Economic security

‘We Are Writing The Rules,’ Says Obama. Who’s ‘We’?

Gosh, Americans don’t need enemies like China when we’ve got “protectors” like Obama. Aside from the fact that we and our allies would never agree to such biased rules, even if the Chinese were stupid enough to propose them, Obama’s deceitful assertion contains two self-destructive bombshells, both tucked inside the word “we.”

First, if OK’d by Congress, this TPP scam would offshore a whole new round of America’s middle-class jobs, hold down or even lower U.S. wages, flood our market with unsafe imported food, free Wall Street banksters from oversight and empower global corporations to use private “trade tribunals” of corporate lawyers to usurp our people’s sovereignty. In fact, only six of the 30 chapters of this so-called trade agreement even deal with trade. How embarrassing that our own president would claim credit for doing such explosive damage to the American people! I’m guessing that even China would not have done worse.