Posted on 08/22/2007 7:13:57 AM PDT by ckilmer
Bush denies superstate rumours
August 22, 2007
By Jon Ward - MONTEBELLO, Quebec — President Bush and the leaders of Canada and Mexico yesterday ridiculed the notion that their countries are conspiring to create a regional supergovernment similar to the European Union.
"I'm amused by the difference between what actually takes place in the meetings and by what some are trying to say takes place," said Mr. Bush, responding to concerns raised by conservative and liberal groups and some U.S. lawmakers.
"It's quite comical actually, to realize the difference between reality and what some people on TV are talking about."
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper joked that a superhighway rumored to be in the works linking the three countries could also be "interplanetary."
The two leaders and Mexican President Felipe Calderon spoke at a press conference here in a countryside resort, halfway between Ottawa and Montreal, to cap two days of meetings.
Mr. Bush said it is important for the U.S. to work with Canada and Mexico on facilitating trade while securing their borders, under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), a series of negotiations started in 2005.
Mr. Bush said the charges of a plot to form a North American Union were "political scare tactics."
"You lay out a conspiracy and then force some people to try to prove it doesn't exist. That's just the way some people operate," Mr. Bush said.
Mr. Harper said the trade talks were far more mundane than many realize, citing a morning meeting with business leaders at which one CEO complained that "the rules for jelly bean contents are different in Canada and the United States."
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sounds like everyone speaks english in your neighborhood—except maybe the help.
Diplomacy is in the hands of the executive branch. The only oversight Congress gets (and should get) is to ratify treaties in the Senate.
Did you catch that? Let me say it again:
Treaties are ratified by the Senate.
Nothing involving an eeeeevil North American superstate will come to pass without it getting through Congress and the swarms of W-haters therein first.
ROFLCOPTER :)
www.spp.gov
Then why whouldn’t he just straight out lie to get all of the internet geniuses off his back, eh? *rolls eyes*
sounds like disagreement is disagreeable to you.
I go to a presbyterian church inside the beltway dc. About half the congregation is open borders and half is not. the subject is not discussed. Yet the subject is as profound as the issues that led up to the civil war. that war divided all the mainline protestant congregations between their northern and southern branches for 100 years.
He said that before this SPP thing came along, the fear was of "one world government," and that the "o.w.g." folks have merely adjusted their focus.
“The only oversight Congress gets (and should get) is to ratify treaties in the Senate.”
Not true. Trade agreements must pass both houses of congress, and NAFTA was almost defeated in the House of Reps., but for a few last minute deals with specific congressmen promising protection for industries in their districts.
And, unless fast track authority is in place (I don’t think it is at present) congress can contest every line of a trade agreement.
This SPP might result in an agreement rather than a treaty. It’s hard to say with so little information being given out.
Unless you have a stained blue dress, it's nothing like that.
here’s the gov link
www.spp.gov
need a link to foil hat (aluminum foil delefctor beanie) instructions ?
When in reality we know darn well it's just impossible to protect and secure our borders and all but impossible to enforce our laws.
Tin foil conspiracy theorist! Yuk yuk.
The president called for a “temporary worker card” to allow employers to hire foreign workers legally. He said he strongly opposed a plan for amnesty, favored by Kerry, which would grant citizenship to illegal immigrants who have been in the country for many years.
This is what Bush has said all along! He has always "denied" it was amnesty, but that's what it was/is. The point is, that he's always been consistent.
Anyone who voted for Bush in 2004 thinking he was going to "reform" immigration in a conservative way was deluded, to put it bluntly. I always knew that Bush's policy was for "temporary legal status" with a "path TO citizenship" not "automatic citizenship". That's how it's *technically* not amnesty, but of course in reality it is.
The point isn't whether or not it's really amnesty. The point is, Bush's message has always been consistant. I KNEW when I voted for him in 2004 that he would try to get this type of "reform" passed. I also KNEW that there would be such a backlash, from both conservative AND liberal alike, that there was NO way it was going to happen. I've said this repeatedly on this forum actually, LONG before his bill WAS defeated.
The point is though, that he didn't lie about anything. He put it out there, IN 2004, EXACTLY what he was going to do, and he did it (or tried to) this year. No surprises, no lies, just like with the "superhighway".
I see there's another thread with World Nut Daily spin about this topic. And that's what it is. To say that a "mocking reply" is no reply (or denial) at all, is to say that, "If I ask the President if the moon landings were faked, and he LAUGHS at me, that PROVES they were because he won't give the question the 'serious attention' it deserves".
Get a grip.
I just spent two months in Pasadena. I met plenty of Mexicans, and not one of them tried to assault me and take my job. :p
Seriously, though. Conspiracy nonsense like this keeps us folks who want to close the borders from being taken seriously. No one listens to people they’ve already labeled as “kooks.”
Somebody should have asked him, “Why does your own base distrust you?”
That's right. It's nothing but another interstate highway in TX and it's a LOCAL problem.
Maybe you need to do some checking to see just WHO the people are who gave away the Panama Canal to allow the Chinese to take it over. You just might discover they're the same people who want to divide the country in half with a superhighway from Mexico into Canada so the Chinese can reach Canada with their goods from their port in Mexico with greater ease. You also might discover with just the tiniest bit of research who the appeasers are who think it's a fine thing for Iran and Hugo to hook up and that we should make nice with both of them so they'll like us better. We wouldn't want to make them mad at us, would we?
He said that before this SPP thing came along, the fear was of “one world government,” and that the “o.w.g.” folks have merely adjusted their focus.
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(its helpful to recall the “world citizens” concluded two decades ago that the proper way to go about world government was to start by creating super states and then later blocking them together.)
Pretty much nailed it.
“Where’ve you been. People have been using that line for at least twenty-five years. That’s what the maquilidora plants were supposed to accomplish a couple of decades ago. Then that was one of the reasons NAFTA just had to be passed in 1993 (?). Both those fantasies only made the illegal immigration problem worse (as opponents predicted), even after about three million US manufacturing jobs went south of the border.
Some are definitely into the trying the same thing over and over and expecting a different result stage.
Until there’s drastic reform in Mexico, nothing will work, but I haven’t heard W say a word about what needs to change there.”
EXACTLY ! NAFTA was sold to us on that basis. WE got SCREWED.
MEXICO needs to fix its own problems but it won’t. WHy should they? Their corrupt system works just FINE as long as the USA is a CO_DEPENDENT/ enabler in the scheme.
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