Posted on 11/02/2005 11:49:59 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Shouldn't international infrastructure projects be governed by a treaty?
This is likely the real reason that the Texas Mafia tried to sneak Miers onto the Supreme Court.
CorridorWatch.org Bulletin (10.30.05)
Corridorwatch members:
We have received many requests from our membership to give an opinion on several propositions on the November 8 ballot that may affect the corridor.
CorridorWatch.org, is a non-profit (educational) organization and does not operate as a political action committee. Accordingly we do not advise our members how to vote. That said, we do have opinions about issues affected by the Propositions, particularly 1, 3 and 9. We strongly encourage our members to educate themselves on theses important issues before voting on November 8.
Several organizations have released statements regarding. Proposition 1 "regarding rail relocation."
Among those in opposition: People for Efficient Transportation PAC (Texas Tollparty), Texans for Texas, Young Conservatives of Texas, and the Green Party. From the most conservative to the most liberal Texans are opposed to giving the Texas Department of Transportation a blank check to fund rail relocation. That concern is among those echoed by the opposition position in the House Research Organization (HRO) focus report.
This morning Transportation Commission Chairman Ric Williamson is quoted in the Fort Worth Star Telegram saying that as much as $200 million might be needed to start up the rail fund. The Texas Legislative Council reports that paying the debt created by Proposition 1 could cost as much as $87.5 million per year beginning in 2007.
Safety is touted as the main reason, moving dangerous trains from city centers to rural Texas and utilizing the rail left behind for commuter trains. Texans have rejected commuter train projects in the past, and are not likely to support them in the future. And safety, while a valid, worthy concern should not be a concern only for urban Texas. Bringing dangerous chemicals to our breadbasket without strengthening the safety regulations across the entire state is also unwise. The proponents also overlook the fact that many of these same train-borne shipments are bound for city-centers and will ultimately be delivered by some means, and in all these cases safety should be a primary concern. The legislature should be addressing the issue of safety everywhere trucks and trains deliver hazardous cargo, regardless of population.
PET PAC points out that the Governor has long said that Proposition 1 passes tax dollars would not be used to fund the Trans-Texas Corridor. Rail relocation into the corridor will be paid for by an as yet unidentified taxpayer funded revenue stream backed by the full faith and credit of the State of Texas.
For more information on Props 1 and 9 read the House Research Organization report
(http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/hrofr/focus/amend79.pdf) and visit Texas Toll Party
(http://www.texastollparty.com).
Linda Stall
CorridorWatch.org
Wow, just think of all the paint for those giant arrows....
I'm going to invest in Sherwin Williams.
With informative articles like this, the pieces of Bush's confusing puzzle on not enforcing immigration laws or patrolling the border are beginning to fall into place.
Sad to say, but it is begiining to appear as though Bush 43's legacy will be selling out America to the establishment of a totalitarian western hemisphere EU that engages in the same sort of pettiness and micro-managing as that emerging from Brussels.
It is becoming increasing clear that he has refused to enforce immigration laws, close the borders and rebuke Vicente Fox for fear of upsetting his larger plan of laying the foundation for the FTAA. Hopefully, he hasn't spent too much time practicing his pose for the statue he expects to be built of him as a founder of the FTAA. H*!! will freeze over before Americans allow that to occur.
About NASCO North America’s SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc., is a non-profit organization based in Dallas, Texas, dedicated to developing the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America.
The NASCO Corridor encompasses Interstate Highways 35, 29 and 94, and the significant connectors to those highways in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The Corridor directly impacts the continental trade flow of North America. Membership includes public and private sector entities along the Corridor in Canada, the United States and Mexico.
From the largest border crossing in North America (The Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, Michigan and Windsor, Canada), to the second largest border crossing of Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and to Manitoba, Canada, the impressive, tri-national NASCO membership truly reflects the international scope of the Corridor and the regions it impacts.
NASCO has officially amalgamated with the former North American International Trade Corridor Partnership , which was a non profit organization in Mexico dedicated to economic development and improving trade relations through the heartland of America to Canada and Mexico. NASCO and the NAITCP have worked together successfully in the past, and now, with the amalgamation, will operate as one organization under the name NASCO, with a shared mission and objectives.
I tried your link, and it doesn't work. Could you please try again. I'm interested in this NASCO stuff.
Bush doesn't seem to realize that we can have a comprehensive Pan-American trade agreement, if we so desire, without having swarms of illegal aliens running across our borders.
BTTT!!!!!!
Governor Rick Perry "quietly" passed legislation >>
the fix is in.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Its not too late to vote these guys out of office, although time is running out, and neither the democrat or republican party will fund a true American patriot for office.
CAFTA, FTAA PING
Dang, huge highway, would be a good place to crank uo the car to see how fast it goes althught I remember my father had our 1968 Buick Wildcat up to 140 MPH once on I-95. B-) Great, all we need is more illegals coming across on a huge highway in their 1982 Chevy pickups held together by rust. B-P
What most of these free trade at all costs / open border morons don't realize is that if this American Union concept becomes reality we will see an assault on our constitutional rights and legal system to a degree that this country will become nothing more than a third world banana republic.....and in some parts of the USA that's already the case.
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