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> Can we just have a breakdown of companies who played a large part in the TPP formation so we can boycott them?

Unfortunately, it isn't that simple. We need to know what each company was pushing for. For example, maybe the TPP turns out to be not quite as awful as it might have been, because Company X wouldn't stand for the awful stuff. We really don't want to boycott them in that case.

The big problem here is not the companies, anyway. It's the government. Companies are private entities. They can only be expected to push their own interests. But the government is supposed to represent the people. Theoretically, the government is what keeps private companies from running amok. When it fails to do so, we need to hold the government accountable. When it does just the opposite, and enshrines companies' unreasonable demands into law, then we have a serious problem.



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