US Trade Deals

Robert Reich's perspective on the trade deal
https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/videos/941947612484502/

I am not sure I agree with Robert, but I do agree the trade deals should be open 100% for public scrutiny.

I don't know what I think yet but I'll be following the thread.

This is one truism that I dont think anyone can truthfully deny leaving out the is.

Elizabeth Warren is against it, because of the corporate courts it would establish, courts that would allow corporations to sue governments over whatever national laws (like minimum wage laws) went against those corporations' interests.

I read this today.. and agreed:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/05/11/us-trade-obama-warren-idUSKBN0NW1N020150511

I agree too Osso.

Fighting to give American's higher minimum wage only further widens the gap between our laborers and that of slave labor countries.

Although it is said that Americans have one of the lowest minimum wages of the developed nations I am not sure how much I believe this.

Will slave labor countries be able to sue the US because we pay our laborers more? Because we do not treat people like they do not have any rights?

I really want our country to be able to trade with pacific rim countries but do we not already get our fruit from Chile?

That is what the stickers on the fruit say. We are already trading with Chile and Japan.

I will not personally endorse this agreement until it is open for our economists, unions and civil rights advocates to scrutinize.

Since when is a trade deal kept secret from the people involved in the trade? These trade deals are ludicrous!

I do not believe the majority of US corporations have a conscience and I do not think they deserve open and unfettered world trade without first showing they care about environmental and civil rights issues including paying taxes and evening the playing field of global middle class. Kicking indigenous people from their homes so a corporation can devastate the Amazon and build a dam is a perfect example of unscrupulous US corporations overstepping ethical bounds.

It comes back to the idea that profit is not the only concern here but returning back to the earth and its occupants something of equal value such that natural resources are sustained and preserved and not simply exploited for a higher profit line...

Since when do the earth's resources belong to government bureaucrats? Government bureaucrats are public servants of the people and I see that time and again corporations trump people and this is not only against our US constitution but it is against conscience and the sacred idea of fair trade.



Results of current trade in China... Do we really want more of the same?

Deals done in secret by greedy corporations with only profit in mind?

No more deals until this whole trade syndicate is exposed and made transparent for all concerned parties.