I understand in 2005 per NAFTA they will be able to do this.
Tell me what you think the reasoning for this really is? I realize a lot of it is cheap labor for the campaign contributors - but what is the reasoning behind putting American professionals out of business. Why aren't the doctors howling - or my goodness, what about the lawyers. Don't they know they won't be on the gravy train much longer? Is it really that the politicians want to destroy nationalism? Does PRes. Bush really want a western hemisphere type union? Do they want a society of haves and have not and nothing in the middle? Why are American middle class people cutting their own throats, and more importantly, that of their children by supporting this lunacy?
I can't get a handle on some of this.
Yes.
Why are American middle class people cutting their own throats, and more importantly, that of their children by supporting this lunacy?
Because they really have no say. Who cares who we vote for or what the laws are? Seen the government upholding the immigration laws? They know they don't have to, because what recourse do we have? Vote them out? How? Most elections are negotiated deals anyway (most, not all). The interests of the biggest gorilla in town come first, not the interests of the peons ("us").
I think it's just the progression (or devolution?) of any society. The march back to feudalism always occurs, because in any competitive game, the early winners will always try to tilt the game in their favor. The United States has only been around a couple hundred years; a few major winners have emerged, and they work tirelessly to tilt things their direction. Occasionally an upstart figures out how to horn in; he is ultimately co-opted - or found to be one of the gang in the first place - or simply crushed by co-ordinated tactics.
In short, I think the existence of a large middle class was a short lived phenomenon, the result of a moment in history when the people actually did have some control. The war now is to push us back to survival level, where we will be happy for any crumbs. If we aren't, we're expendable. And things like armed resistance a la 1776 is simply unthinkable now, as the level of force that they control is exponentially higher than anything we might have (which is why I laugh at the gun confiscation thing. Why bother? What could peasants with pitchforks do against depleted uranium bullets? Ask the Iraqi "militias").
I know that's a gloomy opinion, but it seems to me that if you run things out to their logical result, that's where you get.