(Will Raul cave like Crapo, Risch & Simpson did on TPA?)

There is no way to tell how Congressman Raul Labrador will vote on the upcoming deceitful Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) bill. As one of his biggest fans, I choose to believe in him and think he totally gets it and will vote nay. We should be very pleased with the Constitutional mind and integrity of Raul Labrador which his voting record reflects. However, I also expected Senator’s Crapo and Risch to vote down the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) that surrendered Congress’s Constitutional responsibility to negotiate trade agreements to a man with zero negotiating skills, but with an obvious anti-America agenda, our Manchurian President. I didn’t think they’d take the money, but it appears they did. Aware of Congressman Simpson’s voting record I was not at all surprised that he’d vote for Obama to take control.

The Guardian reports: “Fast-tracking the TPP, meaning its passage through Congress without having its contents available for debate or amendments, was only possible after lots of corporate money exchanged hands with senators.

“In other words, senators — each of whom swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution — have been bribed to ignore our founding document and deliver power over the country’s trade policy to the president and globalist bureaucrats who will manage the TPP.

“Remarkably, the votes on the legislation accomplishing this atrocity weren’t even close.

“On May 14, the Senate approved the TPA bill 65-33 and then 62 of those same senators voted a few days later to shut down debate on the matter.

“How much money would it take to convince those “impress majorities” to violate their oaths of office and sacrifice American sovereignty on the altar of “free trade?” The Guardian has identified the source of the money and the senators who participated in the bipartisan betrayal:

“Using data from the Federal Election Commission, this chart shows all donations that corporate members of the U.S. Business Coalition for TPP made to U.S. Senate campaigns between January and March 2015, when fast-tracking the TPP was being debated in the Senate:

“Out of the total $1,148,971 given, an average of $17,676.48 was donated to each of the 65 “yea” votes.

“The average Republican member received $19,673.28 from corporate TPP supporters.

“The average Democrat received $9,689.23 from those same donors.” – Unquote The Guardian.com

WHAT THE BIG DEAL IS ABOUT

Real FREE TRADE is as it should be, FREE. But these masked agreements are chock full of restricting and illegal regulations that, like our experience with NAFTA, are ruinous to our interests, freedom and sovereignty and are forecast to be 10 times worse than NAFTA in scope and affect.

What do these issues have to do with free trade? Climate change • sustainable development• internet regulation • homeland security • the military • labor • patent and copyright including intellectual property rights • land use • food • agriculture and product standards • natural resources • the environment •professional licensing • competition • state-owned enterprises • government procurement policies as well as financial policies • healthcare • energy • e-commerce • telecommunications and other service sector regulations. And what do international courts have to do with trade? Nothing, but it‘s all part of the pending Free Trade Agreements (FTA‘s) as per the 151 house democrats‘ letter to Obama in November 2013 opposing fast track, the secrecy, and all these un-related issues that should not be included in these negotiations.

See: 10 Reasons Why You Should Oppose TPP and TTIP

States William F. Jasper, senior editor of The New American magazine, “The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPA) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) constitute an all-out assault on, and an existential threat to, America’s sovereignty and independence. These twin, trans-oceanic agreements are massive schemes that propose a very radical transformation of the global politico-economic system, with revolutionary integration and convergence of the major Atlantic and Pacific nations.

“Modern Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), TPP, and TTIP have become so comprehensive and complex that they guarantee conflict — both among the nations that are party to the agreement, as well as between private parties and the various nation-state parties. Resolving the conflicts means resorting to adjudication. As with NAFTA, the TPP and TTIP create conflict resolution tribunals (courts) that claim the authority to overrule national, state, and local laws, as well as national and state courts and national and state constitutions. Additionally, PTA members often opt to appeal their cases to the World Trade Organization tribunal, which claims global judicial authority. In practice, this amounts, virtually, to legislating globally from the bench, striking down laws and ordering revisions. This is not merely a theoretical threat, it is already happening.

“Unfortunately, some of the loudest critics on this score are notorious leftists who regularly parade against capitalism. Republican leaders have been able to use that fact as a reason to disregard the compelling evidence that these criticisms of TPP/TTIP are solidly based. First of all, it is important to note that in most cases the big, international mega-corporations long ago ceased to consider themselves American companies and also long ago ceased to favor free enterprise capitalism: They are corporate welfare drones, the masters of government bailouts, government loans, government subsidies and government contracts. They are little different from the giant State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) or ‘private’ corporations owned by communist princelings and commissars in China and Russia.

“In 1993, the year before NAFTA went into effect, the United States had a $1.66 billion trade surplus with Mexico; by 1995, the first year after NAFTA had entered into force that changed to a $15.8 billion deficit. By 2000, that annual deficit had soared to $24.5 billion, and by 2007 it hit $74.7 billion. For 2014, our trade deficit with Mexico dipped to only $53.8 billion. In 1993, the year before NAFTA, we imported around 225,000 cars and trucks from Mexico. By 2005, our imports of Mexican-made vehicles had tripled to 700,000 vehicles annually, and in 2012, Mexico’s export of vehicles to the United States surpassed 1.4 million. Chrysler, Ford, and GM transferred major production facilities (and jobs) from the United States to Mexico. Our trade deficits with Canada have followed a similar path since adoption of NAFTA.

“The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) authors and other pseudo-free trade propagandists had cherry-picked data and simply invented statistics to fraudulently sell their product: NAFTA. If they were car salesmen, they would have gone to jail for fraud and misrepresentation. Instead, they are back doing the same thing, concocting rosy statistics to sell the TPP and TTIP.” – Unquote William F. Jasper, senior editor of ‘The New American’ magazine

TPP ABROGATES U.S. SOVEREIGNTY TO AN EXECUTIVE “COMMISSION” ANALOGOUS TO THAT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION

“Since before the public release of the text of the TPP Agreement, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), who had previously entered the secret reading room in Congress where the TPP Agreement was kept, warned about the creation of a TPP Commission, which he has described as being “extremely broad” and having “the hallmarks of a nascent European Union.” Following the release of the TPP Agreement, Sessions further described the TPP Commission as “a Pacific Union — which meets, appoints unelected bureaucrats, adopts rules, and changes the agreement after adoption.”

“Sessions was referring to chapter 27 of the TPP, entitled “Administrative and Institutional Provisions,” which establishes and outlines the functions of the TPP Commission. Article 27, section 1, of the TPP plainly states: “The Parties hereby establish a Trans-Pacific Partnership Commission (Commission) which shall meet at the level of Ministers or senior officials, as mutually determined by the Parties. Each Party shall be responsible for the composition of its delegation.” Article 27, section 2, outlines the various functions and powers of the TPP Commission as follows:

The Commission shall:

(a) consider any matter relating to the implementation or operation of this Agreement;

(b) review within 3 years of entry into force of this Agreement and at least every 5 years thereafter the economic relationship and partnership among the Parties;

(c) consider any proposal to amend or modify this Agreement;

(d) supervise the work of all committees and working groups established under this Agreement;

(e) establish the Model Rules of Procedure for Arbitral Tribunals referred to in Article 28.11.2 and Article 28.12, and, where appropriate, amend such Model Rules of Procedure for Arbitral Tribunals;

(f) consider ways to further enhance trade and investment between the Parties;

(g) review the roster of panel chairs established under Article 28.10 every 3 years, and when appropriate, constitute a new roster; and

(h) determine whether the Agreement may enter into force for an original signatory notifying pursuant to paragraph 4 of Article 30.5.1 (Entry into Force).

“On November 5, 2015, in a press release, Senator Session called these powers of the TPP Commission “open-ended.” Citing The TPP Commission’s broad authority over the creation of new rules and procedures, global migration, and global environmental standards, Sessions said:

This global governance authority is open-ended: “The Commission and any subsidiary body established under this Agreement may establish rules of procedures for the conduct of its work.” It covers everything from the movement of foreign nationals: ‘No Party shall adopt or maintain … measures that impose limitations on the total number of natural persons that may be employed in a particular service sector … in the form of numerical quotas or the requirement of an economic needs test”; to climate regulation: “The Parties acknowledge that transition to a low emissions economy requires collective action.”

“Furthermore, the TPP Commission is also tasked with approving the accession of new states or separate customs territories to the TPP, according to Article 30.4 of the TPP Agreement. Congress will not have a say as to whether or not to approve or block new states attempting to join the TPP; the power and decision of accession resides solely with the TPP Commission.

“With all this in mind, it would behoove congressional lawmakers to avail themselves of the aforementioned facts prior to casting their votes on the TPP Agreement. At the very least, this information should cause grave concern to anyone wishing to preserve America’s national sovereignty and independence. Congress may vote on the TPP as early as the first week in March.” – Unquote Christian Gomez from The New American magazine

MAYBE THE MOST IMPORTANT VOTE IN U.S. HISTORY

This overwhelming bombardment of ruinous new rules and regulations under the TPP will surely steer our republic into history and our former sovereign country will evolve into the intended new member state of at first a regional government probably called the North American Union or Trans Pacific Union under the auspicious of the UN to be graduated toward full membership as a member of a new global government, eventually as a result of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) being passed later, which of course, would be run by unaccountable, unelected global power elitists who know best for us on all things.

The imminence of it all from William F. Jasper: “Under TPA rules, President Obama has to give Congress 90 days’ notice before signing the TPP. He gave that on November 5, which means that he could, and most likely will, sign the agreement as early as February 3, 2016. Thirty days after signing, he may submit TPP implementing legislation to Congress, which means that Congress may begin taking action on TPP as early as March 2. A worst-case scenario would see both houses immediately approving the TPP on that day, March 2 (only a few scant weeks away), before the American people have the slightest idea what is happening to them.

“The TPP program for political, social, and economic “integration” is indeed a suicide pact, modeled after the long-range integration scheme used to create the European Union, whose architects admitted it was a plan to force the sovereign nations to commit “hara-kiri” piecemeal, gradually yielding up their sovereignty over more and more of their national and local affairs until they are completely merged and swallowed by the newly created, omnipotent central state. (See here, here, and here.)

“That is the plan, and we have only weeks to stop it. It can be done; we’ve done it with similar threats — with similarly imposing odds — such as the North American Union/Security and Prosperity Partnership (NAU/SPP) and the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).” – Unquote William F. Jasper, senior editor of ‘The New American’ magazine

Furthermore the firebrand Washington State Senator named Matt Shea states that TPA is unconstitutional as it is a treaty in intent and calling it an agreement does not make it so. Article 11 Section 2 states that a 2/3 vote of the Senate is mandatory for a treaty to become law and no foreign law or tribunal is about the U.S. Constitution. – Unquote William F. Jasper, senior editor of ‘The New American’ magazine

Watch how they vote!

“I think Congressmen should wear uniforms, you know, like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors.” – Author unknown

Very often someone says [essentially] that the answer to career politicians’ opportunistic abuses and violations of their public’s trust and the sacred oaths they took to our Constitution is to get rid of them rotely thru TERM LIMITS. Appreciating that frustration full well, it does feel good to vent the expression ‘get rid of them all!’

But frankly, if an electorate is foolishly not paying attention to corrupt or inept elected officials, why would anyone think they will not repeat that same lack of attention foolishly with the next ones which might be of the same or worse ilk should a term limit law require replacement?

America is not supposed to be a ‘Magic Kingdom’ providing material and monetary benefits for its citizens and certainly not for non-citizens (illegal aliens). America is, most simply put: ….about Freedom. REAL FREEDOM is about the Freedom to win and the Freedom to benefit from learning when not attaining our goals and then moving on strengthened from the experience. The consequences of our run-away big government’s guarantees, freebie phones, entitlements, subsidies, welfare fraud, grant abuses, government lies, redundancies, waste, manipulated loan interests, covert propaganda, travel and expense abuses, fraudulent loans, fixed bids, bribery & kickbacks, ‘stimulating’ beer & cigarette sales, overreach, utter theft, and the damaging deceitful free trade programs that have been foisted upon us all actually damage our freedoms by penalizing our costs, unbalancing our commerce and markets while de-incentivizing our citizens.

THE WISDOM OF OUR FOUNDERS ON ‘TERM LIMITS’

Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 72 expressed his sense of the question of term limits: “Nothing appears more plausible at first sight, nor more ill-founded upon close inspection.”

During the debates on the subject at the original constitutional convention in Philadelphia in 1787, Connecticut delegate Roger Sherman expressed a similar opinion: “Frequent elections are necessary to preserve the good behavior of rulers. They also tend to give permanency to the Government, by preserving that good behavior, because it ensures their re-election.”

In Federalist, No. 53, James Madison wrote: “No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgement a certain degree of knowledge of the subjects on which he is to legislate. A part of this knowledge may be acquired by means of information which lie within the compass of men in private as well as public stations. Another part can only be attained, or at least thoroughly attained, by actual experience in the station which requires the use of it…. A few of the members [of Congress], as happens in all such assemblies, will possess superior talents; will, by frequent re-elections, become members of long standing; will be thoroughly masters of the public business, and perhaps not unwilling to avail themselves of those advantages. The greater the proportion of new members and the less the information of the bulk of the members, the more apt will they be to fall into the snares that may be laid for them.”

At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Governor Morris spoke on the subject, too. Madison records Morris saying: “The ineligibility proposed by the [term limits] clause as it stood tended to destroy the great motive to good behavior, the hope of being rewarded by a re-appointment. It was saying to him, ‘make hay while the sun shines.’”

John Adams wrote in his ‘Defense of the Constitutions of the United States of America’: There is no right clearer, and few of more importance, than that the people should be at liberty to choose the ablest and best men, and that men of the greatest merit should exercise the most important employments; yet, upon the present [term limits] supposition, the people voluntarily resign this right, and shackle their own choice…. They must all return to private life, and be succeeded by another set, who have less wisdom, wealth, virtue, and less of the confidence and affection of the people.”

Samuel Adams summed it up perfectly in 1790: “Much safer is it, and much more does it tend to promote the welfare and happiness of society to fill up the offices of Government after the mode prescribed in the American Constitution, by frequent elections of the people. They may indeed be deceived in their choice; they sometimes are; but the evil is not incurable; the remedy is always near; they will feel their mistakes, and correct them.

“Let’s use frequent elections to restrain any legislator who abuses his access to power, not rely on nanny state “term limits” to restrain our liberty. And let us take the shackles off of states and encourage them to exercise their power to refuse to enforce any act of the federal government that exceeds the power given to it in the Constitution.”

GOVERNMENT GROWTH ERODES FREEDOMS

We are experiencing the utter death of common sense in America, and we must recognize the overwhelming onslaught to our way of life by government itself because of most Americans’ apathetic refusal to pay attention to how their elected representatives are voting with our Constitution in order to keep America truly free and competitive.

As government grows our freedoms are diminished because of the constant and enormous strangulating costs, taxes and regulations. Freedom’s cancer is big government! (Click this link, A Must See!) There is just too much ‘social’ in government, ‘trying to do for everybody.’ Can you say Socialism? It’s being taught in our schools and universities, you know. And our elected officials, asleep at the ‘reality switch,’ are helping it grow with every ‘do good,’ ‘bring home the bacon’ abuse they concoct or support at the bidding of their orchestrated party leadership. This socializing of America is not a party thing. Both parties are guilty. The Dem’s are in our face with it and most of the Grand Old Party are liars when they actually vote most of the time. It is not about their platform, what they say and hugging babies! All that counts is what they do and how they vote!

Bob Adelmann wrote in an article in ‘The New American’ magazine in 2011, “The more dependent the citizens become on their government, the less influence they are likely to have in any substantial downsizing of that government.”

Elected officials usually schmooze us so well because we have not studied their actual voting records. Here in north Idaho, we boast 9 of the top 14 voting records in the state among representatives and senators. We are proud of them, but as good as our representatives and senators are, we even watch their voting records. Remember, it matters not what they say, it only matters what they do and how they vote according to the Freedom Indexes.

WHAT WE MUST DO

Firstly, recognize you should take with a grain of salt what you get from the big media. They are blatantly in the tank with the power elite socialists’ agenda who would have us evolve into a member state of a global government run by these very people who are unaccountable and unelected who know best for everyone about everything. Vet your news and seek authentic sources or contact competent conservative organizations such as The CATO Institute at cato.org, The John Birch Society at jbs.org or The New American.com website. If you wish to wake up someone else with a most effective 29 minute video click here for ‘Overview of America.’

American patriots must study issues, inform others, follow the Freedom Indexes for the U.S. Congress at TheFreedomIndex@JBS.org and for the state of Idaho at IdahoFreedomIndex.com and fire elected officials who are not following our rule of law through the Constitution. There is no other way to right our absolute mess. Presidents, congressmen, senators and governors created this boondoggle we’ve become and they must pay for it by being replaced at the ballot box, ending their political careers and being replaced with real accountable patriots who understand the Constitution and take their oaths to it seriously. They need to know we are watching!

PERTINENT ‘PEARLS’ FROM THOMAS SOWELL

“Liberals have never understood the significance of that great line from On the Waterfront, where Marlon Brando says: ‘I coulda been a contender!’ Nothing you can give anybody is a substitute for letting him achieve on his own.”

“Historians of the future will have a hard time figuring out how so many organized groups of strident jackasses succeeded in leading us around by the nose and morally intimidating the majority into silence.”

“Bad as it is financially for the federal government to be saddled with the runaway costs of ‘entitlement’ programs, it is far worse for the society as a whole to be saddled with millions of people with the ‘entitlement’ mentality and all the social problems that go with it.”

“Back in the heyday of the British Empire, a visitor from one of the colonies said to a London audience: ‘Please, do not do any more good in my country. We have suffered too much from the good that you have done already.’ That is my reaction to most of the liberal social programs for minorities and the poor today.”

“If the government punishes people for being productive by hitting them with big tax increases, and rewards people for being unproductive by giving them entitlements from the taxpayers’ money, how is that likely to lead to a more productive economy?”

“When the history of corporate America is written, one of its most shameful chapters will be about how big business sold out to political correctness, by inflicting the harangues of ‘diversity consultants’ on their employees and donating their stockholders’ money to advocacy groups opposed to the free market on which their own existence depends.”

“There is so much money, and so much publicity, available for saying far-out things that we are lucky to hear any common sense at all.”

“One of the most dangerous trends of our times is that increasing numbers of people have a vested interest in the helplessness of other people.”