{"id":15808,"date":"2014-01-16T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T21:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=15808"},"modified":"2014-01-16T16:09:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T21:09:00","slug":"trans-pacific-partnership-the-fast-track-to-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/01\/16\/trans-pacific-partnership-the-fast-track-to-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans-Pacific Partnership: The Fast Track to Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Alternet<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Alternet article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/economy\/trans-pacific-partnership-fast-track-poverty?page=0%2C0&amp;paging=off&amp;current_page=1#bookmark\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Trans-Pacific Partnership: The Fast Track to Poverty<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is not what Americans want from trade. And yet, the United States is negotiating a NAFTA-style deal called the TPP with 11 Pacific Rim nations, including Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. The negotiations are occurring in secret. Average citizens have no access to what\u2019s going on. Without significant changes, TPP will just be another American factory shuttering, dream shattering trade deal.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<strong><a title=\"Johnson's speech\" href=\"http:\/\/millercenter.org\/president\/speeches\/detail\/3382\" target=\"_blank\">In that address to Congress<\/a><\/strong>, Johnson also appealed for more balanced trade, for foreign countries granted access to the American market to open their markets to American goods. That\u2019s what Americans want from trade \u2013 fairness. They know they can compete when given a level playing field.<\/p>\n<p>Americans want trade deals to ensure equity. They want trade policies that increase American innovation, American manufacturing and American jobs.<\/p>\n<p>They want trade policies that help America win President Obama\u2019s war on income inequality, not schemes that grant special favors to corporations at the expense of people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hate to sound like a broken record, but I have to ask Hillary supporters if they know where she stands on TPP? Maybe Bill Clinton had good intentions when he pushed NAFTA. Now we know that bad parts of that deal far outweigh the good parts. Opening up trade between nations can be good for everybody, but the devil (and I do mean devil) is in the details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternet has the article Trans-Pacific Partnership: The Fast Track to Poverty. This is not what Americans want from trade. And yet, the United States is negotiating a NAFTA-style deal called the TPP with 11 Pacific Rim nations, including Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. The negotiations are occurring in secret. Average citizens have no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15809,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15808\/revisions\/15809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}