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Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would turn over to globalists the power
to issue regulations about U.S. trade, immigration, the environment,
labor and commerce. It’s called a “living agreement” which means the
globalists can amend and change the text of the so-called agreement
after it has gone into effect.That
reminds me of our supremacist judges who invented the term of a
“living” Constitution, which they can rewrite to comport with their own
updated ideology. The globalists claim that this “living” document
(TPP), now called Obamatrade, has all the powers of a treaty to commit
the U.S. to new foreign obligations, although it certainly did not
comply with any U.S. constitutional provisions for treaty ratification.Senator
Jeff Sessions (R-AL) warned about the giveaway of U.S. sovereignty by
Fast Track, also known as Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), which
Congress passed in June. Congress gave up its powers to negotiate and
write the terms of a treaty, its power to debate and amend the deal, to
apply a cloture vote in the Senate, and to require a two-thirds vote in
the Senate.The secrecy wrapped
around TPP is appallingly un-American. Whatever happened to Obama’s
promise of “transparency”? TPP was negotiated and agreed to by Obama’s
trade representative and a bunch of foreigners in a secret room, and the
American people were not allowed to know the details until the
5,554-page text was released in November. TPP put us in a new political
and economic union before a single private citizen was told about it and
with public opinion running five to one against it. Remember when Nancy
Pelosi said we had to pass Obamacare in order to find out what is in
it?Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA)
warned, “TPP calls for the formation of a permanent political and
economic union known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission, which
will have power to issue regulations impacting not only trade but
immigration, the environment, labor and commerce. He added, Congress
“will have surrendered its legislative prerogatives. Before a word,
line, paragraph, or page of this plan is made public, Congress will have
even agreed to give up its treaty powers.”Senator
Sessions made it even more emphatic, saying that Fast Track would
“authorize the President to form a new transnational governance
structure. . . . it confers the power to both compel and restrict
changes to U.S. policy, to commit the U.S. to international obligations,
and to cede sovereign authority to a foreign body.” This new global
body could even add new member countries (such as China).Senator
Sessions continued: “Congress would be pre-clearing a political and
economic union before a word of that arrangement has been made available
to a single private citizen. This has the earmarks of a nascent
European Union,” and Americans certainly don’t want to belong to a
European union (that’s why we fought the American Revolution).Rep.
Hunter also warned that the new global governance institution would be
“authorized to issue policies and regulations affecting our economy,
our manufacturers, our workers, our immigration procedures, as well as
current labor and environmental practices.”TPP
would separate us from the U.S. Constitution and from national
sovereignty, replacing both with a global governance superstructure. TPP
wrapped its audacious global governance plan in the mantle called “free
trade,” which is a misnomer if there ever was one. “Free trade” means
Americans must obey a bunch of rules written by foreigners (which we
can’t veto), but China can ignore those rules. TPP didn’t even touch the
subject of currency manipulation against us by Asian countries.While
the American people were denied the right to read TPP, thanks to leaks
from WikiLeaks we learned that Obamatrade includes ten pages to
unilaterally alter our current U.S. immigration law. Under the headings
“Trade in Services” and “Movement of Natural Persons,” the same
lobbyists who are pushing for Obamatrade are demanding open borders.Republicans
need a bold program to bring back jobs that have been lost to Asian
countries. Former Rep. Michele Bachmann summed up a pro-American verdict
on TPP: “I hate it. It would empower the president, cut out
congressional influence, and lead to American jobs leaving the U.S.”
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