Posted on 09/15/2006 5:40:18 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The magicians are busy keeping American eyes focused on sleight-of-hand tricks. Much in the media makes little sense. Divisive political games hold center stage which have nothing to do with the good of our country. The mainstream media is ignoring the biggest story of all, besides Islamic Terrorism. The Selling of America. Where is our outrage? Anger at our elite leaders? Where is Congress? Why are they not investigating the ongoing potential and future merger with Mexico and Canada?
The secretive Security and Prosperity Partnership with Canada and Mexico is moving right along. The first stage, a 10-lane super highway will cut a swath from the Mexico-Texas to the Oklahoma border with mexican trucks and rail containers traveling along it. In future, more super highways reaching all the way into Canada.
With the blessing of the Texas Department of Transportation, Cintra, a member of Spain's Grupo Ferrovial, will partner with Texas local developer, Zachry Construction Group, to begin construction of the "Trans-Texas Corridor" early next year. Translation: Over 550,000 acres required from Texas landowners.
In increments, we will transition into a North American Union with open borders which will someday include merged economies, one currency, and most probably, a melding of governments, much like the European Union. It is probable that this is why Pres. Bush, his administration, and Congress have not fought very hard to secure our borders.
Ever since the 90s' when I realized that foreigners were buying up our real estate, I have wondered why our state and federal governments allowed this taking of American soil. The America I once knew is all but gone in the wake of the advances in de-civilization long sought by the humanists, socialists, progressives and now the neo-global conservatives and liberals. That's progress? Our land no longer belongs to "we the people."
Do you remember when we bought products made by our own people? We were buying a piece of America, supporting our citizens and workers. Clothes fit better too.
For example: My husband complains every time he wants to buy another pair of Levis. Used to be, up until the late 90s, he could walk into any Levi-stocked store, pick up a pair in his size and never have to try them on. Aaah!! Now he must try them on 1) to see if they fit, one size can vary by two inches and 2) check the cut of the bias-seams, as now we can't be sure if the legs will hang straight or one leg may slant to the side.
In 2003, the LA Times reported: "Levi uses about 500 contractors to produce its apparel in 50 countries, including Mexico, China, and Bangladesh." A high percentage of our industrial and technological companies have moved to the greener pastures of cheaper labor.
It is evident that companies with their roots in the good old USofA hold no loyalty to American workers. Job security no longer exists; no more working and being loyal to one company for 30-40 years, retiring with a gold watch and pension. Those companies are long gone.
One major result is apparent. We have traded Quality for Quantity-Variety. We have also lost Quality jobs. When there was a big deal a few years ago about products "made in America," we should have paid more attention. Now go to any retailer and find anything made on our soil.
The elite economists have already decided our future without our imput. As the trade deficit deepens and more foreigners take on American jobs in manufacturing, service and technological industries, the only conclusion is that America as the land of the free is on the wane. America's and Canada's prosperity will decrease as the Mexican population's standard of living rises.
If we believe that all things are interconnected, then economics, capitalism, free trade (which no nation has), systems of governments, cultural mores and religions, laws, and standards of living are intertwined. If one element changes, the others will soon follow.
If this seemingly unstoppable global expansion continues, "we the people" must prepare our children for a much different world than the one we now live in. It means a lower standard of living and a lack of quality jobs. This could be the century the United States of America will fade into the background and become a blip on the screen of world history.
"We the people" must make up our minds — fight to keep our America or cede to the elitists with their grandiose plans for the world.
[Write your local, state and federal representatives and let them know You are "the people."]
Sources:
Security and Prosperity Partnership, www.spp.gov/
"The NAFTA Super Highway," Phyllis Schlafly, Aug. 23, 2006, www.eagleforum.org
"Spanish Firm to Build and Run New PFI Toll Road in Texas," International Construction Review, Aug. 25, 2006, www.ciobinternational.org/en/news/980
"America's Infrastructure Fire Sale," Henry Lamb, Aug. 26, 2006, www.worldnetdaily.com
"Sweatshop Awareness Campaign," www3.baylor.edu/Magellan/sweatshop.htm
God help us all.
And this will be the moment for Quebec to secede. Learn French :)
We need to get these guys an account at Second Life, instead.
Leave my country be.
This just sounds like hyperbolic silliness.
We want to have our cake and eat it too. If you insist on paying Americans a "living wage" of $15 - $20 an hour to make Levis, then Levis will cost $100 a pair. If you insist on $20 Levis, then they have to be made in China or Bangladesh. We can't have it both ways - mush as we'd like to.
No loyalty to American workers but the converse, American workers are required to be loyal to their companies. It was a two way street, not anymore.
OR
mush = mushbrain
B.S.!!Bad argument....almost all clothing etc is ALREADY made in china ....etc.
NOTHING appears to be manufactured in the U.S. anymore so we don't really need "cheap labor" that is costing taxpayers KAZILLIONS!!
Bogus argument. The wages are only a part of the cost and making pair of jeans takes less time than five hours.
Read my tagline.
Oh wait a minute your buddy birchers did that in the 50's, nevermind.
Yeah improving infrastructure, such as the American Interstate road system, is a path to desolation.
JMO, sometimes I believe that tancredo is embarassed by such posts on FR.
Well, I don't really have much sympathy for tancredo. He courted you all.
When you lie down with nuts, you wake up with a whole bunch of nuts around you.
It is not a bogus argument. You are forgetting the "hidden " labor costs in the US. If Levi pays a worker $20 an hour, it will actually cost Levi $35 an hour. Then there are all the other "hidden" costs - unemployment insurance, taxes, regulations, etc.
It's no different than the auto industry. A US auto worker costs $64 an hour, a Chinese auto worker costs $6 an hour. If you are in the business of building cars to make a profit - just where do you think your factory will be built?
It isn't rocket science.
That's kinda funny. Women have been complaining about this very thing years before men did - I guess now we're really "equal".
Next thing you know the men will have to pay $45 for a haircut and $3 to launder a shirt, just like women.
So our gov't screws up our economy with over-regulation and taxes, and then turns around and helps those companies burdened by same move over seas. And the American worker? Heck, there's always the military.
Ha! Ha! Ask the Japanese how their real estate investments in the 80's fared!
Buy while it's cheap Comrades!
That just about sums it up perfectly. Very good post.
Yes, I remember when we required our own citizens to toil making us clothing.
But now we found better and cheaper ways to clothe ourselves, so those workers have been freed up to do bigger and better things.
I used to fertilize my own yard, toiling away. But now I found someone else to do that job for me, for a lot less money when I factor in my time and having to purchase the products at retail. So I can do something I enjoy more.
Progress. Let's stop it because the whackos are afraid a super-highway will have magical powers and form a union.
News flash, Maryland and Virginia have superhighways connecting them, and they aren't united about ANYTHING. :-)
Well, except that the roads have too d*mn many cars.
Yeah? And how many pairs of jeans are made per hour?
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