"Hillary is playing progressives for fools: Why you shouldn’t believe her populist talk on trade"

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Cross posted at the request of another DUer. Special thanks to RiverLover

"Hillary is playing progressives for fools: Why you shouldn’t believe her populist talk on trade"

Hillary is playing progressives for fools: Why you shouldn’t believe her populist talk on trade
SALON
4/21/15

Hillary Clinton is allegedly still making up her mind about TPP. Does anyone really believe this?

*** ...The goal is greater prosperity and security for American families, not trade for trade’s sake. She will be watching closely to see what is being done to crack down on currency manipulation, improve labor rights, protect the environment and health, promote transparency, and open new opportunities for our small businesses to export overseas. As she warned in her book, “Hard Choices,” we shouldn’t be giving special rights to corporations at the expense of workers and consumers,” Clinton’s spokesperson continued.***

Uh-huh. So, here’s a question: If Clinton does eventually come out against TPP, why would anyone in their right mind believe that? If candidate Clinton says that as president, she would either withdraw from or renegotiate TPP, how naive would you possibly have to be to believe that she would follow through with that?

You know all that stuff about labor and environmental protections that Clinton says she’s going to keep a close eye on? In 2012, she referred to TPP as the “gold standard” there.

In November 2012, the then-secretary of state declared that “we need to keep upping our game both bilaterally and with partners across the region through agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP. … This TPP sets the gold standard in trade agreements to open free, transparent, fair trade, the kind of environment that has the rule of law and a level playing field. And when negotiated, this agreement will cover 40 percent of the world’s total trade and build in strong protections for workers and the environment.”

Read more~
http://www.salon.com/2015/04/21/hillary_is_playing_progressives_for_fools_why_you_shouldnt_believe_her_populist_talk_on_trade/