The corporate mass media has provided absolutely no coverage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, the text of which has finally been released.
Why do you think they have failed to provide this critical information to the American public?
The answer is simple: These giant media corporations have a vested interests in the TPP being passed.
The negotiators admit it will cost American workers at least 330,000 jobs.
Here is an example of something that is in it. The United States will instantly drop all of its tariffs so that many of the low-wage Asian countries that large American corporations use as cheap labor can now re-import goods made in Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, etc., back into the United States and pay nothing.
For example, Vietnam will not be required to drop any of the tariffs levied on American-made goods until the Trans-Pacific Partnership has been in effect for five years.
Free trade – what an ironic joke!
Everyone who cares about an America that doesn’t throw ordinary Americans under the bus so that giant corporations can plunder whatever wealth the middle class has left needs to go to the website tradetreachery.com and find out what a sellout of American sovereignty this terrible trade agreement is.
The majority of Americans – whether they are progressive, conservative or moderate – deserve the ability to make a decent living and raise their families.
Contact Sens. Angus King and Susan Collins as well as Maine U.S. Reps. Chellie Pingree and Bruce Poliquin and tell them in no uncertain terms to vote “no” on the TPP.
If this travesty passes, it will be the final nail in the coffin for what is left of the great American middle class.
George Harlan
Old Orchard Beach
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