the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) is not really a free trade agreement. It’s Obama’s parting gift to the 1% The terms of the TPP are being written by banks, corporations and the global elite, it will have tremendously negative consequences for ordinary people in the United States and around the world. Obama, who has been negotiating the TPP for five years, is trying to gain fast track approval from Congress to avoid public debate on its contents.
Instead of protecting workers and the environment, as Obama claimed, the TPP would rewrite a raft of U.S. laws, including labor and environmental laws, to favor corporate interests. Rather than support American small businesses, as Obama claimed.