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Health & Fitness

WHATS SO BAD ABOUT THE TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP ANYWAY?

 if some mega-corporation wanted to frack in your backyard, and you didn't like it, you would have to pay them as damages the money they would presumptively have made from destroying your environment, and your own government would be enfeebled to protect you in any way.
And that's just the start.

The TPP would make it easier to export jobs to markets where labor is even cheaper than where they exported most of our jobs under NAFTA and preceding "free" trade agreements. These are nothing but free for all labor exploitation deals, and the TPP is the worst yet by an order of magnitude. If you want to turn the entire United States of America into a third world country, this is the fast track to get there.

Why haven't we heard more about this? It's precisely because it's been negotiated by corporate stooges in such extreme secrecy, the documents have been classified so top secret, that members of Congress are forbidden to tell anyone about the provisions in it. Journalists have been systematically excluded from private conclaves where this is being discussed. There are only about 600 special interest lobbyists who have such special access.

The TPP purports to inhibit on an international scale the ability of governments to perform proper financial oversight and regulation of the same Wall Street banks and insurance companies that have come so close already to wrecking the entire world economy. And that's not all.

 The TPP would leave governments, including our own, powerless to regulate pesticides, food additive, or GMOs. They could forcefeed us this stuff against our will by infiltrating our entire food supply. Oh, and there's more, too.

 They want to monopolize global food supplies. They want to abolish policies to "buy local." And on top of everything else they want to abolish all tariffs so THEY can retain ALL the profit from the new labor markets they want to exploit

The only thing "free" about this so-called trade deal is to make giant corporations free from any accountability whatsover, a new world order where governments are entirely subservient to selfish business interests.

But your voice speaking out can stop these 21st century fascists in their fast tracks, if only you will speak out now while you still can.

Be sure to let Senators Max Baucus , Orrin Hatch of the Senate Finance Committee, and Dave Camp of the House Ways And Means Committee know how you feel about  their efforts  to push a fast track bill for this directly onto the floor of Congress.

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