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Obama’s ‘New World Order’ Appears ‘Dead In The Water’
Failure to get Japan’s OK jeopardizes sweeping free-trade pact
WND
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with President Obama in Japan
NEW YORK – The Trans-Pacific Partnership, the most sweeping free-trade agreement since NAFTA. appears ready to be added to the growing list of Obama administration second-term setbacks, with Obama’s failure to obtain Japan’s signature during his recent trip to Asia.
The lack of an agreement with Japan on the TPP, a centerpiece of the Obama administration’s free-trade agenda, could doom the12-nation meeting scheduled for Vietnam next month.
Even if progress toward an agreement is made in Vietnam, a coalition of union-supported Democrats in Congress have joined with conservative Republicans to deny the Obama administration the “fast-track authority” needed to push the TPP through Congress.
Fast-track authority would allow the Obama administration to move the pact through Congress with a simple majority vote. The rules would limit debate so that no amendments could be introduced to modify the language of the agreement the Obama administration has negotiated behind closed doors.
The failure of the TPP could mark an end to the “new world order” free trade era that began when the administration of President George H. W. Bush started pushing NAFTA as a strategy to boost the U.S. economy by creating jobs through increasing exports.
The Obama administration appears to have failed to convince not only Congress but also Japan that Pacific Rim trading partners should join with the U.S. to contain China economically as Beijing positions itself bypass the U.S. as the world’s No. 1 economy.
An Obama-pushed non-starter?
Curtis Ellis, communications director of the American Jobs Alliance, believes the TPP was not really about free markets.
“The corporatist agriculture and their water carriers in the U.S. Trade Representative’s office are the Commodore Perrys of today, demanding Japan throw open its doors to the gaijin,” he said.
“Japan said no,” Ellis continued. “If that makes the Japanese protectionists, then this is a battle of Japanese protectionists versus American corporatists – this has nothing to do with free markets.”
During Obama’s two-day summit with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, TPP negotiations fell apart despite aides on both sides pulling all-nighters.
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Leaders from around the world know, as do the America citizens that do not watch the lettered news shows, that Obama’s signature will mean nothing when the evidence comes to light that Sheriff Arpaio and Mike Zullo are waiting to expose. Once this news conference happens, and all is known, everything this man has signed into law will become null and void, including the TPP…
I’m personally going to have the biggest laugh party on the block when the news breaks. Im going to laugh at all of our city representatives that went to Washington D.C. to meet with Obama and get all of their free money for city projects that will be null and voided.
I’m going to laugh at our two Democrat senators who have followed the coattails of Obama and done everything he wanted, even though they know without a doubt, the man was never eligible to be POTUS.
Lastly, I’jm going to laugh at the talking heads in the news media that have done everything to keep the lie alive…
HA HA HA to all of you !!!