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In reply to the discussion: Email from Keith Ellison re: the TPP and the Democratic Platform Committee. [View all]LiberalLovinLug
(14,165 posts)Is that trade, in and of itself, is not only a good thing, it is imperative in building relationships with other countries to the point where war becomes too costly in terms of destroying those trade agreements, and the established businesses and jobs either factory workers or farmers etc. Money trumps peace at times, but if its lucrative enough, money trumps war.
The problem is not with hammering out a trade agreement, its hammering out a trade agreement that is lopsided in favour of the corporations, the ones with all the money and state security forces behind them. Give us a trade agreement that recognizes and respects workers rights to a livable wage, environmental protections, and get rid of the awful provision wherein corporations can sue a country if they enact some environmental law, or labour law, or healthcare requirement etc.. and it impacts their bottom line in any way. That is a race to the bottom.