As you know, the Trans-Pacific "Partnership" is signed, sealed, and delivered to Congress -- but Congress has hesitated to actually ratify the deal, because everyone in America hates it. Why do we hate it? We hate it because it will outsource our jobs to foreign lands where workers are accustomed to making less money, and we hate it because it will allow corporations to nullify our laws via its more widespread use of "investor-state tribunals." So, to sum: we hate it because it will crush our livelihoods, and because it opposes law and order. And yet Senate Majority Leader/Great and Awesome Real American Super-President Mitch McConnell thinks it's OK to say out loud that Congress should try passing the TPP in the lame-duck session after the election -- because no one who's running right now wants to run on their support for it! So, for Mitch McConnell, the livelihoods of other politicians are more important than yours -- and he might as well have just come out and said your will means nothing to him, too. So Demand Progress helps you tell your Congressfolk to reject the TPP, now and in the lame-duck.
Meanwhile, CREDO helps you tell the Senate Judiciary Committee to pressure the Obama Administration to force monopolies apart. The most-cited examples of monopoly power in the U.S. include the two cable corporations that are the only game in town in more than half of America's markets, and the four corporations that own the vast majority of American media organs, but it's worse than that -- two corporations have cornered the market on toothpaste, four corporations have done so in airlines, three in private health insurance, and five in book publishing. Contra recent propaganda that monopolies "free" up corporations to create more jobs and provide better service, the only thing monopolies do is redistribute income upward to corporate CEOs -- if you're the only game in town, what incentive do you have to do anything else, let alone anything worthwhile? You have no incentive to improve services without competition, and no incentive to create jobs without competition; when you're a monopoly, you sit on your ass. And that doesn't help good Americans pursue their God-given right to be free.
Finally, if you've missed previous opportunities to tell the Governor of California to prohibit the use of oil wastewater to irrigate crops in California, then Breast Cancer Action still helps you do that. California, as you know unless you're Donald Trump, has been in a drought for over five years now, and aside from its population of over 39 million people (all of whom drink water, I'm pretty sure), California also provides two-thirds of the nation's fruit and one-third of the nation's vegetables. Hence, the bold solution, where oil corporations sell farmers their wastewater -- declaring it safe, of course, though you'd prefer a more objective opinion on that matter. But an actual conservative might tell you that you shouldn't make the solution worse than the problem, which this solution surely is. The reactionaries who insist on being called "conservative" these days figure that whatever helps big corporations must also be helping America. But even if the business of America were only business, you'd think they'd see that bad PR from using wastewater on crops would hurt California's business.
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