Posted on 12/08/2007 10:21:28 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Two provinces, Manitoba through its Speech from the Throne, and Alberta, through a map of NAFTA Trade Corridors have provided strong evidence that there are plans for a NAFTA Superhighway, or Mid-Continent Trade Corridor. President Bush and Prime Minister Harper dismissed this idea after the Montebello meeting as comparable to planning an "interplanetary" superhighway or a scare tactic whereby a "conspiracy" is laid out.
There is no conspiracy. Plans are going forward. This question is as yet unanswered: does what now recognized as reality stands alone or is part of a wider plan? The one Former Mexican President Fox spoke of a as "a new vision", first NAFTA, then integration through the Security and Prosperity Partnership.
The American Presidential candidates are discussing the existence of what is contained in the Manitoba Speech from the Throne and the Albertan North American Trade Corridors map. Americans concerned about their country losing sovereignty in a North American Union are circulating YouTubes contrasting the reality of the Speech, and Map, to the words of those denying the Superhighways' existence.
Though our political system differs, Canadians will do well to watch the influence of these contributions from Canada as Americans select their next president. Will the person selected be following the denial policy of President Bush or charting a different course?
There's the bureaucrats who are only too willing to help sell America down the Rio Grande to line their own pockets, along with corporate greedholders, the globalists, and those who are otherwise selfishly motivated.
You are so right.
Greed seems to be running this country these days.
A financial consultant friend of mine told me yesterday, that the market is run by only two things: Fear or Greed. Hmmmm.
He’s absolutely right!
It’s a done deal on the SH 130 toll road. C/Z are building and will operate. Half of it’s already done. (from north of Georgetown to 71) Some suspect parts of it will be integrated into the TTC-35. If not, will have another mega-road paralleling this one.
“Taking the position that no more roads should be built in Texas is insanity.”
I personally would like to see a wall built around the entire state and have an Alaska-type lottery to gain entry but, that’s just me.
The state of Texas has had years if not decades to see this problem coming yet, they did nothing and continue to do nothing. Why? Because they see toll roads as the wave of the future, sucking more money out of you and me. If that's not enough to make you angry, I don't know what will do it.
The TTC is not going to cost me very much money, and certainly less than if it were built using tax revenue. In fact, for the most part, it will only cost those who choose to use it, and nobody will be forced to do so.
I don’t particulary care for toll roads because they never quit collecting tolls, even when they promise to do so. I think the Golden Gate Bridge has been paid for by now.
If a Spanish firm wants to pay the billions to build a new freeway in Texas instead of me building it, I don’t mind them recouping their money from those who choose to use it. It’s no different than an American company, McDonalds, building a restaurant in Athens and then charging Greeks who want to eat there.
“The TTC is not going to cost me very much money,”
What about I69 or the new 137 miles tollway they’re going to build around Houston? Remember, Perry’s TTC proposal is 4000 miles of roadway. We’ll all be effected.
How many families were uprooted to build a nasty MickyDs?
You were hoping for a taco & tequilla delivery route to AK?
The planned right of way is more than 8 times as wide, for starters.
Here’s the deal:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/971011/posts?page=1
Group touts Mexico-to-Asia highway plan | 3-4 years old thread
I think I passed the construction in Iowa or in or near Nebraska.
This whole paranoia thing about a "union" would be laughable except that people take it so seriously. I guess we have dozens of "unions" that nobody worried about before.
We have protocols for aviation, for customs, for extradition, for trade, for just about everything we do that involves foreign countries.
We have military alliances, missile accords, immigration agreements, you name it.
Suddenly, an idea that we ought to coordinate North American security between the three countries has been blown into some sort of a theory that we're all going to become one country.
Why didn't that happen with all the countless other multi-national cooperation agreements we have entered into?
Hell, why wouldn't we want to help Canada and Mexico identify terrorists entering their country before they entered ours?
This notion that we're going to adopt a common currency or move the capital of our country and the whole continent to Guadalajara or wherever is just looney tunes.
I'm guessing you liked the good old days when a wagon trail was only two ruts with no passing lane.
You need to pull your head out of the waste tunnel on this issue. A corridor that wide would guarantee a military defeat for this country. It makes no sense at all.
Oh my, building a road in America will ensure our military defeat! Who knew!
God I hope we don’t have any ports.
It’s not just a road. If a road was what they wanted, 200 feet would give them all they could ever need. 1200 feet of land corridor is insane militarily.
“But I’m just not going to fall victim to the hysteria about a new highway being built. It’s not even the last one we’ll need to be built.”
Maybe if we didn’t have to share our existing roads with 20
or 30 million illegals, what we have would work just fine.
If we’re so weak that a few hundred feet of payment is our military downfall, we deserve to lose.
Why couldn’t you view this as a military advantage for us? Not your mindset?
Maybe. But we build roads for the traffic that needs to use them and for the traffic that will use them in the future.
You can't be telling me that it makes economic sense for Americans to be sitting in traffic bitching about illegal aliens. That's not a solution.
The roads and border enforcement are pretty distinct issues.
“The roads and border enforcement are pretty distinct issues.”
Both issues could be greatly improved merely by enforcing our current immigration laws. ie less traffic, less need for new roads.
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