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In reply to the discussion: Wikileaks: TPP To Be Signed This Week [View all]ancianita
(35,812 posts)47. Indeed. Envision any post-TPP scenario that's good. I can't.
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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