Posted on 06/29/2007 7:42:24 AM PDT by BGHater
The problem with "streamlining business practices" is that it turns into "common regulatory schemes." With big business the only "stakeholder" at the table, you can bet that regulatory hurdles will be set up that preclude competition from smaller business, usually by means that require economies of scale in the paperwork business (IOW inefficiency). With common regulatory schemes the benefits of federalism vanish and natural law competition among regulatory entities disappears as well. Thus there are no checks and balances to corruption being the engine for how applicable choices are made.
It's stupid, unless you are a monopolist interested in buying favors from unaccountable bureaucrats.
Free trade agreements carry an inherent imperative toward regulating and harmonizing more and more activities within each of the countries party thereto.
In their quest for successively ever more level playing fields, there is a natural tendency for free traders to inevitably seek to harmonize not just explicit tariff rates, but tax systems, labor laws, environmental regulations and any other differences in internal law that tends to confer an advantage on businesses in one jurisdiction over those of another.
We have seen this in the EU, as it has advanced progressively over the years from a coal and steel union centured on the Ruhr to a European-wide federal government, and the forces that produced NAFTA are pushing in the same direction, though we are at a much earlier stage of the process.
If an elected government can't do what voters expect because of international "agreements" (in our case equivalent to unconstitutional treaties), democratic representation has then become a virtually meaningless exercise meant only for public mollification, nor is there transparency in these unaccountable international bureaucracies subject only to the whims of "stakeholders."
I like to call it, "Highly Organized Crime."
That’s why Bush is very flustered. These politicians and big business had this grand idea of a North American Union all along and we came along and kicked them in the teeth in the first round by sinking amnesty. How the hell is that border wall going to fit into their schemes? It just won’t look right and that’s why the damn thing is not being built! Never mind that terrorists can walk right in...It just doesn’t fit into our plans....Well boys!...your plans are about to change courtesy of a lot of very upset Americans!
When the Commons standing committee on international trade held hearings on the SPP in May, Council of Canadians chair Maude Barlow voiced a legitimate objection: "The SPP process has been done without any parliamentary debate or public input.
"To date, the only stakeholders involved or consulted in the SPP process have been representatives of big business. Apparently when it comes to the future of North America, the public doesn't count, nor do elected officials."
Here are the red flags waving in this lady's face, and not only is she writing the above, she's also pooh pooing "conspiracy theorists." It's obvious she doesn't see the real danger in all of this.
I'm not an alarmist by nature, but even I can see that a wall on the US southern border doesn't fit into sombody's big plan!
Thanks for the ping.
NAU ping
in chat already?
A major problem!
Whenever the "journalist" starts out with snide remarks against people who ask questions, I'm tuned out instantly. Whether it's protecting the border, the ports, the country, the globalists simply love to mock us. And pretend they are so much more intelligent than us.
A major problem!
I agree. According to the writer, though, all Ottawa has to do is "fully explain the enterprise and bring Canadians on board."
Also, according to the writer, the (not so) dire consequences of Ottawa not doing so means "books will be published and protests planned."
I thought the writer sounded like a flippant boob.
I agree. It's an attempt, imo, to downplay what should make any sane person genuinely alarmed.
It is interesting to think that the census of Canada is approximately the same as the illegal population in the U.S. Actually, I didn't realize the disparity of the populations of the 3 countries.
Whoops! What happened?
In the shadow of GWB’s grand aid package to Africa.
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