{"id":4131,"date":"2015-06-26T23:21:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T06:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4131"},"modified":"2018-03-31T18:19:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T01:19:46","slug":"the-real-boss-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4131","title":{"rendered":"The Real Boss In America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Trans-Pacific Partnership<\/strong> is a huge, free trade agreement with the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Japan and eight other Asian-Pacific countries. It&#8217;s just about a done deal thanks to the Republican Congress who wants to shove this through as fast as possible and a pliant President Obama, (sometimes known as the Compromiser-in-Chief), who is proving that he is as big a corporatist as Bill Clinton, Reagan and the Bushes. While proponents tout that this pact will lead to economic growth, development and job creation (NAFTA anyone?), opponents are sounding the alarm that the agreements contents are being kept secret because it&#8217;s really a gigantic gift to give multinational corporations to do whatever the hell they want <a title=\"Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Job Loss, Lower Wages and Higher Drug Prices\" href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen.org\/TPP\" target=\"_blank\">including off-shoring more American jobs, exposing the U.S. to unsafe food products and empowering corporations to smash our environmental and health safeguards.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"size-full wp-image-4139\" title=\"TPPobamarepublicancorporatistlackeys.jpg\">If any American had any doubt that representative democracy is dead in the U.S., take a look at <a title=\"Extreme secrecy eroding support for Obama's trade pact Read more: http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/05\/secrecy-eroding-support-for-trade-pact-critics-say-117581.html#ixzz3eDnQb5i6\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/05\/secrecy-eroding-support-for-trade-pact-critics-say-117581.html\" target=\"_blank\">the secrecy involved between the corporate world and congress to get this thing passed on the fast track.<\/a> There is nothing democratic about the passing of this new deal and it pretty much confirms that America is a corporate oligarchy. <strong>Corporate States of America<\/strong> or <strong>Holy Corporate Empire<\/strong>; either one sufficiently describes America today. We also think there may be another reason why Obama wants to the same thing as Boehner, Cruz and other <strong>CON<\/strong>gressional Republicans, which is illustrated in the following photo-toon.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4139\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4139\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=4139\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4139\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4139\" title=\"TPPobamarepublicancorporatistlackeys.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TPPobamarepublicancorporatistlackeys.jpg\" alt=\"Obama proclaims he supports the TPP because he's a corporatist, doesn't want to be impeached and he wants to please his corporate masters.\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TPPobamarepublicancorporatistlackeys.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/TPPobamarepublicancorporatistlackeys-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">America&#8217;s corporate, elite plutocrats applaud the fast tracking of the TPP by their political lackeys to prove to every one on planet Earth who really is the boss in America.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a huge, free trade agreement with the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Japan and eight other Asian-Pacific countries. It&#8217;s just about a done deal thanks to the Republican Congress who wants to shove this through as fast as possible and a pliant President Obama, (sometimes known as the Compromiser-in-Chief), who is proving that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4131\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Real Boss In America&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,42,60,8,85,3,1715],"tags":[16,74,73,237,10,22,20,389,27,783,107,9,925,575,712,21,43,98,852,19,785,11,1139,1140],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5940,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions\/5940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}