by Dave Johnson | Sep 17, 2013 | Making it in America, Trans-Pacific Partnership
The corporate push to get Congress to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement is about to begin. Again and again we have been promised that these trade agreements "create jobs" and grow the economy. So do they? "Free-Trade" Claims Proponents of...
by Terrance Heath | Sep 17, 2013 | Conservatism, Economy, This Is The GOP
Some Republicans now think it's a "moral hazard" to feed the poor. It's bad enough that Republicans are proposing $40 billion in cuts to food stamps, but portray it as a moral act beggars belief. Earlier this summer, Rep. Steve Fincher (R-Tenn.) quoted the...
by Digby | Sep 17, 2013 | Conservatism, This Is The GOP
You've got to hand it to these misanthropic wingnuts. They don't suffer from a surfeit of self-awareness, that's for sure: At a sugar lobby symposium at a Napa resort, of all places, Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas) chose to champion the cuts last month, preaching of...
by Digby | Sep 13, 2013 | Conservatism, Democracy, Economy, This Is The GOP
Amy Walter has the bad news for Republicans: As the GOP leadership in the House struggles to unite its fractious members around a deal to avoid a government shutdown or a default on the nation’s debt, polling from Pew out this week shows why that may be harder than...
by Dave Johnson | Sep 12, 2013 | Trans-Pacific Partnership
This week’s AFL-CIO convention discussed the problem of these "trade" agreements that have undercut America’s middle class by pitting our country’s working people against exploited people (near-slaves in some cases) elsewhere. The convention passed a resolution vowing...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Sep 10, 2013 | Trans-Pacific Partnership
An analysis released today of the effects of the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement concludes that "most workers are likely to lose" as a result of the agreement, and that what the economy will gain as a whole "amounts to a rounding error." The study,...
