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Well, the so-called Free Trade treaties, which I don't like to call that, they're designed to transfer power from our governments to companies. They all do this in one way, which is they let companies threaten to move to another country, or move their operations; and so any time the people are demanding that a government protect the environment, or the public health, or the general standard of living, or anything else that's more important than just who's going to buy and sell what, companies can say &ldquo;we're against this, and if you do this we'll just move our operations elsewhere&rdquo; and the politicians now have a wonderful excuse for why they're not going to do it.