism which is what all the people pushing it are, narcissists with zero conscience or empathy. Only they could do these things.
These secret deals are basically saying, money is everything.
Unlike 20th century century global governance institutions that used to put human rights above corporate rights, these deals may pay lip service to human *rights* but throw us to the wolves on economic issues by using an ideology of supply and demand that just doesn't do anything good. The services deals are designed to preserve the growing slice of the shrinking pie for the already insanely wealthy while creating an extremely precarious economic milieu for working people everywhere, pitting them against one another in a divide and conquer scheme to lower the planets wages without any democracy.
Clinton was part of the creation of the WTO but pretends not to know anything about all this, she tries to look like she wants increases in minimum wages here, but pretends she wants them to rise.
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