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In reply to the discussion: Wikileaks: TPP To Be Signed This Week [View all]Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)6. Why would President Obama do this to his supporters?
Why would he betray our interests in this way?
When we criticize President Obama on The Democratic Underground we anger a number of his more ardent supporters. I think their anger is misplaced. If they would join us in our criticism of the TPP maybe we could stop it. A President's decisions must be scrutinized at all times.
We have lived with the damage done by the Clinton's Administration's decisions in the form of NAFTA, the Telecommunications Act and Gramm-Leach-Bliley. Will we also look back on the Obama Administration's decisions and say, "This is where the Obama Administration betrayed our interests and did the nation's workers great harm."?
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Obama's fast track request was granted. The Senate already voted for it. It appears unstoppable.
ancianita
Sep 2015
#2
It would serve as a good voters guide on who to primary and kick out of congress!
cascadiance
Oct 2015
#71
How can Bernie rip it up if Congress, Obama sign off? Can SCOTUS rule it unconstitutional?
ancianita
Sep 2015
#32
This is not anti-Obama. But be honest -- Obama is responsible for our upcoming loss
ancianita
Sep 2015
#5
Absolutely on. It is an enormous sell-out, and the international economy including ours
JDPriestly
Sep 2015
#7
JD, once it's signed BERNIE CAN'T FIX THIS. DU HAS GOT TO WAKE UP to what this will do to our
ancianita
Sep 2015
#9
I'm not seeing it on DU. Options offered have drawbacks I've offered, nor have my questions even
ancianita
Sep 2015
#54
Far from it. Two years from now, I can't see either of them stopping the TPP's implementation
ancianita
Sep 2015
#36
I would not doubt if TPP is his end game. He never fought for any progressive cause like he is
GoneFishin
Sep 2015
#52
58 of DU care? Wake up, DU! Are we done caring about our children's/grandchildren's futures?
ancianita
Sep 2015
#10
Let's look at how the consequences of this secret agreement will ruin our children's and grand-
ancianita
Sep 2015
#12
We are definitely leaving a sorry legacy for our children and grandchildren.
historylovr
Sep 2015
#46
First: For work -- hundreds of thousands, probably millions of our kids and grandkids
ancianita
Sep 2015
#13
As Sanders says, the TPP will drag down American workers' medical affordability, medicine
ancianita
Sep 2015
#21
Second: Those of our children/grandchildren who inherit -- they won’t have the income or resources
ancianita
Sep 2015
#31
Really? Are any of them running for office? The courts? Will public protest attract a revolution?
ancianita
Sep 2015
#35
Third: Our children’s and grandchildren’s lives will be literally threatened and shortened
ancianita
Sep 2015
#34
There are still numerous areas of disagreement. Doubt there will be a final agreement for Obama
Hoyt
Sep 2015
#37
I will be so happy to loudly proclaim wrongness, but when will the effects of that finished product
ancianita
Sep 2015
#38
We are talking the future here, not history. Mexici is not worse off for NAFTA. Some areas maybe,
Hoyt
Sep 2015
#61
They benefit from being well educated. One works for FireEye, the other for Takeda Pharma and
ancianita
Sep 2015
#63
Well, they are working for companies that trade globally and benefit from such trade. The world
Hoyt
Sep 2015
#64
I don't see how it benefits all of us. They deal in propping globalists.They benefit their companies
ancianita
Sep 2015
#65
You criticize sonething you haven't seen, and probably don't understand long-term benefits.
Hoyt
Sep 2015
#62
The People's Voice ain't worth a plugged nickel in today's DLC political establishment
ReactFlux
Sep 2015
#39
YUP. But what I'm raising here will do a run around political contests, once the economy tanks
ancianita
Sep 2015
#41
Welp, we'd better get crackin' or you're only danglin' hope. And welcome to DU!
ancianita
Sep 2015
#57
Fourth: Public schools? Thousands of privatized schools,funded by public money, have failed,
ancianita
Sep 2015
#43
Fifth: Medicine? Health care? Medicine, reproductive and health services probably will drop.
ancianita
Sep 2015
#45
Sixth: College? Neither less accessible, affordable; or tuitions will drop to accommodate enrollment
ancianita
Sep 2015
#48
Seventh: Life’s callings/careers? Today’s aware kids and grandkids already say, BEFORE the TPP
ancianita
Sep 2015
#55
Eighth: Death? Like now, but more pitiless, undignified. As we and our children afford
ancianita
Sep 2015
#60