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Burn the TPP
Leo W. Gerard
International President, United Steelworkers
Middle America is smoldering. For too long, average citizens worked harder and produced more, yet corporations cut pay and benefits, off-shored community-sustaining factories, killed family-supporting jobs and crushed opportunity.
GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump stokes that fire by urging Americans to blame anyone but corporations and corporate honchos like himself. One-percenter Trump and his fellow GOP candidates exhort average Americans to hate and fear Muslims, Syrian refugees, Black Lives Matter activists and undocumented immigrants.
This is a divisionary tactic. The intent is to split workers into small sub-groups so they lose strength in numbers. And its a diversionary tactic. The ungodly wealthy like Trump, who have taken for themselves all the economic gains from increased worker productivity, finger someone other than one-percenters as the culprit for middle-class wage stagnation and provoke workers to fight among themselves.
Division and diversion help the one percent capture government, securing policies that further enrich the rich, like trickle-down economics under which no benefits ever actually descend, bailouts for Wall Street but not Main Street and job-destroying trade deals like NAFTA and the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). In a real democracy, one where government serves the 99 percent, the smoldering in America would be piles of discarded TPP texts. ...............(more)
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Burn the TPP (Original Post)
marmar
Dec 2015
OP
PatrickforO
(14,573 posts)1. Great post.
Thank you. The TPP will cost us millions of good jobs, and undermine what democracy we still have here.
2naSalit
(86,600 posts)2. K.&.R.
These trade bills are not written with the average citizen in mind. One has to believe in "trickle down" to believe these "trade agreements" are anything more than a power grab by corporate interests.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)4. K&R n/t
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)5. K and R (nt)