Tex, you are jumping from "A" to "Z." Ain't nobody merging with anybody. It's true that some kind of North American Union stuff is inevitable eventually.
But, and it's a big butt, nobody knows what form the political end of the union is going to take. In the EU, Italy doesn't enforce laws in England.
That's why we're all so testy on these threads. Nobody knows "Who," "What," "Where," "Why," "When," or "How Much." Study the links, and the so far hypothetical post-NAFTA political plans for the North American Continent will scare the pants off you. But until we get the straight information, there's no use panicking over what right now is just the gleam in the eyes of the wonks on these "working groups."
Call your congressman. Let's find out exactly what's going on. Maybe then, we SHOULD panic!