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Letter: Trade deal could export more jobs

The Columbian
Published: March 28, 2015, 12:00am

It wasn’t enough exporting millions of good American jobs through the North American Free Trade Agreement. Now corporations want more power to expand their bottom lines at the cost of jobs and national sovereignty.

Under unprecedented secrecy, the Trans-Pacific Partnership has been negotiated by corporate lawyers and the government, with no input from Congress or the people. Republican leaders are attempting, in a rare show of bipartisan unanimity with President Obama, to push the TPP through Congress on a “fast track.” This would allow the president to sign this deal before Congress has read it or voted on it. It would then be pushed through Congress in 90 days with limited debate and no amendments.

This trade deal would allow corporations, through a special court set up for this purpose, to sue our government if it passed any law (labor, environmental, tax, etc.) that would affect their profits. This is an attack on American workers, American jobs (more manufacturing jobs to sweatshops abroad) and our right to pass laws that we see fit.

We “hire” our representatives to cast informed votes. Please contact your congressional representatives to remind them of that fact, and that we will hold them responsible for ramifications of this deal.

Dianne Kocer

Brush Prairie

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