Obama urged to slow down on Pacific Rim trade deal

[unhappycamper]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/10/03/204140/obama-urged-to-slow-down-on-pacific.html



Protesters opposed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, hung a banner last week at the office of the U.S. Trade Representative in Washington, D.C. Critics object that the negotiations are being done behind closed doors.

Obama urged to slow down on Pacific Rim trade deal
Posted by Rob Hotakainen on October 3, 2013

As President Barack Obama heads to Bali this weekend to tout more global trade with Asia, critics today delivered a very different message: Slow down.

Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America, worried how the U.S. can do more business with Vietnam.

"The typical wage in Vietnam, as we speak, is 25 cents an hour --- so here we go again," Cohen told reporters in a conference call.

Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut said she fears a new trade pact aimed at increasing exports to the Pacific Rim will instead deliver a flood of imported seafood to the U.S. And she noted that the U.S. has had to deny imported seafood from Vietnam in the past because it was contaminated.

[djean111]

1. Hopefully the die is not yet cast.

Hey, maybe it is just 11 dimensional chess or something or he is just playing opposite day or something, like "I think I would like to bomb Syria". Right?

Of course, as I have been informed right here at DU that the whole TPP thing is just hearsay, I cannot imagine what
Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut is burbling on about.......or what Alan Grayson is complaining about.....

[Mnemosyne]

2. K&R for more visibility. nt

[newfie11]

3. K&R

[Enthusiast]

4. Rather than slow down the TPP,

they need to abandon it completely.