Posted on 10/02/2006 6:17:22 PM PDT by CTposterBoy
Oh good. More kooky articles about this. We've had a real shortage in the last 20 minutes or so.
How do you expedite trade if the borders remain intact? By creating regulations common to all three isn't that in effect erasing the border?
All the talk about increasing efficiency between the countries can't be done without relaxing border control.
Read Bush's speech about a "new America". He says "By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America."
When, during his campaign did he mention this outside of a captive audience of Cubans? He clearly has envisioned a "new America" for some time.
He also clearly empbraces multi-culturalism. Only if the multi-cultural society is made up of Americans and hispanics. Have you ever heard him extoll the virtues of Italians in New York, the Poles in Chicago, the Irish in Boston, the Danes and Swedes of Minnesota, the Germans in Wisconsin, the French in the south, the Asians in San Fransisco, etc?
We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture. Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende. For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America. As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico. George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000. |
Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:
In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster
The Path to National Suicide by Lawrence Auster (1990)
An essay on multi-culturalism and immigration.
How can we account for this remarkable silence? The answer, as I will try to show, is that when the Immigration Reform Act of 1965 was being considered in Congress, the demographic impact of the bill was misunderstood and downplayed by its sponsors. As a result, the subject of population change was never seriously examined. The lawmakers stated intention was that the Act should not radically transform Americas ethnic character; indeed, it was taken for granted by liberals such as Robert Kennedy that it was in the nations interest to avoid such a change. But the dramatic ethnic transformation that has actually occurred as a result of the 1965 Act has insensibly led to acceptance of that transformation in the form of a new, multicultural vision of American society. Dominating the media and the schools, ritualistically echoed by every politician, enforced in every public institution, this orthodoxy now forbids public criticism of the new path the country has taken. We are a nation of immigrants, we tell ourselves and the subject is closed. The consequences of this code of silence are bizarre. One can listen to statesmen and philosophers agonize over the multitudinous causes of our decline, and not hear a single word about the massive immigration from the Third World and the resulting social divisions. Opponents of population growth, whose crusade began in the 1960s out of a concern about the growth rate among resident Americans and its effects on the environment and the quality of life, now studiously ignore the question of immigration, which accounts for fully half of our population growth.
This curious inhibition stems, of course, from a paralyzing fear of the charge of racism. The very manner in which the issue is framedas a matter of equal rights and the blessings of diversity on one side, versus racism on the othertends to cut off all rational discourse on the subject. One can only wonder what would happen if the proponents of open immigration allowed the issue to be discussed, not as a moralistic dichotomy, but in terms of its real consequences. Instead of saying: We believe in the equal and unlimited right of all people to immigrate to the U.S. and enrich our land with their diversity, what if they said: We believe in an immigration policy which must result in a staggering increase in our population, a revolution in our culture and way of life, and the gradual submergence of our current population by Hispanic and Caribbean and Asian peoples. Such frankness would open up an honest debate between those who favor a radical change in Americas ethnic and cultural identity and those who think this nation should preserve its way of life and its predominant, European-American character. That is the actual choiceas distinct from the theoretical choice between equality and racismthat our nation faces. But the tyranny of silence has prevented the American people from freely making that choice.
I'd rather be wrong my way than yours.
The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
I'd rather be rational and respond to actual threats.
Maybe that's just me.
Auster's essay, a long one, predates Buchanan's attempt to make Americans aware of the impending disaster. I wonder if Buchanan read it picked up the idea from Auster.
Maybe that's just me.
I doubt it. There always has been a percentage of ostrich in human beings.
As well as at least an equal number of Chicken Littles.
Feel free to believe what you'd like. If we were all in agreement, this forum would be boring.
Good point... |
Good link by Auster.
To me this article has it about right.
The first I had ever heard the word "stakeholder" was in a government SPP article. Today on TV Bush was in California making a speech regarding the shootings in our schools. He is pushing his agenda using the NWO wording.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061003-4.html
"Yesterday, I instructed Attorney General Gonzales and Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings to convene a meeting next Tuesday, a meeting of leading experts and stakeholders to determine how best the federal government can help states and local governments improve school safety."
The new "PC" word?
Check out the various UN agencies. They have been using the 'stakeholder' concept since they created the property stealing, freedom stealing,anti-American catastrophe called Agenda 21. It is the basis of the WTO's grab for power, and the force behind the usurpation of individual rights in our country and the intended destruction of constitutional government.
We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down. Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefitting from their success -- only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, progressive, and free. Trust the people. This is the one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period contradicting the notion that rigid government controls are essential to economic development.
Ronald Reagan, September 29, 1981.
Reagan was a "free traitor"? Have fun!
Since George H.W.Bush was the father of NAFTA, I doubt that Reagan would have had thousands of pages written for NAFTA. Thousands of pages of government control for NAFTA or any free trade agreement was not Reagan's style.
I am aware of the UN agencies using the term "stakeholder". However, it did surprise me to see Bush using this word with the sad occasion of children dying. It looks like his agenda comes first.
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