Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority, (TPA), is a piece of legislation that transfers Constitutional negotiation powers from Congress to the President. The President may use this power to negotiate any international trade agreement with any partner the President chooses over the next few years, (including Iran and Cuba), and to negotiate the agreements in any way the President sees fit. Under TPA, Congress agrees to give up in advance the ability to change any existing or future trade agreement, even before Congress has actually read agreements. Instead, TPA requests the President consider150 ‘negotiating objectives’ on which Congress would like the President to ‘make progress’. The President is not required to actually accomplish any of these objectives and may ignore those requests at will. In fact, the 2015 TPA bill makes clear that failure to achieve or make progress on any of the negotiating objectives shall not be cause for Congress to revoke trade authority from the President. Worst of all, by giving up its ability to amend or change any related laws and regulations the President and the World Trade Organization decide to impose on the United States; Congress is also transferring its’ law making powers to world courts.
– The Coalition for a Strong America
Trans-Pacific Ponzi and the murder of the middle class
by Wayne Allyn Root
For once, the unions are right. This is a treaty that will destroy good-paying American jobs. It will destroy middle-class lives. It will make the American dream affordable. It’s time to rise up and kill it. And if the GOP won’t listen to its own voters and supporters, then it’s time to kill the GOP.
Hi. I’m Wayne Allyn Root for Personal Liberty. President Obama and our wonderful government call their favorite new bill “TPP” for Trans-Pacific Partnership. But it’s really a bipartisan Ponzi scheme. It should be called “Trans-Pacific Ponzi.” It’s a trillion-dollar rip-off of the American people and American workers. Obama wants “fast track authority” because he wants to put the end of America as we know it on a fast track.
Trust me; neither TPP or TPA (Trade Promotion Authority, i.e., fast track authority for the president) are dead. Like Freddy Krueger of “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” they will keep coming back from the dead because the billionaires and billion-dollar multinational corporations want TPP. The powers that be won’t give up. They will not rest until it passes, by hook or by crook. And since they are all crooks, they’ll use any means necessary to get it passed.