{"id":16002,"date":"2014-01-31T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=16002"},"modified":"2014-01-31T19:54:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T00:54:07","slug":"obamas-aversion-to-income-inequality-doesnt-extend-to-tpp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/01\/31\/obamas-aversion-to-income-inequality-doesnt-extend-to-tpp\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Aversion to Income Inequality Doesn&#8217;t Extend to TPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Truth Out<\/em> has the article <a title=\"Truthout article\" href=\"http:\/\/truth-out.org\/opinion\/item\/21539-obamas-aversion-to-income-inequality-doesnt-extend-to-tpp\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Obama&#8217;s Aversion to Income Inequality Doesn&#8217;t Extend to TPP<\/strong><\/a> .<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In his State of the Union address, President Obama touted his dedication to fight income inequality, yet his administration is working to fast-track a trade agreement predicted to cut pay for 90 percent of American workers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This article gives more details to explain my remark in my previous post <a title=\"Previous post\" href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/01\/30\/mirabile-dictu-reid-tells-off-obama-on-fast-track-killing-toxic-trade-deals-for-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mirabile Dictu! Reid Tells Off Obama on Fast Track, Killing Toxic Trade Deals for 2014<\/strong><\/a>. What I said in that post is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I heard this part of the SOTU address, I almost threw-up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not that those words need immortalization.\u00a0 I just wonder what motivates some of the things that Obama does.\u00a0 The Democrats generally don&#8217;t like TPP.\u00a0 The trading partners don&#8217;t generally like what the USA is pushing in the TPP.\u00a0 The US citizens whose pay will be cut don&#8217;t like the TPP. The only people who seem to like the TPP are some Republicans, the huge multi-national companies, and President Obama. Which side is he really on?<\/p>\n<p>Do you suppose Obama would change his mind if we all let him know that this is the last straw?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth Out has the article Obama&#8217;s Aversion to Income Inequality Doesn&#8217;t Extend to TPP . In his State of the Union address, President Obama touted his dedication to fight income inequality, yet his administration is working to fast-track a trade agreement predicted to cut pay for 90 percent of American workers. This article gives more [&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-16002","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\/16002","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=16002"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16005,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16002\/revisions\/16005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}