Trans-Texas Corridor Big Issue In Race For Governor

nbc5i.com ^ | September 6, 2006 | nbc5i.com

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Opponents: Trans-Texas Corridor Too Big, Even For Texas

DALLAS -- Gov. Rick Perry has proposed the Trans-Texas Corridor, and now his political opponents are making it a big issue in the race for governor.

It would cost billions of dollars to build a new highway running across Texas near Interstate 35.

I-35 is the only major north-south corridor in the state of Texas.

“It’s impossible to widen the highway in some areas,” Texas Department of Transportation spokesman Mark Ball said. “So the alternative is to build a separate corridor.”

But the Texas Transportation Corridor is much more than just a highway from Mexico to Oklahoma, blazing a trail three times wider than the average highway -- wide enough for more than just cars and trucks.

“The corridor is for rail, it's for commercial use for trucks, it's for private use, and it's also for utilities,” Ball said.

But opponents said the Trans-Texas Corridor is too big, even for Texas.

“Twelve hundred feet wide is far more than your average interstate. Your average interstate would be about 350 feet wide,” corridor opponent Linda Stall said.

“You're putting traffic lanes with high-speed rail and all the high fencing that goes with that, creating a barrier across Texas, dividing Texas everywhere it goes,” Stall said.

North Texas transportation leaders support the project.

"If we don't have this avenue that we're going to add to our infrastructure, then Texas is going to begin to go backwards as far as our economy, as far as jobs, because once we lose our infrastructure and our transportation, everything goes downhill from there,” Denton County Commissioner Sandy Jacobs said.

But leaders said they want the corridor to go around both sides of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.

“What that does for us is that it integrates a within-region route and an inner-city route into the same right of way,” North Texas Council of Governments Michael Morris

Because tolls would pay for the corridor, it guarantees transportation will remain a big campaign issue.

[1rudeboy]

C'mon. And how does it do that?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Good stuff, if one could roll it and smoke it.

Myself, I'm not too worried about the TTC being part of a "NAFTA Highway" scheme, since, as far as I know, no other DOT in the states supposedly affected by the NAFTA Highway project have such corridors on their drawing boards. And nothing of the sort was mentioned in that PPP pdf that hedgetrimmer linked us to.

[1rudeboy]

I was merely referring to the tremendous leaps of "logic" in the comment I selected. There is no avoiding the conclusion that the reasoning is impaired in some fashion.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

If I recall correctly, the OECD threatened several small countries with a reduction or elimination of investment in these countries unless they "got with the program" as it were and enacted higher-tax regimes. The extortion was something along those lines, anyhow.

You know what? I sincerely hope I'm wrong. I hope that the OECD is as innocuous as you appear to think it is.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I can't help bu agree there. Unless there's some connection I don't know about, the UN and OECD are entirely separate organizations.

[1rudeboy]

Do you remember which of the following countries? Members of the OECD: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and United States.

A good number of them are members of the EU, which purports to claim authority on tax issues, and most of the others are large enough to tell the OECD to stick it (if what you say is true).

[daybreakcoming]

If Grandma or Kinky wins, we will overtake Louisiana for the #1 political joke of the nation position.

So maybe I'm not crazy about Perry but I'll take him over those two any day. Neither have a clue.

[Dog Gone]

The Trans Texas Corridor is an Illuminati plot, and you know it.

[LNewman]

If Kinky was running for governor in Maryland, he'd be a colorful alternative to the usual out-of-control socialist Democrats and manipulative Republicans.

The difference is he'd still be an improvement.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

On the other hand, maybe it was the EU I was thinking of...

[texastoo]

"The current head of the OECD was born in Mexico. Mexico (and other OECD nations) are members of the UN. Therefore, the UN (despite having no relation to the OECD other than a country may belong to both), through its Mexican proxy, is "screwing the American taxpayer" for the TTC (a "free trade road," whatever that is)"

The "current head" (American terminology) is actually Jose Angel Gurria, Secretary-General of the OECD. Now I wonder why I assumed he was from the UN or related to it? In my little old town we have a Mayor, in my county we have a county commissioner, and in my state we have a Governor. Now whenever we have problems we just take them to Judge Judy and she solves them all. I really never studied about secretary-generals and tribunals in school or college. I'd of probably gotten an "F" as I liked your words "current head" better than Secretary-general. So maybe you could tell me the names of your school books that have so much of this knowledge and I will get them from my local library. So excuse my ignorance as I just figured that a secretary-general was somehow connected to the UN.

http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Meeting.asp?m=12021&intItemID=1942&lang=1

" Programme Events
Event: OECD/UNCTAD Workshop on Services
Date: 27 June 2006
Location: Geneva
Venue: Palais des Nations, Room XXVI
Description: The OECD/UNCTAD Workshop on Services aims to assist trade negotiators and policy makers in the current GATS negotiations.

The key objective of the workshop is to help officials of WTO Members - particularly developing countries - in gaining a greater insight into the particular issues of importance in a number of services sectors and how they might be approached in the negotiations.

The sectors covered include:

business support services;


logistics and related services;


construction and related engineering services;


energy services; and


environmental services.
In addition to members of the UNCTAD and OECD Secretariats, academics and other experts will help facilitate the presentations and participate in the discussions."


They look pretty cozy to me. You must have missed your workshop, Rudeboy. This UN web page has a purdy color blue on it. Go See.

[texastoo]

Hesre is another site with the blue trimming yhou might be interested in.

http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?
intItemID=2260&lang=1

"Manual on Statistics of International Trade in Services
The United Nations Statistical Commission established an Inter-Agency Task Force in 1995 to strengthen the cooperation between international organizations and to promote the development of concepts, definitions and classifications in the area of statistics in international trade in services. The aim of the Task Force is to better meet the needs of a variety of producers and users of these statistics — particularly statistical compilers, but also governments and international organizations that need statistical information in connection with international negotiations pertaining to trade in services, and also businesses and others that wish to assess developments in international services markets.

Membership of the Task Force comprises the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and the World Trade Organisation (WTO), with OECD as chair and secretariat"

I'll say, a very impressive task force. Look who was chosed as chair and secretariat. None other than the OECD.

[texastoo]

try this link:

http://www.unctad.org/Templates/Page.asp?intItemID=2260&lang=1

[1rudeboy]

I cannot spell it out any simpler: the OECD "evolved" as the economic arm of NATO. It is related to the UN the same way as state chapters of the Chamber of Commerce are related to Rotary International.

Go ahead and post whatever meaningless links you wish. If you cannot understand the difference between a Chamber of Commerce and a Rotary Club, and how someone can belong to each, then it is fruitless to try and explain.

[hedgetrimmer]

As you know the OECD is an intergovernmental organization, which, clearly isn't the same as a rotary club, or chamber of commerce. As an intergovernmental organization,members are appointed, you cannot 'join' like a citizen would join a rotary club or a businessman would join the chamber of commerce. Since one of their stated goals is to 'harmonize national policies', it is clearly an anti-sovereignty organization, and no US official or appointed representative should have anything to do with it. Sadly, though this group has widespread influence and participates in functions that have an effect on US citizens, their country and their government.

The "free traitin'" globalists say that the group has no influence, but then its work is generally out of public view, and as the 'working groups' put together to form the NAU, the organization is "designed to avoid public scrutiny and to maintain "deniability"".

Any LOYAL American would question US participation in such a group. In fact its existence is an abhorrence to the American system of government, as it is an enabling tool for corrupt officials to promote their anti-American agenda and consolidate their political ideology in the global arena.

[texastoo]

I find it strange that you are using American comparisons. The Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club, why not the Boy Scouts and Cup Scouts?

You can bet these alphabet soup groups are from the UN. Note what the UN has to say about this group. This is the alphabet group of foreign election observers. The OSCE website denied or didn't admit to being part of the UN.

http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2002/issue4/0402p16.html

Excerpt....


OSCE by definition is a regional organization whose authority is based on Chapter VIII.

Excerpt....

" As long as regional organizations contribute to a global agenda, complement the work of other international organizations and add to the collective wisdom that shapes the United Nations, they serve the purpose and are extremely valuable to the world Organization—the more successful they are, the less is needed for UN involvement"

You can bet that as long as these alphabet soup groups have "secretary-generals", I'll always think of them as related to the UN.

[texastoo]

but then its work is generally out of public view,...

You nailed it. I enjoyed reading your link. Hopefully, the Canadians will go for it.

[hedgetrimmer]

they serve the purpose and are extremely valuable to the world Organization—the more successful they are, the less is needed for UN involvement"

'nuff said.

[texastoo]

The WH has published the new spp agreement. Go to TOS. I have been over there reading. I am glad the Canadians published this as theirs is informative.

I really fear for our country.

[1rudeboy]

Dude, give up. Now you've confused the OECD with the OSCE (I think). It's getting difficult to keep track of your errors . . . not that it was easy in the first place.