Doctors Without Borders gives us another good reason to reject TPP:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

Trading Away Health: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)


March 03, 2013

Unless damaging provisions are removed before negotiations are finalized, the TPP agreement is on track to become the most harmful trade pact ever for access to medicines in developing countries.

The TPP trade deal is currently being negotiated between the U.S. and ten other Pacific Rim nations. The negotiations are being conducted in secret, but leaked drafts of the agreement include aggressive intellectual property (IP) rules that would restrict access to affordable, lifesaving medicines for millions of people.

Proposed by U.S. negotiators, the IP rules enhance patent and data protections for pharmaceutical companies, dismantle public health safeguards enshrined in international law, and obstruct price-lowering generic competition for medicines.

The whole piece at the link: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news-stories/briefing-document/trading-away-health-trans-pacific-partnership-agreement-tpp

[joeybee12]

1. A big knr

[jwirr]

2. Please President Obama stop supporting this horrible bill. For the sake of the entire world.

[djean111]

3. He is quite FOR the TPP, so is Reid, and Hillary helped write it.

Your plea would fall on quite deaf ears. Plus, I think they want to fast track it now so Hillary doesn't have to answer questions about passing it.

[Enthusiast]

16. Not if enough of us speak up.

More need to hear about the destructive nature of TTP and the Atlantic equivalent.

[jwirr]

21. Agreed and I would rather be one who speaks up than just gives up.

[DeSwiss]

6. Nah, I don't think so....

- And remember, ''Yes We Can!''

[blkmusclmachine]

10. Obama works for the Corporations, not us. Typical Third Way DINO.

[pampango]

20. It is his idea. I doubt that he will stop supporting it, though it is unlikely to ever

see the light of day, anyway.

The second (aspect of Obama's economic policy regarding China) will be the pursuit of trade agreements that notably do not include China. The most important of these is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement among a growing list of nations bordering the Pacific. It is the Obama administration’s avowed aim to construct a TPP with standards so high — especially rules regarding labor rights, environmental standards and behavior by state-owned enterprises — that China could never join without transforming its economic system.

http://www.pewglobal.org/2012/12/10/u-s-china-economic-relations-in-the-wake-of-the-u-s-election/

If there are tough standards for labor and the environment in the TPP when it is completed, republican majorities in the House and Senate will simply delete them. With 'fast track' republicans could not do this, which is why they will not pass that authority for Obama.

And Obama would be a fool to submit the TPP to Congress without 'fast track' for the very reason so my guess is that the TPP will never see the light of day.

[Scuba]

4. Why should we care if people in developing countries are sick? We can't catch anything from them.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My DEAR Scuba...

<------ this is for you!

You made me laugh...

[Enthusiast]

17. ...

[countryjake]

7. Another BIG kick!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Thanks!

[niyad]

9. k and r

[antigop]

11. Hillary Clinton's Business Legacy at State Dept (leading part in drafting TPP)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101667554

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Thank you for your link.

I shudder to think what kind of President she would make. The TPP is just part of the package, along with warmongering, and the Keystone Pipeline.

[antigop]

13. You're welcome. She'd cater to the top 1%. nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Oh, she sure would! n/t

[Faryn Balyncd]

15. The TPP is toxic to humanity, and toxic the America.

[Enthusiast]

18. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!

Way to go, CaliforniaPeggy!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. I appreciate your kick! The word needs to get out! n/t

[liberal_at_heart]

22. K&R

[JEB]

23. K&R for exposure.

TPP is a smelly turd that needs to be flushed.

[antigop]

24. kick. nt

[Octafish]

25. Kick for For-Profit Medicine.

Only a filthy communist hippie would think a noble concern like a Pharmaceutical Giant has no right to make a buck even if at everyone else's expense.

[2naSalit]

26. K&R!