Congress is getting ready to outsource itself. Outsourcing
has long been a dire threat to Americans who work for a living outside the
Beltway. It hit blue-collar workers when companies took plants in Baltimore and
moved them to Bangladesh. Countless thousands of white-collar Americans were
kicked to the curb when tech companies brought in “temporary workers” from
overseas.
Congress helped the process along with so-called
free trade deals that are good for corporate campaign donors even as American
workers “take it in the backside,” as Mike Huckabee so eloquently put it.
Now the chickens are coming home to roost, and
Congress is next in line for outsourcing. Like the tech worker forced to train
his cheaper foreign-born replacement, Congress is preparing to outsource
itself.
The instrument Congress will use to destroy
itself is the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a sweeping regulatory agreement
involving 12 countries on three continents. It is, as Sen. Jeff Sessions
correctly describes, one of the largest international compacts in the history
of the United States. Its rules impact immigration, energy, environment,
property rights and states rights.
But that’s not all.
The U.S. trade representative, the man
responsible for negotiating this deal when he’s not lying to the rest of us
about it, says the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact is “a living agreement.”
That means the details of the pact could be
updated “as appropriate to address trade issues that emerge in the future as
well as new issues that arise with the expansion of the agreement to include
new countries,” according to the administration.
Let that sink in for a moment: After Congress
ratifies this sweeping pact that will allow the president to “write the rules
for the world’s economy” – Obama’s words – the president could revise those
rules in the future – without congressional approval.
Wait – there’s more.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement allows
other nations to join at any point in the future – without congressional
approval.
Sessions warns, “The ‘living agreement’
provision means that participating nations could add countries to the TPP
without Congress’ approval (like China) and change any of the terms of the
agreement, including in controversial areas such as the entry of foreign
workers and foreign employees. Again: These changes would not be subject to
congressional approval.”
Instead of Congress, a supranational creature
known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission, spawned by the agreement
Congress is ready to rubber stamp, would determine the membership and
ever-changing details of this sweeping international agreement forevermore.
Immigration, energy, environmental policy – all would be outsourced to an
international body beyond the reach of our elected representatives.
Having surrendered its power over treaties and a
wide swath of domestic laws, Congress will have the role of eunuch in the
temple of globalism.
Congress must carefully scrutinize an agreement
of such magnitude as the Constitution prescribes. Instead, GOP leaders are
collaborating with President Obama to give him fast track “trade promotion
authority” and strip Congress of its ability to amend the pact Obama has
written. Sen. Sessions, Mike Huckabee, Bobby Jindal, Donald Trump and Carly
Fiorina all say it is madness to give Obama such power.
The Senate is set to vote on fast track trade
promotion authority next week. Nothing
less than the future of our constitutional government hangs in the balance. Contact
Congress and tell them to vote no on fast track trade promotion authority.
Source:http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/congress-prepares-to-outsource-itself/
Comments
Congress should not
“carefully scrutinize” this Treaty, It should just vote NO on fast track and
let the Treaty fall apart after the terms are widely published. It should take the Treaty and vote NO. Those who do not vote NO should prepare to be
replaced. Next it should prepare to
repeal all other Trade Agreements, close the border and suspend immigration.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA
Tea Party Leader
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