The TPP is a disaster waiting to happen. As I understand it, all our environmental laws are negated to foreign investors. Should we file suit against a foreign investor on environmental grounds (coal fired plants, for instance, should China build one here), that foreign owner can sue our government for lost revenues. This can result in billions and billions of dollars our government would have to pay to the foreign entity.
Thom lived in in Michigan's UP (written about in "The Prophet's Way")
From Screwed:
"I think many of us recognize that for all but the wealthiest, life in America is getting increasingly hard. Screwed explores why, showing how this is no accidental process, but rather the product of conscious political choices, choices we can change with enough courage and commitment. Like all of Thom’s great work, it helps show us the way forward."
—Paul Loeb, author of Soul of a Citizen and The Impossible Will Take a Little While
From Screwed:
"If we are going to live in a Democracy, we need to have a healthy middle class. Thom Hartmann shows us how the ‘cons’ have wronged this country, and tells us what needs to be done to reclaim what it is to be American."
—Eric Utne, Founder, Utne magazine
From The Thom Hartmann Reader:
"Through compelling personal stories, Hartmann presents a dramatic and deeply disturbing picture of humans as a profoundly troubled species. Hope lies in his inspiring vision of our enormous unrealized potential and his description of the path to its realization."
—David Korten, author of Agenda for a New Economy, The Great Turning, and When Corporations Rule the World
The TPP is a disaster waiting to happen. As I understand it, all our environmental laws are negated to foreign investors. Should we file suit against a foreign investor on environmental grounds (coal fired plants, for instance, should China build one here), that foreign owner can sue our government for lost revenues. This can result in billions and billions of dollars our government would have to pay to the foreign entity.