10 Reasons the TPP Is Not a 'Progressive' Trade Agreement
"We have an opportunity to set the most progressive trade agreement
in our nation's history," it states on BarackObama.com, the website of
the president's "Organizing for Action" campaign.
One must seriously question what President Obama and his corporate
allies believe to be the definition of "progressive" when it comes to
this grandiose statement. History shows the very opposite of progress
when it comes to these democratic sovereignty-shredding and
job-exporting corporate-driven trade treaties -- unless progress is
referring to fulfilling the deepest wishes of runaway global
corporations.
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade
Organization (WTO) set our country's progress back through large
job-draining trade deficits, downward pressure on wages, extending Big
Pharma's patent monopolies to raise consumers' medicine prices, floods
of unsafe imported food, and undermining or freezing consumer and
environmental rules.
"History
shows the very opposite of progress," writes Nader, "when it comes to
these democratic sovereignty-shredding and job-exporting
corporate-driven trade treaties -- unless progress is referring to
fulfilling the deepest wishes of runaway global corporations." (Photo:
CWA/flickr/cc)
shows the very opposite of progress," writes Nader, "when it comes to
these democratic sovereignty-shredding and job-exporting
corporate-driven trade treaties -- unless progress is referring to
fulfilling the deepest wishes of runaway global corporations." (Photo:
CWA/flickr/cc)
