I wrote Sen Cantwell re. the TPP. She responded with jibberish.

[rhett o rick]

Here is my response to her email:

Thank you for responding to my email re. the TPP.
With respect, your response was nothing more than carefully crafted rhetoric. You did not address how the TPP will help individuals. You say it will help industries and you say that those workers that lose their jobs to cheap labor overseas will be retrained.
How absurd is it to say that corporations will benefit and the TAXPAYERS will provide their own money (not money from the benefitting industries) to retrain workers. I ask you, what jobs will the displaced workers be retrained for?
You didn’t address all of the side issues that don’t pertain to trade like:
How the U.S. sovereignty will be undermined by giving corporations the right to challenge our laws before international tribunals.
How wages, benefits, and collective bargaining will be threatened.
Our ability to protect the environment will be undermined.
Our Food Safety Standards will be threatened.
Buy America laws could come to an end. Are you against “Buy American” laws?
Prescription drug prices will increase, access to life saving drugs will decrease, and the profits of drug companies will go up.
Wall Street would benefit at the expense of everyone else.
The TPP would reward authoritarian regimes like Vietnam that systematically violate human rights.
The TPP has no expiration date, making it virtually impossible to repeal.
And you forgot to discuss the Fast Track method that will essentially eliminate debate in the Senate.
I wonder if you work for the people of the State of Washington or the big corporations.

This is the second response from her on this subject. Sen Murray has also responded and has similar rhetoric.

For what good it does, keep the pressure on.

rhett

[Sherman A1]

1. Just wrote both of mine

although I suspect it will do little good.

[Phlem]

2. I never got a reply from Murray

but yes, Cantwell's message is basically for the TPP that's why it's jibberish and I don't need to tell you how Reichart responded. We have tools as congress folk.

[fredamae]

3. I just called Murray

Cantwell, Wyden (pushing fast track btw 202-224-5244) and Merkley.

[rhett o rick]

4. Thanks. I will call also. nm

[fredamae]

5. Thx-I call them All

Not just mine...because certainly every congressional vote ends up impacting the quality of life for All.
Many hands make a Big job small.....