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A Disaster in the Making: The TPP

2/27/2016

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A Disaster in the Making: The TPP

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                                     By Susan Steffen-Kraft

Senator Sessions has stated that a potential TPP deal would cause “a diminishment of the individual citizens’ power” because the United States president’s vote for a deal would be on par with that of the sultan of Brunei. "It has all the earmarks of how the European Union got started. And it transfers American sovereignty, the sultan of Brunei gets the same vote as the President of the United States, and they can pass all kinds of things that could bind Americans in a lot of different ways. And as you know fundamentally, we don’t have any control over them. We can’t vote out the sultan of Brunei. This is a diminishment of the individual citizens’ power. It is a transfer to this President, and to an international organization that we have no reason to believe will serve our interests." 

NAFTA, CAFTA, Permanent Normal Trade Relation with China and the South Korea Free Trade agreement. Over and over again the supporters of these deals have been proven wrong about creating more jobs. Now comes the TPP! The year 2001 brought a loss of 60,000 manufacturing plants in this country plus the fact we have lost more than 4.7 million decent-paying manufacturing jobs.

NAFTA has led to the loss of nearly 700,000 jobs and the PNTR with China led to the loss of 2.7 million jobs which is a crying shame. To top it off our trade agreement with South Korea led to the loss of about 75,000 jobs. Folks the writing is on the wall and while other things contributed to these losses these agreements have been a very important factor. Do we want more of this? We need to keep our jobs here in this country!


 We could easily lose our National Sovereignty because the TPP would exempt foreign corporations from our laws and regulations. This would place the resolution of any disputes regarding those matters in the hands of an Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) tribunal or the WTO. Of course that would be unconstitutionally creating another international judicial authority higher than our own courts and legislature in our own country.  
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​These agreements will put American businesses (of the small and medium-size  which are geared primarily for our domestic market) at a serious competitive disadvantage. Worse yet, the foreign firms that could operate here would be unburdened by the costly and onerous regulatory shackles that are crippling and destroying American free enterprise.


 “There’s a great number of people in Congress on both sides of the aisle who are very beholden to big business—what I call the chamber of crony capitalism,” says Jay Devereaux of Unite in Action a Tea Party group. “It’s all about favors for their buddies, and the average American be damned and it’s really unfortunate.” On the other hand we have people who are against the TPP and their agreement on this would surprise you.
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In this situation, the American worker is competing against for example, the people of Vietnam who are earning 56 cents an hour. We cannot compete against that. The people are not treated well in that country and although I am against unions overall the Vietnamese have no one to help them. For even expressing a political belief they can be thrown in jail. Corporations are outsourcing jobs to China, Mexico, Vietnam, India and other poor countries. They will continue to do so in order to get those big global profits.  

Between the years of 2001 and 2011, 2.7 million U.S. jobs were lost or displaced. The danger is that the TPP would usher in another wave of outsourcing. It would cause remaining manufacturing and technology bases as be offered incentives to move to Pacific Rim countries which would result in millions more American job losses. Can we afford that? We are already in trouble economically. 

Many strange bedfellows are against the TPP and to name a few;  Donald Trump said in May of 2015 that this "agreement is a disaster which other countries will use to dupe the United States.  Senator Bernie Sanders who states that "Wall Street and other big corporations have won again. It is time for the rest of us to stop letting multinational corporations rig the system to pad their profits at our expense,"  he said.  
​Former Senator of  Virginia Jim Webb has stated that there is “too much at stake for Congress to vote on Fast Track without seeing full details of the trade agreement beforehand.”   The ex-Gov. of Maryland Martin O'Malley repeatedly voiced his opposition to fast-track authority and secret trade deals. All four of these men were in the running for President and two of them still are.
 
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Strange bedfellows indeed are coming together.
There are powerful Democrat interest groups who are in a major revolt against the TPP agreement. An alliance of labor, environmental, consumer, gay rights and human rights groups reacted angrily to the
fine print of the TPP published online by the White House, saying the impact on U.S. workers, consumers and the environment is worse than they feared. 
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said the nation’s biggest labor group “will join with our allies to defeat the TPP."
Democracy for America, a major grass-roots progressive group, said lawmakers should oppose the pact “if they want to keep their jobs.”

“Like a vote for the Iraq War, a vote for the job-killing TPP will never be forgotten and will haunt them for years to come,” said Charles Chamberlain, president of Democracy for America. Even Nancy Pelosi was against this bill. Wow! As for Harry Reid, "I'm not a big fan of fast-tracking," he told reporters on Capitol Hill in Dec. 2014. "I think that trade agreements in the past have not been good for American workers." 

The John Birch Society who is as far from the AFL-CIO and Democracy for America as you can get is also against the TPP. Tea Party Nation and the socially conservative Eagle Forum are also not the usual kind to join hands with the Democrats and the AFL-CIO or Democracy for America. “They’re pushing this through not because of the American people or capitalism, but because they’re cronies and they’re corporatists, and they’re telling us to stick it,” stated Mark Levin a conservative radio talk show host.
 
An activist, Matthew Covington, urged Rep. David Young, an Iowa Republican to beware of the executive overreach that Obama would be engaging in if he secured fast-track powers.  Covington recounted that “I said, ‘This is such a large trade deal and the Constitution gives Congress the authority to regulate that, not the president. This would give the authority to the president. But we elected you to give you that authority, to see what’s in this trade deal, to make sure it doesn’t jeopardize Iowa values,’ ”  

​Now is Covington part of the Tea Party? The answer is he is not! He has even hosted Bernie Sanders for a barn-storming tour of Iowa and is an organizer with a 40-year-old progressive organization. The name of this group is Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement and it made its name in recent years fighting factory farming, payday lending, and wage-theft and is closely tied to labor unions. 

Sherrod Brown is another one and he is not known for being conservative at all. He is well, he is a Democrat fighting against the TPP.  “Fundamentally what these trade agreements have done is encouraged companies to follow business plans, which were sort of unknown until 20 years ago, where you shut down production in Steubenville or Toledo and move it to Wuhan or Mexico City and sell the products back into the United States,” he said.

​“They talk about increased exports, but that’s a lot like saying well the Tigers got 5 runs, but the Indians got 7,” adds Brown of the United States Trade Representative office which has been lobbying the Democrats. “So you’ve got to talk exports-imports and every trade agreement we pass, we end up losing more jobs — good-paying manufacturing jobs, often union jobs, sometimes not.”  


“Opposition to the TPP is growing daily, as more people are learning about its disastrous consequences,” says Rep. Alan Grayson who is a Democrat from Florida, who has helped lead Democratic opposition to the deal. “Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, a liberal or a conservative, it’s clear that the TPP is a sell-out to foreign corporations that will gut our manufacturing base, and make our trade deficits soar.”

Senator Elizabeth Warren is afraid that if the TPP is passed, a some president in the future might use the TPP to change regulations like Dodd-Frand which is meant to safeguard U.S. investors.


Right now, the Obama administration is engaged in secretive negotiations with representatives from 11 other nations to push through a massive trade deal called the Trans Pacific Partnership, or TPP.
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On 11/05/15 I received a e-mail from Campaign for America's future which warned that t
he text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)  is a total disaster. 
That is, unless you are "one of the corporations that inserted into it anti-competitive, anti-consumer provisions favoring their industries. For them, it’s an early Christmas present.
It means drug companies will be able to extend their monopoly pricing over new, life-saving drugs, often built on research paid for by taxpayers through the National Institutes of Health.

New cancer treatments, vaccines and even a cure for HIV could be put out of reach to all but the affluent because this trade deal would allow the pharmaceutical companies to price them for profit, not for people – and keep competing generic drugs off the market longer.
It gets worse. Foreign banks will have the ability to challenge and even overturn our financial regulations. The TPP will send jobs overseas, push wages down, weaken unions and make it harder to protect our environment". 


Paige Richardson who is the Director of Oregon Right to Know says that the "TPP is like NAFTA on steroids, giving incredible power to multinational agribusiness companies at the expense of small farms and our environment. In fact, the United States’ lead TPP negotiator for agriculture is a former Monsanto lobbyist!

​In fact under the TPP, corporations could sue local governments in secretive international trade tribunals for enacting pro-consumer regulations that hurt corporate profits – effectively giving companies like Monsanto the ability to veto the will of the people in favor of their own self interest."
Because the TPP is being negotiated in secret, we have no clue whether it will directly address GMO labeling, but it’s likely that at the very least it will punish countries that enact GMO labeling laws; that is if it doesn’t ban labeling laws outright.

 Here are some of the big guns behind the TPP;  "Goldman Sachs, Boeing, Dow Chemical, Unilever, Chevron, Caterpillar, UPS, Walmart, Chase, Citi — and a bevy of Big Business coalitions: Global Business Dialogue, Business Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Transatlantic Policy Network, Atlantic Council, and more". They are “crony capitalists,” not free enterprise capitalists. These powerful companies  prefer to use the power of government and not use  innovation, risk, and the ideal of an excellence to prosper.

Many of these crony corporations and associations have their own representatives working directly with the TPP/TTIP negotiators, and because they are the “cleared” elites they  get privileged access to the documents you and I don’t get to see, and your elected representative would only have access to under extreme controls.

The current status of the TPP is this; the TPP is a trade agreement among twelve Pacific Rim countries. On Feb. 4, 2016 it was signed in Auckland, New Zealand after negotiations of seven years which has not entered into force.
 The TPP may turn out to be the worst trade agreement in decades a
nd now faces an uphill battle for ratification.  The reason is that almost all the leading Democratic presidential candidates and many of the Republicans have weighed in against it, as well they should.

We must ask if it is really be worth sacrificing our national sovereignty and independence for these supposed benefits? Would it be worth sacrificing our liberty and our Constitution given to us by our forefathers? Is it worth the cost of subjecting ourselves and the future generations to come to the rule of international bureaucrats and judges? Those questions go straight to the core of what the TPP and TTIP are all about and you should ask yourself if it is indeed worth the cost.
http://www.unionleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20150520/OPINION02/150529978, 
http://americanactionnews.com/articles/sessions-continues-tpp-critique-a-diminishment-of-the-individual-citizens-power-audio, 
https://www.rt.com/usa/317718-sanders-trump-candidates
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http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/12/obama-trade-deals-congress-transpacificpartnership, 
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2015/02/democrats_working_with_tea_party_against_obama_s_trade_deal_the_president.html,
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Pledging Their Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor

2/16/2016

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Pledging Their Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor

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                                  By Susan Steffen-Kraft

We should know what pledging your life means and even your fortune. One could easily lose one's fortune if you invested it in everything or took a stand for something.  In this case our forefathers could be arrested and the British King could confiscate everything.  There goes your fortune whatever amount it is, and your family could be on the streets penniless or in prison.

Our forefathers were well aware by signing the Declaration of Independence that if they lost the Revolutionary War what could happen to them.  If caught, of course, they would be thrown in jail and according to history, traitors were many times hanged, drawn, and quartered. In fact, John Hancock had a price of 500 pounds on his head which shows you how bad the King wanted him. 


Pledging your life.  Our forefathers would have been punished if they would have lost the Revolutionary War. What they were doing was considered treasonous.  If captured during the war can you imagine what the king would have had in store for them. Please try and think what it would mean to lose your life and fortune. Your life even if you were not killed would be changed. During this war many estates were burned, families driven into exile. The cattle that some owned were butchered to feed the British army. So yes, their lives were changed.
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When Patrick Henry declared, "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" he was not speaking in an idle manner. He knew what would await if they were unsuccessful.
The above picture is of Richard Stockman who also knew that meaning. You will read more about him below.  I picked him, but there were in fact seven of these men who never lived to see what they signed on the document. Seventeen of them lost everything they owned which was their fortunes, their states, everything — the British utterly destroyed them. Four of them lost their wives and four of them lost their kids. Five became prisoners of war. So if you think they did not understand what they were doing, think again.

 But Sacred Honor and what it means?  It means honesty, fairness and integrity. That embodies some of what sacred honor means. 
At that time, honor was regarded as not only a personal honor (knowing that you do the right thing at all times) but it is also your reputation. 
They were willing to have that honor besmirched by the lies and the muck that would have been cast upon them had they failed. The Founders pled
ged their status as gentlemen with honor.


Honor sometimes drove men to duels per example defending a ladies' honor. In this case however, it would be for their beliefs and what they stood for. They were standing against the King of England and for this country to survive and become a country separate from England. They believed in honor and in acting honorably. 


The word sacred actually means holding something holy and it is very special. Dedicated to God and to what they believed was a holy destiny. The holy and the divine is what they used when saying Sacred honor. Our forefathers would not back down and would not deviate from this cause they believed was right and just.
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Yes, their dream seemed impossible, their ideas were treacherous according to the King of England and some even here in America disagreed with them.
Under those circumstances how many men today would stand for these ideals and give up their money, lives and honor; very few I fear.  To be frank, honor just plain means religious honor no matter which religion you were part of. That is how sacred they held this in regard. They had character which they would not violate in regards to this country and the documents they were signing.

 It would take character to stand tall for a just cause. It takes character to tell the truth in spite of what might happen. They were telling the truth and stating their beliefs when they signed their names to the Declaration of Independence. If they had signed it and were lying. then what would have been the point to pledge their all? 

For over a century, Americans learned what freedom meant and for the next two centuries they lived it. In this century I fear we are in danger of losing it. I see troubling times ahead for our nation and indeed we are in past the beginning of these troubling times if you have been following the news.

There is very little sacred or honorable in today's politics. Our forefathers would absolutely be disgusted if they could see how Congress, the President, and our Supreme Court acts. They pledge nothing to us and if they did I fear I would call most of them liars.  

​The Declaration says, in its second paragraph, that when a people is subjected to a long train of abuses aiming at absolute despotism, "it is their right, it is their duty," to change the government. This duty is higher than one's own personal survival or selfish interest. It may in fact require the sacrifice of one's own life. 
Honor and duty are superior to rights and self-interest which is what some people today believe the signers of that document believed were espousing; selfishness. That could not be further from the truth.
 I am going to give an example of one who lost everything except his honor. I have put this video of the Impossible Dream because this describes Mr. Richard Stockton and the other signers. He refused to give up his honor. He found out that the British were coming to arrest him. He fled to a neighbors house with his family where he hoped to be safe. Unfortunately he was betrayed by a Loyalist. 

"The judge was dragged from bed and beaten, then thrown into prison. This distinguished jurist, who had worn the handsome robes of a colonial court, now shivered in a common jail, abused and all but starved.

A shocked Congress arranged for his parole. Made an invalid by the harsh treatment he had received, he returned to (his home at) Morven to find his furniture and clothing burned, his fine horses stolen, and his library — one of the finest private collections in the country — completely destroyed. The hiding place of exquisite family silver, hastily buried, had been betrayed by a servant.


The Stockton's were so destitute that they had to accept charity as the judge’s fortune was gone, too. He had pledged it and his life to his country and he lost both. He did not live to see the Revolution won". He died in fact, at age 51 which was way to young.    


Thus he kept his honor but his life and fortune were gone because he truly embodied the Impossible Dream. He was put through Hell for a Heavenly Cause.  No one said that Freedom is Free for it is not. The signers paid a price and made many sacrifices for this freedom that many so casually speak of today and little understand. Could we go back in time we would see and know what they truly went through. 

God needs Men!  Men who will stand for the right though the Heavens fall around them. " The world needs men and women... who cannot be bought; whose word is their bond; who put character above wealth; who possess opinions and a strong will; who are larger than their vocations; who do not hesitate to take risks; who will not lose their individuality in a crowd; who will be as honest in small affairs as in greater; who will make no compromise with wrong; whose ambitions are not confined to their own selfish desires; who will not say they do it "because everybody else does it;" who are true to their friends through good and bad, in adversity as well as in prosperity; who do not believe that shrewdness, cunning, and hardheadedness are the best qualities for winning success; who are not ashamed or afraid to stand for the truth when it is unpopular; who can say "no" with emphasis, although all the rest of the world says "yes".

This would describe beyond a shadow of a doubt the men who pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. Examine deep down inside of yourself....are you such a man or woman?
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The Rock of Honor

1. The five point star on a blue background: is representative of Idaho’s star on the United States Flag, the #43, Idaho, July 3, 1890 denotes that we were the 43rd state to join the union on that date.
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1893 just above Meridian’s logo is when the City of Meridian was established.

3. The Pentagon shape represents the five branches of our services. 

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4. The words: Preserve, Freedom, Courage and Honor is the Mission of the Rock of Honor Memorial Inc, to preserve our Freedoms that have been handed down by our forefathers, guaranteed by the United States Constitution, and to Honor the people that have had the Courage to defend those rights. To Preserve and Honor the Memory of those who have died in defense of our great nation. To teach and pass on the rights and freedoms we have inherited. To demonstrate the Courage to Honor our veterans Preserving our Freedoms.


5. The wording is the inscription on the Rock of Honor written by John Harrington Burns.

6. 
The image above the wording is an image of the center stones at the Memorial.

http://captainjamesdavis.net/2011/08/03/founders-forefathers-pledged-their-sacred-honor-what-did-they-mean/,
 http://www.geni.com/people/Richard-Stockton-Signer-of-The-Declaration-of-Independence/6000000000967255080,
 http://www.amazon.com/They-signed-us-Merle-Sinclair/dp/B0007DV7J8, 
http://nwcreation.net/sample_content/for_you_they_signed.pdf, ​http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/the-bible-inspired-the-founding-fathers-to-seize-their-birthright-freedom-now-were-in-danger-of-losing-it/,
cool quotes collection,
 http://www.founding.com/the_declaration_of_i/pageID.2429/default.asp,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/2010/04/09/glenn-beck-faith-our-founders.html


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The Export-Import Bank; Corporate Welfare for Business!

2/3/2016

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The Export-Import Bank; Corporate Welfare for Business!

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                                    By Susan Steffen-Kraft 

 President Franklin D. Roosevelt was the very liberal president who started the Export-Import Bank in 1934 as a New Deal program to boost exports. The Export-Import Bank does not offer import assistance in the U.S. Instead, it gives loan guarantees, loans and insurance to help foreign companies and some of those have credit that is not so great. It helps these companies buy U.S. goods because private banks cannot or will not make loans to industries that include aerospace, energy and manufacturing because  sometimes those companies have less-than-perfect credit.

 The Ex-Im bank says the default rate was less than 1 percent since 1934. However opponents have said that Ex-Im loans could be vulnerable in a downturn, leaving taxpayers stuck with the bill; and they have notated that the current low interest rates made it a good time to get rid of this institution though phasing it out. 

The victims of these loans are the taxpayers who bear the brunt at this point of $140 billion in liabilities. This statement about the amount owed came in June 2015. I am sure it will only continue to grow now that it has been re-authorized. It also affects the taxpayers pocketbooks. We, as the consumer, pay a higher prices for the purchase of these subsidized goods. We are the victims of unsubsidized firms competing with subsidized ones.

 Many are even victimized multiple times as taxpayers,  consumers,  competitors, and finally as a borrower. Sadly, we will never see the businesses that could have been because of the Ex-Im. We will never hear from the workers whose wages weren’t raised or whose jobs disappeared because of unfair competition from the Ex-Im 
backed firms. These victims matter and economists tell us that the cost to them is bigger than the benefits to the winners.
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We know that Democrats vilify Wall Street banks and yet these same big banks make a  profit off Ex-Im like few others, receiving billions in Ex-Im corporate welfare like few do. Of course, Wall Street’s big banks vigorously support Ex-Im because of course they have hardworking taxpayers to bail out any Wall Street losses. By voting for Ex-Im, Democrats are throwing Wall Street a big, wet kiss despite their vilification of Wall Street. A paradox, is what I am thinking. By the by, whatever you think of Senator Bernie Sanders he has taken a stand with many of the GOP who are against this. In both 2012 and 2015, he was the only Democratic Party-aligned lawmaker (although technically Independent/Socialist) in either congressional chamber who continued voting against the standalone re-authorization bills and he has not softened his rhetoric. “At a time when almost every major corporation in this country has shut down plants and outsourced millions of American jobs, we should not be providing corporate welfare to multi-national corporations through the Export-Import Bank," he commented after his June 2015 vote. I congratulate Bernie Sanders on his stand.
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Ex-Im claims to be friendly to small business, but the money goes to Big Business.  According to Veronique de Rugy of the Mercatus Center, between 2007 and 2013 the Bank subsidized $66.7 billion in sales by Boeing. Ex-Im also underwrote $8.3 billion for General Electric, $5.2 billion for Bechtel, $4.9 billion for Caterpillar and its subsidiary Solar Turbine, $3.2 billion for CBI Americas, $3.0 for Exxon Mobil, $2.1 billion for Applied Materials, $2.0 billion for Westinghouse, and $1.4 billion for Noble Drilling. During that period Boeing enjoyed 35 percent, GE 4.4 percent, and Bechtel 2.7 percent of the Bank’s largesse. In 2012, noted Timothy Carney of the Washington Examiner, the aircraft maker accounted for 83 percent of all loan guarantees. 

​The following year just five firms collected 93 percent of the loan guarantees. Also in 2013 the top ten ExIm beneficiaries accounted for two-thirds of the Bank’s total activities: Boeing, General Electric, Bechtel, Applied Materials, Caterpillar, Space Systems/Loral, Komatsu America, Case New Holland, Ford, and Sikorsky Aircraft. Other frequent beneficiaries include Dow Chemical, John Deere, and Lockheed Martin".

As for the foreign companies; as an example, these state owned names to name a few are
 Pemex, the Mexican government’s oil and gas giant and Air Emirates, the airline which is owned by the Emirates group. The group is owned by the uncle of the current Prime Minister of UAE and the uncle's name is Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum who is the head of the Civil Aviation of United Arab Emirates.  

Naturally, Emirates has a high influence of the government in Dubai and should have plenty of money on it's own. Funny. how the Mid-East and the U. S. are so entangled in business and yet they are supposedly our enemies. Saudi has money in Fox news and Ex-Im loans to a Dubai government connected company. Better still, Emirates is in partnership with U.S. Airways. As I have always believed and stated, "Follow the money trail!" 
 The acting inspector general for Ex-Im has put in a report to  Congress that there are active investigations into corruption and fraud at the bank and the number sits at 29. Think folks, 29 active investigations on this. The number could grow and I wonder how many acts of corruption and fraud there are that are not being investigated. Of course, the fact that bank employees have been caught accepting gifts, kickbacks and cash in exchange for directing taxpayer loans to specific companies should not be overlooked. They should be killing this program instead of renewing it all the time.

When you realize that  “the largest foreign companies and banks all get subsidies from U.S. ExIm, and China’s ExIm gets direct subsidies from U.S. Ex-Im.” This statement from Timothy Carney of the Washington Examiner. So we are helping China also in this way. As if that were not enough, Ex-Im is in danger of becoming another Enron. That company was mismanaged and there was lots of misconduct. Guess who gave them financing at one time? Why of course, it was Ex-Im.

​Big Business enters into these games with the government which allies them with the government at the cost of stunted economic growth and anti-competitive directives.
 Having​​ a fundamental tax reform and tort reform along with regulatory reform will help to strengthen our economy and help out small businesses and the business entrepreneurs that start and run them. Corporate welfare can not match that. 
So ask yourself, where is the justice in lining the pockets of the elite who already have money? This could leave the taxpayer on the hook for billions in bad loans. There is no justice for doing so and there is no excuse for doing so. 
   http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/bernie-sanders-gop-ally-opposing-export-import-bank-2125378, http://www.bloombergview.com/quicktake/u-s-export-import-bank, Financial Services Committee <fsc.gop.press@mail.house.gov>, https://www.quora.com/Who-owns-Emirates-Airlines, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirates_(airline), http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/29/veronique-de-rugy-shut-down-export-import-bank/?page=all, http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-07-01/ex-im-bank-bites-dust-today-good-riddance-crony-capitalist-heist, http://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/contributors/2015/10/13/wenstrup-good-riddance-ex-bank/73858338/, http://wenstrup.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398999, PRESS RELEASE
October 27, 2015 from Rep. Jeb Hensarling  Sent from the Committee on Financial Services
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