Posted on 06/12/2006 6:23:16 AM PDT by conservativecorner
Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.
Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman’s Union in the process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation’s most modern highway straight into the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross border in FAST lanes, checked only electronically by the new “SENTRI” system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, their new Smart Port complex, a facility being built for Mexico at a cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City.
As incredible as this plan may seem to some readers, the first Trans-Texas Corridor segment of the NAFTA Super Highway is ready to begin construction next year. Various U.S. government agencies, dozens of state agencies, and scores of private NGOs (non-governmental organizations) have been working behind the scenes to create the NAFTA Super Highway, despite the lack of comment on the plan by President Bush. The American public is largely asleep to this key piece of the coming “North American Union” that government planners in the new trilateral region of United States, Canada and Mexico are about to drive into reality.
Just examine the following websites to get a feel for the magnitude of NAFTA Super Highway planning that has been going on without any new congressional legislation directly authorizing the construction of the planned international corridor through the center of the country.
NASCO, the North America SuperCorridor Coalition Inc., is a “non-profit organization dedicated to developing the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.” Where does that sentence say anything about the USA? Still, NASCO has received $2.5 million in earmarks from the U.S. Department of Transportation to plan the NAFTA Super Highway as a 10-lane limited-access road (five lanes in each direction) plus passenger and freight rail lines running alongside pipelines laid for oil and natural gas. One glance at the map of the NAFTA Super Highway on the front page of the NASCO website will make clear that the design is to connect Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. into one transportation system.
Kansas City SmartPort Inc. is an “investor based organization supported by the public and private sector” to create the key hub on the NAFTA Super Highway. At the Kansas City SmartPort, the containers from the Far East can be transferred to trucks going east and west, dramatically reducing the ground transportation time dropping the containers off in Los Angeles or Long Beach involves for most of the country. A brochure on the SmartPort website describes the plan in glowing terms: “For those who live in Kansas City, the idea of receiving containers nonstop from the Far East by way of Mexico may sound unlikely, but later this month that seemingly far-fetched notion will become a reality.”
The U.S. government has housed within the Department of Commerce (DOC) an “SPP office” that is dedicated to organizing the many working groups laboring within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada to create the regulatory reality for the Security and Prosperity Partnership. The SPP agreement was signed by Bush, President Vicente Fox, and then-Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Tex., on March 23, 2005. According to the DOC website, a U.S.-Mexico Joint Working Committee on Transportation Planning has finalized a plan such that “(m)ethods for detecting bottlenecks on the U.S.-Mexico border will be developed and low cost/high impact projects identified in bottleneck studies will be constructed or implemented.” The report notes that new SENTRI travel lanes on the Mexican border will be constructed this year. The border at Laredo should be reduced to an electronic speed bump for the Mexican trucks containing goods from the Far East to enter the U.S. on their way to the Kansas City SmartPort.
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is overseeing the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) as the first leg of the NAFTA Super Highway. A 4,000-page environmental impact statement has already been completed and public hearings are scheduled for five weeks, beginning next month, in July 2006. The billions involved will be provided by a foreign company, Cintra Concessions de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A. of Spain. As a consequence, the TTC will be privately operated, leased to the Cintra consortium to be operated as a toll-road. The details of the NAFTA Super Highway are hidden in plan view. Still, Bush has not given speeches to bring the NAFTA Super Highway plans to the full attention of the American public. Missing in the move toward creating a North American Union is the robust public debate that preceded the decision to form the European Union. All this may be for calculated political reasons on the part of the Bush Administration.
A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico may be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the heart of the U.S., all without the involvement of any U.S. union workers on the docks or in the trucks.
Yes but GW made IKE do it just as he made RR sign that 1986 amnesty.
. OOOPS your DU slip is showing.
Is there a particular reason you feel the need to post ludicrous off topic posts? Metals futures and aluminum wrap on this thread, which is about NAFTA, is more than just "hijacking", something you all love to complain about ad nauseum.
LOL!
Lead works.
If you want to blame someone, blamed Peggy Noonan, who inserted into that ONE speech.
You ain't the boss of me. So there
And all this time I thought that it was the Buildyourownburgers and/or the Masons. LOL
Then post something to refute what is in this article, and the numerous intelligent posts made, you know, those links to the government websites you're too lazy to read.
Yeah but they are eating the chips tonight.
Did you stomp your foot, too?
Ok, the article is full of crap. That is as factual as anything that you have posted tonight.
well there is something in Nafta that compromises our sovereignty.
anyhow we are not a nation, but a halfway house for illegal aliens from anywhere. Friend or Foe.
YES! The FREE MASONS.
Beats the cheap labor of the illegals...lol.
Yeah and it made ME bite my tongue. Now once again, I am begging you, in your own words, how is our sovereignty under attack with this highway?
The President of the United States would have to get the approval of the Senate for such a Union. if such a union were a country, then a constitutional amendment to retract the United States Constitution would be needed.
The United States of America my ancestors fought, bled and died for is the only one that matters. Canada is Canada...Mexico is Mexico...The U.S. is the U.S. and that how it remains. Three seperate countries.
I was answering posts to me.
Since you don't appreciate thread hijacking, then tell your pals to stop doing it and resist the temptation of doing it yourself, as well. Until it stops, you are nothing but a hypocrite for doing that which I did not do. And if you don't like what I post...just IGNORE what I post, as you and your ilk so LOVE to tell others, who complain about YOUR hijackings!
BTW, why don't you tell Jim that you don't like him hijacking this thread. After all, he was also off topic and making fun of this thread. :-)
We have elected a President whose globalist and corporate ties are more important to him than the future of America.
Hopefully there are some REAL Americans in the Senate and in the House who will fight this monstrosity.
Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw, but quicksilver might. LOL
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