Despite vocal and over-whelming
public opposition to the secret Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, the
Senate passed fast track authorization.
We, The People, were sold out. Money
talks and the big winners are the multi-national corporations and their puppet
politicians we “elect” to support them.
It’s a Who’s Who of long-serving
leaders of The House and The Senate: House Leader John Boehner, Paul Ryan,
Mitch McConnell.
Contributions
from pro-Obamatrade lobbyist alone were enough to make very wealthy people of
those who are supposed to represent the citizens, and the period of time
immediately preceding the vote, that between October 1st of last
year and June of 2015 is still unknown. Certainly the pot was “sweetened”
considerably more as the deadline drew nearer.
Contributions
to House members from forces favorable to Obamatrade outnumbered those from
those opposed by a factor
of 8.6 times, $197,869,145 to $23,065,231. The differences were even more stark
in the Senate, with a total of $285,225,162 in financial incentives being meted
out from supporting groups and only $27,569,149 from the opposition, over ten
times as much. There were 32 House members with over a million dollars in
contributions and many who were just below that threshold. In the Senate, only
five Senators were below the one million dollar mark, and two of those, Senator
Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Mike Lee (R-UT) voted no, and against betrayal of
their country.
The
formula in the House
seems fairly simple, at least as far as rewarding those in leadership
positions. Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) got a cool $5 million and change, Mike
McCarthy (R-CA) half that at $2.4 million, and Steve Scalise (R-LA) half again
at $1.2 million. For Paul Ryan, the price of American sovereignty was $2.2
million.
In
the Senate
the picture is even uglier, and much more blatant. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
“acquired” $9.2 million, John Cornyn (R-TX) $5.3 million and Orrin Hatch $4.2,
the third member of the Senate trio of traitors forcing this upon us.
Marco
Rubio pocketed $3.9 million for voting to tie us to a bill he never read, with
his fellow presidential candidate Lindsey Graham “earning” $3.4 million.
TPP guarantees the profits of
multi-national corporations at taxpayer expense and will destroy thousands of
jobs. It’s a horrible deal for all but the top executives and major
stockholders of multi-national corporations and paid off politicians.
Nearly 500 MILION dollars were
contributed to YOUR elected representatives to support this legislation.
It IS simple. WE were sold out. Our
politicians are bought. The response is simple. We only have ONE answer. Throw
them ALL out.
http://preservefreedom.org/traitors-on-the-take-500-million-doled-out-to-pass-trade-deal/
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