Similarities Between TTP Trade Deal, Common Core & The Student Success Act
Another sovereignty grab, this time the Federal sovereignty is to be handed over to an international body.
Do you notice similarities between the Trans-Atlantic Trade & Investment Partnership (TTIP) Trade Deal, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)/ trade promotion authority (TPA) Republican leadership and President Obama are trying to pass with Common Core adoption? The bills/mandate involve lack of transparency with the voters, the urgency of passage (it’s a crisis!) and the fact that those agreeing to the mandates/law don’t know what’s in the text of what they are supporting. Many of the politicians have not even read the trade bill and the taxpayers (and also may politicians) only have surface knowledge of the details and ramifications of the bill. It’s ironic that this lack of transparency mimics the famous we have to pass it so we can find out what’s in it line from Speaker Nancy Pelosi regarding her urging of the passage of The Affordable Health Care Act and she is now demanding transparency for this bill. In fact, it was Pelosi who was instrumental in derailing the trade bill’s passage last week in the House. (How lack of transparency is permissible for some bills but not others is another post for another day).
This bill takes away the sovereignty of American courts and it will be necessary for international sources to settle future disputes. The bill will require the loss of American jobs and workers are promised there will be millions of dollars available for job retraining. One ‘minor issue’ is that these millions are to come from Medicaid. Who will be cut from the Medicaid rolls and where will the new jobs be located and what are these new jobs? Those details are not disclosed. It is reminiscent of how the CCSS consortia were to be funded after the Federal stimulus funding ran out which provided their existence.
The United States government is supposed to be for the people to protect their individual rights, not to lordover the people and to hand American sovereignty to oligarchs. So it is with Common Core. TheSimilarities Between TTP Trade Deal, Common Core & The Student Success Act » Missouri Education Watchdog:
