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8. The TPP is NOT a trade deal. It is a screw-the-people deal
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 06:56 PM
Apr 2015

The TPP will take all control of trade away from national, state, and local governments and give control of each signatory country's trade to private corporate entities whose only concern is maximizing their own power and profit.

The people in all countries party to this treaty will suffer.

Jobs will flow to the lowest level of wages and worker safety.

The environment is already considered inimical to corporate profits, and the TPP will allow corporations to ignore environmental laws with no consequences.

There is NO such thing as "free trade". Whoever controls trade controls a country.

The concerns of opponents to the TPP are real and accurate. Whoever supports the TPP is either ignorant or corrupt.

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