Saturday, March 28, 2015

TPP Suicidal Trade Deal

Oppose Fast-Track/Trade Promotion Authority (TPA)
 
On January 7, 2015, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) pledged "to move full speed ahead to give President Barack Obama so-called fast track authority to cut massive new trade deals with little oversight," reported The Huffington Post.
 
"We're in active discussion on TPA, trade promotion authority," McConnell told reporters. "It's an enormous grant of power, obviously, from a Republican Congress to a Democratic president, but that's how much we believe in trade as an important part of America's economy."
 
President Obama has asked Congress for "fast-track" Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) so that he can negotiate and sign two trade "partnership" agreements, one with eleven Pacific Rim nations known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and another with the European Union known as the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
 
Much like how the European Coal and Steel Community, established by the Treaty of Paris in 1951, developed into what is today the European Union, the TPP and TTIP (if approved by Congress) would place the United States on a path towards becoming a member state in a Transpacific Union and a Transatlantic Union, respectively. Both the TPP and TTIP threaten American jobs and would surrender American sovereignty to international authority.
 
Of President Obama and his desire for trade promotion authority, Sen. McConnell said, "He's only got two years left, and we think this is an area where we can make progress and you can look for us to act on TPA."
 
After a couple months delay on introducing a TPA bill, on March 23 Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) predicted the legislation would be introduced in mid-April. So, now is definitely the time for you to contact your congressmen.
 
Please contact your representative and senators now in strong opposition to TPA.
 
Source: The John Birch Society

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