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ObamaTrade: Total Surrender to the NWO
• LewRockwellThe President is not even pretending to allow any freedom of choice with ObamaTrade, aka the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
ObamaTrade is to trade what ObamaCare is to medical care: a bureaucratic monstrosity.
It is 5,544 pages long — 3,500 pages longer than ObamaCare. This is a 5,544-page hunting license for unelected, tenured international bureaucrats to bring lawsuits against American companies.
It does not take 5,544 pages of legal verbage written by international lawyer-bureaucrats to obtain free trade. What it takes is for legislatures to reduce tariffs and import quotas. That is all it has ever taken: a willingness of politicians to stop passing laws that insulate inefficient domestic producers from foreign competitors who better satisfy the demand of residents of a nation. This is what I wrote in 1969. I have not changed my mind.
All it takes is for the government to stop hiring customs agents with badges and guns to tell citizens that they have to pay a discriminatory sales tax to buy something from across a national border.
ObamaTrade is the surrender of national sovereignty on a scale that is mind-boggling. If passed, it means the end of the free market.
Am I exaggerating? How could I? I have high-salary international lawyers making the case for me.
Read the TPP's Preamble. The United States Constitution has a Preamble. ObamaTrade's Preamble negates the Constitution's.