(2 pm. – promoted by ek hornbeck)
In an unprecedented spirit of bipartisan cooperation, Congress passed three jobs bills. The only problem is the bills wont create any jobs for Americans, only for Colombians, Panamanians and South Koreans.
by Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch
With nine percent unemployment and Americans desperate for job creation, it is unconscionable that President Obama and House Republicans would push through a trio of NAFTA-style job-killing trade agreements that even the government’s own studies show will increase the U.S. trade deficit.
This represents a complete flip-flop for President Obama, who won crucial swing states by pledging to overhaul our flawed trade policies. So it is no surprise that a sizeable majority of Democrats in Congress voted against these agreements, against Obama and for American jobs.
From David Dayen at FDL
They’re not a win for Colombian trade unionists, as even the weak Action Plan which has failed to protect them from murder was kept on the side and not written into the trade pact, giving it no authority. They are mainly a win for North Korean sweatshop owners and Panamanian tax haven specialists. And, I should add that the President and his entire party just got done saying that Republicans want only to sabotage the economy, and will not let anything pass that creates jobs. Now they are applauding the passage of job-creating trade agreements. Something doesn’t fit.
One of the amendments to these Free Trade Agreements that President Obama has alleged will create jobs for Americans is supplemental benefits for workers whose jobs are shipped overseas. What? But if these agreements are suppose to create American jobs, then why would this amendment be needed? Unless the American people are once again being lied to by the Democratic resident of the Oval Office.
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fucking lying sell out is considered impolite and uncivil blah blah blah …
oh well, I suppose the food that has been taken off of MY table and the money out of MY retirement can be replaced a 330 kb tome from the kennedy school of government crowd – I love me some tome, explaining how the fucking sell out scum of the rich pig lackey cla$$ are really really really smart!
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