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To: Diddle E. Squat
First of all, the government is going to seize people's farms and property for a private venture that is going to make it easier to bring illegal Mexicans and aliens with drugs and terrorism into the country.

Secondly, it is going to lower the wages of American truckers because Mexicans will be driving the trucks.

Thirdly, no real American wants to be merged with Mexico and Canada with a super highway.

Fourthly, once they make these corrupt arrangements, like a fifty year lease, they never get rid of them.

62 posted on 02/11/2007 5:39:05 PM PST by GinaLolaB (God is pro life)
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To: GinaLolaB
First of all, the government is going to seize people's farms and property for a private venture

No, the road will be state-owned the entire time. The state is simply using private financing instead of taxpayer financing.

...that is going to make it easier to bring illegal Mexicans and aliens with drugs and terrorism into the country.

How so? The road will only be built in the US, doesn't add a new border crossing, and doesn't change border procedures. From 2015 to at least 2025 it will only be a road from San Antonio to Dallas, with the extensions to be added later when enough traffic builds to warrant extension. You do realize that there are already roads criss-crossing Texas and crosssing the border, yes? Why would drug smugglers and terrorists give up using these mostly unsupervised roads to risk using a new one with monitored and recorded cameras at toll booths and all along the way?

Secondly, it is going to lower the wages of American truckers because Mexicans will be driving the trucks.

Really? There are special laws just for this road? Of course not, any laws/regulations regarding Mexican truckers would apply equally to all roads, and thus that issue has nothing to do with the TTC.

Thirdly, no real American wants to be merged with Mexico and Canada with a super highway.

A road doesn't merge countries, only treaties can do that. Good roads can make it cheaper to travel between and do business with other countries, but these roads also do the same between all the states, counties, and cities along the way. I don't want Canada and Mexico to become part of the US, but I do 100% support the TTC. What you are claiming is kinda like saying that eliminating cancer in the US will cause illegal immigration to increase. So I should be against finding a cure for cancers? Ridiculous faux-logic.

Fourthly, once they make these corrupt arrangements, like a fifty year lease, they never get rid of them.

It isn't corrupt, over time everything has been made public and several years after being proposed we still are in the public hearing phase. If Texans don't want the lease, they can always vote in a governor or legislature that can cancel the lease. That is stated in the contract. Might be a good idea to read it, someone has mislead you with a load of lies.

63 posted on 02/11/2007 6:03:11 PM PST by Diddle E. Squat (Rudy Giuliani-Joe Dyton in '08!)
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