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Independent American Party: Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Bigger and More Dangerous Than ObamaCare

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(The following was posted on the Independent American Party website, and was originally posted on the NewAmerican.)

We all remember Representative Nancy Pelosi’s infamous statement that we have to pass the ObamaCare legislation so that we can find out what’s in it. That was in 2010 and Mrs. Pelosi was then speaker of the House of Representatives.

Well, Congress followed her advice and passed ObamaCare, formally known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Three years later, in October of 2013, tens of millions of Americans began finding out what was really in the bill, as they began receiving health insurance cancellations and/or massive premium hikes. They also began to learn that under ObamaCare the IRS has been given new powers to go after them, their businesses, and their bank accounts. And that is only the beginning. As with all legislation, the devil is in the details, and lots of devils keep popping out of the constantly evolving details, as dozens of federal agencies continue churning out thousands of pages of regulations to implement the misbegotten, misnamed Affordable Care Act.

There are many important lessons from ObamaCare that we should apply to another huge project that could have a similarly devastating impact on our nation. In November 2009, President Obama announced his intention to have the United States participate in a so-called trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership. I say so-called trade agreement because 80 percent of the proposed agreement deals with a great many issues besides trade.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, as it is called, is an all-out assault on our national sovereignty. It would unconstitutionally transfer legislative powers from the U.S. Congress, our state legislatures, and our city and county governments to multi-national corporations and unaccountable international bureaucrats at the World Trade Organization, or WTO. Incredibly, it also would transfer judicial powers from our federal and state courts — which are bad enough — to globalist TPP judges at regional tribunals and the WTO. It would also confer huge advantages on foreign businesses and large multinationals, while at the same time putting companies that operate here in America — especially small and medium-sized enterprises — at a competitive disadvantage. American businesses would remain shackled by the regulations of EPA, FDA, OSHA, etc. while their foreign competitors could operate here unimpeded by those same strictures.

Like the infamous NAFTA trade agreement passed in the ’90s, the TPP would usher in another wave of outsourcing, as the remaining manufacturing and technology bases would be given incentives to move to Pacific Rim countries, resulting in millions more American job losses.

With TPP negotiations on track to be completed by the end of 2013, President Obama will likely ask Congress to approve this trade agreement in early 2014. Contact your senators and representative and urge them to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and see the many additional articles listed below that we’ve published detailing the dangers of the TPP.

One Comment

  1. John Lewis Mealer December 29, 2013

    Here’s the good news on this and other issues requiring votes from Congress and a signature from US President(s):

    In order for ANYTHING to become law or to have any effect whatsoever, it must be clean of fraud. No elected official is devoid of fraud because they continue to stay in office without fighting to end any offense by either state or federal governments against Americans Bill of Rights (including the total abrogation of rights as some people claim because of the corporate entity status of all municipalities as well as state and federal governmental agencies… That is not where the crime lays, nor where an abrogation exists), which in turn violated their Oath of Office and int he case of military personnel, their Oath of Service to protect the Constitution (IE Bill of Rights) from all enemies foreign and domestic.

    By violating their Oaths, they have committed fraud and as such, their term and tenure is nullified and void of power.

    The solution is to elect a man or woman into an office with the duty to have the laws enforced as well as the ability to pardon. That would mean either a state governor or a US President. This individual must never have been elected to office ad MUST campaign on this exact stance, preferably with documentation filed with a country recorder stating their personal ‘status’ with such matters. This Governor or President could then -BY LAW- assume all duties that are vacated by the acts of fraud and those who committed the acts of fraud.

    The laws must then be rewritten in strict accordance with the US Constitution without a single violation to the Bill of Rights and all laws contrary to these standards would be nullified and all of those charged under statutes contrary to the Bill of Rights would be vacated.

    That is the law. This is the solution.
    JL Mealer
    http://jlmealer.com

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