| Deyon said: Can somebody explain to me whats going on? I'm tooo stupid to understand the OP. |
Basically, a company under this bill would be able to sue a country if it infringed it's "right to profit". This means if a country has a certain regulation or law the company don't like, it can pressure governments even more to remove, regardless of the consequences. For example, with the BP oil spill in gulf of Mexico in 2010 (i don't know if you know about that), no one could actually force BP to clean it up if this law had existed, ruining the environment and local economy.
The problem with this bill is that companies are not elected, but governments are. As with any dictatorship, they don't know the ordinary people so well and so feel they can get away with anything and so our quality of life would suffer big time. People may not like "big government" in the US, but all they try to do most of the time is guarantee a minimum standard of life, most of the time. We have a right to clean water, food, shelter, education, employment and a good and safe environment. This bill could potentially rid us of the lot. This bill can't be passed.
It threatens democracy as unelected companies could force elected government to do away with anything that stops them milking that cash cow (profit) as much as they can. Even if the people, don't agree to it. Companies would be able to mold government to whatever they liked, in any country too.
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