TPA passed the Senate by 61 to 39.
The importance of local governments have never been more important. Participation in the local governments and their path forward is very important.
Do not sacrifice your local economies. The trade agreements are not about small business, it is about Wall Street. The banks are too big to fail, too big to answer to the laws of the USA and now they are too big to leave local economies to their success.
Since 2008, the local economies have carried the burden of the recovery. It is not the time to stop now. When workers lose their jobs they will have to retrain for other jobs. There is no equity in that training. If one has a job that paid well and offered good benefits and are is promoted by a union; the retraining never promises to provide the same pay, benefits or security. People will retrain for less pay, absent benefits and no organization to promote their well being and best interests.
The politicians will not tell anyone what the new jobs will be, because they haven't got a clue. If they knew the outcome to the trade agreements it would be every place to reassure the public. The expectations of the trade agreement is adverse if known at all.
Import-Export Assistance (click here)
The Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms is a federal program providing financial assistance to manufacturers affected by import competition. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce, this cost sharing federal assistance program pays for half the cost of consultants or industry-specific experts for projects that improve a manufacturer's competitiveness.
The federal government also offers a number of export financing programs to help small manufacturing firms expand their business overseas.
The SBA stands ready to offer welfare to failing businesses after the trade agreements take place.
Understand what seed money is? It has nothing to do with agriculture.
January 15, 2014
By Carol Tice
It’s the hardest money (click here) for aspiring startup entrepreneurs to get: That very first cash from the investors bold enough to take a chance and get your brand-new business rolling, often while it’s still little more than an idea. Thousands of companies pitch investors, and few are chosen.
Fortunately, 2013 was a robust year for venture capital seed funding, a new survey from investment-research firm CB Insights found....
It is the money used to begin a new business. The Republican million-billionaires use it to begin new non-profits to build a base for elections. There is no problem finding seed money from the Koch brothers.
So, if the trade agreements go unchecked by American local governments, businesses will begin to go out of business. If a business goes bankrupt, will the owner be able to qualify for seed money? Even when the business can say the trade agreements caused their failure, they'll never receive seed money. When there is no rebound to USA small business, Wall Street will have destroyed the recovery of 2008 and will start their greed economy all over again.
There will be laws in these new trade agreements to force existing businesses to accept imports over USA goods. It is going to be a fight.
The local governments can pass an ordinance stating federal trade agreements do not carry brevity in making decisions regarding the local economy.
When opposing the trade agreements, know the history of the devastation of NAFTA. According to recent statements, but, with little proof NAFTA standards are suppose to stand within these new agreements.
November 17, 2003
By Robert E. Scott
Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (click here) was signed in 1993, the rise in the U.S. trade deficit with Canada and Mexico through 2002 has caused the displacement of production that supported 879,280 U.S. jobs. Most of those lost jobs were high-wage positions in manufacturing industries. The loss of these jobs is just the most visible tip of NAFTA’s impact on the U.S. economy. In fact, NAFTA has also contributed to rising income inequality, suppressed real wages for production workers, weakened workers’ collective bargaining powers and ability to organize unions, and reduced fringe benefits....
Title II, Section 2, Clause 2 covers the topic of treaty. This is where the President has the authority to carry out agreements, however, these agreements are not carved in stone according to the USA Constitution.
There is already a history whereby such agreements can be interrupted, appealed or repealed.
The impact of US Senate trade agreements. (click here) This is a somewhat old document, but, it has invaluable information to prohibit laws adverse to the country's economies at the 'micro' level.
The fact local governments are dependent on micro economies it is placed directly in the path of federal authorities that cause harm. The best case against this capacity of the USA Constitution to dictate economic characteristics and dependency on foreign trade is the idea all trade is suppose to enhance the economic outcomes of the USA's private businesses. There is no way a federal agreement should go unchecked to destroy a hard fought for economy. When the federal government acts against the best outcomes of the economy at any level there is a threat against sovereignty or local governments and ultimately the federal government.
This also holds true for citizens' salaries to be benevolent. There is no way there should be a destruction of contracts because of wayward agreements. That is an assault against the citizen.
Also the promises matter. The promises that have come with these agreements matters. If the treaty is proven to be hostile and not benevolent to it's own promises it can and should be challenged.
The lack of information before the public also matters. If there is no review by the public in a meaningful way that results in changes, it is a hostile act toward the citizens. Any public review has to carry brevity and not simply a condescending period of time.
The time to get this ready for opposition is now. Know the economy as it exists pre-agreement and maintain evaluation at least every month. At the first evidence of a downturn there should be stops placed at the local level based on the facts recorded pre and post agreement.
The American people were promised something. It has to live up to the agreement's promises otherwise it needs to be dissolved at the federal or local level. It doesn't matter if only the local government acts so long as the economy of any local region is upheld.
What does matter is that the downturn was discovered and the local economy was protected through local statistics and laws. Let the lousy federal government prove those facts wrong and why the agreement has authority over an economy it is destroying.
Records of valid economic benchmarks is not rocket science. Local GDP, unemployment rates, INCOME to the local treasury, homelessness and stability of the town or city to maintain it's authority. If a local economy deteriorates it directly effects the ability of the city or town to pay it's bills and provide quality of live to their citizens. The city will fail and children won't have the same opportunity to a healthy city economy. This is no joke. This is about life in the USA and how we protect it.
Don't count on the local Chamber of Commerce or otherwise, unless, they are on the same page as the local government as they should be.
This is not isolationism. Not at all. This is about defense. The world understands defense when it is the USA military in action. This is no different. Local governments need to defend it's best interests. Defense of local economies results in defense of our country.
Melamine and cyanuric acid in pet sickness
I remind. Already the agreements demand the label of food sources to be removed from packaging. My understanding is that all products regulated by the FDA is suppose to receive permission from the FDA regardless of country. Now, we are supplementing other governments to evaluate their goods. That's nuts and adds incredible stress on our government agencies. The FDA struggles to maintain enough certified agents to cover the USA now. Add to their responsibilities eleven other countries and what the heck are the implications to sovereignty then?
The USA is on the losing side of these agreements. There are stresses on government infrastructure that will provide for mistakes and gaps in protection of citizens.
From the AP
WASHINGTON – A top executive says Takata Corp. (click here) is encouraging automakers to replace defective air bag inflators with newly designed ones from the company, or with those made by competitors that don’t include a volatile chemical.
The defect is linked to at least six deaths and more than 100 injuries.
Kevin Kennedy, executive vice president of North America for
Takata Corp., will also tell Congress the company “deeply” regrets
every rupture episode involving its air bags, especially those causing
injury or death.
Kennedy says in written testimony for a U.S. House hearing Tuesday that the percentage of air bag inflators likely to have a problem is “extremely small” but Takata is replacing all of them.
The company has declared 33.8 million air bags defective in an agreement with U.S. regulators. It’s the biggest auto-safety recall in U.S. history.
Takata uses the chemical, ammonium nitrate, to inflate the air bags. It can explode with too much force, blowing apart a metal inflator and sending shrapnel into the passenger compartment....
In recent testimony to Congress, Takata has stated it will be a year or more before all 33.8 million cars are serviced to change the outcomes of air bag deployment so there is no DEATHS.
October 30, 2014
In 2010 the front seat air bags (click here) in Kristy Williams’s 2001 Honda Civic deployed while the Atlanta-area woman was stopped at a light. Shrapnel allegedly flew from one of the safety devices during the blast that inflated them. The metal hit Williams in the neck, severing her carotid artery, according to a suit she filed in Georgia state court against Honda and Tokyo-based Takata, maker of the air bag inflator. Williams stuck two fingers in the wound to stop the bleeding as she waited for an ambulance. Her loss of blood led to several strokes, a seizure, and a speech disorder, according to the suit....
While Takata resolved the shrapnel issue, it never changed the accelerate in the air bags that caused it's inflation. The Ammonia nitrate explodes into fire. The USA government has been involved in investigation with Takata airbags since the 1990s. Takata should be banned from any vehicles in the USA.
Companies that cannot meet American standards should not be selling their products within our borders.
Enough! Where are the airbags the USA manufactures? Where are they?
The President, Senate or House will never be able to stack the odds against citizens. From here forward there aren't enough words in any agreement that will result in citizen illness, death or loss of financial status. We have a national debt we need to pay before another generation of Americans are burdened and abandoned.
The importance of local governments have never been more important. Participation in the local governments and their path forward is very important.
Do not sacrifice your local economies. The trade agreements are not about small business, it is about Wall Street. The banks are too big to fail, too big to answer to the laws of the USA and now they are too big to leave local economies to their success.
Since 2008, the local economies have carried the burden of the recovery. It is not the time to stop now. When workers lose their jobs they will have to retrain for other jobs. There is no equity in that training. If one has a job that paid well and offered good benefits and are is promoted by a union; the retraining never promises to provide the same pay, benefits or security. People will retrain for less pay, absent benefits and no organization to promote their well being and best interests.
The politicians will not tell anyone what the new jobs will be, because they haven't got a clue. If they knew the outcome to the trade agreements it would be every place to reassure the public. The expectations of the trade agreement is adverse if known at all.
Import-Export Assistance (click here)
The Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms is a federal program providing financial assistance to manufacturers affected by import competition. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Commerce, this cost sharing federal assistance program pays for half the cost of consultants or industry-specific experts for projects that improve a manufacturer's competitiveness.
The federal government also offers a number of export financing programs to help small manufacturing firms expand their business overseas.
The SBA stands ready to offer welfare to failing businesses after the trade agreements take place.
Venture Capital
Early-stage high-tech manufacturers can have difficulty finding the right venture capital source. While government agencies are not equity investors, they do have programs that match up small manufacturers with private equity investors. Visit the Seed and Venture Capital Guide to learn more about these programs.Understand what seed money is? It has nothing to do with agriculture.
January 15, 2014
By Carol Tice
It’s the hardest money (click here) for aspiring startup entrepreneurs to get: That very first cash from the investors bold enough to take a chance and get your brand-new business rolling, often while it’s still little more than an idea. Thousands of companies pitch investors, and few are chosen.
Fortunately, 2013 was a robust year for venture capital seed funding, a new survey from investment-research firm CB Insights found....
It is the money used to begin a new business. The Republican million-billionaires use it to begin new non-profits to build a base for elections. There is no problem finding seed money from the Koch brothers.
So, if the trade agreements go unchecked by American local governments, businesses will begin to go out of business. If a business goes bankrupt, will the owner be able to qualify for seed money? Even when the business can say the trade agreements caused their failure, they'll never receive seed money. When there is no rebound to USA small business, Wall Street will have destroyed the recovery of 2008 and will start their greed economy all over again.
There will be laws in these new trade agreements to force existing businesses to accept imports over USA goods. It is going to be a fight.
The local governments can pass an ordinance stating federal trade agreements do not carry brevity in making decisions regarding the local economy.
When opposing the trade agreements, know the history of the devastation of NAFTA. According to recent statements, but, with little proof NAFTA standards are suppose to stand within these new agreements.
November 17, 2003
By Robert E. Scott
Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (click here) was signed in 1993, the rise in the U.S. trade deficit with Canada and Mexico through 2002 has caused the displacement of production that supported 879,280 U.S. jobs. Most of those lost jobs were high-wage positions in manufacturing industries. The loss of these jobs is just the most visible tip of NAFTA’s impact on the U.S. economy. In fact, NAFTA has also contributed to rising income inequality, suppressed real wages for production workers, weakened workers’ collective bargaining powers and ability to organize unions, and reduced fringe benefits....
Title II, Section 2, Clause 2 covers the topic of treaty. This is where the President has the authority to carry out agreements, however, these agreements are not carved in stone according to the USA Constitution.
There is already a history whereby such agreements can be interrupted, appealed or repealed.
The impact of US Senate trade agreements. (click here) This is a somewhat old document, but, it has invaluable information to prohibit laws adverse to the country's economies at the 'micro' level.
The fact local governments are dependent on micro economies it is placed directly in the path of federal authorities that cause harm. The best case against this capacity of the USA Constitution to dictate economic characteristics and dependency on foreign trade is the idea all trade is suppose to enhance the economic outcomes of the USA's private businesses. There is no way a federal agreement should go unchecked to destroy a hard fought for economy. When the federal government acts against the best outcomes of the economy at any level there is a threat against sovereignty or local governments and ultimately the federal government.
This also holds true for citizens' salaries to be benevolent. There is no way there should be a destruction of contracts because of wayward agreements. That is an assault against the citizen.
Also the promises matter. The promises that have come with these agreements matters. If the treaty is proven to be hostile and not benevolent to it's own promises it can and should be challenged.
The lack of information before the public also matters. If there is no review by the public in a meaningful way that results in changes, it is a hostile act toward the citizens. Any public review has to carry brevity and not simply a condescending period of time.
The time to get this ready for opposition is now. Know the economy as it exists pre-agreement and maintain evaluation at least every month. At the first evidence of a downturn there should be stops placed at the local level based on the facts recorded pre and post agreement.
The American people were promised something. It has to live up to the agreement's promises otherwise it needs to be dissolved at the federal or local level. It doesn't matter if only the local government acts so long as the economy of any local region is upheld.
What does matter is that the downturn was discovered and the local economy was protected through local statistics and laws. Let the lousy federal government prove those facts wrong and why the agreement has authority over an economy it is destroying.
Records of valid economic benchmarks is not rocket science. Local GDP, unemployment rates, INCOME to the local treasury, homelessness and stability of the town or city to maintain it's authority. If a local economy deteriorates it directly effects the ability of the city or town to pay it's bills and provide quality of live to their citizens. The city will fail and children won't have the same opportunity to a healthy city economy. This is no joke. This is about life in the USA and how we protect it.
Don't count on the local Chamber of Commerce or otherwise, unless, they are on the same page as the local government as they should be.
This is not isolationism. Not at all. This is about defense. The world understands defense when it is the USA military in action. This is no different. Local governments need to defend it's best interests. Defense of local economies results in defense of our country.
Melamine and cyanuric acid in pet sickness
I remind. Already the agreements demand the label of food sources to be removed from packaging. My understanding is that all products regulated by the FDA is suppose to receive permission from the FDA regardless of country. Now, we are supplementing other governments to evaluate their goods. That's nuts and adds incredible stress on our government agencies. The FDA struggles to maintain enough certified agents to cover the USA now. Add to their responsibilities eleven other countries and what the heck are the implications to sovereignty then?
The USA is on the losing side of these agreements. There are stresses on government infrastructure that will provide for mistakes and gaps in protection of citizens.
From the AP
WASHINGTON – A top executive says Takata Corp. (click here) is encouraging automakers to replace defective air bag inflators with newly designed ones from the company, or with those made by competitors that don’t include a volatile chemical.
The defect is linked to at least six deaths and more than 100 injuries.
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Kennedy says in written testimony for a U.S. House hearing Tuesday that the percentage of air bag inflators likely to have a problem is “extremely small” but Takata is replacing all of them.
The company has declared 33.8 million air bags defective in an agreement with U.S. regulators. It’s the biggest auto-safety recall in U.S. history.
Takata uses the chemical, ammonium nitrate, to inflate the air bags. It can explode with too much force, blowing apart a metal inflator and sending shrapnel into the passenger compartment....
In recent testimony to Congress, Takata has stated it will be a year or more before all 33.8 million cars are serviced to change the outcomes of air bag deployment so there is no DEATHS.
October 30, 2014
In 2010 the front seat air bags (click here) in Kristy Williams’s 2001 Honda Civic deployed while the Atlanta-area woman was stopped at a light. Shrapnel allegedly flew from one of the safety devices during the blast that inflated them. The metal hit Williams in the neck, severing her carotid artery, according to a suit she filed in Georgia state court against Honda and Tokyo-based Takata, maker of the air bag inflator. Williams stuck two fingers in the wound to stop the bleeding as she waited for an ambulance. Her loss of blood led to several strokes, a seizure, and a speech disorder, according to the suit....
While Takata resolved the shrapnel issue, it never changed the accelerate in the air bags that caused it's inflation. The Ammonia nitrate explodes into fire. The USA government has been involved in investigation with Takata airbags since the 1990s. Takata should be banned from any vehicles in the USA.
Companies that cannot meet American standards should not be selling their products within our borders.
Enough! Where are the airbags the USA manufactures? Where are they?
The President, Senate or House will never be able to stack the odds against citizens. From here forward there aren't enough words in any agreement that will result in citizen illness, death or loss of financial status. We have a national debt we need to pay before another generation of Americans are burdened and abandoned.
