Robert Reich on Fast Track and the TPP

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[yallerdawg]

1. Et tu, Robert?

He's not "Locked in the Cabinet" anymore! Referencing a great book by former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich -- there it is again-labor. Labor hates trade deals if one single job can be lost -- how could they not?

Discussing NAFTA:

"If you put labor and environmental standards into our trade agreements, it’s not a race to the bottom. If you have an environmental standard and a labor standard that, for example, bars all slave labor, guarantees the right to organize, maintains kind of minimum labor standards throughout the world, you are setting a floor for all nations. It’s not protectionism. This is a way of actually getting everybody up rather than having the bar continue to trend downward. We tried to do this in NAFTA, and, unfortunately, we couldn’t get the Mexican government support. We tried to have a labor and environmental side agreement. I think it would have been a much better agreement had we had that."

http://www.ontheissues.org/2008_Late_Edition.htm

[bvar22]

4. Oh, so the NAFTA disaster is Mexico's fault?

I believe this is the part where you post some links and references that support you claim.

[yallerdawg]

7. This is a Robert Reich referenced quote.

After NAFTA and Clinton: 3.9% unemployment, progressive taxation on the rich, annual budget surpluses, financial and educational programs for 'displaced workers', kicked Newt's ass!

It was tough times, but we all muddled through.

I'm sure you remember it different, with links and references.

[bvar22]

8. Please post the links to your "quote".

Thanks!

[zeemike]

14. Who is this we you are talking about?

I have seen nothing but a decline in all the things that matter to working people. So that we is kind of hard to explain.

[bvar22]

2. DURec for Robert Reich (and MoveOn)

....for this presentation.
It should be on every American's TV set 20 times a day.

[JDPriestly]

3. K&R.

[Enthusiast]

5. K&R! This post deserves hundreds of recommendations!

These are the facts. Ignore them at your peril.

[BeanMusical]

12. +1

[Cryptoad]

6. More,,,

disinformation about more disinformation......... these guys are good at what they do!

[burrowowl]

9. K&R!!!!!!!!!!!

[mother earth]

10. Outside any nation's legal system - it is completely messed up to grant this, it is

utter insanity, the giveaway of all giveaways to an unaccountable, mulitnat'l oligarchy, unprecedented power.

How messed up is it that our own president wants this fast tracked?

[BeanMusical]

11. Huge Kick and R!

[Thespian2]

13. May not like the man or what he says,

but he is telling the truth...Obama's administration is showing its true colors....fast track Americans straight to poverty...taking Canadians with them.

Thanks, we appreciate the bag of shit being handed to us.

[appalachiablue]

15. US and Canadians too, unbelievable greed-