It's a frickin' evil road.
Posted on 03/18/2008 1:17:02 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Topeka — Agreements with Mexico and Canada are setting the stage for construction of a huge highway that will gobble up Kansans’ property and jeopardize U.S. security, representatives from a wide range of groups said Monday.
“Through incrementalism, apathy and inattention, our national sovereignty is being sacrificed on a cross of greed, socialism and globalism,” said state Rep. Judy Morrison, R-Shawnee.
Morrison has introduced House Concurrent Resolution 5033 urging Congress to withdraw from further participation in the North American Free Trade Agreement and Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
At a hearing before the House Federal and State Affairs Committee, truckers, labor officials and lawmakers and advocates from Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas urged approval of the resolution.
Committee Chairman Arlen Siegfreid, R-Olathe, said he didn’t know if the committee could comprehend all the information submitted on the subject and work on the measure within the last three weeks of the legislative session.
“I think I’ve got a little reading to do. I have not made a decision yet, but it’s getting very short,” Siegfreid said.
Owen de Long, a political consultant from Merriam, said plans are in the works to build a NAFTA superhighway that will be one-quarter of a mile wide to transport Asian goods throughout the United States that are off-loaded at Mexican ports.
De Long said it will be impossible to police the huge amount of cargo containers. “That’s how terrorists will arrive in Kansas City,” he said.
Some officials have repeatedly denied the existence of plans to build the highway.
But David and Linda Stall, founders of CorridorWatch in Texas, testified that because of NAFTA, Texas is in the middle of considering a Trans-Texas Corridor that has been criticized by landowners.
Yes, I know it's to be a toll road, and I like that better than making the taxpayer pay for it. I'll probably not use it, but since I live in Texas, I won't pay for it, either.
"Lives ripped apart" is just histrionics.
It's a frickin' road.
That's true. If you want to post some wage data, we can discuss that too. I don't know how you would measure job "quality".
I think that's what most people have a problem with especially, now that the economy has down turned and prices have sky rocketed. Since we're paying more for imports now (due to the falling $)
I'm not sure that restricting imports would bring prices down.
a NAFTA HW bringing in said imports, is not looked upon favorably.
Bringing the imports here in a way that avoids the expensive and inefficient West Coast ports should make them cheaper. Don't you think?
Now there's a worthy goal, we can become just like Soros, Spitzer, and the boys.
There’s probably no real reason to have exits that go to nowhere.
There will be exits at anyplace the demand exists. Can you tell me why new exits and entrances can’t be built in the future?
You’re right.
Let’s all try not to get wealthy. That’s evil.
You know that gaining more wealth than your neighbor is not fair.
Do you work for Zachary or the State? Maybe you should read up on the plans for this road because it’s more then just “a frickin’ road”.
It's a frickin' evil road.
Don’t forget to mark your calender, our West Coast ports are shutting-down to protest the Iraq War.
No, I don't. I have no financial interest in this road in any way.
If I owned a cow pasture, and the road was coming through it, I'd probably be excited about being able to sell my cow pasture to gas stations, supermarkets, or developers in general.
Are you opposed to any more new roads in this country?
Nobody ever answers that question when I ask it.
Agreed on corporate taxes.
They can friggin’ kiss my kiester. I should insist that my goods come through Lazaro Cardenas.
Absolutely, which is why I'm currently undergoing surgery to become an Obama Girl.
Hmm, what is that? 20.5 million jobs created since 1993?
That’s just about the same number of illegals here.
I'm with you, but methinks that's the low end of the estimate. Mexico sure has brought a lot to the NAFTA table. Consummate negotiators that DC crowd.
Hey, since we’re making up numbers, why not make it 100 million illegals, and all of our wages have dropped to $1.00?
So you’re saying that having some wealth automatically turns us into corrupt socialists?
Get real. There are 200 billion illegal aliens in this county.
Last year I made 75 cents. The government took 30 cents before I saw it, and I spent the rest on 5 ounces of gasoline.
It SUCKS to live in America.
Today, there is almost zero "unclaimed" land, so these senseless* corridors want to grab land that belongs to folks.
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*senseless: Adding $500,000 or more to every crossover -- just to drive under power lines or over pipelines...
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