Notice the "inland ports". This is the key to the whole thing. That's where the money will be made.
Posted on 12/02/2007 1:00:24 AM PST by elhombrelibre
The GOP presidential candidate says U.S. sovereignty is at risk. Highway and trade officials and transportation consultants say there are no plans for such a project.
WASHINGTON -- The man from Arlington, Texas, could barely contain his smirk as he looked into a computer video camera to pose a question of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.
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I probably would have left well enough alone, content to leave the issue to those more informed than myself, but for one question:
What possible scenario would cause the Republican leadership to so boldly go forward with amnesty despite what one could expect from their base supporters?
What reason would cause them to irrevocably tilt the table to the Democrats by minting 20m new Dem voting immigrants?
What profit is in leaving the border wide open with it's obvious security concerns falling on the deaf ears of supposed war-hawk Republicans?
Ok, so it isn't really one question (no, really it is... a simple "WHY?" would do), but you get my drift...
The only things I could come up with to explain the disparity are drug money or NAFTA money, and one can envision those two being the same...
So... The only logical action is to oppose damn well anything that tries to keep that border open, including NAFTA and FREE TRADE in the process... And I will happily subscribe to any dang theory, no matter how much tinfoil I must wear, until and unless someone can answer the questions and restore my trust in government (not gonna happen).
Well, even a broken watch is right twice a day.
Free trade does not open the border to people, only to prosperity. And NAFTA, despite its name, is not free trade. NAFTA is just an exchange of favors for some privileged concerns on both sides.
You may need to snug up that tinfoil hat of yours .........
“a simple “WHY?” “
My sentiments, exactly, thanks for summing them up.
Perhaps they believe that by granting amnesty they could ingratiate themselves to the Hispanic vote. (I don't think it would work, but maybe they do.)
As far as the Republican base goes, the Republican party thinks they have a lock on them. What is the base supposed to do, vote for the Dems? As long as there is no viable alternative, the party can just about ignore what the base wants.
How is it a smear? It's true, and Hunter had discussed it. He's opposed to the loss of sovereigntly that this will bring with it. He's an anti-globalist, and he's unapologetic about it.
Remember, the EU was once just a coal trading agreement.
Those who want to label a person a kook for opposing a NAFTA superhighway have to recognize the fact that there are a number of Republicans who will be smeared with that brush.
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You mean those lying anarchists? They would steal from their mammas purse if they could.
Yet NAFTA is vaunted as the hallmark of "free trade", that was the purpose that they have defended it with... So you can imagine that I am particularly tired of any definition of so called "free trade" whatsoever... not being able to trust the definition in the first place. No, thank you.
I will subscribe to Hunter's "fair trade" policies, which are not Buchanan-style protectionism, yet also not the stupidly transparent screwing we are getting from the likes of China. You may argue all you will, but I am afraid the bad apple spoiled the whole bunch for me.
Maybe I'm being overly sensitive, but the tone of the article as I read it was that anyone who worried about NAFTA superhighways was a nutjob conspiracy theorist.
Did you not get that same tone from the article?
Maybe I’m being overly sensitive, but the tone of the article as I read it was that anyone who worried about NAFTA superhighways was a nutjob conspiracy theorist.
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The anarcho-capitalists have pushed the American public too far. Read what they say, “Exports are bad, Imports are good.” “The US should have zero tariffs regardless of what the trading partner does.” “GOOD DUMP YOUR STUFF ON OUR SHORES!”
The pendulum swings between free trade and protectionism. The anarcho-capitalists have gone so far, pushed the pendulum WAY to far towards free trade. People believe in conspiracy theories because they cannot believe people can be so dumb and act so treacherously.
There doesn’t need for a global conspiracy to explain away Greed. Those SOB’s who go by the name of free-traders, anarcho-capitalists, or Libertarians are nothing but self serving SOBs and traitors.
But nobody really believes that, do they? I don't think you could find me a single political wonk that thinks the GOP ever had a chance with those to be amnestied... I doesn't compute.
As far as the Republican base goes, the Republican party thinks they have a lock on them. What is the base supposed to do, vote for the Dems? As long as there is no viable alternative, the party can just about ignore what the base wants.
Again, I have heard this bandied about, but it really makes no sense. Guys like me (and many others here) have dropped the GOP on it's butt for doing far less, and we are mighty close to sovereignty issues here which is sure to cause the base to walk, no run away...
And your position(s) don't even touch the third part of the trident- There can be NO reason for leaving the border wide open to the whim and fancy of the Moozies. NONE. So we are still left without an adequate answer...
Notice the "inland ports". This is the key to the whole thing. That's where the money will be made.
For 18 years I traveled around building cellular telephone systems. In one Cellular One system I built in eastern Kentucky, I put a dozen or so cell sites literally out in the middle of nowhere. No towns, no roads, only a few very rural residents, most of whom didn't have land line phones or indoor plumbing, much less a need for cellular service. After putting in a few of these sites I asked the owner of the license why they were putting all this money, millions of dollars, into these sites where there were no potential subscribers (POPS). The answer was that a new interstate highway was being planned to pass through that area, roughly along the route of US23. That was 16 years ago and nary a blade of dirt has been turned for that new road. I guess sometimes these things can stay in the planning stages for decades.....
Oh, sure- it’s definitely anti-Paul propaganda.
But Ron Paul aside, the opposition to the NAU runs strong in the minds of people who know about it. Paul agrees with me on a lot of things, monetary policy and taxation, for instance- but that doesn’t mean I’ll abandon my positions just because he’s right about that too.
As for this issue- for the longest time, we who opposed illegal immigration couldn’t figure out the government’s motivation to support it, even risking the loss of grass-roots support when they needed it the most in Iraq.
Now, if you introduce the long term plan of the NAU, it all makes sense. These globalist elites are going to cram this crap down America’s throat one way or the other. Hunter, Tancredo and Paul recognize this, and Thompson may announce his opinion soon. I won’t support him though, until he does.
One would have to admit, though... It goes well with "ignorant, racist, Nativist", doesn't it?
Wait a second. I thought Libertarian doctrine was “ free and open movement of capital and people”?
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