#p21 #tlot #tcot #teaparty #union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 NAFTA, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Clinton Global Initiative http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michele-swenson/nafta-the-transpacific-clinton_b_5523327.html NAFTA promoters in the '90s promised increased U.S. exports and jobs, with shrinking trade deficits. Senior Fellows of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), projected a NAFTA-induced trade surplus with Mexico, in turn, creating 170,000 new U.S. jobs by 1995. Within two years of NAFTA's passage, PIIE prognosticators readjusted their projection of new NAFTA-created jobs downward to "zero." The same group, created by billionaire corporate cheerleader Pete Peterson, is again forecasting increased exports and jobs if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is passed... RELATED: http://www.popularresistance.org/clinton-global-initiative-for-rigged-corporate-trade/ ALSO RELATED: http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/07/10/how-population-growth-free-trade-and-inequality-produced-a-calamity-on-the-border/