Yes there is a grass roots democrat group pushing to get rid of NAFTA and get or jobs back from the Chinese and whoever else off shore got our jobs so big companys can make more profits for their shareholders and executives. Americans come first.
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These Dems are going against Obama all the way on this issue and I'm siding with the Dems on this one.
Dems Move Fast to Block New World Order
Obamas plan would fast-track job k*****g and hand over US sovereignty
(1/29/14) In a clear sign that all is not in harmony in the Democratic Party, several powerful groups of the Democratic base are organizing to block fast track authority for the T***s-Pacific Partnership. The partnership TPP is a sweeping free-trade agreement the Obama administration is trying to push though Congress.
This past Monday, a group of 564 political insiders from labor, the environmental, family-farm and community organizations drafted a strongly worded letter to the White House stating that the TPP undermines the presidents message on income ine******y.
President Obama cant have it both ways, Arthur Stamoulis, spokesman for Citizens Trade Campaign, the group organizing the letter, told WND. Either the president is for reducing income eligibility as we expect he will say in the State of the Union address, or he can push for fast-track legislation on the job-destroying TPP free-trade agreement. He cant have it both ways.
This trade agreement is part of a two-ocean g*******t plan the president is working quietly to enact. The objective is to follow up the passage of TPP with the completion of the T***satlantic Trade and Investment Partnership between the United States and the European Union.
In his 2013 State of the Union address Obama announced his plan to add the t***s-Pacific free-trade agreement to the t***s-Atlantic agreement already in place.
Fast-tracking would allow Obama to force the TPP through Congress with a simple majority v**e. Debate would be limited by the rules so no amendments could be added to the language of the agreement the president has negotiated behind closed doors.
The clout of the Citizens Trade Campaign is evident in the signatories.
They include labor unions such as the AFL-CIO; American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME); American Federation of Teachers; International Brotherhood of Teamsters; United Autoworkers (UAW); United Brotherhood of Carpenters; United Steelworkers (USW); and Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
Included in the environmental organizations are 350.org, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, League of Conservation V**ers, National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Sierra Club and the Rainforest Action Network.
Among the family-farm organizations are the National Family Farm Coalition, National Farmers Union and the Western Organization of Resource Councils. The consumer groups include Food & Water Watch, Organic Consumers Association, National Consumers League and Public Citizen.
Income ine******y and long-term unemployment are serious problems that the job-k*****g TPP would only worsen, Stamoulis said.
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