What's it gonna take to get you people angry...???
By Michelle Malkin:
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Constitutional conservatives don’t like it. Trade unions
abhor it. Obama critics hate it. Environmentalists despise it.
Outside the Beltway bubble, a broad coalition of voters
from the Left, Right, and Center opposes the mega-trade deal getting rammed
through Congress this week by the Republican Establishment on behalf of the
White House.
Here’s why:
The Obama administration, House GOP leader John Boehner,
and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell have sold out American sovereignty.
Their so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission will
have sweeping authority over trade, immigration, environmental, labor, and
commerce regulations.
As alert watchdogs U.S. senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.),
chairman of the Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, and U.S.
representative Duncan Hunter (R., Calif.) warn, “By adopting fast-track,
Congress would be formally authorizing the President to finalize the creation
of this Pacific Union and will have surrendered its legislative prerogatives.
Before a word, line, paragraph, or page of this plan is made public, Congress
will have agreed to give up its treaty powers. . . . In effect, one of the most
sweeping international agreements seen in years will be given less legislative
scrutiny and process than a Post Office reform bill.”
The secretive wheeling and dealing on the massive
29-chapter draft make the backroom ObamaCare negotiations look like a gigantic
solar flare of openness and public deliberation.
The Obama administration, House GOP leader John Boehner,
and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell have sold out legislative
transparency.
Boehner smugly asserts that so-called Trade Promotion
Authority puts Congress in charge and promotes “more openness” on trade talks.
Nonsense. Under the Boehner/Obama plan, Congress gives up its ability to amend
any trade deals under fast track, severely limits the ability to debate, and
lowers the vote threshold in the Senate from 61 to 51.
The eleven international parties negotiating with Obama
on TPP refuse to sign their dotted lines until Congress agrees to pre-agree to
behemoth global trade pacts — sight unseen. As Obamatrade cheerleader and Big
Business crony Senator Orrin Hack, I mean Hatch, admitted, “I don’t know fully
what’s in TPP myself.”
Fast-track Republicans, who rightfully made a stink when
Nancy Pelosi declared that “we have to pass the [ObamaCare] bill so that you
can find out what is in it,” now have no transparency legs to stand on.
The Obama administration, House GOP leader John Boehner,
and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell have sold out our immigration
priorities. Both parties have put cheap labor from illegal immigrants before
American workers. Both parties support massive increases in foreign
temporary-worker programs that favor cheap tech workers from India and China
over highly educated, highly skilled American workers who are forced to train
their replacements. Both parties back fraud-plagued green-card giveaway
programs for wealthy immigrant investors that amount to a crony “economic
development” racket.
More ObamaTrade documents disclosed by WikiLeaks indicate
that negotiators have discussed unilateral changes to U.S. worker protections
in visa law, processing times, and temporary-visa expiration dates.
Supporting free enterprise in America does not mean
supporting a global free-for-all for every last $2/hour entry-level foreign
tech journeyman. Past free-trade pacts have failed to live up to their
over-hyped promises. University of Maryland economist Peter Morici notes that
under Obama’s free-trade pact with South Korea, imports with that country “are
up $3.6 billion” while “U.S. exports are down marginally and the U.S. trade
deficit with the Asian nation has swelled to $5 billion.”
Meanwhile, he reports, our wage-suppressing $350 billion
bilateral trade deficit with China “costs American workers at least 3 million
jobs” and several Asian countries now negotiating TPP “have violated WTO and
International Monetary Fund rules by purposefully undervaluing their currencies
to subsidize exports and raise prices for otherwise competitive U.S. products
in their markets.”
Here is what those of us against the GOP-ObamaTrade bills
can all agree on: Both political parties in Washington are screwing over our
country.
American citizens are sick and tired of the permanent
ruling class subverting the Will of the People in the name of “bipartisanship.”
We’ve had enough of Big Business betrayals and Big
Government collusion.
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