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While we are sure President Obama will find a way to comment on today's jobs number (focusing on the unemployment rate we suspect and not the quality of jobs or record number of people out of work), his main topic of discussion is how wonderful the ultra-secret "Trans-Pacific Partnership" deal is for Americans... and why congress must pass it asap.
The President is due to speak at 1215ET ...
Sports shoe maker Nike Inc put its weight behind President Barack Obama's push for a trade deal with Asian countries on Friday with a promise to create up to 10,000 U.S.-based manufacturing jobs if the pact is approved.
In an announcement that coincided with a visit by Obama to Nike's Oregon headquarters, the company said footwear tariff relief within the proposed 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement would allow it to speed up investment in "advanced footwear manufacturing" in the United States.
Obama is pressing the U.S. Congress to pass Trade Promotion Authority, which would enable him to negotiate international trade deals without the threat of changes by lawmakers.
If TPA is passed and the TPP deal is sealed, Nike said, it would accelerate its U.S. investments and spur as many as 10,000 domestic manufacturing and engineering jobs, thousands of construction jobs, and up to 40,000 jobs elsewhere in its supply chain over 10 years.
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Not sure what to think about The TPP... read on.
Barack Obama is secretly negotiating a global economic treaty which would destroy thousands of American businesses and millions of good paying American jobs. In other words, it would be the final nail in the coffin for America’s economic infrastructure. Obama knows that if the American people actually knew what was in this treaty that they would be screaming mad, so the negotiations are being done in secret. The only people that are allowed to look at the treaty are members of Congress, and even they are being banned from saying anything to the public. American workers are about to be brutally stabbed in the back, and thanks to all of this secrecy and paranoia they won’t even see it coming.
The name of this new treaty is “the Trans-Pacific Partnership”, and it is being touted as perhaps the most important trade agreement in history. But very few people in this country are talking about it, because none of us are allowed to see it. An article that was just released by Politico detailed the extreme secrecy that is surrounding this trade agreement…
If you want to hear the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal the Obama administration is hoping to pass, you’ve got to be a member of Congress, and you’ve got to go to classified briefings and leave your staff and cellphone at the door.
If you’re a member who wants to read the text, you’ve got to go to a room in the basement of the Capitol Visitor Center and be handed it one section at a time, watched over as you read, and forced to hand over any notes you make before leaving.
And no matter what, you can’t discuss the details of what you’ve read.
This treaty is going to affect the lives of every man, woman and child living in this nation, and yet it is deemed so “important” that none of us can know what is in it?
Are you sure that we still live in a Republic?
This treaty will cover 40 percent of the global economy, and U.S. officials hope that the EU, China and India will become members eventually as well…
Right now, there are 12 countries that are part of the negotiations: the United States, Canada, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. These nations have a combined population of 792 million people and account for an astounding 40 percent of the global economy.
And it is hoped that the EU, China and India will eventually join as well. This is potentially the most dangerous economic treaty of our lifetimes, and yet there is very little political debate about it in this country.
If the EU, China and India did eventually join the treaty, that would essentially make it a trade agreement for the entire planet.
This is a really big deal, and it should be openly debated by the American people. But instead, Barack Obama has chosen to shroud the entire process with as much secrecy as possible. Not only that, he also wants Congress to give him fast track negotiating authority. If Congress does that, they would essentially be saying that they blindly trust Obama to negotiate a good treaty for us. At the end of the process, Congress would be able to vote the treaty up or down, but would not be able to amend it.
That sounds insane, right? Well, if you can believe it, Republicans in the Senate are quite eager to give Barack Obama this authority.
And this is not just an economic treaty. The following is an excerpt from one of my previous articles…
It is basically a gigantic end run around Congress. Thanks to leaks, we have learned that so many of the things that Obama has deeply wanted for years are in this treaty. If adopted, this treaty will fundamentally change our laws regarding Internet freedom, healthcare, copyright and patent protection, food safety, environmental standards, civil liberties and so much more. This treaty includes many of the rules that alarmed Internet activists so much when SOPA was being debated, it would essentially ban all “Buy American” laws, it would give Wall Street banks much more freedom to trade risky derivatives and it would force even more domestic manufacturing offshore.
We can’t consume our way to prosperity, and we can’t borrow and spend our way to prosperity. In order to be prosperous as a nation, we have got to create at least as much wealth as we consume. But instead, we are doing just the opposite. We are consuming wealth like mad even while our economic infrastructure is being absolutely gutted. We have lost thousands of businesses and millions of jobs already, and this new treaty will make things much worse.
And of course eventually even the ultra-cheap labor on the other side of the planet will be replaced. This is something that is already happening in China. Just today there was a news story about a new manufacturing facility in China that will use only robots…
Construction work has begun on the first factory in China’s manufacturing hub of Dongguan to use only robots for production, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
A total of 1,000 robots would be introduced at the factory initially, run by Shenzhen Evenwin Precision Technology Co, with the aim of reducing the current workforce of 1,800 by 90 percent to only about 200, Chen Xingqi, the chairman of the company’s board, was quoted as saying in the report.
The company did not give a figure for the investment in the factory, but said its production capacity could reach a value of 2 billion yuan (US$322 million) annually.
All of this is very bad news for American workers. Whether it is ultra-cheap labor on the other side of the globe or new technology, big corporations are constantly looking for ways to produce things less expensively.
But in order to have a middle class, we have got to have middle class jobs. The middle class in the United States is steadily disappearing, and neither political party seems very concerned about this at all.
Even without this new trade treaty, our trade deficit with the rest of the planet continues to grow even larger. We just learned that the monthly U.S. trade deficit for March rose to $51.4 billion. That was the largest monthly trade deficit since October 2008. If you will remember, in October 2008 we were experiencing the worst financial crisis since the days of the Great Depression.
And if you take oil out of the number, our trade deficit for the month of March would be the worst ever recorded.
Thank you Barack Obama. Your trade policies are really “working”.
Because the trade deficit was much worse than expected, that is going to push the GDP number for the first quarter into negative territory…
Greg Daco of Oxford Economics says he expects the wider than expected trade deficit to prompt the government to revise its estimate of 0.2% growth in U.S. gross domestic product for the first quarter to a 0.5% contraction.
That means that if we have another contraction in the second quarter, we will officially be in a recession.
In fact, we could be in a recession right now (according to the official government definition) and not even know it yet.
One of the biggest reasons why the U.S. economy has been struggling so much in recent years is due to our trade policies. If we had balanced trade with other nations, our cumulative economic growth since mid-2009 would have been nearly 20 percent higher…
Since rising trade balances subtract from economic growth, the increase in this real non-oil goods deficit has now cut cumulative U.S. economic growth after inflation by a stunning 19.49 percent since the recovery technically began in mid-2009.
Are you starting to see why I get so fired up about trade?
But instead of encouraging big corporations to do what is right for the American people, our system greatly rewards companies like Apple that proudly send jobs offshore. The following is an excerpt from an outstanding article by Andrew Zatlin…
Nine years, a trillion dollars in sales, and almost no taxes paid. That’s just the starting point for wondering about Apple’s actual contribution to the US economy.
Apple’s success drags down the US GDP. The behemoth that is Apple sold almost 200M phones last year, none of which were made in the US or used components made here. Instead of exporting $100B in iPhones, the US imported $50B. That $150B swing matters in terms of balance of trade, GDP and jobs. If you wanted to improve the US economy, there’s no better place to start than with Apple and smartphones.
Apple undermines the US manufacturing base. Assembly matters and manufacturing matters more. There was a time when Apple could have assembled phones and tablets in the US, but that would mean spending an extra $5 per phone since that’s approximately the extra labor cost to build that $700 phone here instead of in Vietnam or China. Assembly may not be a competitive, value-add step but it does employ a lot of people.
Unfortunately, it would also cut Apple’s profits by $1B, shrinking the company’s annual net income from $45B to $44B. Apple wouldn’t notice a drop in profits of $1B because it’s not putting its cash to use: Apple has $200B in cash conveniently parked outside of the US, not doing anything. On the other hand, assembling in the US would employ tens of thousands of people.
You can read the rest of that great article right here.
Our trade policies matter. Decades of incredibly foolish decisions have ripped our economic infrastructure to shreds, and we are slowly but steadily committing national economic suicide.
Now, Barack Obama is absolutely determined to deliver the finishing blow, and it is all being done in secret.
When are you going to wake up and start getting angry America?
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First of all, in advance of many 'secret Kenyan' type comments - the fucking guy is a fucking puppet chosen precisely to appear different from Bush.
Second, give the TPP 2 years and it will lead to widespread unemployment riots and the martial law some have worried about for some time now.
I do wonder when the American people will start playing some fuckin' offense.
Maybe there's too much sugar and Budweiser and Kardashians in their diet.
LOL....
You forgot the Made in China Label.
Congressional members did not read Obama Care, and look how that worked out. Trust you, Barry? Never!
dassum talnbout....moar sneekurs!
“There is a ‘living agreement’ provision in TPP that allows the agreement to be changed after adoption—in effect, vesting TPP countries with a sweeping new form of global governance authority. TPP calls this new global authority the ‘Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission.’ These measures are unprecedented,” Sessions wrote to Obama, a letter that has as of yet not received a response. “While I and other lawmakers have been able to view this provision in secret, I believe it must be made public before any vote is scheduled on TPA, due to the extraordinary implications. I call on you today to make that section of TPP public for the American people to see and review.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/07/only-two-republicans-admit-they-actually-read-secret-obama-trade-deal-both-unsupportive/
Live nearby and listened. Believe it or not he actually said this (some paraphrase), "Some people are worried about the passage of this agreement, but it will be posted on the internet for 60 days so everyone can discuss it before it passes."
I kid you not.
Only thing missing was, "We trade agreed some folks."
Hahahaha, so, once everything has been agreed to with zero public input or debate. the public will get to see it for 60 days so it can pretend it has any fucking say whatsoever, and then it will be passed regardless.
someone please nuke dc already. it's the only hope left for change.
Nuking DC by public demand. It redfines the term 'Flash Mob.'
but it will be posted on the internet for 60 days so everyone
Excuse me... you just can't go around misquoting folks and think you can get away with it. Folks are watching. What he said is not what he meant to say. And what he meant to say is always he right thing.
And here it is:
.... but it will be posted on the internet for 6 seconds so everyone.....
Obama ... I think of the Sirens from O Brother Where Art Thou.. enough liquor and temptation and believing a lie spoken for the truth .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dl2L4v6ecM ONLY Obama as a Siren just does not cut it.
+1 for O Brother Where Art Thou- great movie.
"Sireens"- as they would pronounce it.
Obama Care has been awesome Latina Lover. Fistfulls of cash for everyone involved, the power to crush smaller practices, and letting insurance companies run wild and free. How is that 24.5 hours of work a week doing for everyone?
I would be surprized if Congress members read any of the legislation put in front of them. If that was not the case, the scamsters would have great difficulty sneaking their pork-enabling riders into must-pass legislation.
Made in China? How about made in Vietnam by kids? Nike liked NAFTA too. Allowed Nike to export 50k manufacturing jobs. So now, more of the same trade deals will bring the jobs back. LMFAO
Sorry Chalky, we simply don't believe you have our best interests at heart.
You know this and we know this.
That is why you must do all of this in secret. If it were good for us, you could do it in public.
We ain't stupid.
pods
WE ain't stupid.... you're right.
But the average American Joe? Yeah, he's pretty stupid...
Chalky knows it, corporate amerika knows it, and CONgress knows it... Sorry buddy.
precisely... if O-care was so wonderful, why the need of threats from the IRS to implement?
The corporatization of America...we are becoming a nation of employees...
...followed by a nation of robots....
From the tax code;
"(c) Employee
For purposes of this chapter, the term "employee" includes an
officer, employee, or elected official of the United States, a
State, or any political subdivision thereof, or the District of
Columbia, or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more of
the foregoing. The term "employee" also includes an officer of a
corporation."
And everyone wonders why the army mercs are training in our cities.....THINK!
Right on. Doesn't matter who the president is, the real masters of the world want this to happen so their lackey's in government will promote it. Decentralization is the only answer.
Man, You just said it All... Bravo!
Gerald Celente constantly describes our political rulers as members of crime families. He is correct. TPP supporter Senator Mitch O'Connell's father-in-law uses his shipping line to smuggle cocaine from Columbia to Europe and America. Nancy Pelosi is a liar. Senator Harry Reid now is against TPP, probably a side effect of the beating he got from goons working for the Chinese Triad investors who couldn't get their way when Reid failed to evict rancher Clive Bundy. Using Nike as an example of the employer the USA needs shows you the arrogance of Obama and his capos. Nike has a reputation for using sweatshops to make its shoes.
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90,000 shoe factory workers strike in Vietnam; they make Nike, Adidas sneakers
Workers at a Taiwanese factory in Ho Chi Minh City vowed to strike for a sixth day over a Vietnamese government pension-policy change as officials moved to quell the nation's worst labor unrest since May's anti-China riots.
As many as 90,000 workers at the Vietnamese subsidiary of Pou Chen Corp. went on strike last week, VnExpress reported Tuesday. The company makes footwear for Nike Inc. and Adidas AG, according to its website.
http://www.oregonlive.com/playbooks-profits/index.ssf/2015/03/90000_shoe...
From wikipedia: For many years, Nike, Inc. has been accused of using sweatshops to produce footwear and apparel. Nike has denied the claims many times, suggesting the company has no control over sub-contracted factories.
Congress, Republican-NeoCons and Democrats are a corrupt and evil joke. I doubt they will stop it. As bad or far worse than obamaCare.
" Advance tennis shoe manufacturing "
Code for robotics. Nike will bring jobs back to America. Too bad they're only for Skynet.
Yeah, maybe his "sneaker" plan will work out, but, ya can sure as fuck bet they won't be making workboots.
I would be jumping up and down screaming "BULLSHIT!!!" but I'm tired and my knees hurt.....
Thanks,,, I needed that laugh......
A new pair of made in the USA sneakers might just fix that. ;-)
"A new pair of made in the USA sneakers might just fix that. ;-)"
There are no sneakers that are made in the USA (United States of Apple)....
Whoosh!
Right over your head.
Did you bother to read the article?
Or even the title?
"President Obama Explains How TPP Means More US-Made Sneakers"
And if you believe that that Nike or any other sneaker company will actually manufacture their products in the US, then the "woosh" was over your head....
...President Obama said it so it must be true...uh huh....
http://www.newbalance.com/made_in_usa.html
There goes that "whoosh" sound, again!
Not exactly Made In The USA....
http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-balance-shoe-materials-arent-all-u-s-mad...
Only 25% of their shoes are made here, and the ones that are made here are not 100% made here, which has caused them to have a claim filed against them by the FTC for putting 'Made In The USA' on their product.
But at least they are trying. I will buy them next time I need sneakers. It's better than what the others are doing.
When Obama is making a claim, I know the exact opposite will be the outcome.
There used to be one pair... very confortable, but ugly, New Balance. They finally started playing around with colors and panel shapes - so when it comes to purchasing Made in USA sneakers, Just DO it. Costly, but I still have my first pair, close to 20 years old as air-travel skids.
http://www.newbalance.com/made-in-the-usa/
Unless it is like the famous scene from Scanners, I don't want to see it.
How will the TPP be any different than NAFTA???
Quick rundown of NAFTA's success-
Clinton, while signing the NAFTA bill, stated that “NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good-paying American jobs. If I didn’t believe that, I wouldn’t support this agreement.”
Scoreboard since 1994 says?
US population +59 million (+20% more Americans)
US manufacturing jobs -5 miilion (-30% fewer manufacturing jobs)
US debt +$13.4 Trillion (debt to GDP from 64% to 101%)
Real median household income up $1,750 or $83 dollars a year increase ($50.2k to $51.9k)
US corporate profits (after tax) up from $386 b to $1.8 trillion (+475%)
(btw – this is in no way promoting the Republican sellouts as a viable alternative…just stating facts).
And the MSM still hangs onto to Clinton as the last economic miracle worker…
Never forget the undoing of Glass-Steagal. Bretton Woods rolled over in 1971 and the chain of events have been accelerating ever since. We are squarely in the blow-off portion of it where nothing but bubbles can sustain even the illusion that there is actual, organic yield. Rather, it is masking economic cannabalism.
And thanks to a near complete (complete enough) chain of counterparty exposure in the banks (errr.... traders, not banks... TBTF are not banks anymore) connected directly soveriegn finances and the money supplies themselves - absent war against each other, all Western Nations are going to go to their knees together. Then it gets weird.
Edit: If the MIC has not already turned on Washington (and similarly elsewhere), then perhaps that is who handed Washington, Brussels, etc. the playbook for how this is going down. Shit, this was been think tanked and wargamed into oblivion.
Else, we have reached idiocracy. And frankly, I am not sure which is worse.
And Ross Perot said NAFTA would result in a "giant sucking sound", the sound of jobs getting sucked OUT OF the USA. All the corporate media piled on Ross Perot, and Bill Clinton got elected President (beating Ross Perot and George H.W. Bush) .
I remember that speech. Was great. Mr. Perot did not mince words on the subject. He just put it right out there like a big dead fish.
TPP is the most recent in a long line of globalist, anti-American "Trade Bills"; that started with the 1975 "Declaration". The Corporations won, and now they're going to rub your face in it.
If we strategicly place fecal matter on the back of our scalps, TPTB will get shit on their hands when they try to rub our faces in it.
Good! Exactly what American voters deserve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkgx1C_S6ls
Is this why third party candidates are not allowed in our "Presidential debates."
Don't forget the picture they photoshopped of Ross with two aliens on the cover of National Inquirer.
That was all it took to turn people against him.
I hope they're eating cat food now.
And now everyone whines about the jobs going overseas when they were told exactly what would happen. Dumbass, greedy American voters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkgx1C_S6ls
if you like your kicks, you can keep your kicks
Would that be in the face or in the nuts? Seems how that's what this is to Americans.
" with a promise to create up to 10,000 U.S.-based manufacturing jobs if the pact is approved.
Can you believe this garbage. If promises were money we'd all be billionaires! First we anal you and ship all your jobs out,,, now if this NAFTA on Steroids TPP is approved we'll anal you and throw in the sand for free.
Up Yours Nike,,, I'll not buy anything marked with your logo.
How quickly would created become "created or saved" (remember the Obama stimulus package rheotoric?)?
Right now when I buy sneakers, I buy New Balance since they are one of the only sneaker manufacturers left in the US. It costs at least double the amount, but the sneakers tend to last longer and I know Americans are being provided a liveable wage. Now if New Balance could not have ridiculous color schemes for most of its products and start offering a greater variety of sneakers made her without the "netting." All the shoes with plain colors and without netting look like sneakers people slightly older than myself would wear (not that there is anything wrong with that).
72 ;-) and all I wear are white NB 623s unless the occasion is business or formal. Outstanding shoe!
Nice!
They would look even better without the massive 'N' on the side, but that ain't gonna happen.
10,000 .gov jobs manufacturing impossible to understand or comply with regulations. He already hired over 6,000 new IRS agents, in his quest for a smaller, more transparent .gov.
"with a promise to create up to 10,000 U.S.-based manufacturing jobs"
they leave out the 10 million jobs that will be leaving the country though...
And the fact that the jobs will pay minimum wage.
And the implied fact (up to 10,000) won't be near that number.
Hint: and the "US manufacturing facility" won't be in Baltimore, Ferguson, NYC or upsate NY, or Chiraq, or Seattle, or Portland, Oakland, or Philly. And, the hood rats won't work there because they get their shoes fo free when dey riot, burn, and loot.
If you like your USA-Made Air Jordans, you can keep your USA-Made Air Jordans...
not bad:
Obama: Just Do It the TPP Swoosh Way, Brother Milton Friedman
http://dissidentvoice.org/2015/05/obama-just-do-it-the-tpp-swoosh-way-br...
Robert Reich: Why on Earth Is Obama Promoting TPP with Global Exploiter Nike?
http://www.alternet.org/robert-reich-why-earth-obama-promoting-tpp-globa...
I'd like to get angry, but I don't know what's in it to get angry about....
they are fucking you with a smile
It is rather odd that proponents in all the nations are telling their people that it will mean more jobs for their people. No one, of course, can explain how this can be so.
Also, these great leaders fail to explain the secrecy and the sparse trade-related provisions in this massive, life-changing deal.
If that piece of crap was good for the average Joe it wouldn't be held in such great secrecy.
He should step up to his podium and read it for us, word for word, or STFU.
>Are you sure that we still live in a Republic?< Pretty sure we don't..........
It's a representative Republic.
Government for the people, voted for by the dumbasses in this country, and for the oligarchy (the wealth).
So we'll see The Head Fool In Charge will be on in what...? Another 45 minutes or so?
And how can such a fool and his group of fellow fools be allowed to push through such treaties without first allowing We The People to know what is in it, how it affects us or the ability to have our so-called representatives in CONgress to support or object to it on our behalf? Even as a lame duck, this Obama fucker seems to be able and allowed to do literally whatever the fuck he wants; there are no checks and balances as far as I can tell. And being the puppet he is, he's not even the one making these decisions in the first place.
They're not even trying to pretend that we're a republic anymore. We're the Corporate States of America, through and through......hooraay facism.
All True, Our US Leadership has Displayed Childish Behavior, Bending to Every Wealthy Interest Group, every Bribe of Gifts.
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Record 93,194,000 Americans Not In Labor Force..., a New Record for Women not working
- Open Borders increases Labor Supply and puts downward Pressure on the Labor Rate/Labor Prices
- FBI: 'THOUSANDS' UNDER INFLUENCE OF ISIS INSIDE AMERICA...
- Open Borders also Justifies the Expensive Police State, new DHS Jobs and Budget, and Keeps Propaganda Machine Working to Create Fear in the USA while encouraging so called foreign Agitators
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- NAFTA, CAFTA-DR, GATT, Free Trade Agreements
- TPP & TAP Secret Trade Agreements give up US Sovereignty to some World Court or International Law
- CAFTA-DR already allows foreign businesses to set up in USA and bring in All Foreign Workers
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- Foreigners Invest in the USA at a Higher Rate than US banks, now own $28 Trillion in US Property & Assets
- US Capital has been flowing offshore not only in a Trade Deficit as payment for Slave Labor that can't be audited, but also US Manufacturing Capital that Builds New Factories
- US Government Subsidies help Wealthy US Capital Move Offshore and to Disassemble US Job Base/Manufacturing Base/Technology Base
Northcom just raised its threat level to bravo. While Obo pumps nafta2.0. He should have started his speech with" this will be a day long remembered by the empire"
Corporatist just like the Bush
On the morning commute I saw a group of what looked like construction workers, protesting the Japanese clothing company Uniqlo (wtf kinda of name is that anyway) - big banner saying it hurts American workers and families, "Shame on them!"
There are much bigger, badder companies to protest than Uniqlo... wonder why they were targeting that one.
If it is union construction workers, it might be because the company was not properly extorted by the union construction workers which would have brought up any building or remodeling costs significantly.
Modern unions aren't your friends unless you are in one.
I know anything government touches gets destroyed. However, can someone help me understand why fewer trade barriers would be bad?
I don't care about the perspective of the blue-collar loser, I'm in private equity and I want to now how it will affect my income.
I wager that it is nothing more than another massive redistribution effort where multinational corporations are the winners and the majority of the populations in somewhat wealthy nations are flogged yet again.
Fewer trade retrictions only accelerates the rebalancing act. The only players who are hurt are those who benefited from protectionist policies. Whoever gets hurt by fewer trade barriers was already uncompetitive and enjoying regulatory subsidies. If the standard of living goes down in the USA, it's because it was too high to be justified by the productivity of the workforce. However, I am still terrified by the secrecy under which the trade deal is being negotiated. It's very, very sinister.
I know I don't know anything about how the trade deals are screwing the country, but I know you are clueless from this:
"The only players who are hurt are those who benefited from protectionist policies. Whoever gets hurt by fewer trade barriers was already uncompetitive and enjoying regulatory subsidies. If the standard of living goes down in the USA, it's because it was too high to be justified by the productivity of the workforce."
These trade deals are designed to screw the average worker and mom and pop businesses. You really think the average Asian countries are going to allow American products to compete with theirs?
There is this tiny, small little thing we have in this country called a trade imbalance. Perhaps you have heard it has risen last month? Maybe the whole country is living too high off the hog and needs to come down (think end of reserve currency status).
If you are being partially sarcastic, please separate sarcasm from your actual opinion rather than lumping it together in the future.
The idea is US workers should be protected from Big Business that will gladly give you a bowl of gruel and stripped uniforms, with occasional beatings, if they get their way. Where we went wrong was allowing low wage, low working standard countries to export into the US market, without forcing them to pay equal wages and the same standards. The final destination for us now, as a soceity, is well... think like China or India. We have imported their living standards as well as the trivial plastic doodads that they sell! Call me an old fashioned nationalist, but the natural advantages that the country once had, have been taken by Big Business for themselves, and the people get goose shit propaganda that this is all good for them!
Caspitalists are the clear winners.
Nike sweat shops! A model for the world!
"Caspitalists are the clear winners. "
Caspitalists - are those, like, people who live near the Caspian Sea?
The word you're looking for is Globalists.
FIFY.
Trade barriers are necessary balancing tools considering factors like how other nations might exploit labor or litertally poision the environment. Currencies are another aspect of course. The list goes on.
Put it this way, what is the incentive of the corporate owners, relative to labor and absent trade barriers? Did you say "cheap, cheap, cheap"... as is slavery sort of cheap?
Careful with the word "re-balancing" because in the wrong context it is no different than Marxist redistribution... which consequently is one of the two primary methods conceived to avoid a Malthusian disaster. Is also comes from the same place as attempting to supress normal human behavior (which inevitable only allows the most vile of human behaviors to thrive - for awhile at least).
OK thanks. If tarriffs have a place in balancing out environemntal and human abuse, then the feds should return to raising all their funds from tarriffs instead of plundering income.
So you either trust him/them or you don't. Do you think they are behind closed doors discussing how big an ice cream cone they are going to give you?
not an ice cream, but what size nike they can stick up our butts.
Time to write your Senators and Congressman.
(ummm... on the other hand, isn't it nice the way they're pumping up the stock market to make us think that we too are going to profit from this deal?)
Time to recieve a canned response, "Your concerns are important to us, unfortunately they will also go into the recycle bin."
"Time to write your Senators and Congressman."
Why?
I can't think of a bigger waste of time.
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A sufficient # of your Federal 'representatives' have already been bought and paid for. Witness 'Boner's' complete lack of action in the House. That's quite deliberate, BTW.
If you want to write, write to your Statehouse reps, and call/speak with your local movers and shakers.
Stockpile food, medicine, and weapons. Train, individually and in small teams for insurgent interdiction.
During the tobacco company raping debacle I snail mailed hand-written letters to my scumbags.
I got back two form letters unrelated to the issue I had written about.
I wasted a buck on postage. These people aren't your representatives, they are the oligarchy's lap dogs.
<Speak!>
Ruff Ruff!
<Good boy!>
Especially if you live in Oregon. More specifically, "Moscow on the Willamette."
There's just one question that needs to be asked - if this TTP thing is so good as they say it is WHY the hell is it being kept secret from the public?!
Jewish version, circa 1942: "Leave your suitcases, clothes, and gold fillings in the piles, then proceed into the 'showers'"
Armenian version, circa 1915: "Hand in your gun, and get into the truck"
Canigula version, circa 2016: "Take yo free Jordans and step up into da FEMA ride"
2012 version was "take your free 0bama phone, and 0bamacare will pay for your brain cancer treatments".
Although Obama will be leaving office in a year time, all american include the unborn one will live with his TPP legacy.. Just like when you lose your job due to NAFTA and China MFN treaty , the jobs never come back!!
FYI...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-07/introducing-hotel-isis-have-fun...
Fri, 05/08/2015 - 00:24 | 6071793 Kirk2NCC1701
"Obama is in Portland/PDX today, and at Nike in Hillsboro tomorrow." (In response to DaddyO's comment: "Looks like they're getting ready for a presidential visit...Does anyone know Obama's itinerary?")Nike are the good guys now, LMAO. They will bring US manufacturing back... right... what are they paying those Indonesian and Vietnamese kids, huh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Yc4BEP0jzE
Material world paranoia
Corporations rule the earth
Material world paranoia
Enslavery begins at birth
the promise of a better future is a lie
Literally everything he has said is a complete lie. Where do they find these useful idiot lemmings. Unfuckingbelievable.
He told the truth on one issue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/5/editorial-the-high-price-...
I'd rather listen to Pee Wee Herman talk about relationships than anything this pompous POS has to say about anything.
www.traderzoo.mobi
Obama just said he's talking to a "well informed crowd" LMFAO.
Yea, I'm out already....I can't stand his voice, he's talking about unemployment as if all news about it is good and throwing out a bunch of stats that are worse than Enron's. This clown doesn't know jack about international trade. Where in his life journey (that we know about anyway) would he have learned even a vague understanding about international trade?
He's talking about passing trade agreements and he has no clue how trade works really.....I doubt he could even give a good summary of what NAFTA really did, how it worked (or didn't work if you live in reality) and what its effects were if you asked him to...no teleprompters allowed and he'd be reduced to a stuttering mess. So a guy that knows very llittle about this stuff is working on a ultra-secretive agreement that Nike, the personification of a company who is not afraid of using child labor and other labor abuses, is happy to be a part of.
W
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If the deal's so great...post it online and let it sell itself. ?
Funny thing: I can't even watch the video and listen to Obumbie at all
Same here....
Yes, Nike will create thousands of sneaker-maker jobs in the US.
And pay them Chinese wages.
NWO FTW!
MOTHERFUCKERS.
Chinese wages & American Taxes.
Don't worry ZH heads (like rush's dittoheads)
your gonna get the TPP, just like you got the NAFTA GATT WTO CAFTA.
The best Gov't is the Gov't that's done in secret.
if its not good for us, Oboozo won't sign it. Trust him.
AWESOME
They give us their GATT, I give them mine. . .
If you like your sweatshop job with the suicide nets...
"They're saying about this Agreement that it'll do this and do that... ZH is making stuff up"
"Under this Agreement, you'll be able to sell more Oregon-made MRAPs overseas"
"... you'll be able to sell Oregon berries, and that's berry good"
This cocksucker cockblocked half the city yesterday to come meet with his butt buddy crony Phil Knight.
Even though Phil Knight usually donates to the right (what difference does it make). I'm sure whatever goodies the POTUS came with in his TPP bag-o-goodies was enough to grease the skids for Phil.
Those jobs "on paper" and if they even materialize are a spit in the ocean, who are they fucking kidding.
I keep praying for an Air Force One Pilot to "do the right thing........."
Listen to those stupid fucks cheer his empty rhetoric as he prepares to gut what's left of this country. Fuck them, I hope they choke on it.
They cheered another MFer:
But now we are being tested again by a new wave of immigration larger than any in a century, far more diverse than any in our history. Each year, nearly a million people come legally to America. Today, nearly one in 10 people in America was born in another country; one in 5 schoolchildren are from immigrant families. Today, largely because of immigration, there is no majority race in Hawaii or Houston or New York City. Within 5 years, there will be no majority race in our largest State, California. In a little more than 50 years, there will be no majority race in the United States.* No other nation in history has gone through demographic change of this magnitude in so short a time.
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, June 13, 1998 William J. Clinton, President of the United States
*Spontaneous eruption by students cheering, standing on chairs, applause
It's fucking Portland, what do you expect? Way too many hippies and left wing lunatics and hipsters who fled Cally now run the damn city.
I'm not so simple-minded, naive, paranoid or rabidly biased, as to think that a secretly negotiated Trade Agreement can't be a good deal for the US (its workers and exportes).
The question is: "Will it? Will it be a good deal for the US (its workers and exportes)?" A: "TBD"
It may be possible that he's as fed up with Congress as are Americans, and that he's trying to do something 'good'. And although I may be willing to suspend my fears, I am also skeptical that this will be any better than any other US Trade Agreement. Especially if it includes the evils hidden in the fine print of past agreements. Things like: FATCA, GMOs, Currency used, etc.
Esse, what what the last positive thing Federal government did for you?!?
"he's as fed up"
Fatal mistake- assuming the puppet has any ability to effect change independent of the puppeteers.
It's the ones holding the strings that are in charge- and they are only looking out for themselves.
TPP is nothing less than the illegal abrogation of Constitution law. I'm not a vassal of a global government. Not now, not tomorrow, not ever. I am not going out like that. Jade Helm makes sense in the context of what is brewing via the TPP. They will try to come for our guns. I'll be ready.
The gun grab is coming along with a national police force. Bookmark it and be prepared to fight
Under the US Constitution, Obama already has authority to negotiate a trade pact, but he doesn't have the authority to pass it and make it law. Only Congress can do that, and it must be approved by a 2/3 majority in the US Senate. He sees that requirement as an obstacle! It's really a protection!
This is truly an "end run" because it seeks to authorize a trade pact or treaty by delegating Congressional authority to the President, an act that the Constitution doesn't allow, and by a simple majority vote. It's an end run alright, right around the Constitution.
Just say NO!
I hate to tell you this, but the Senate will still approve it. All the politicians loyal to our country have been run out of CONgress.
Took the words right outa ma mouth.....
One small step for this man, one giant leap into the shitter for this country.
It's not the trans pacific partnership
It's the TRANNY-pacific partnership.
American transgender leaders and Asian transgender elitists conspire to rape all of their collective subjects.
-- "I promise government-subsidized shoe factories for every major US city by the year 2025!"
Why buy sneakers when you can loot them for free?
We undocumented shoppers, bitches.
Yea, it's so fucking good they won't even let us know what it involves.
10,000 Nike jobs in the US?
Probably because Chinese workers won't put up with Nike's abuse and shit wages for much longer. LOL
http://www.ibtimes.com/chinese-labor-strike-5000-workers-strike-factory-...
There is always Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Guatemala.
His aides won't allow him to be alone with congressional republicans for fear of what might happen, yet he's negotiating an international deal in secret that trust me, will be rilly fuckin great for everybody? Rilly?
This guy would be bait on a used car lot.
If you thought the fascist monstrosity of Obamacare was bad, wait until this Zionist Godzilla is unleashed.
It should really be called the "Out with the dollar and in with the SDR" bill.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
Obama behind coup attempt on Putin.Second interview in the lineup.Just put the jigsaw pieces together.The David Jensen interviews are very informative.
http://jaytaylormedia.com/manipulation/
Didn't Al Bore say something similar about NAFTA...some shit about the Mexicans wanting to buy American toasters ...or something. That ended well.
What a POS. Obama couldn't find his way out of a brown paper bag; given a boxcutter knife and a pack of matches.
Filthy Marxist scumbucket.
Also immigration, LEGAL, will skyrocket from Asia
The GOP And The Trans-Pacific Partnership: On a Fast Track to National Ruin
By Patrick J. Buchanan May 7, 2015
“Electing a New People”–Hispanic Population Growing Faster Than Predicted
No White country that I know of has had a chance to vote on our demographic replacement. Ireland came close to it with a Referendum on birth-right citizenship. This followed the swamping of the country's maternity hospitals with pregnant Turd Worlders. The public voted overwhelmingly to discontinue BRC. Duly noted, TPTB refrained from such ansavoury practices from then on.
They will be angry in the gulags... a tad too late...
I have been following this for some time now and there is more to TPP than just trade. In fact TPP is only like 40% +/- dealing with trade. National sovereignty under this agreement is administered / outsourced to an international global group based in Europe or something. It was negotiated by an Obama minion. Republican trade people were totally shut out of the drafting process. It is Progressive to its' core. It is NAFTA for Asia on steroids. Something about a pathway for more alien imports.
I don't know the details hell Congress isn't allowed to know the details but the American people better get their act together and start demanding publication on something that will impact everybody. Right now the Establishment Reps like McConnel, Boehner and Chamber of Commerce are for it and the Dems are against but some are flipping.
It's a major step to the NWO which requires loss of national sovereignty.
Hey ZH'ers here is some draft texts of TPP/TISA deal
https://wikileaks.org/tpp-investment/
https://wikileaks.org/tpp-ip2/
https://wikileaks.org/tisa-financial/
https://wikileaks.org/tpp-enviro/
https://wikileaks.org/tpp/
“Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.”
? Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"with a promise to create up to 10,000 U.S.-based manufacturing jobs"
"Up to" are the two most abused words in the English language.
One, or two jobs still fits within the set of "up to 10,000"
Dishonesty everywhere.
Is that what you call human?
Great! Now NIKE can abuse American workers: Nike workers 'kicked, slapped and verbally abused' at factories making Converse
READ @ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2014325/Nike-workers-kicked-slapped-verbally-abused-factories-making-Converse-line-Indonesia.html#ixzz3Za58HmgM
Obama can use his keen negotiating skills to work trade deals just like when he negotiated to release 5 Taliban generals for one deserter........He wants to destroy this country and this will finish us off. Look at wage growth in the past 5 years and over 92 million American that can't find jobs.
Obamacare was put together behind closed doors and look at the result. This is getting just to sick............
What I can't believe is in a few minutes AF1 will be landing in Watertown, SD where he will give another speech about how college should be free. What really blows my mind is there are that many people in that city that would want to listen to his drivel.
And to my surprise he is running a half hour late
TPP has removed any remaining doubts for me as to whether there is a definitive plan for a NWO. The globalists are closing in with every new move. Watch for further signs of a World Currency arising from this development.
Birth certificate was altered.
Any questions?