Looks like they want to be in the center of the NAU.
Posted on 07/05/2006 11:00:40 PM PDT by Trupolitik
I am telling you guys, Dr. Jerome Corsi (co-author of "Unfit for Command" and "Minutemen") is NOT going to let this issue die. We owe it to OURSELVES to start paying attention.
Mexican Trucks with cheap Mexican truck drivers will mean THE END of the American Patriot Trucker as we know it. (incidentally I come from a family of truck drivers so it also personal for me). Our own transport companies will set up mexican companies and run operations out of Mexico in order to "cut costs". Those "cuts" are OUR jobs! Sound familiar???
Please Read this. Please keep this issue on your radar! Retaining our Sovereignty is our most important War.
[quote]Despite claims to the contrary, a planned Midwest "inland port" with a Mexican customs office will not be restricted to railroad traffic, according to internal documents obtained by WorldNetDaily.
As WND has reported, Kansas City SmartPort plans to utilize deep-sea Mexican ports such as Lazaro Cardenas to unload containers from China and the Far East as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement super-highway plan.
The plan would include the hotly contested allowance of Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, WND has reported, but Tasha Hammes of the Kansas City Area Development Council has insisted the port will be restricted to railroad traffic.
Hammes has argued the railroad link is "nothing new, other than the fact that Kansas City Southern acquired the Mexican railroad serving this port and that major work has been done on the port of Lazaro Cardenas so that it has higher capacity and can handle larger containers."
But internal e-mails make it clear that officials, hoping to stay below the radar of public opinion, plan to expand from rail to trucks after the Mexican customs facility is operational.
The Mexican customs facility project was championed by David W. Eaton, president of Monterrey Business Consultants in Monterrey, Mexico, and the former executive director of North American International Trade Corridor Partnership, a non-profit group with the aim of internationalizing U.S. highways to facilitate trade with Mexico and Canada.
In a Jan. 7 e-mail, Eaton writes:
They are still going back and forth on the rail and truck focus. However, according to Manuel [Manuel Ruiz, a Mexican customs official], the first stage will most likely be "rail only" with trucking added later. Kenneth Hoffman of the law firm Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, outside council to KC SmartPort, was copied on Eaton's e-mail.
A few minutes later, Hoffman answered, supporting the phase-in strategy:
"My feeling is that we need to get this done in such a way that [the Mexican customs facility] is successful when it opens. If it starts small that is fine as long as there is productive work that we can point to as evidence that the effort was worthwhile. We can expand to trucks after getting the process up and running.
The e-mails are consistent with a position paper Eaton authored for the Montreal-based Institute for Research on Public Policy, entitled "Roads, Trains, and Ports: Integrating North American Transport."
In the paper, Eaton argued railroad transport should be developed as the first mode to bring containers from China through Mexican ports into the U.S., because "one unit train can carry the equivalent of approximately 250 trucks."
Moreover, Eaton had argued that use of Mexican trucks was impaired by the poor condition of Mexico's roadways and the wear and tear on Mexican trucks resulting from overuse. Eaton had concluded "North America would be well served by linking its rail infrastructure and systems," which has been advanced by Kansas City Southern's acquisition of Mexican railroads.
An examination of the internal e-mails from Kansas City SmartPort over the last two years shows the development of the city's international "inland port" concept – including the Mexican customs facility – involved an ambitious multi-year process with the aim of tying into the emerging corridor-oriented NAFTA Super-Highway network.
Development of the KCSmartPort vision included active involvement of the North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition, or NASCO, a non-profit group "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."
Chris Gutierrez, president of KCSmartPort, frequently copied NASCO President George Blackwood on details of the negotiations with Mexican and U.S. officials regarding the Mexican customs office.
An April 26 e-mail from Gutierrez included Blackwood among the list of recipients. In his message, Gutierrez reported he worked directly with the office of Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., and with Mexican government officials to apply political pressure to influence the State Department and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, to move faster in approving the Mexican customs facility application:
CBP told me that the State Department is reviewing the C-175 [form needed to approve Mexican customs facility]. Bond's office has calls into the State Dept; letter to Gil Diaz [Mexican Secretary of Finance] went out last week asking him to encourage CBP and State Dept to move it along. Here is the draft letter to Minister [Luis Ernesto] Derbez [Mexican Foreign Ministry Secretary]. I was still tweaking it but here it is for your review.
In 1998, before becoming NASCO president, Blackwood established the North American International Trade Corridor Partnership while he served as mayor pro tem of Kansas City. The NAITCP has been absorbed into NASCO.
A NAIPC summit meeting in 2004 was attended by Mexican officials, including Secretary of Finance Gil Diaz, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Geronimo Guiterrez, Deputy Counsel of Mexico Noemi Hernandez, Counsel of Mexico in Kansas City Everardo Suarez. Also in attendance was Kansas City, Mo., Mayor Kay Barnes and the president and CEO of Kansas City Southern railroad, Mike Haverty.
Photographed on the first page of the summit executive summary is Robert Pastor, an American University professor who has written "Toward a North American Community," a book promoting the development of a North American unionas a regional government and the adoption of the amero as a common monetary currency to replace the dollar and the peso.
Pastor also was vice chairman of the May 2005 Council on Foreign Relations task force entitled "Building a North American Community" that presents itself as a blueprint for using bureaucratic action within the executive branches of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada to transform the current trilateral Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America into a North American union regional government.
We should ask ourselves two questions:
1. Is this good for American Citizens, American Workers?
2. Why are they keeping their goals a secret? Why did they lie about their goal of integrating mexican trucking?
"A little competition may be good, but I'd personally like to see just enough Mexican and Canadian competition to get back to wage parity."
Be careful of what you ask for. Go here, scroll down and see the pictures of last month's teacher union strike in Mexico.
http://www.progressiveindependent.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=158&topic_id=603
There is nothing like "mob" rule.
Hedge, Kim, people read "Mein Kampf" for 10 years and didn't believe that either. So why should people who can read government web sites believe them ... or Corsi ...?
Any idea why the Hemispheria 2006 summit was cancelled? Just wondering.
For so long I thought it was just the liberals with their heads in the sand; it's been a shock and disappointment to find so many conservatives with them there, too... or can it be they have ulterior, business, reasons to look the other way and sell out our nation?
Wage parity? Have you ever seen what these longshoremen have to do??? These have become very technical jobs that have to run like an efficient machine (and hope the machines don't break down)... Before you begrudge their income, try doing the job (and know I'm not a longshoreman or have any relatives who are, but I've actually seen what they do).
*ping* to an example thread.
Don't miss post #62.
"Hedge, Kim, people read "Mein Kampf" for 10 years and didn't believe that either. So why should people who can read government web sites believe them ... or Corsi ...?"
Like I said, and maybe you'll agree, I've come to the conclusion, that not only DO they believe what Corsi's written, because it is Bush's agenda and they support it.
The reason they frequent these threads is because, just as with illegal immigration, they can't stand for Bush to be criticized on anything. Tony Snow made a comment about the visit to Duncan Donuts during the WH presser and, naturally, I posted in that regard. The following reply was posted to me in an attempt to shut me up. I have found, since then, that the same thing is being posted by the few pro-Bush-amnesty types whenever they do not want illegal immigration discussed, even if it is on topic and appropriate to do so.
"Posted by Admin Moderator to kerryusama04; All
On News/Activism 04/25/2006 10:03:03 PM EDT • 26 of 70
This is a thread about Mr. Snow. Unless you can stay on topic, stay off this thread. And the same goes for everybody else. We will start suspending anybody and everybody who addresses Illegal Immigration where it is irrelevant. Keep On Topic!"
as mr. spock would say, fascinating... i wonder how many people here look under their beds at night before getting in to them.
I'm for wage parity and the longshoreman's union broke the parity scale long ago. When a kid can come out of high school and make more than someone with a 4-year engineering degree, the situation is beyond madness. When looking at the history of the creation of the NAU by our politicians, the complicity of the unions in its creation is hard to deny. Unions have gone from the noble purpose of protecting workers from abuse in the workplace to the greedy purpose of extracting as much as they can out of big business and ultimately, consumers. The efficiencies and cost savings that engineers and businessmen brought to big business in the form of automation and innovation in business operation were quickly evaporated by union greed. Big business effectively had its hands tied and resorted to buying off politicians to 1) ram through free trade so that they could move their factories overseas and take advantage of cheap labor and 2) foster lax enforcement of our nation's immigration laws to supply cheap labor to those businesses that couldn't move overseas due to relatively high distribution costs of doing so.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but some reality needs to return to how a worker is valued- WAGE PARITY. In my perspective and most others, for that matter, creativity, vision, education, skill, and efficiency should be rewarded. That is one of the guiding principles of a capitalistic society. Unions have effectively subverted that principle and now protect relatively unskilled workers using socialist practices that would make Marx proud. While I am concerned for the US worker in the face of foreign competition whether legal or illegal, he is going to have to accept a greater wage disparity between those who practice creativity, vision, education, skill, and efficiency and those who do not.
I have and it's not worth $150K per year.
But CEO's are worth 262 times what they pay their employees?
I went out side and it was darkening..... I think the sky is falling.
Tell everyone you see..... the sky is falling.
Likewise many doctors and hospitals are sending tests and x-rays off to Pakistan and India to be read vs paying a radiologist here in the USA to do the readings -- and the people doing the reading in those countries may not have the same level of education as the radiologist here in the States. Also... hospitals sending billing (with your ID number) off to Pakistan for billing is quite common these days. Recently a person over there decided she wanted a raise and held up a hospitals records until they gave her the large raise... something that if I did here in the States would be a crime, but was legal being done by someone overseas.
Exellent information guys!
Yup, lower wages to Mexico's level.
Ya' gotta dumb down to their level first, so that is just one reason why "Johnny Can't Read," and another reason why U. S. Public Edjahkayshun is a sham.
You are exactly right Larousse!!
Also, if you dismantle the educated middle class, you effectively end the Republic.
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