David Rovics - TPP 101 lyrics

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 pa** this latest treaty, From behind closed doors And win another battle In the transnational cla** 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 sponsored links The idea that people have a say In whether we should be building windmills Or franking 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 we need 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 cla** to k** the other half?' So let's do like we do in the WC And flush the TPP! SOPA, PIPA, ACTA They couldn't get them pa**ed So now they've snuck them all into TPP Try running that one up the masck 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. So let's do like we do in the WC And flush the TPP! We do like we do in the WC And flush the TPP!