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Originally Posted by HarryT
Sorry, Ralph, I must have misunderstood you. I thought from your previous post that you were being asked to vote on the issue, and hence would have known what it was about. Presumably you will know what the text says before you vote?
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The original line refers to a certain health care bill that Congress voted in before *any* of the pols read it. (In their "defense": 10,000 pages of agate text with so many dependencies not even the drafters know what will kick in when.)
The same likely applies go the TPP: it will likely take 10 years of legal wrangling before we know what the effects are for the US. This kind of monster package deal is so wrapped in legalese and hidden compromises it will take years of analysis to figure out what the words really mean.
Other nations will have to deal with their own repercussions as they are litigated.