Trans-Pacific Partnership will allow corps to "have the nation’s nuts in their squirrel-like hands"
Thats the first thing thats wrong with these agreements they enable totally unrestricted capital flow, and anything that gets in the way of capital is cleared away. Environmental concerns? Doesnt trump profit. Wage concerns? Doesnt trump profit. Prosecution for murder of labor leaders in Colombia? Sorry; gotta make a free-trade buck.
Another by-product of unrestricted capital flow, by the way, is boom-and-bust economies. When hot banking money flowed like wine into places like Spain, the economy bloomed, wages rose, prices rose and a giant bubble was created. When the crash occurred, all that (German, French, U.S., etc.) investment money raced out like water from a broken cup, and the Spanish economy crashed. Prices fell through the floor, as did wages, and the government went from a surplus to a deficit.
None of the crashed economies have recovered, since the E.U. kings and queens (EU central bank and the bankers who control it) are insisting all through Europe that every bond-holding investor be made whole before anything else is done.
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Breath-taking, right? NAFTA Bill Clinton has much to answer for. This is the one-world order your grandpa warned you about. But he thought it would be libruls or the Trilateral Commission or the Bilderberg Group in charge. Nope; its our friends at GE, Walmart, Nestlé, and the gang at Mouse (sorry, the folks at Disney) that will soon have the nations nuts in their squirrel-like hands.[/div class="excerpt"]
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