Tpp 101 - David Rovics

Free traders and traitors, bankers and thieves Are at it once again

WTO just didn’t cut it So now there’s no telling when

They’ll pass this latest treaty From behind closed doors

And win another battle In the transnational class wars

They want Fast Track Authority So they can get the job done right

By which they mean no discussion Don’t even pretend to put up a fight

As they take from us our government’s Ability to regulate

What happens within the borders Of what they used to call the state

In what they used to call democracy The idea that people have a say

In whether we should be building windmills Or fracking our lives away

Whether banking regulations Are a good idea or not

Whether the food on your kitchen table Comes from a Monsanto plot

Whether the poor should die Or have affordable medication

Whether human life is less important Than your corporation

Whether this world is a commons Or just a free trade bill

That we need about as much As another oil spill

So let’s do like we do in the WC And flush the TPP

They say it’ll help the economy And they’ve said all that before

Like when they implemented NAFTA In 1994

The US lost a million jobs Of this there is no doubt

And in Mexico, small farmers Were almost completely wiped out

And when the refugees started streaming in They were treated just like tools

In the great game of the oligarchs The old divide and rule

Just like JP Morgan said «Why worry,» he laughed

«When I can pay half the working class To kill the other half»

SOPA, PIPA, ACTA They couldn’t get them passed

So now they’ve snuck them all into TPP Try running that one up the mast

In the back rooms no one knows Which corporation speaks

Except when secret documents Get sent to Wikileaks

And it’s only from the whistleblowers We even know it’s there

One for Asia, one for Europe Free trade everywhere

Free trade, free pollution Freedom for the billionaires

Enslavement for the rest of us But hey, they got theirs