Imagine you have a farmer, in America, who is barely scrapping by to sell his organic veggies at the market. Imagine the only thing keeping him in business is a thing called import tariffs that equal out the playing field for those corporations (overseas) who use slave labor. Imagine those tariffs being a thing of the past. Now imagine the same farmer going out of business because the apples that cost him $4.50 a bag to produce is now in sourced for $3.99. Imagine the country those apples came from not having rules on organic foods. Full of pesticides et al.

Now imagine this happening with every business in America. Every one!! .. The thing that sent MOST jobs overseas is a lil thing Clinton passed called NAFTA, CAFTA and the WTO.. Has any president ever revoked those deals? Of course not cus they are all on the same team. Imagine in-sourcing Doctors, Nurses, Dentists, Workers, auto workers, factory workers, IT programmers because Americans can't afford to work for less. Think it won't happen? It already is!

Susoni

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President Barack Obama is again pushing international leaders to finalize the trans-Pacific trade deal between 12 countries that would eradicate tariffs and regulations, but critics say the secretive negotiations have been a boon only to corporations.

Leaders of the countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal at this week’s Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings have not set a timetable for settling the pact, but the Obama administration is optimistic that by end of his eight-day visit to Asia a deal can be reached.

If finalized, it would eliminate tariffs on goods and services and change regulations for labor, government procurement, state-owned enterprises, intellectual property and environmental protections. The deal would also enhance the United States’ presence in Asia, something the White House has wanted to do ever since President Obama was first inaugurated.

“This has the potential for being an historic agreement,” Obama said as he opened the trade talks being held on the sidelines of the broader Asia-Pacific conference in Beijing, according to The Associated Press. Notably, China is not a party to the pact.

Flowers said the negotiations are shrouded in secrecy because the more people know about it, the more they will oppose the agreement. More than 600 corporate advisers were working with the US Trade Representative to draft the TPP, she said, “means that for more than four years some of the top corporate lawyers have been inserting phrases, paragraphs and whole sections so the agreement suits the needs of corporate power, while undermining the interests of people and planet.”