Who are you going to believe — Senator Elizabeth Warren or Congressman Jared Polis?

[Omaha Steve]

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Real people pushed out of TPP talks
Posted on July 11, 2014 by dsalaborblogmoderator


Sen Elizabeth Warren and Congressman Jared Polis

by Dave Anderson

Who are you going to believe — Senator Elizabeth Warren or Congressman Jared Polis?

At Public Citizen’s annual gala in May, Warren launched an attack on backroom trade deals such as the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) currently being negotiated: “From what I hear, Wall Street, pharmaceuticals, telecom, big polluters and outsourcers are all salivating at the chance to rig the deal in the upcoming trade talks. So the question is, Why are the trade talks secret? You’ll love this answer. Boy, the things you learn on Capitol Hill,” Warren said. “I actually have had supporters of the deal say to me ‘They have to be secret, because if the American people knew what was actually in them, they would be opposed.’ /

“Think about that. Real people, people whose jobs are at stake, small-business owners who don’t want to compete with overseas companies that dump their waste in rivers and hire workers for a dollar a day — those people, people without an army of lobbyists — they would be opposed. I believe if people across this country would be opposed to a particular trade agreement, then maybe that trade agreement should not happen.”

By contrast, Congressman Polis has straddled the fence on both fast track authority and the TPP. He is “troubled by the lack of transparency in the U.S. TPP negotiations” and says he won’t support a deal which undermines protections for the environment, consumers and workers.

FULL story at link.

[politicat]

1. If they're both concerned... Then leak it.

If they don't have the whole doc, leak what they've got.

It's a simple solution. Not necessarily great for long-term job security, but I'm in Polis' district. If he leaked the TPP, he would would have the support of the district. The only way to combat secrecy is with sunlight, after all.

[daleanime]

2. Kick....

[djean111]

3. Polis is saying that the TPP does not permit corporations to overturn

laws/regulations that keep them from making a profit.
Maybe he is splitting hairs. I don't know that a corporation can actually overturn a law or regulation - but it can certainly sue for estimated lost profits due to a law or regulation, effectively possibly bankrupting a municipality.
Effectively suck taxpayer dollars.

[Scuba]

4. Not just suck taxpayer dollars, but pre-empt laws that protect consumers.

[truebluegreen]

5. Jared Polis is my congresscritter so, to answer your question,

"Elizabeth Warren, without question."

[Buddyblazon]

9. Mine too...

I've met him several times. He's really a fantastic person. So unbelievably approachable.

[truebluegreen]

10. I agree that he is approachable and a fantastic person

with a great back story...I was one of his caucus delegates when he first ran for Congress.

But now I see him as having too much of a pro-business slant.

[Half-Century Man]

6. Reject all existing trade partnerships.

Start over, with complete transparency.

[MisterP]

7. 2014: non-corpos arrested at TPP conferences

2015: teabaggers protest TPP
2017: bluelinkers insist that TPP has brought unemployment down to 0.000001% and 100.5% of Americans happy with it
2018: the lights go out: Gloria LaRiva blamed for war in Gabon

[woo me with science]

8. K&R