It cost corporations less than $18,000 bucks per vote to get "fast track" passed in the United States Senate.

According to a recent analysis by The Guardian Newspaper, corporate members of the US Business Coalition for TPP donated more than $1.1 million dollars to Senate campaigns in the first quarter of 2015. The average Democrat received about $9,700 dollars and the average Republican raked in almost $20,000.

Although last-minute donations may have increased the price of approval, it looks like corporations got a pretty good deal on fast track and the American people got a raw deal from our lawmakers.

For a measly ten or twenty thousand bucks, U.S. Senators were willing to give up their constitutionally mandated power to modify legislation and hand control of our nation over to their corporate masters.

According to what we know about this massive, secret trade deal, our laws and regulations could be on the chopping block for their impact on corporate profits, and our jobs and sovereignty will be gone as well.

And, don't forget that when those who've lost their jobs apply for help from the so-called Trade Adjustment Assistance program, they'll be receiving those funds our of money that should have gone to pay for Medicare. That's because of a last-minute change to the fast track legislation that took $700 million dollars from seniors' healthcare to pay for the inevitable effects of corporate greed and the TPP.

It seems like every time we turn around we learn about another reason that this trade deal is bad news for our nation. But, that hasn't stopped 65 U.S. Senators from doing the bidding of their corporate masters.

We can't stop pushing Congress to say "No" to the Trans Pacific Partnership, and we must hold accountable those who answer to corporations instead of We, The People.

We may not be able to stop corporations from donating to Congress, but we can stop their money from having any real effect. Let's keep up the fight against SHAFTA, and let's make sure that those who support it find themselves out of work in their next election.

-Thom

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Thursday's Daily Stack 

Article: "Assembly passes bill to create single-payer health plan" (New York) by Matthew Hamilton.

Article: "Black people in Minneapolis nine times more likely to be arrested for petty crime" by Nicky Woolf.

Article: "Echoes of 2011: Kasich Eliminates Workers' Collective Bargaining Rights" by Mike Hall.

Article: "Segregationists never went away: We just call them "small-government conservatives" now" by Brittney Cooper.

Article: "Exclusive: Lee Atwater's Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy" by Rick Perlstein.

Article: "'F*cking A**hole': Conservatives go berserk after Bill Nye links Texas floods to climate change" by David Edwards.

Article: "I lost my dad to Fox News: How a generation was captured by thrashing hysteria" by Edwin Lyngar.

Article: "Fifa corruption inquiries: Officials arrested in Zurich" by BBC.

Article: "Ted Patrick" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fox News viewers worst-informed, study finds" by Chris Irvine.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Cruz to sign up for government health care" by Jennifer Jacobs.

Article: "Community Reinvestment Act" (Anti-redlining Act) (1977).

Book: " Walking Your Blues Away: How to Heal the Mind and Create Emotional Well-Being" by Thom Hartmann.

Speech: "Campaign dinner address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the Fala speech)", 9/23/1944 "According to that technique, you should never use a small falsehood; always a big one, for its very fantastic nature would make it more credible - if only you keep repeating it over and over and over again.".

Article: "TED talks".

Hour Two: Care For a Little Poison In your Food?
- Neil McCabe, Townhall/The Washington Mercury  

Article: "A Peak at the Past Decade Shows Us How Deadly Chinese Products Are" by Margaret Elkis.

Article: "Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement" (TPP) by EFF.

Article: "WTO Rejects U.S. Meat 'Origin' Labels" by Tennille Tracy.

Article: "Seventy-five percent of honey bought at the supermarket isn't real honey" by Lance Johnson.

Article: "Fort Bragg homes where infants died are declared safe" by Drew Brooks and Mike Hixenbaugh.

Article: "China to execute two over poisoned baby milk scandal" by Tania Branigan.

Article: "Report on the Subject of Manufactures" by Alexander Hamilton.

 

Article: "The Rich Get Richer: Titanic Stock Bubble Fueled by Buyback Blitz" by Mike Whitney.

Article: "Ownership society" by Wikipedia.

Site: Media Matters for America

Site: Snopes.

Site: Zero Hedge.

Book: "Rebooting the American Dream: 11 Ways to Rebuild Our Country" by Thom Hartmann (read online).

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Article: "Fifa corruption arrests: Nike reported to be 'multinational sportswear company' at centre of bribery claims over Brazil shirt deal" by Adam Withnall.

Article: "Chris Christie attacks Rand Paul for 'siding with' Edward Snowden" by Nick Gass.

Article: "Sen. Mike Lee: Christie 'should be ashamed' for coffin remark" by Jeremy Diamond.

Article: "What the USA Freedom Act giveth, and taketh away" by H.L. Pohlman.

Article: "Rick Santorum runs for White House again" by Jeremy Diamond.

Article: "EPA Grants Itself Power To Regulate Ponds, Ditches, Puddles" by Michael Bastasch.

Article: "Ditch the Myth" by EPA.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 5/28" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 5/27" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: Who Stole the American Dream...and Can We Get It Back?
- Hedrick Smith, Who Stole the American Dream/Reclaiming The American Dream 

Article: "What's Bugging Wall Street This Spring?" by Hedrick Smith.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Article: "Thatcherism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "UK miners' strike (1984-85)" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson.

Book: "Unsafe at Any Speed" by Ralph Nader.

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

Case: "First National Bank Of Boston V. Bellotti", 1978.

Law: "Tillman Act of 1907".

Article: "Los Angeles Lifts Its Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour" by Jennifer Medina and Noam Scheibermay.

Article: "Larry Fink Raises Tough Questions for Buyback Addicts" by Michael P Regan.

Article: "Republican Party Platform of 1956", August 20, 1956.

Law: "Glass-Steagall Act", 1933.

Article: "Fairness Doctrine" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Residents seek opposition to Citizens United" by Caitlin Andrews.

Site: Washington State Coalition to Amend the Constitution (WAmend).

Site: Fix Democracy First!.

Article: "How Public Anger Fueled Reform in Colorado".

Site: Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE).

Article: "Raising the minimum wage without raising havoc" (SeaTac) by Dana Milbank.

Article: "Publicly funded elections" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Governor in town announcing free tuition for all adults in TN" by Allie Hinds.

Article: "Tallahassee Voters Said No To Big Money, Corruption In City Politics" by Paul Blumenthal.

Book: Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-right Alliance To Dismantle The Corporate State by Ralph Nader.

Article: "Billionaire Lifts Marco Rubio, Politically and Personally" by Michael Barbaro and Steve Eder.

Site: Move to Amend

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Article: "Charles Koch: We like 5 GOP candidates in primaries" by Fredreka Schouten.

Article: "New Report: Outside Spending, Dark Money from Wealthy Few Booming Post-'Citizens United'" by Brennan Center for Justice.

Article: "Profits Without Prosperity" by Harvard Business Review.

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Site: Democracy for America

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