Posted on 07/05/2006 5:05:51 AM PDT by conservativecorner
I did which is why I pointed out how I misread your first comment.
So we are just going to focus on Maryland then and ignore the rest of the country?
You are suffering from the infamous "time dilation effect" noticed frequently in chatrooms where folks are talking past each other to prior ignorant or mistaken statements.
Yeah, they run in unison, like lemmings.
No thanks needed.
"Oh, yeah, and in addition to the "It's just a road" thought, I'd like to add that "All the roads are already there ~ all we are talking about are some bags of cement and new road signs, not some internationalist/globalist/bilderberger conspiracy"."
You won't even believe a fact when their own sites document what they would like to do. No intellect.
Roads exist in abundance in America.
While I think that, as corrupt as Mexico's government is, there might be a problem with smuggling (both ways) I'm not so sure that, given the right oversight, this export/import area could be a good thing all in all.
In almost any country a customs department of another country is treated as, although it is not, sovereign territory of the country that is receiving the export.
This is nothing new.
I'm just not so sure that I want a representative sample of Mexican corruption and smuggling smack dab in the middle of Kansas City.
One of Melvin’s main bones of contention was that NASCO did not stand for the building the NASCO corridor into a Trans-Texas Corridor-type super-highway. “NASCO is working on existing infrastructure,” Melvin told 55KRC. Yet, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is a NASCO member and NASCO supports the Trans-Texas Corridor as part of that relationship. Melvin’s e-mail stated:
The Trans-Texas Corridor is not a NASCO initiative. We support the project in Texas, as it solves critical funding problems and congestion IN TEXAS. I know of NO plans to extend it into additional states. It is not the first section of a NAFTA Super Highway. It is not ready to begin construction next year.
According to the 4,000-page draft environmental impact statement, the plan is to build a 4,000-mile network of new super-highways that will be “up to 1,200 feet wide (at full build-out) with separate lanes for passenger vehicles (three in each direction) and trucks (two in each direction), six rail lines (separate lines in each direction for high-speed rail, commuter rail, and freight rail), and a 200-foot wide utility corridor.”
On March 11, 2005, TxDOT signed a definitive agreement with Cintra Zachry, a limited partnership formed by Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructures de Transport in Spain and the San Antonio-based Zachry Construction Co. “to develop the Oklahoma to Mexico/Gulf Coast element of the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC-35). This agreement calls for the Cintra-Zachry limited partnership to pay Texas $1.2 billion “for the long-term right to build and operate the initial segment as a toll facility.” The initial TTC-35 segment is scheduled to be built roughly parallel to I-35 between Dallas and San Antonio. The final public hearings are scheduled in Texas for July and August. While construction contracts have yet to be finalized, Cintra-Zachry presumably holds those rights as a result of the $1.2 billion payment to Texas, as described in the March 11, 2005, contract. The timeline published on the Trans-Texas Corridor website envisions final federal approval by the summer of 2007, with the construction of the first TTC-35 segment to follow immediately afterward.
In regard to whether NASCO intends to rely only on existing interstate highway infrastructure, the NASCO statement of purpose cited above calls for building “the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system.” The TTC-35 project is the first super-highway project in the U.S. proceeding to incorporate railroad as part of the design, producing a truly “integrated” and “multi-modal” highway-railroad system.
Kansas City International Airport is called "International" because it already has an "International" port ~ stuff flies in. Stuff flies out. It is checked going both ways by people authorized to do so.
There is a lack of specificity in the routing ~ that's normal in any highway project. Always has been.
Have to seen the price of grapes lately?
Horsepuckey.
Musta' found some "guest workers" in Oregon or something ~ they were missing last week.
If you are talking about me then you head is squarely put up where the sun don't shine.
I am an American sovereignity defender to the death.
But I'm not a dumbass that doesn't know the difference betrween sovereignety and a free trade zone or a port terminal operation. I assume that virtually all grown ups can.
Yeah, supporting illegals is exactly that.
Why can't they come here legally? My great grandparents did!
There are a lot of people making money manufacturing and exporting to Mexico
Should read:
There are a lot of people making money exporting manufacturing to Mexico
Used to be chicken was a poor mans food...no longer. Oh well, I need to shed some poundage anyway. Before long, we'll slid down the food chain and return to grazing.
You know what just occured to me, grapes are $2.87 a pound...and gas is $2.87 a gallon. The regular working stiff ain't got much of a fighting chance nowadays. *sigh*
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