tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post6275971597487548853..comments2024-01-17T00:45:37.075-08:00Comments on Bud Meyers: 28 Democrats vote to Offshore more Jobs...Bud Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-9388414361382705362015-06-24T13:02:45.342-07:002015-06-24T13:02:45.342-07:00The whole scoop is at Naked Capitalism: "TPP:...The whole scoop is at Naked Capitalism: "TPP: 13 Democratic Senators Invite Republicans to Make Them Laughing Stocks — and More Serious Matters"<br /><br />* Editors' Note: 13 Democrats, Obama, and all (but 5) Republicans in the Senate wanted fast-track for trade deals. That makes 13 Democrats in the Senate "free traitors" to working Americans and makes Obama a Republican president.<br /><br />http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/06/tpp-13-democratic-senators-invite-republicans-to-make-them-laughing-stocks-and-more-serious-matters.html<br /><br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-62536632870811977182015-06-19T10:21:56.321-07:002015-06-19T10:21:56.321-07:00I think they will pull a bait and switch. They ca...I think they will pull a bait and switch. They can change the legislation after passing the bill by "conference" between both branches of Congress (Senate and House) and basically do whatever their corporate sponsors want. This is bill clearly corporate driven, and corporations almost always get what they demand. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-50797480815181204172015-06-18T16:57:36.720-07:002015-06-18T16:57:36.720-07:00The middle class was sold out long ago when Bill C...The middle class was sold out long ago when Bill Clinton signed NAFTA. Multi-national corporations rule this country... not the people.<br /><br />as far as TAA goes it's hogwash. I worked for a company in Connecticut called Winchester Electronics Corp. (now owned by a private equity firm called The Audax Group that was spun off of Mitt Romney's Bain Capital by a couple of former Bain employees). They have consistently outsourced and the government has granted them TAA on almost every occasion of job cuts. When I was let go in 2008 when the economy cratered (thanks W) ... i asked about TAA and it's not available to white collar workers, even though they outsourced almost all their white collar engineering jobs to Mexico and China. Very few people actually receive any type of relevant training for employment in a different field that works out. Most of the time if they do, their salary or wages are a fraction of what they were at the former manufacturing job.<br /><br />It's a scam. This is all to enrich the .01% at the expense of working people. <br /><br />You can now hammer the last nail into the coffin of the American middle class.allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840237717017411534noreply@blogger.com