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People think this whole North American Union (NAU) is good idea???

A Mexico-U.S.-Canada highway? Roll it out | ajc.com.
By ROBERT P. CADY

Published on: 06/23/06

Reading
recently on a conservative Web site about the Bush administration’s
quiet support for a major highway from Mexico through the heart of the
United States to join Canada — a so-called NAFTA superhighway — I
couldn’t help but think the timing may be right to form the
controversial North American Union. There has been talk of this for
years. Support has grown since the successful formation of the European
Union.

The EU is a success? Everyone in Europe is living better than they were before? Even if they are what makes this a good idea for US? If it was just us and Canada maybe. But why drag us down to Mexico’s level. So between the two of us we can bring them inline with the us? At what cost?

The idea is simple; create an
open federation of the three countries, with a common set of trade
rules. In so doing, allow the free flow of citizens within the Union.
Finally, create a new currency that would combine the economic
strengths of each country and compete against the Euro, the common
currency of the European union.

Sounds so simple. But so far the only country benefiting is Mexico.

The NAFTA superhighway is
a good example of this. Building it would allow container ships to land
at Mexico’s new "Smart Port" at Lazaro Cardenas, travel in Mexican
trucks up through the center of the United States, drop loads at
designated depots and deliver containers all the way through to Canada,
all under the watchful eye of a common security system.

We haven’t heard about this from the administration but the plans
are reportedly in place, with custom centers being built and the road
ready to start in Texas next year. Perhaps it’s been kept quiet until
it is a fait accompli because such a plan bypasses the dockworkers’
unions in the U.S ports, and the Teamsters truckers until after the
offloads. It also becomes fodder for the jingoists.

You think? Maybe we need a few more Jingoists to balance out the nuts that want to destroy our way of life. Like I said, the only benefactor here is Mexico. Oh yeah, companies in the US and Canada get cheap labor and their cheap crap from China even cheaper.

I know this gets a little long, the really scary part is on the next page!

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The idea, however,
illustrates how closely our three countries are intertwined. Mexico,
with its 107 million people, is already informally joined at the hip
with the United States as a supplier of low-wage workers. Its democracy
would be moved forward, with more open, closer ties to the United
States. Also, Mexico is a leading supplier of oil to the United States.
Open entry to Mexican markets by U.S. firms would likely boost the
Mexican economy and create new jobs. In turn, Mexico’s lower wage rates
would aid expanding U.S. and Canadian businesses, transforming outcries
over outsourcing jobs to Mexico into a new frontier for North American
business, aiding its ability to compete on the global market. Yes,
Mexicans would pour across our borders until the free market settled
the supply and demand needs of our labor force. The difference is, it
would be legal. On the other hand, as more American business partnered
with Mexican businessmen, more jobs in Mexico would keep many of those
workers there.

So, if Mexico is a leading supplier of oil to the US why does their economy still suck? Maybe it’s the corruption. The political corruption, the economic corruption, the criminal justice corruption. Corruption is so engrained in their culture it’s a way of life, expected and built into their system. Why is this going to be good for the US and Canada? Oh yeah, cheap labor and cheap crap. All I hear is that it’s going to be good for Mexico.

Over time, the free market would regulate traffic and economic
movement. In truth, there may be more economic movement into Mexico and
Canada rather than the other way around, stabilizing immigration. Money
and brainpower would flow to where it can be best utilized. The free
market would also create business interests in all three countries that
don’t exist now. Finally, the new North American Union would present a
much stronger economic and political face to an increasingly more
powerful Europe and Asia.

We are already seeing the results of a global economy that flows
over borders. As more people of the world get to know each other
through mass communication, new markets are being created and major
shifts are taking place. Just as the world’s corporations are merging
to meet this global competition, it may be time to seriously consider a
North American Union. And if it’s already being planned for secretly,
bring it out in the open. It’s a good idea.

• Robert P. Cady is a writer and businessman living in Kennesaw.

At the moment Mexico is so anti-foreigner I don’t see how they are going to allow anything or anyone into their country unless they have complete control over that company. The initial shock of Mexico overrunning us and Canada is only going to drag us down to their level. The lower common denominator and it will take us forever to get back to the level where we’re at now.

I guess we all need to start companies that depend on cheap labor and cheap crap to be the only ones that prosper in this economic suicide plan.