The People's Email Network Last 25 Messages Transmitted Log Go Back Repudiate The TPP In The Democratic Platform ********** [114747:071016] S.A., Studio City, CA You have just given Trump a big push to the Presidency And Obama is destroying his own legacy ********** [165428:070916] L.B., Arcata, CA The investor state provisions are absolute deal breakers for me. Absolute no because of that! ********** [164555:070916] M.K., Huntington Beach, CA NO TPP!!! God damnit, Debbie Schultz, we don't want your trade deal that was written by the billionaires and your policy of pleasuring the already rich. Join the republican party if you want to be the concubine of the billionaires. FU. Sincerely, Mike Kelly ********** [164401:070916] B.G., Clearwater, FL no TPP ever ********** [164251:070916] R.B., Glendale, AZ You effing sell outs! I hereby resign from the Democratic party after 50 years ********** [163829:070916] M.C., Myrtle Beach, SC As a Bernie supporter, I guarantee you that Hillary Clinton will never have my support, or, I predict, the support of most every Bernie supporter, as long as she refuses to be firmly against the TPP and fight against it. Period. And as a lifelong member of the Democratic Party, I am also fed up with the party and the DNC and am at a breaking point with it unless I see a sea change away from the disgusting corporate influences that, while I expect this sort of garbage from the Republicans, I refuse to tolerate it from the Dems anymore. ********** [163521:070916] A.H., Pacifica, CA No TPP and yes to medicare for all. We are really struggling over here. No more corporate democrats, debbie wasserman schultz! Lets get it together and be real progressives or nothing at all! ********** [155757:070916] S.H., Pico Rivera, CA JUST SAY NO. The TPP isn't a trade deal, it's a grotesque expansion of corporate rule, which has already been such a disaster for the U.S. and the world. Arguably its worst aspect is allowing corporations to sue governments to avoid compliance with the law. This not only puts corporate profits above the law (although "our" government has been treating them that way for several decades now), but explicitly gives corporations more rights than human beings. That is absolutely unacceptable, and it cannot be fixed. This toxic deal must be defeated. ********** [145142:070916] M.F., Highland Park, NJ The fact that this is secret just baffels me! ********** [143250:070916] K.D., Grass Valley, CA This TPP must not stand. It is not in our citizen's best interest. ********** [134238:070916] E.H., Wellsville, NY Will never vote for anyone who supports "free" trade. ********** [133533:070916] D.H., Buffalo, NY Correction- The Hightower amendment was defeated 116 to 64!!! Seventy two were Sanders supporters!! So 8 jumped ship. This situation is f'd up beyond all recognition. ********** [132502:070916] D.H., Buffalo, NY News now reporting that "Clinton offers health care proposal sought by Bernie Sanders". In an effort to court Bernie's supporters and ahead of the purported endorsement of Clinton. NO MENTION of the Hightower amendment to repudiate the TPP! Mr O has dictated that he won't allow it. ********** [131107:070916] A.G., Wheat Ridge, CO All members of Congress who vote for the TPP will be voted out of office in their next election. The Koch and corporate $$ you sell your souls/votes for will not be enough to save your sorry jobs! The voters watch how you vote on the TPP and then WE vote!!! ********** [125131:070916] j.m., Vancouver, WA THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "FREE TRADE"!!!!!!! ********** [123848:070916] T.F., Bohemia, NY Fight 4 unions workers ********** [123327:070916] V.C., San Diego, CA TPP will ruin our Democracy! It puts corporations above any Federal Government! The government will not be able to enforce our national laws in regards to corporate responsibility for infractions of those laws! It sets up a world government run by the corporations! They will supercede any federal government, and will have free reign to do what they want regardless of how it affects the public! NO ON TPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!! ********** [122943:070916] t.p., Wahiawa, HI You won the nomination partly because of taking the side of the people in the TPP argument. Now, you are for it. How many other positions have you promised that you will go back on once you are sworn in as president? Please don't continue to be the liar you have been in the past. ********** [115841:070916] D.H., Buffalo, NY Apparently, this is what Obama had in mind when he promised to "fundamentally transform the United States". And we all thought he was talking about promoting the general welfare. ********** [114716:070916] g.p., Timber, OR There is soon to be a viable 3rd party if the Dems continue to ignore the will of their constituents. ********** [112842:070916] S.B., San Antonio, TX Do the right thing by the american people ********** [111925:070916] R.F., Yelm, WA We need to stand against this agreement until the international dispute resolution rules are modified or deleted. As it stands, TPP will do everything we are against - especially endangering worker rights and promoting further degredation of the global environment. This is unacceptable. ********** [105542:070916] S.P., Pompano Beach, FL BECAUSE OF ITS ISDS PROVISION TPP MUCH WORSE THAN MOST PEOPLE REALIZE I'm a retired physicist who has studied trade treaties for two years and the following summary is not shooting from the hip: If the enabling legislation for TPP is passed, almost all Progressive laws and policies at the local, state or national level could be "vetoed" by multinationals using the ISDS provision in TPP. The decision is based solely on whether a law or policy causes a multinational to lose current or projected future profit. Decisions are not made by a US or other national court but by a Tribunal of corporate attorneys many of whom, after their term on the Tribunal ends, return to their jobs working for multinationals. EXAMPLES OF LEGISLATION/POLICIES THAT COULD BE "VETOED" UNDER TPP -- a minimum wage law (that increases the expenses of a multinational) -- an environmental law (that increases the expenses of a multinational) -- any other law or policy that increases the expenses of a multinational thereby decreasing its profit. -- any law or policy that reduces the use of fossil fuels or provides a clean energy technology with a temporary advantage in the marketplace to speed its deploy- ment. (It is "illegal" under TPP to reduce the size of a multinational's market -- in this case the market for fossil fuels -- thereby decreasing the projected future profit of a transnational energy company. -- Nations must choose between clean-energy and TPP because choosing one precludes the other! WHY ISDS IS MUCH MORE POWERFUL IN TPP THAN IN PRIOR TRADE TREATIES Because: (1) Not every multinational is allowed to use the ISDS provision. However the number of "approved" multinationals that are permitted to use the IDSD provision in TPP has been greatly expanded compared to previous trade treaties. This is likely to result in many more multinationals bringing suit before the ISDS Tribunal in TPP to "veto"our laws and policies. (2) The ISDS Tribunal has "acted as it's own Supreme Court" in previous trade treaties starting with NAFTA. The Tribunal, in previous trade treaties, created, important "legal precedents" which can now be used in unique ways in TPP -- ways that were never intended by most legislators who voted for NAFTA -- to invalidate our laws and policies . Just as the US Supreme Court creates important legal precedents that change the meaning and interpretation of our laws, in a similar fashion the ISDS Tribunal did the same thing in prior trade treaties. The tribunal then used its own precedents to decide suits brought before it by multinationals in prior trade treaties. The Tribunal is now prepared to use this accumulation of legal precedents in TPP. (The Tribunal created its precedents in suits brought before it by multinationals suing mostly poorer developing nations.) CONCLUSION The accumulation of precedents has now reached the point where it would be "illegal" in TPP for a member nation to pass any law, or adopt any policy that, directly or indirectly, decreased the current or projected future profit of an "approved" transnational doing business in that country! This, in turn, would transition democratic member nations of TPP like the US, from democratic-decision-making to rule by multinationals! Stephen Paley, Ph.D. ********** [104607:070916] S.P., Pompano Beach, FL THIS IS A MUST READ! ********** [103016:070916] E.G., Laredo, TX The TPP is at its core immoral. It will cause much suffering of people who actually work for a living that will become even more meager under this unspeakable "trade" agreement. ********** Go Back