Comment Period On TPP Closes In 8 Days
Heard this today on Thom Hartmann's program.
Just passing on an F Y I.
Haven't heard much on TPP either.
So here is your reminder.
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...attention every second of every day. I heard some conspiracy theorists even saying they EXPECTED things like that to happen, just to keep it off the front pages until it was signed. Can you imagine the gall of those silly people, to think such unbelievable thoughts?
Why, there's nothing going on in the world that isn't being truthfully, completely, told to us by our media. We're the most informed people on earth! 
What were we talking about again? Oh, Oregon, right! Yeah, so it must be a black/white thing, right? I mean, everything else for the last two years has been. And whats up with that MASSIVE surge in gun violence? A bit odd, neh? Oh and did you hear about Russia, why they're...
...what's the TPP again? Must not be important. I mean, did you hear? Kim Kardashian has a new...
My comments are below. I probably should have taken more time to form a comment and properly edit it, but I was afraid I would forget if I put it off. I'm pretty cynical these days and wonder if anyone even reads these comments. 
Docket ID: USTR-2015-0012
I strongly oppose the TPP. The passage of this will destroy American jobs in manufacturing and the service sector at a time we desperately need them.
It provides unprecedented power to corporate interests whose "anticipated future profits" can be protected at the expense of US regulations, especially environmental and safety regulations. Our laws should not be subject to the whim of foreign corporations (or domestic ones for that matter).
Food safety will be threatened by the increase in imported food from countries with less stringent safety enforcement.
Disputes are to be settled by international tribunals which is another undemocratic provision. Disputes should be handled by the federal courts with a jury of citizens.
Prescription drug prices will rise, both here and abroad. Doctors without Borders stated that “the TPP agreement is on track to become the most harmful trade pact ever for access to medicines in developing countries."
Under TPP, the ability to give preferential treatment to US made products and services for government contracts will be removed. We will even lose the ability to prohibit companies with horrible human rights records from competing for government contracts.
The TPP would bar our government from imposing capital controls on the financial sector. This will make us vulnerable to another crash like the one we are still recovering from.
Perhaps most disturbingly of all, the TPP has no end date so it would be virtually impossible to repeal. If it is passed, changes can only be made by a consensus of all signatory countries. This agreement which was negotiated in secret elevates multinational corporations above our own citizens and subverts the sovereignty of the USA. I strongly urge you to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
