This video is why we should all support Bernie Sanders Jan. 16, 2015 deadline for tpp disclosure.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/06/1355859/-Bernie-Sanders-To-Obama-Admin-Let-Me-See-The-Damn-TPP-Draft?detail=email

"Sanders' demand came yesterday in a letter to Michael Froman, the United States Trade Representative. Sanders' letter makes some key points:

It is incomprehensible to me that the leaders of major corporate interests who stand to gain enormous financial benefits from this agreement are actively involved in the writing of the TPP while, at the same time, the elected officials of this country, representing the American people, have little or no knowledge as to what is in it.
And:
It goes without saying that the American people and their elected officials have a right to know what is in this agreement before fast track is voted on.
And:
Please also explain why you think it is appropriate that the representatives of the largest financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, media conglomerate and other major corporate interests not only have access to some of these documents, but are also playing a major role in developing many of the key provisions in it. Meanwhile, the people who will suffer the consequences of this treaty have been shut out of this process.
He gives Froman until January 16th to respond."

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1. The insurance industry writes health insurance law and big business writes the TPP.

Has a certain symmetry.

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3. Naturally, as Bernie Sanders points out, the people who write this stuff leave out those

whose lives it will impact.

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5. Reps of big business have a duty to benefit stockholders, not the general public.

You can't blame them for doing what they are paid to do, what they have a legal, fiduciary duty to do. They are doing the job they were hired to do very well.

The job of the money pit known as the three branches of federal government is to represent the general public. They suck at their job, part of that suckitude consisting of allowing big business to buy them off and write laws Congress and the White House should be writing for the benefit of the general public. I blame them, their staffs, their attorneys, their accountants, the whole hideously costly lot of them.

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7. I suppose that is why Bernie is giving them until Jan. 16 to reveal what job they have done for

their stockholders so that he can do his job and protect the general public.

[whathehell]

2. Bernie Sanders -- A true friend of the American people.

Love this guy and TRUST him completely.

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4. He sure has my respect.

[Thespian2]

6. The day that corporations

(meaning the GREEDY BASTARDS who control them) give a shit about the American people will signal the end of the earth.