Posted on 07/31/2006 3:05:40 PM PDT by Reagan Man
The hottest issue at the grass roots is illegal immigration and what our government is not doing to stop it. The question most frequently heard is, "Why doesn't the Bush administration get it?"
Maybe the Bush administration doesn't want to stop the invasion of illegal immigrants and plans to solve the problem by just declaring them all legal through amnesty and guest-worker proposals. Maybe the Bush administration is pursuing a globalist agenda. Consider this chronology.
On March 23, 2005, President Bush met at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, with Vicente Fox of Mexico and Paul Martin of Canada in what they called a summit. The three heads of state then drove to Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where they issued a press release announcing their signing of an agreement to form the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
On May 17, 2005, the Council on Foreign Relations issued a 59-page document outlining a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter" to achieve "the freer flow of people within North America."
This document is full of language spelling out an "integrated" strategy to achieve an "open border for the movement of goods and people" within which "trade, capital, and people flow freely." The document calls for "a seamless North American market," allowing Mexican trucks "unlimited access," "totalization" (the code word for putting illegal immigrants into the U.S. Social Security system), massive U.S. foreign aid, and even "a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution."
Tying this document into the Bush-Fox-Martin March 23 Summit, the Council of Foreign Relations stated that the three men on that day "committed their governments" to the North American community goal, and assigned "working groups" to fill in the details.
On June 9, 2005, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Richard Lugar, R-Ind., held a friendly committee hearing that featured task force member Robert Pastor, a professor at American University and author of the 2001 book "Toward a North American Community" (Institute for International Economics, $28). He revealed further details of the plan for a "continental perimeter," including "an integrated continental plan for transportation and infrastructure that includes new North American highways and high-speed rail corridors."
Pastor asserted that President Bush endorsed North American integration in the Guanajuato Proposal of February 16, 2001, in which Bush and Fox promised that "we will strive to consolidate a North American economic community." Bush followed up on April 22, 2001, by signing the Declaration of Quebec City in which he made a "commitment to hemispheric integration."
On June 27, 2005, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff attended a North American Security and Prosperity Partnership meeting in Ottawa at which he said, "We want to facilitate the flow of traffic across our borders." The White House issued a press release endorsing the Ottawa report and calling the meeting "an important first step in achieving the goals of the Security and Prosperity Partnership."
In July 2005, the White House let it be known that it is backing a coalition called Americans for Border and Economic Security organized by former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie. Its purpose is to conduct a political-style campaign to sell the American people on a guest-worker program wrapped in a few border-security promises and financed by coalition members who each put up $50,000 to $250,000.
On March 31 President Bush met at Cancun, Mexico, for a spring frolic with Fox and the new Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Their press release celebrated what they called the first anniversary of the partnership, and Bush demanded that Congress pass an immigration bill with a worker permit program.
On May 15 Bush made a nationally televised speech in which he enunciated the amazing non sequitur that we can't have border security unless we also have a "comprehensive" bill including legalization of illegal immigrants now in the United States and the admission of new so-called guest workers.
Thanks to the investigative work of Jerome R. Corsi, we have learned that the partnership's more than 20 working groups are already quietly operating in the North American Free Trade Agreement office in the U.S. Department of Commerce, which refuses to reveal the groups' members because, in the words of partnership spokeswoman Geri Word, the Bush administration does not want them "distracted by calls from the public."
Corsi discovered recently that the partnership issued a "Report to Leaders" on June 27, 2005, that shows the partnership's extensive interaction with government and business groups in the three countries.
On June 15, 2006, the partnership's North American Competitiveness Council, consisting of government officials and corporate chief executive officers from the three countries, met to "institutionalize the partnership and the North American Competitiveness Council, so that the work will continue through changes in administrations."
The Bush administration is using a series of press releases, without authority from Congress or the American people, to shift us into the North American Security and Prosperity Partnership with "a more open border for the movement of goods and people."
I sure wish I had a nickel for every thread posted with this headline, different story.
Random length lumber and studs have both lost upwards of $80/K board feet from late April. This is a boom?
What's to obfuscate? You think the economy is going down the tubes, and I say it has seldom been as powerful and glowing. Free trade has caused pain, but it has also caused many success stories.
Exxon and Conoco posted record profits. You think the 100s of thousands of people in the oil/gas industry are making minimum wage?
Boeing is experiencing a rennaisance, and has re-staffed to near pre-911 levels, despite Airbus government funded largess.
Paccar, builder of heavy trucks here in the NW has record stock prices, and the big trucks keep rolling off the assembly line.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe has placed orders for so many locomotives and rail cars it'll make your head spin.
The Wine industry on the West coast continues to experience impressive growth, despite all the Australian, european, and S. American competition.
Despite the globalization of SW engineers and programmers, Microsoft is still raking in billions.
Starbucks continues to open stores around the country and globe. Who designs and builds these places? I know, and they are busier than the proverbial one legged man.
Our lone steel plant in Seattle operates 24/7 producing rebar for the construction industry and just spent millions upgrading some of their systems the last few years.
A brand new Chlorine plant is opening in Longview Washington, first in the country in ages. Who designed and built it? Who will run it? Who will program the automation?
It goes on and on.
It's because he is a hired gun to keep harassing those who might like to inquire a bit more deeply...best to simply ignore them.
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That's me. Paid for by the GOP. Funny specially since I'm not a republican.
America is not the powerhosue manufacturing and industrial nation it once was. America has morphed into a serivice oriented nation and our lousy education system is one reason why.
>>>>You think the economy is going down the tubes...
Not at all. Never said that. Those are your words.
What I don't want to see happen, is for the US to continue advancing globalist policy that allows for unfair trade practices by foreign nations as a weapon of choice to be used against the MY country. In addition, I don't trust globalists like Vincente Fox, Paul Martin or Stephen Harper. And that includes this POTUS. Bush has been running around the globe negotiating free trade agreements with nations who aren't friendly to America.
http://www.easybourse.com/Website/dynamic/News.php?NewsID=33517&lang=fra&NewsRubrique=2
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20060725005230&newsLang=en
http://local.lancasteronline.com/4/24404
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149189012531
Not all is bad on that front, by a LONG shot.
Oooooh...globalist agenda. Scary.
Only difference is you live in a fantasy land. Willie Green would be proud of ya.
Willie Green... he's not a Bushbot I take it.
The Radical Left and the Radical Right unite agaist the Middle.
What do you disagree with?
No, Willie was no bushbot. Or a Reagainite, or a Thatcherite or a Churchillian or a TR fan or a Goldwater kid. But he admires Pat Buchanan greatly.
Just about every premise she puts forth.
It isn't free trade, its "free trade", meaning it is brokered by an unconstitutional process which grants unconstitutional authority to the unelected. They in turn, have set up a rigged system that transfers wealth from the American people to the third world so that the transnationalists can 'expand' their markets to every communist, socialist and totalitarian dictatorship on earth.
As Pat Buchanan said (paraphrased) "the far left and far right are natural allies."
Yes it is scary. You must feel very snug that you no longer need or care for the protection the US Constitution affords the common citizen.
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