TPP trade pact praised, panned as Obama urges approval

Because we never negotiated with them we made this thing happen,” he said.

So what ARE you suggesting? Hold a gun to people's (countries) heads and force them to take it or leave it?

“If the whole idea is to broaden trade, making it exclusive actually defeats the whole purpose of why you enter into all of these agreements,” Aquino said earlier in the week.

Yes and giving corporations the power to sue countries.

Holding the negotiations in secret.

Food products won't have labelling so we won't know what's in them.

The end of small farms.

No generic medicines.

More power to Dow Chemicals and developers of Agent Orange, Monsanto.

Heavy censorship of the Internet.

There's very little good to say about the TPP.

Seems most goverments are contend of sellng their nations to the highest bidder in order to secure their lofty paychecks.

Thank you, BertieWooster. Yes, we are all getting SHAFTED in the worst possible way.

Puff_the_Magic,

Yes.

Shafted is the right word.

They signed the blank cheque for us and they will fill in whatever figure they want.