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Corporations Win Again: Senate Passes Obamatrade Fast-Track Bill
Ten days ago it seemed as if America's corporatism would finally be slowed in its tracks after the House unexpectedly killed the fast-tracking of Obamatrade, aka the fast-tracking of the Trade Promotion Authority. Alas, it was not to last, and moments ago, in a "nailbiting" 60-37 vote, the Senate advanced Obama's fast-track tarde bill.
The Senate on Tuesday voted to advance President Obama’s trade agenda, approving a measure to end debate on fast-track authority.
The 60-37 motion sets up a vote on final passage on Wednesday. If the Senate approves fast-track or trade promotion authority (TPA), it would then be sent to Obama’s desk to become law. Fast-track authority would allow Obama to send trade deals to Congress for up-or-down votes. The White House wants the authority to conclude negotiations on a sweeping trans-Pacific trade deal.
Thirteen Democrats backed fast-track in Tuesday’s vote, handing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) a major legislative victory.
They did so even though the trade package did not include a workers assistance program for people displaced by increased trade. The Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program was a part of the last fast-track package approved by the Senate in May, but became a key part of opposition to the package among Democrats in the House.
To move fast-track forward, the White House and GOP leaders in both chambers decided to break TAA away from fast-track, and to try to approve both in separate votes.
After the Senate votes Wednesday on final passage for fast-track, it will take a procedural vote on a package that includes TAA and trade preferences for African countries known as the African Growth and Opportunity Act.
McConnell has promised both bills, as well as a customs and enforcement bill favored by Democrats, will reach Obama’s desk by the end of the week.
“If we all keep working together and trusting each other, then by the end of the week the President will have TPA, TAA, and AGOA and Preferences on his desk — with Customs in the process of heading his way too,” he said on the floor.
And since the House has already passed fast-track, and now must only vote on the package including TAA, which faces token opposition from conservatives, expect the TPA and shortly thereafter, the TPP, to be enacted despite yet another round of dramatic theater by the best representatives US corporations can bribe.
Finally, as a reminder, "This Is How Little It Cost Goldman To Bribe America's Senators To Fast Track Obama's TPP Bill"
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Earlier:
Today brings Round 2 in "the most transparent administration ever"'s attempt to pass the incredibly opaque Fast-Track Authority enabling Obama to negotiate the Trans-Pacific-Partnership corporate coup d'etat (and all the other trade deals currently floating around) without fear of irritation from any outsiders. However, it won't be easy-sledding as The Hill reports, labor groups led by the AFL-CIO are furiously lobbying Democrats to oppose fast-track authority when the Senate votes on a procedural motion Tuesday. Union leaders warn enabling Fast-Track prematurely would "compound its expected negative impacts, leaving U.S. workers in the lurch and depriving the U.S. manufacturing sector of vital tools necessary to combat unfair trade."
But once again - after more drama - the corporations win!
- *U.S. SENATE ADVANCES OBAMA'S FAST-TRACK TRADE LEGISLATION
But, as The Hill reports, Obama may face some trouble ahead
The measure would help Obama negotiate the largest trade deal in history with 11 other countries along the Pacific Rim by limiting interference from Congress.
Obama’s trade bill needs 60 votes, and he can afford no more than two Democratic defections who previously backed fast-track. As of Monday evening, he had not yet secured public promises from all the Democrats he needs.
Backers of fast-track likely need a dozen Democratic votes because five of the Senate’s Republicans voted against the trade package last month and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is indicating in an op-ed on Breitbart News that he will change his vote from yes to no. Cruz, who is running for president, says he is wary of backroom negotiations, expressing concern that the Export-Import Bank reauthorization will be included in the horsetrading.
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The Senate’s vote Tuesday to end debate on fast-track — if it gets 60 backers — will set up a final roll call on the measure later in the day or Wednesday.
The chamber would then vote on a package of trade preferences combined with the African Growth and Opportunity Act and TAA. That measure is expected to clear Wednesday or Thursday.
Senate Democratic leaders are not whipping against fast-track, leaving it to unions to do the heavy lifting to defeat it.
The AFL-CIO urged Democrats Monday to vote against fast-track and warned they had no guarantee that TAA will pass the House, where many Republicans oppose it.
“Without assurances that TAA will pass the House, or that the customs bill will ever see the president’s desk, considering Fast Track prematurely could compound its expected negative impacts, leaving U.S. workers in the lurch and depriving the U.S. manufacturing sector of vital tools necessary to combat unfair trade,” William Samuel, the union’s director of government affairs, wrote in a letter to senators.
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Heritage Action for America urged Republican senators to vote against fast-track Tuesday.
The conservative advocacy group argued that passing fast-track would pave the way for later passage of what it called the “ineffective” TAA program, which is paid for with tax penalties.
“The new pay for — included in H.R. 1295 which the Senate will also consider this week — increases revenue by raising certain tax penalties. New spending should not be offset by new revenues,” the group wrote in a legislative alert Monday.
But there are supporters, toe-ing Obama's tyrannical line...
“The trade package currently before the Senate is a blueprint for trade done right,” Wyden said in a statement. “It will make our country stronger by opening new markets to American products and creating new opportunities for good-paying American jobs.”
Supporters of fast-track argue that trade supports more than 4.7 million jobs in California.
But we leave it to Ellen Brown to sum up just what this "sentence first, verdict afterwards" bill is really all about... a corporate coup d'etat...
`Let the jury consider their verdict,’ the King said, for about the twentieth time that day.
`No, no!’ said the Queen. `Sentence first–verdict afterwards.’
`Stuff and nonsense!’ said Alice loudly. `The idea of having the sentence first!’
`Hold your tongue!’ said the Queen, turning purple.
`I won’t!’ said Alice.
`Off with her head!’ the Queen shouted at the top of her voice.
— Lewis Carroll, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
Fast-track authority is being sought in the Senate this week for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), along with the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) and any other such trade agreements coming down the pike in the next six years. The terms of the TPP and the TiSA are so secret that drafts of the negotiations are to remain classified for four years or five years, respectively, after the deals have been passed into law. How can laws be enforced against people and governments who are not allowed to know what was negotiated?
The TPP, TiSA and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (or TTIP, which covers Europe) will collectively encompass three-fourths of the world’s GDP; and they ultimately seek to encompass nearly 90 percent of GDP. Despite this enormous global impact, fast-track authority would allow the President to sign the deals before their terms have been made public, and send implementing legislation to Congress that cannot be amended or filibustered and is not subject to the constitutional requirement of a two-thirds treaty vote.
While the deals are being negotiated, lawmakers can see their terms only under the strictest secrecy, and they can be subjected to criminal prosecution for revealing those terms. What we know of them comes only through WikiLeaks. The agreements are being treated as if they were a matter of grave national security, yet they are not about troop movements or military strategy. Something else is obviously going on.
The bizarre, unconstitutional, blatantly illegal nature of this enforced secrecy was highlighted in a May 15th article by Jon Rappoport, titled “What Law Says the Text of the TPP Must Remain Secret?” He wrote:
It seems like a case of mass hypnosis. . . .
Members of Congress are scuttling around like weasels, claiming they can’t disclose what’s in this far-reaching, 12-nation trade treaty.
They can go into a sealed room and read a draft, but they can’t copy pages, and they can’t tell the public what they just read.
Why not?
If there is a US law forbidding disclosure, name the law.
Can you recall anything in the Constitution that establishes secret treaties?
Is there a prior treaty that states the text of all treaties can be hidden from the people?
To Congressmen who say they cannot reveal what is in a treaty that will adversely affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people, Rappoport says:
Wrong. You’re lying. You can reveal secret text. In fact, it’s your duty. Otherwise, you’re guilty of cooperating in a RICO criminal conspiracy.
A Corporate Coup d’État
What is going on was predicted by David Korten in his 1995 blockbuster, When Corporations Rule The World. Catherine Austin Fitts calls it a “corporate coup d’état.”
This corporate coup includes the privatization and offshoring of the judicial function delegated to the US court system in the Constitution, through Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) provisions that strengthen existing ISDS procedures.
As explained in The Economist, ISDS gives foreign firms a special right to apply to a secretive tribunal of highly paid corporate lawyers for compensation whenever the government passes a law to do things that hurt corporate profits — such things as discouraging smoking, protecting the environment or preventing a nuclear catastrophe. Arbitrators are paid $600-700 an hour, giving them little incentive to dismiss cases. The secretive nature of the arbitration process and the lack of any requirement to consider precedent give wide scope for creative judgments – the sort of arbitrary edicts satirized by Lewis Carroll in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
To date, the highest ISDS award has been for $2.3 billion to Occidental Oil Company against the government of Ecuador over its termination of an oil-concession contract, although the termination was apparently legal. Under the TPP, however, even larger and more unpredictable judgments can be anticipated, since the sort of “investment” it protects includes not just “the commitment of capital or other resources” but “the expectation of gain or profit.” That means the rights of corporations extend not merely to their factories and other “capital” but to the profits they expect to receive. Just the threat of a massive damage award for impairing “expected corporate profits” could be enough to discourage prospective legislation by lawmakers.
The Trade in Services Agreement adds additional barriers to proposed legislation. TiSA involves 51 countries, including every advanced economy except the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). The deal would liberalize global trade in services covering close to 80% of the US economy, including financial services, healthcare, education, engineering, telecommunications, and many more. It would restrict how governments can manage their public laws, and it could dismantle and privatize state-owned enterprises, turning those services over to the private sector. It would also block the emerging trend to return privatized services to the public sector, by limiting or prohibiting governments from creating or reestablishing public utilities and other “uncompetitive” forms of service delivery.
It seems that the TPP, TTIP and TiSA are not about the sort of “free trade” that would free local businesses to sell abroad. They are about freeing international corporations from the government regulation necessary to protect the economy, the people, and the environment. They are about preserving privatized monopolies and preventing competition from the public sector. And they are about moving litigation offshore into private arbitrary tribunals – the sort of tribunal that might have lost Alice her head, if she had not awakened from her bizarre dream.
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So another important piece of The Plan B puzzle now goes in place. Evil has gone berserk.
http://just-a-thought-from-thinair.blogspot.com/
What is the problem with giving the president authority to negotiate a trade agreement? Once the agreement is negotiated, he will have to bring it back for approval in order for it to take force. Why would you shoot it down before it has even been negotiated? That's why it's secret. Because it is under negotiation and discussion.
Because its illegal.
friggin idiot
No such power set forth.
BULLSHIT....what happened to a transparent America that OBAMA promised. that s what I thought,,,pure BULL SHIT!
DOOMED - Thanks Mr. Transparency.
Who are the 60 Senators that votes for this bill?
Sorry. In accordance with the terms of the treaty, the final vote was taken by secret ballot.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm...
If the bill didn't get rid of EBTs, the NFL and Iphones.... nothing will change.. The idiot public will never notice the buttfucking..
Fly your American flags proudly this 4th of July. Murica!
upside down?
At half mast mourning the death of our Constitution.
I will certainly do so.
A well-armed American phalanx is the only remaining obstacle to the plans of your putative masters.
Perhaps stupid and ignorant, uneducated and poor, but I'll stand with the "greasy mechanics for A. Lincoln" as they were once disparagingly referred to.
I also refer you to Benjamin Franklin's observation that we must all hang together or we will most assuredly all hang separately.
So do your best to disenhearten the Americans. We will nevertheless fight on regardless of the odds or the ridicule.
And, one day, if you're lucky, we'll come rescue you.
The ole public-private partnership. Conservatives love it, liberals love it. Unstoppable short of violence.
WikiLeaks is offering $100,000 dollars reward for the 26 part fascist “secret” trade deal after they released the 3 parts that they had captured. No one has stepped forward yet with the rest of the fascist “secret” trade deal; someone will eventually.
Not only is the Washington Empire of Debt, Fraud and Chaos trade deal secret but even after it is passed into law, no one can divulge what is in the secret deal until 5 years after its passage!
The fascist secret trade deal will morph the Washington Empire of Debt, Fraud and Chaos into the New World Order Empire of Debt, Fraud and Chaos that will have laws that supersedes American sovereignty as a nation, Congress and American Laws; it’s a total fascist takeover by bankster criminals.
Hail! Caesar Augustus Obama our new fascist Emperor for life! There will not be another presidential election, we will all be in the fascist grasp of war in 2016.
ok ok we get it...it's fascist. Sometimes I think people just like that word because it's fun to say and sounds bad, it's such a vague term most people just stumble around trying to come up with a definition when you ask them. It's like "what is capitalism", "what is national socialism", what is fascism? There are a million different answers.
There's only one word that truly describes any of this and that is zio-tyranny.
I think what we really want to know is what is the definition of beavercream.
I know, he is giving us a Bare Ass photo but needs to trim his dirty butt hairs. Ha. Ha. Ha.
LOL! Beavercream, yeah what is that?
In reply to beavercream? Ha. Ha. Ha. Well spoken, for an uneducated, ignorant dupe that has never studied forms of government. What can I do but try to educate you even though you are probably too stupid to understand.
Democracy: government of, for and by the People.
Fascist: government of, for and by the multinational corporate monopoly.
Fascist: the merger of corporate monopoly with government.
Your grammar is beyond bad, I'm not even responding to you.
In reply to butt cream: What do you mean that you will not respond? You just did respond with your idiot statement. Ha. Ha. Ha. Why is it that really stupid people think that everyone else is as stupid as they are?
Maybe it is your total lack of self-awareness and humility that separates us from the other animals. My horse is smarter than you are. Ha. Ha. Ha.
OK, OK, we get it, too.
The Jews are behind everything, right?
The Jews are the Fascists.
The Jews are the Communists.
The Jews are the Republicans.
The Jews are the Democrats.
The Jews are the Independents, the Rotarians, the Knights of Columbus, and the Odd Fellows.
They are so all-inclusive and everywhere, doing and controlling everything, that I'm sure you're actually one of their agents seeking to penetrate the last remaining substrate of non-Jewish life on the planet and control the opposition.
Personally, I do agree with you that there is a conspiracy at work in the world. It is a cabal of stupid people who have SOLD THEMSELVES, regardless of who the high bidder might be. Some of them are still content with the bargain they have made. Others are now bitterly regretting that they did not strike a better deal and obtain a better price for the forfeiture of the hard-won liberties bequeathed by their noble ancestors.
Just call em like I seez em.
Just dropped in to the Huff Post comment board. They sound like ZHers. Too bad the masses have waken up too late.
And the readers of Huff Post are going to come down on their Democrat turncoats like crazy. They thought last week when Democrats were voting against their own labor outsourcing measure that the reason was their opposition to the trade pacts.
Pelosi even congratulated herself on opposing Obama in her support of US workers.
The turncoat Democrats will never have their lives remain the same. Progressives are not forgiving types.
Too late for you maybe.
will there be an obamo global intiative to pay himback for selling out amerka
Whatever the legal fantasy, a corporation is not actually a person, and is purely conceptual in nature. It has no identity separate from its shareholders and officers.
This is a win for the officers, not the inanimate conceptual object.
It appears the officers have given themselves absolute discretion, to be followed by absolute power by means of importing whatever persons needed to win whatever democratic discussion may be at hand.
We're being Fast-Tracked to hell. Sometimes The Dragon Wins.
Another piece of the blueprint.
I sent both the U.S. Senators in my state an email regarding this issue and neither one even bothered to send me back a canned response.
U.S. politicians are completely for sale to the highest bidder.
Listen not to what they say (it is all a pack of lies anyway) but rather watch what they do. What they do is vote in favor of the oligarchs each and every time.
Sad days for Amerika.
Oh, I got canned responses. Paul Ryan and Ron Johnson are traitors, treasonous thugs. Why anybody bothers to vote anymore is beyond me. This is the first step to surrendering sovereignty to some international body. Watch the gun control in this bill. This country is finished, done in by treasonous pigs who must be destroyed. A violent revolution may be the only way
Soap Box, Ballot Box....next up Ammo Box
Never mind email.. they do not read them . they only read hard copy letters and phone calls.. but that is likely pointless now .. its over .. elections .. do not matter .. and time to think independent of the system .. a victim no longer . get as much off the grid as you can . and be prepared to take on the attituide of a partisan fighter .. the rulers have totally broken the social contract .. we have an illegitimate govt. who work for a corrupt system .. as far as Iam concernd we owe this USSA no more allegiance than we do to any corporation that has screwed us over.
No kidding. Their not even bothering to send the opposition anthrax letters anymore. The Patriot Act was snuck through with treachery but eventually we actually had a public debate about torture and rendition. NAFTA was even debated. What is in this that cannot be seen is up to anyones imagination. I for one am positive that it is puppy kisses and unicorn farts.
Hello. I am Senator X. I will suck your dick for 5$
I can smell the rancid odor of Obama C--K on the breath of all the Republican Senators (and most of the Democrats). We are doomed.
Epilogue: 911 - 2015 (#15 Years only?)
'the tide has but only the many moods of the moon to settle its afairs...
this terrestrial orbit upon its paternal guardian, an eclipse of assymetrical duality all but wrapped in a solemn journal of acquiesence...
the decider[s?] cauldron of gifted pasteurized-homogenous america has been severed the orbital migration of mankinds earthly affairs...
and, of good`tidings upon the celestial begotten'd being of diversity and freedom-of-thought provoking ingsoc momumentous farmed movement...
thus, havig sequestored the wisdom of evolution for an invitro kaleioscope of fait accompli...
the anachronism of platos`heavenly bodies will nought bode well for 'third globe from the sun'...
this planet earth in mid-life crises experiencing unbeknonst planet`earth's impregnation via multi-ethencities nuclear family rearing...
divorcing itself from reality, soon to be aborted for an extraterrestrial zeitgeists`xenophobic quasi-antithesis realpolitik diety'
welcome to the finale`s of the NWO Monarchial th[r]ones of passionate zion`jesuits ?
Congress is a gang of liars and bought and paid for corporate whores. This is fact beyond dispute, only media will dispute this fact, all others know it is true. Once again the whores in congress have rolled over to screw Americans, congress are a bunch of evil greedy fucks!
Does it matter now . once this financialized globalist wet dream house of cards startes to crumble . the TPP will be worth TP .. many people not totally dependent on the MIC or the grid .. will live well.. most wil have to become outlaws .. most will have to rethink the job paradigm . big time .. many will have to think about a second passport or buying property overseas... I can not seen the NWO moving fast enough or with total control to oppress all poeple al the time in every transaction .. the TPP . when it hits the fan will mean about as much as a liars loan .. congress . boht sidees aer bought and paid for .. time to realized . and start living as individuals or citizens of a state rather than the USSA .. also do not let you rkids join the military and warn them off debt. .better take a loan or credit card adn spend it on hard assets . gold .silver .. a piece of land in the boonies.. .food and meds for a year or more .. its over .. we have to start realizing it IS OVER .. can imagine how my ancestors felt leaving the OLD country .. come to grips with the fact.. we are never going back to the way it was.
Republicans Suck Ass! Just like the Democrats Suck Cock! NUFF SAID!
Politicians just held on for bigger bribes. Of course this bill was going to pass- it just took a little more money.
Now are we going to finally get to see what's in this bill?
Did you even read the article? It will be five years after the fascist trade deal is passed before the fascist (merger of corporate monopoly with government) will release what is contained in the secret trade deal. Our days living in a democracy are over and our lives are going to change drastically living under totalitarian fascist dictate.
Actually, I was pre occupied with looking for specifics on drug price controls which would shut down US citizens's ability to buy their medications cheaper in foreign countries-allowing big pharma total monopoly price fixing control in health care, to complement the Monsanto ambition of world wide food control.
Your point is well taken. That's the horror of it. We won't know we have received the lethal medication until it's too late.
Thanks T.D., at least we now know which corporations have read the document and how much it will be worth to them. Eventually we'll see it after we feel it long after it passes. Small correction, should read "which corporations wrote the document.
thank u libertarians and repugs for having voted for Corporate USA.
You are kidding, right? This is antithetical to Anarchical Capitalism. This is Statism or fascism, a marriage of corporate and state, not free market.
don't spout to me about "theory" talk to me about WHO voted what!
In Congress, like elsewhere, you are what you DO not what you say !
Anarchial capitalism is a false NOSE to Repug's jitterbugging where we f*** the world.
All those Oligarchs who pretend to be "anarchist" are just the contrary.
I was refuting your statement, theory or otherwise friend.
Oligarchs use the State as its club nothing less than force and fraud. I do not disagree with observation of fraud.
the Oligarchs are the TRADITION of US Capitalism since it was invented. Without Rockafella and JP Morgan the US would not be top dog today.
Your Lbertarian dream is like the Reb flag flying in South Carolina capitol, a vestige of a political and racial lie that betrays the spirit of the US constitution.
When the lie becomes truth in FACT then we can debate the merits of the Reb flag like the phantom of the Opera of Libertarian "anarchial capitalism".
Are you OK?
are u KO?
I agree to one thingie : it should be "anarchical" in english.
WTF?
how do you refute facts by quoting a theory that has never been acted in the USA?
This is a treaty; therefore you need 2/3s of the Senate. The Establishment is acting under the 'color' of law and is not lawful, another words a bluff by the corporatists, yet again.
Article III of the US Constitution will be gutted with corporate or foreign tribunals having the ability to over rule and (or) over write US and local laws. Also it further cartelizes or grants monopoly powers to favored entities / corporations and further limits property rights of individuals, which is the antithesis of free trade. The treaties are mercantilist in nature, Virginians and other State citizens are granted the level of serfdom / tenant farmers with items they purchase.
Taxation without representation:
This is the East Indian trading company on steroids. 1774? Mr. Jefferson / Bill Barker can articulate this better than I can. The parallels are quite eerie, especially parts 2 (second half) & 3 :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOVKwFRXYiU&list=PLE85D0C7A36660D95&inde...
Pay heed folks...
All the elite understand is when they start getting picked off and dumped into the river.
All the elite comprehend is the slaves slicing off their heads and sticking them on pikes.
We are now utterly sold out. Military on the street performing drills while the public stares into their cell phones like a bunch of stupid turds. We just gave the keys to the castle to every corporate shitstain. Harvard math hedge fund masters are allowed to move about freely while we stupidly allow ourselves to be in a penopticon of mass electronic surveillance.
Jesus fucking goddamned Christ.
Is there a way to cancel my zerohedge account and wipe my prior comments? Any future efforts to correct things are futile and dangerous.
Sen. Jeff Sessions:
Americans increasingly believe that their country isn’t serving its own citizens. They need look no further than a bipartisan vote of Congress that will transfer congressional power to the Executive Branch and, in turn, to a transnational Pacific Union and the global interests who will help write its rules.
"The same routine plays out over and again. We are told a massive bill must be passed, all the business lobbyists and leaders tell how grand it will be, but that it must be rushed through before the voters spoil (or even read) the plan. As with Obamacare and the Gang of Eight, the politicians meet with the consultants to craft the talking points—not based on what the bill actually does, but what they hope people will believe it does. And when ordinary Americans who never asked for the plan, who don’t want the plan, who want no part of the plan, resist, they are scorned, mocked, and heaped with condescension.
"Washington broke arms and heads to get that 60th vote—not one to spare—to impose on the American people a plan which imperils their jobs, wages, and control over their own affairs. It is remarkable that so much energy has been expended on advancing the things Americans oppose, and preventing the things Americans want."
Ok - so what are the American people capable of soing about it? Absolutely NOTHING. We wish it were not so. We talk about it and then shrug our shoulders and go to work. And those are the ones that have a clue.
The clueless are greater in numbers and really dont give a damn one way or another.
I wouldn't worry about that too much Gao, according to the NSA leaker before Snowden the movie "Enemy of the state" was 1980's technology, if they want to know about you then surely they do. They still have Russia and China to deal with also. As someone stated earlier.. we either hang together or we will certainly hang alone.
I'd rather live in Ecuador:
http://yourescapetoecuador.com/retirement/expat-retirement-communities-i...
Fast-Track Bill? Nothing to see there! The Confererate flag and O using the 'N' word are the 'shiny things' to focus on right now. FTA will be out of the news cycle by Saturday.
I never had a second's doubt that Obama woild get this through.
With Dem votes
Good luck in 2016 Dems
No filibuster from Bernie or Lieawatha
Yeah, just as I thought
And no provision to Audit the Slave Labor, Worker Treatment, or Worker Rights in Foreign Countries providing services & goods to America?
I mean they take our jobs at least give me a job auditing their work factories, interviewing their employees, taking pictures and video evidence, verifying the ages of the workers, and seeing if the factory doors are locked like there were in American when we looked women & kids in our Factories.
I mean it is in our history for all to see.
Remember the Triangle Fire in New York City? White Slavery in America? Indentured Servants? British impressment and sale of it's own people into slavery.
American ingenuity and government’s low cost advantages used honestly to save money.
Fair, compassionate and fiscally responsible reforms.
President Obama and 535 Democrats and Republicans could unite to limit governments, intrusiveness, size and expenditures to slash taxes by $trillions before the 2016 elections.
Millions of offshore jobs could be brought home and starting and operating new or existing businesses in the US will be simpler and more profitable to have more jobs ever.
1. REPEAL AND REPLACE OBAMACARE add a FREE VA style GOVERNMENT OPTION for everybody wanting it; paid for by sales taxes save a $trillion from $3.8T yr.
2. ABOLISH the IRS and ALL FEDERAL TAXES replace with FAIR TAX HR25 sales taxes
only and hopefully states will do the same. Save $trillions yearly.
3. REPEAL ALL WELFARE PROGRAMS AND switch to UNCONDITIONAL BASIC INCOME weekly payments for everyone with a social security number.
UBI payments are like getting money from a grandmother who loves you very much, equal to 120% of the poverty level, sufficient to purchase food, shelter, education or basic needs but the money can be spent anyway you want to. Save $hundreds billions
4. UBI PAYMENTS & FREE HEALTHCARE availability will end POVERTY instantly.
GOOD FOR STATES, PEOPLE, BUSINESSES and everybody but extortionists.
1. Businesses no taxes period.
2. Businesses no costs or involvement with healthcare or welfare.
3. 50 State governors state's no costs or involvement with healthcare or welfare.
4. Free government healthcare choice nationwide in 2016 by purchasing hospitals for conversion to free care.
5. Individuals no health insurance purchases required.
6. IRS and federal taxes abolished states can also switch to Fair Tax style HR 25.
7. Monthly FairTax Prebate payments.
8. Weekly UBI payments.
9. UBI and free healthcare availability will end poverty immediately for US citizens.
Sure Bill, but what good is that really, what is the advantage of having a good healthcare policy if everybody has one, wealth is relative advantage, wealthy people want to hqve everything and nobody else have anything, that is when you know you are rich!
HHS
30 September 2014, Final Monthly Treasury Statement, Outlays and Revenues, Table 5.
Total—Dept Health & Human Svcs Outlays 2014 = $1.032 Trillion
Total—Dept Health & Human Svcs Outlays 2013 = $980.9 Billion
Total—Dept Health & Human Svcs Outlays 2000 = $405.5 Billion
Total—Dept Health & Human Svcs Outlays 1998 = $372.4 Billion
2014 HHS Payments to States for Child Support Enforcement
and Family Support Programs Outlays = $4.112 Billion
2013 HHS Child support enforcement = $4.066 Billion
2012 HHS Child support enforcement = $3.957 Billion
2011 HHS Child support enforcement = $4.182 Billion
2010 HHS Child support enforcement = $4.423 Billion
2009 HHS Child support enforcement = $4.352 Billion
2008 HHS Child support enforcement = $4.283 Billion
2007 HHS Child support enforcement = $4.238 Billion
2000 HHS Child support enforcement = $2.906 Billion
2014 HHS Refugee & Entrant Assistance outlays = $1.278 Billion
2013 HHS Refugee & Entrant Assistance outlays = $997 Million
2007 HHS Refugee & Entrant Assistance outlays = $509 Million
2000 HHS Refugee & Entrant Assistance outlays = $383 Million
2014 HHS Child Care Entitlement States outlays = $2.839 Billion
2013 HHS Child Care Entitlement States outlays = $2.872 Billion
2000 HHS Child Care Entitlement States outlays = $2.237 Billion
2014 HHS Temp Assist Needy Families TANF outlays = $16.267 Billion
2013 HHS Temp Assist Needy Families TANF outlays = $17.107 Billion
2008 HHS Temp Assist Needy Families TANF outlays = $17.532 Billion
2004 HHS Temp Assist Needy Families TANF outlays = $17.725 Billion
2000 HHS Temp Assist Needy Families TANF outlays = $15.464 Billion
2014 HHS Low Income Home Energy Assist outlays = $3.537 Billion
2013 HHS Low Income Home Energy Assist outlays = $3.532 Billion
2008 HHS Low Income Home Energy Assist outlays = $2.663 Billion
2004 HHS Low Income Home Energy Assist outlays = $1.891 Billion
2000 HHS Low Income Home Energy Assist outlays = $1.495 Billion
2014 HHS Children & families svcs pro outlays = $9.373 Billion
2013 HHS Children & families svcs pro outlays = $9.722 Billion
2010 HHS Children & families svcs pro outlays = $10.855 Billion
2008 HHS Children & families svcs pro outlays = $9.008 Billion
2004 HHS Children & families svcs pro outlays = $8.677 Billion
2000 HHS Children & families svcs pro outlays = $6.152 Billion
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DOL Unemployment Trust: Federal-State Unemp: State Benefits, Outlays 2014 = $42.18 Billion
DOL Unemployment Trust: Federal-State Unemp: State Benefits, Outlays 2013 = $66.9 Billion
DOL Unemployment Trust: Federal-State Unemp: State Benefits, Outlays 2000 = $20.6 Billion
DOL Unemployment Trust: Federal-State Unemp: State Benefits, Outlays 1998 = $19.9 Billion
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Job Training & Assistance
Little to show federal budget help in job formation, but this:
2014 fed Outlays Training & Employ Svcs = $3.10 Billion (Decreased)
2013 fed Outlays Training & Employ Svcs = $3.48 Billion (Decreased)
2012 fed Outlays Training & Employ Svcs = $3.74 Billion
2011 fed Outlays Training & Employ Svcs = $4.48 Billion
2010 fed Outlays Training & Employ Svcs = $5.11 Billion
2009 fed Outlays Training & Employ Svcs = $4.45 Billion
2008 fed Outlays Training & Employ Svcs = $4.30 Billion
2007 fed Outlays Training & Employ Svcs = $5.16 Billion
2006 fed Outlays Training & Employ Svcs = $5.26 Billion
2005 fed Outlays Training & Employ Svcs = $5.32 Billion
2004 fed Outlays Training & Employ Svcs = $5.60 Billion
1999 fed Outlays Training & Employ Svcs = $4.68 Billion
2014 fed Outlays Office of Job Corps = $1.59 Billion
2013 fed Outlays Office of Job Corps = $1.58 Billion
2012 fed Outlays Office of Job Corps = $1.77 Billion
2011 fed Outlays Office of Job Corps = $1.66 Billion
2010 fed Outlays Office of Job Corps = $1.85 Billion
Welfare to Work may have ended or lost in other fund line
2005 fed Outlays welfare to work = $6 Million
2004 fed Outlays welfare to work = $18 Million
2003 fed Outlays welfare to work = $312 Million
2002 fed Outlays welfare to work = $500 Million
2001 fed Outlays welfare to work = $659 Million
2000 fed Outlays welfare to work = $527 Million
1999 fed Outlays welfare to work = $267 Million
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Dept of Ag:
2014 Fed Outlays SNAP, Child Nutrition, & WIC = $102.34 Billion
2013 Fed Outlays SNAP, Child Nutrition, & WIC = $108.84 Billion
2012 Fed Outlays SNAP, Child Nutrition, & WIC = $105.94 Billion
2011 Fed Outlays SNAP, Child Nutrition, & WIC = $102.17 Billion
2010 Fed Outlays SNAP, Child Nutrition, & WIC = $ 93.83 Billion
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IRS:
IRS, Total Outlays—Internal Revenue Svcs, 2014 = $116.01 Billion
IRS, Total Outlays—Internal Revenue Svcs, 2013 = $103.3 Billion (Boom)
IRS, Total Outlays—Internal Revenue Service, 2000 = $38 Billion
IRS, Total Outlays—Internal Revenue Service, 1998 = $33.2 Billion (??? What? For what??)
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IRS, Payment where earned income credit exceeds liability for tax Outlays 2014 = $60.09 Billion
IRS, Payment where earned income credit exceeds liability for tax Outlays 2013 = $57.5 Billion (?What?)
IRS, Payment where earned income credit exceeds liability for tax Outlays 2000 = $26 Billion
IRS, Payment where earned income credit exceeds liability for tax Outlays 1998 = $23.2 Billion
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IRS, Payment Where Child Tax Credit Exceeds Liability for Tax Outlays 2014 = $21,49 Billion
IRS, Payment Where Child Tax Credit Exceeds Liability for Tax Outlays 2013 = $21.6 Billion (?What?)
IRS, Payment Where Child Tax Credit Exceeds Liability for Tax Outlays 2000 = $806 Million (Million)
IRS, Payment Where Child Tax Credit Exceeds Liability for Tax Outlays 1998 = Zero.....
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And the big ones:
2014 Total Medicare/Medicaid = $1.19 Trillion
2013 Total Medicare/Medicaid = $1.1 Trillion
1999 Total Medicare/Medicaid = $390 Billion
2014 Total Social Security Admin = $908.76 Billion
2013 Total Social Security Admin = $870 Billion
1999 Total Social Security Admin = $421 Billion
just left my congressman's local office, the idiot girl there - was sargent schultz, "I know Nuthting, I know nuthting" ..talk about this secret trade deal and how this was so wrong on so many levels..asked her about my inquiry on the outcome of the murder of Miram Carey in DC by SS and Capitol police ..she "knew Nuthing"..
fuck them all may Iran nuke DC and soon.
Pretty good information here. Some good quotes.
The many problems with this process and all of these agreements would fill a book.
- Normalization may mean criminalization of Marijuana
- Normalization may mean copy rights/property rights for herbs, plant dna/rna, human dna
- Normalization may mean higher tolerances of pollution, toxic levels, insects, animal parts in food or water, higher levels of radiation leaks & petro & industrial chemical leaks
- Normalization will mean censorship of free speech & the internet regarding public figures like diplomats, central bank members, queens, kings, royal families, technocrats, political leaders
- Normalization probably will mean you can't arrest TBTF Bank Directors, Central Bank Directors, Government Directors (as they are Systemically Important to the Globe)
- Normalization is going to preserve big pharma monopolies, make allowances for industrial pollution & waste for big oil & gas & Chemical, Big Ag (also regarding waste & toxins), Energy Providers
- Normalization for ZH means never putting Corporate Executives in Jail since they are protected by Rules of Incorporation (like TBTF)... But also Corporate Bailouts and Bail-Ins must also be part of agreements on Debts and those who owe debts, share secrets, or are wanted for Extradition
What do these dozen ASSHOLES have in common
Bennet (CO)
Cantwell (WA)
Carper (DE)
Coons (DE)
Feinstein (CA)
Heitkamp (ND)
Kaine (VA)
McCaskill (MO)
Murray (WA)
Nelson (FL)
Shaheen (NH)
Wyden (OR)
First few were dems voted yea.
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Ayotte (R-NH), Yea
Corker (R-TN), Not Voting
Cruz (R-TX), Nay
Ernst (R-IA), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Fischer (R-NE), Yea
Franken (D-MN), Nay
Gardner (R-CO), Yea
Gillibrand (D-NY), Nay
Graham (R-SC), Yea
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Hatch (R-UT), Yea
Inhofe (R-OK), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Yea
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Yea
Menendez (D-NJ), Not Voting
Paul (R-KY), Nay
Rubio (R-FL), Yea
Sanders (I-VT), Nay
Schumer (D-NY), Nay
Sessions (R-AL), Nay
Toomey (R-PA), Yea
Udall (D-NM), Nay
Vitter (R-LA), Yea
Warner (D-VA), Yea
Warren (D-MA), Nay
Whitehouse (D-RI), Nay
Wicker (R-MS), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Yea
Well at least Paul, Cruz & Sessions voted against.
Rubio just confirmed that he is 'for sale'!
It's incredible the skill Obama has in keeping party discipline among the Dems while ruling as a republican
This was Obama, Boehner and Mc Connell working together.
Well I was reading an article about Ted Cruz and he was working with Session to fight TPP & Fast Track if they could not get a deal to prevent extension of the Import-Export Bank.
WTF? Maybe deals is what they all were doing on this. Like they are on SSRIs and Fluoride.
Then I read they had a faction pushing since it might help the US Steel Industry.
Then I read that Democrats are willing to support it if they got more money for Job Training in America. I guess that is what they wanted, not training for foreigners or illegal immigrants.
Deal Makers. Playing with a Nations Fate. But unwilling to look at the FLOWS of money and where they are going. The data is there for the FED and the Banks. They know they are reducing the number of good jobs and that the last growth spurt was only in Finance, Banking and Executive Positions.
No representation. Plenty of Taxation. And they don't mind borrowing the Tax Money for their projects like War.
So looks like Congress is just concerned with their Lobbyists.
- Export Import Bank Extension in TPP Deal
- Steel Industry Advantate in TPP
- Job Training in TPP for Democrats
- US Unions Oppose the Agenda
- African Trade Deal also pushed forward
- But Goldman Sachs & UBS Banks were the Biggest Lobbyist
- Citi Group
- FEDEX
- Boeing
- GE
- Pfizer
- Northrup Grumman
- Morgan Stanley
- Ford
- Metlife
- Caterpillar
- WalMart
But we gave them a sacred Trust somehow. I didn't really, but they are supposed to be Defenders of the People, US Constitution, Life, Liberty, Justice, Equality, Freedom to do stuff if you don't hurt other people.
British Trade Model for the US Economy is a Coup. A Coup kept secret in dark cellars.
- Corporate Coup
- Racketeering, RICO Violations
- Overturns US Sates Sovereignty & Laws & Law Making & Local Customs & Traditions... as well as Safety Standards
- Sedition or Subversion of the Strength of the Corporation known as the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and with it the Power of the people to prevent wealth from being drained from Households, Nonprofits, and Businesses
- The US Treasury is under Direct Attack again as not only Wealth & Capital Flea Off Shore, Technology & Industries are sold off to the Chinese, US Tax Revenues per household will not expand as rapidly and in some measures will continue to decline, Economic/Monetary Leakage damages the USD, Stewardship of the World Reserve Currency, and the Wealth of this Nation
FREE BERNIE MADOFF!
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You Win Again by Van Morrison & Linda Gail Lewis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5-YrXM-3Yk
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what a nail bitter, would the whores (politicians)
screw anything and everything on the street for a
buck and then dress it up in a somewhat catchy
political efficiency cloak?
something stylish, maybe old and/or something new but always
some form of candy for the eye and mind.
i am just stunned and waiting for the worm to turn
on itself, perhaps in futility.
in the mean time ,
FREE BERNIE MADOFF!
So We passed it and still do not know what is in it.
Wrong on so many levels.
Can't people at least start booing Obama every time this faggot comes before the people to bloviate his bullshit
Better to ignore him. The only way to really hurt a narcissist sociopath like him is to cut off his supply.
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fuck off bitch
Congress - why did it take so long to screw the American people this time. We obviously can no longer hold our government up as a model of corruption for the rest of the world to emulate.
American exceptionalism my ass. The sellout and payoffs should and can be done much faster and without the Kabuki theater. There's no need or reason to pretend anymore.
Everyone that hasn't been lobotomized knows you scumbags represent no one but yourselves.
Well soon there will be the rich and the other class that they are disgusted by. The eaters. If you have ever watched an apocalypse movie then you know what happens to the eaters.
I await the next secret bill that has to be passed before anyone can read it. It will be called something like The how to serve humanity act. Broadstrokes will be presented as good for the earth and all of humanity. You must pass it before you can see it. Then once they have passed the thing it will turn out to be a cookbook.
OT:
CDS
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102764405
ROFL
anyone who didin't expect this is ignorant of US® legislative tactics to circumvent the people's will.....
Standard Tactic the big show for the takedown...then cosmetic tweaks and pass after the sheeple return to sleep.
http://www.thetruthaboutthelaw.com
So tell me again why it's important to vote??
It's important to vote because now, as an inevitable result of the trade deal you will have to pay $14 per tablet for tadalafil, and you will not be able to pay $0.68/tablet by buying through a legitimate Canadian pharmacy shipped from India or Singapore.
Btw, tadalafil is better known by the name Cialis.
It may not be important to you yet, but in not too many years it most likely will.
Big Pharma rules this nation, along with the Banksters.
This is great for the average person with attention span less than that of a goldfish.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/06/animated-gif-showing-fukush...
IS EVERYONE MAD YET?
a child works 12 hours a day making shirts. the production cost of the shirt is about one US penny. the shirt is subsequently sold to the US consumer for fifteen dollars. who profited the most from this transaction??? the tpp is more of this and worse.
MillionsDollarBonus suggests we must not "succumb to protectionism or nationalism."
I believe that bush,obama,mccain, and associated asskissers, have historically disagreed; most often while dropping democracy on the enemies of freedom and righteousness. THAT is the true reach of this dagger in the heart of American sovereignty.
But, atleast we can exercise that whole "exceptionalism" thing.
Fuck You Oblozo!
Marco Rubio: Yea vote.
Rand Paul: Nay vote.
This is going to narrow down my choices for Republican candidates!
I noticed:
NAY votes from Al Franken and Kirstin Gillebrand, whom I consider populists.
YEA votes from John McCain and Lindsey Graham and many others I consider warmongering imperialists.
I wrote an article on the TPP, TiSA and the TTIP that TPA would expedite if anyone here is interested. I myself would be interested to hear what ZH'ers think of it since the coverage of this issue on ZH has been much better than most news outlets so it follows that many here have a more informed opinion than most people as well so I would like some feedback on it. Thanks. http://www.chrisrofot.com/the-tpp-tisa-ttip-triumvirate/
Good for you in summarizing this abortion. Personally and in my uneducated opinion I might suggest since it was concieved outside the boundaries of the US Constitution it has no real basis under US Law. I could give a rats ass as to international courts, the IMF (US controlled) or any other international agreement. With the right politicians this is correctable. Just say, Sorry, we are aborgating this treaty it is un-Constitutional and we will no longer adhere to the "agreement". We don't recognize an "agreement" as binding here. These Progressives keep dredging up some term and re-defining it in some kind of important legalese framework used to take away our freedoms. Sorry.
We need to clean house of these fine elected folk who would support such nonsense. Period, end of story.
Aw.......... fuck it and this hamster wheel too, chasing dollars counterfieted out of thin air minted in some government basement.
"Your Leaders Have forgotten all about you, so Welcome to the Reservation" - Russel Means Jan 19 2011
https://youtu.be/-LA-S64QY3o?t=21m2s
Does anybody remember the scene in Swordfish (1999) when Travolta shoots the treasonous Senator through the heart?
If not, maybe you should check it out.
The United States of America is using the Halle Berry Swordfish hanging illusion to create fear.
The senator fly fishing scene was classic.
And you all thought this would end up different?
The NSA has stuff on EVERY member of the house and the senate.
You either play ball or its released to the press.
If you lot want your country back, you need to get rid of both the NSA and the CIA, else, just expect more of this.
:)
Squid
Can't wait to find out what they have on that fucker McCain's creepy looking lapdog Chris Murphy. You're a self aggrandizing piece of shit Murphy.
http://foodrevolution.org/blog/non-gmo-apps/
The interesting times, alas, keep getting more interestinger...
They do whatever they want in Kawngruss any more...they don't even pretend to give a shit about the people any more.
REVOLUTION.
Let's get this straight everybody loses and nobody wins because corporations have one outcome: certain destruction. That is and has always been the outcome of ever expanding corporate power.
No need to worry. Them bums also voted on how long you will get "Assistance" when you lose your job!
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It was fun while it lasted. Growing up in CA and seeing what it has become now I feel like an old man with no home. I will live free and die fighting, or just die in AZ. Molan Labe motherfuckers!
NAFTA 2.0
Same as last time, driven by "family values" republicans (only six republicans voted against TPA) and signed by a democrat president.
Newt apologized with his "Contract With America," which was tossed in the trash immediately after the election.
Can "you people" say "Giant Sucking Sound?"
C'mon Putin, nuke our asses and let's get this party started.
Here's a perfect description of the secret TPP from years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1tKZ3flZZY
If Putin were smart, he would fund some Patriot groups in the United States, because clearly the US Federal Government doesn't give a fuck about what the American People think either.