Posted on 07/09/2007 1:32:44 PM PDT by JKrive
WASHINGTON A powerful think tank chaired by former Sen. Sam Nunn and guided by trustees including Richard Armitage, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harold Brown, William Cohen and Henry Kissinger, is in the final stages of preparing a report to the White House and U.S. Congress on the benefits of integrating the U.S., Mexico and Canada into one political, economic and security bloc.
The final report, published in English, Spanish and French, is scheduled for submission to all three governments by Sept. 30, according to the Center for Strategic & International Studies.
CSIS boasts of playing a large role in the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994 a treaty that set in motion a political movement many believe resembles the early stages of the European Community on its way to becoming the European Union.
"The results of the study will enable policymakers to make sound, strategic, long-range policy decisions about North America, with an emphasis on regional integration," explains Armand B. Peschard-Sverdrup, director of CSIS' Mexico Project. "Specifically, the project will focus on a detailed examination of future scenarios, which are based on current trends, and involve six areas of critical importance to the trilateral relationship: labor mobility, energy, the environment, security, competitiveness and border infrastructure and logistics."
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Prices have risen steadily all my life. It's human nature to try to increase your prices.
In 1995 a good quality T-shirt cost about $18; today you can't buy a good T-shirt at any price but the junk that you can buy costs about $23. They last about half as long, and are made by prison labor in Red China. The mills that used to produce the good shirts have been run out of business by the unfair competition of combined prison labor, and low quality textiles.
So yes, free trade with our morally repugnant enemies has driven prices up and quality down. Now we have to buy three times as many shirts, and pay more for them.
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