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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 1676520" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p><a href="http://www.citizen.org/TPP" target="_blank">http://www.citizen.org/TPP</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.citizen.org/documents/tpp-nafta-on-steroids-infographic.png" target="_blank">The TPP would expand the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) "trade" pact model</a> that has spurred <a href="http://citizen.org/documents/prosperity-undermined.pdf" target="_blank">massive U.S. trade deficits and job loss, downward pressure on wages, unprecedented levels of inequality and new floods of agricultural imports</a>. The TPP not only replicates, but expands NAFTA's special protections for firms that offshore U.S. jobs. And U.S. TPP negotiators literally used the 2011 <a href="http://citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=3595" target="_blank">Korea FTA</a> – under which exports have fallen and trade deficits have surged – as the template for the TPP.</p><p></p><p>In one fell swoop, this secretive deal could:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><a href="http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=6475" target="_blank">offshore American jobs and increase income inequality</a>,</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><a href="http://www.citizen.org/tpp-public-health" target="_blank">jack up the cost of medicines</a>,</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><a href="http://www.eff.org/issues/tpp" target="_blank">sneak in SOPA-like threats to Internet freedom</a>,</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>and <a href="http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=5411" target="_blank">empower corporations to attack our environmental and health safeguards</a>.</strong></li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><a href="http://www.citizen.org/tpp-food-safety-facts" target="_blank">expose the U.S. to unsafe food and products</a>,</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><a href="http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=6474" target="_blank">roll back Wall Street reforms</a>,</strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong><a href="http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=5414" target="_blank">ban Buy American policies needed to create green jobs</a>,</strong></li> </ul><p><strong>-----------------------------</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>from what i heard, under these so called "trade agreements", the corporations can sue governments for hundreds of millions when a government passes or is about to pass a regulation which may protect the environment, their citizens, etc, and the corporation think it will affect profits.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>profits over people. all hail the king of money.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 1676520, member: 56035"] [URL]http://www.citizen.org/TPP[/URL] [URL='http://www.citizen.org/documents/tpp-nafta-on-steroids-infographic.png']The TPP would expand the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) "trade" pact model[/URL] that has spurred [URL='http://citizen.org/documents/prosperity-undermined.pdf']massive U.S. trade deficits and job loss, downward pressure on wages, unprecedented levels of inequality and new floods of agricultural imports[/URL]. The TPP not only replicates, but expands NAFTA's special protections for firms that offshore U.S. jobs. And U.S. TPP negotiators literally used the 2011 [URL='http://citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=3595']Korea FTA[/URL] – under which exports have fallen and trade deficits have surged – as the template for the TPP. In one fell swoop, this secretive deal could: [LIST] [*][B][URL='http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=6475']offshore American jobs and increase income inequality[/URL],[/B] [*][B][URL='http://www.citizen.org/tpp-public-health']jack up the cost of medicines[/URL],[/B] [*][B][URL='http://www.eff.org/issues/tpp']sneak in SOPA-like threats to Internet freedom[/URL],[/B] [*][B]and [URL='http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=5411']empower corporations to attack our environmental and health safeguards[/URL].[/B] [/LIST] [LIST] [*][B][URL='http://www.citizen.org/tpp-food-safety-facts']expose the U.S. to unsafe food and products[/URL],[/B] [*][B][URL='http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=6474']roll back Wall Street reforms[/URL],[/B] [*][B][URL='http://www.citizen.org/Page.aspx?pid=5414']ban Buy American policies needed to create green jobs[/URL],[/B] [/LIST] [B]-----------------------------[/B] [B]from what i heard, under these so called "trade agreements", the corporations can sue governments for hundreds of millions when a government passes or is about to pass a regulation which may protect the environment, their citizens, etc, and the corporation think it will affect profits.[/B] [B]profits over people. all hail the king of money.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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