Issue #1: That's how secretive this administration is! No one knows what's inside the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
"Whistleblower website WikiLeaks offered a $100,000 bounty for copies of a Pacific trade pact that is a central plank of President Barack Obama's diplomatic pivot to Asia on Tuesday."
"The text of the TPP, which is still under negotiation and would boost the flow of goods between 12 nations from Japan to Chile, is a classified document."
Who knew that Nancy Pelosi could predict the future. Remember, you have to pass the bill in order to know what's in it, rang true with Obamacare, & now with TPP. Further proof that on either side there is no transparency.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/02/us-trade-tpp-transparency-idUSKBN0OI2EO20150602Issue #2: Obama pushing passage of his trade bill in the House
TPP & fast-track passed in the Senate with majority support from McConnell & his rinos. Rand Paul, the only presidential nominee & to his credit, was a no vote.
Obama's Boehner & rinos in the House "....are sparing no effort in the whip effort and believe they’re on track to notch a historically high vote total for a trade bill.
"Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Majority Whip Steve Scalise and Chief Deputy Whip Patrick McHenry will meet with undecided Republicans this week to press them to vote yes."
Are ya'll buying this? "press them to vote yes"...what's being promised? Are there any principled politicians that care about the voice of their constituents, or have they all been promised, bought & sold? Can they not learn from the failure of NAFTA?
I certainly understand that there may be a difference of opinion on this site regarding the (2) mentioned trade deals.
A few comments from the lefty Politico site:
"And Ted Cruz wife is an employee for Goldman Sachs, the biggest contributor to push the TPP... Rand Paul is the only presidential contender that voted against the traitorous, secret, job-jacking, special-interest-pocket-lining, liberty-leeching, corrupt-crony-capitalist-politician RINO-supported TPP."
"Obama's TPP will depress American wages for decades, destroy millions of US jobs, drive thousands of US manufacturers out of business, result in hundreds of thousands of H1b foreigners to take Americans' jobs away for less pay, and once again double welfare and food stamp participation."
"Wait till you see the goodies handed out to those who change their minds to vote yes."
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/obama-trade-push-118566.html#ixzz3c05dSLaPhttp://jobmarketmonitor.com/2013/12/10/us-was-nafta-good-for-workers/