Posted on 06/26/2006 7:16:57 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
Because all levels of government are broke, the fact that business comes in to "help" is really a transfer of the responsibilities that government use to provide for its citizens as a service to corporations. The corporations want to make a profit. The little lady who receives a 30% increase in her sewer or water bill is not going to understand that the sewer system that used to belong to the city where she lives has now been transferred into a business arrangement that still includes the City as a partner but also has new financial resources with the corporate partner. Who has the real power? Whoever has the money. All across the country and globe, at every level of government, assets are being transferred from government and the citizenry to a new business arrangement in which the goal is a profit.
--Joan Veon
Why do we need this massive system in the middle of the country when the vast majority of the people live on the coast? Who made the decision to "abandon" Long Beach in favor of a new improved super port in Mexico, a nation that hates us?
What do these "business people" know that we dont about the future direction of our country?
The deep question is how do you make Mexico a first class country. This is something that Vincente Fox has brought up frequently recently.
The trouble is that no one quite sees that the very best thing we could do for Mexico is to send their now well trained citizens home.
Suddenly Mexico would have a skilled workforce who knew something about how a world class country worked.
Think these folk would propel a great leap forward for Mexico?
I do.
Basically the ruling class in Mexico is preditory to its own detriment and will not change of its own volition--even if those changes were in its own interest. But it can be forced to change.
The Mexicans in the USA have had the picture of what a well run country looks like tatooed on the back of their eyeballs. And they'll have an idea of how to get there. Send them back to Mexico and they'll get a revolution in Mexico that'll do that country some good.
The shock troops for that would be the 12 million repatriated Mexican citizens. Having seen what a well run country looks like they would not want to be stuffed back in the old wineskin.
There's something more.
I follow water desalination research pretty closely. While water desalination costs have dropped to about a third of what they were 15 years ago--the rate at which prices will drop over the next seven years will accelerate considerably. imo in even the next five years we will see desalination costs drop to 1/10th of today's costs. Or even faster than the fall the 3/4 fall that the LLNL researchers suggest.
http://www.physorg.com/news67262683.html
Basically, the foundations are being laid today to make it economically feasable to to turn all the world's deserts green. (The proper way to look at this is to recall that cars, tv's and computers were at first rich men's toys but when prices came down they changed the world. Desalinised water is still relatively speaking -- a rich man's toy. But when the price drops sufficiently--desalinised water will change the world--because most deserts are right beside the ocean. Pumping the water 1000 miles inland will require that the scientists collapse the cost cracking out hydrogen from water. I think that this nut will be cracked sooner than desalination.)
imho cheap desalinised water will do for the republicans (if they can get this on their agenda or even the democrats if the pubbies drop the ball) what the great dam building projects & the tva of the 1930's & 40's did for democrats because 1/3 of the US is deserts. We would increase the habitable size of the USA by 1/3.
Dirt cheap desalinised water will also do things like make it possible to double the habitable size of Mexico. Cheap water is no magic bullet but it will give the Mexican Nationalists a way to dream while the Mexican people do the real work.
And desalinated water in tandem with repatriation of now skilled Mexican citizens would propel Mexico into being a world class country.
Oh and one last thing. Mexico will need a stronger dose of of the Peruvian Hernando Desoto ideas. Basically DeSoto asked the question why are some countries poor and some questions rich. His answers are being implimented successfully in countries around the world. http://www.ild.org.pe/home.htm
Hernando de Soto's organization was invited to Mexico and did some work on the question. He says that only 6 percent of Mexican enterprises are legal, the rest are informal. So how do you reverse that so that only 6% of the economy is informal -- as is the case the USA. De Soto would provide the ideas around which the 12 million american trained Mexican returnees could rally.
There is a winner here. The winner is Mexico.
The US profits too by having a prosperous politically stable country with a broad middle class to the south as we do to the north.
If I had the chance to inform an uninformed about what is going on with the North America Union BS. If I could only offer them one article to see what's happening, what would that article be? Remember, I would only get one shot...one article.
Do you have the E.O. number? I'd like to read it.
"The US profits too by having a prosperous politically stable country with a broad middle class to the south as we do to the north."
How will these ideas of yours solve the #1 problem of Mexico, which is massive corruption?
Corruption, payoffs, etc.
Sure they do. They have the authority to pass the North American Cooperative Security Act.
Rechecking the SPP, and its not formed from an EO but a trilateral agreement with Canada and Mexico. It is linked to the Department of Commerce. Through them, you can request documents via FOIA.
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It's a very large subject that can't be wrapped into one article. For starters, I'd go to an article posted here on the Free Republic in 1999, titled:
"Shadow Government of the United States"
Shadow Gov.
Lots of good info. Build your knowledge base from there.
Masssive corruption is what you get when everything is off the books. Hernando de Soto estimated that 94% of Mexico's economy is informal or off the books. Hernando de soto would put everything back on the books. Its harder to cook the books.
So you wouldn't stop the corruption but you would scale it back considerably.
Thanks for the ping and keeping us up to date on the latest.
I would search the SPP website, myself. You could use its own words to make your point without sounding like a nutter.
It's worth keeping in mind that Hitler was a National Socialist (Nazi), not a Fascist. The 1920 platform of the National Socialist Party was a typical socialist platform. There was no room for private ownership in it. Mussolini rejected pure socialism, wanting to combine the efficiency of private ownership with the egalitarianism of government control. The results were disastrous. Italy is still stuck with the remnants of Fascism, with certain industries largely being under the control of particular political parties, who traditionally get certain ministries, no matter who forms a government.
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