TTC opposition

Daily Light ^ | January 22, 2007 | JOANN LIVINGSTON

[hedgetrimmer]

“We didn’t fight a war so our government could give away our land,” said ret. Col. Sam Horton of Houston.

The TTC is part of the U.S. Government’s Council of Foreign Relations’ plans - which also include massive foreign aid to Mexico and monies for 60,000 Mexican students to attend U.S. universities for free, Ford said, noting the irony of seeing older American workers having to subsidize their Social Security by working at Taco Bell.

[hedgetrimmer]

PING

[gcruse]

"“[Bush's] plan is to have the North American Union in place by 2010,” Peterson said. “It would be like the European Union.”

Ignorance is bliss, but not persuasive.

[rabscuttle385]

monies for 60,000 Mexican students to attend U.S. universities for free

What the hell?

They give us loans, but they give the Mexicans grants...which my parents have to subsidize through taxes?!

[truthkeeper]

Thx for the ping

[hedgetrimmer]

Yes. The American taxpayer is footing the bill for globalization, not the so-called "free traders" and transnational corporations. Taxpayers have been footing the bill since day one, starting ostensibly with the taxpayer subsidies to criminal employers who hire illegal aliens.

You bet offshoring and outsourcing is also subsidized by the US tax payer and now we are going to be taxed for 'globalization adjustment'--eg. the socialized subsidy of the American worker who's lost his job due to "free trade". That means starting with the 8 out of 10 service related job losses due to offshoring. The numbers are huge and devastating to the economic health and stability of this nation.

[gcruse]

"The numbers are huge and devastating to the economic health and stability of this nation."

As evidenced by what? Our miniscule unemployment rate, record DOW averages, and shrinking deficit?

[hedgetrimmer]

When you put 80 percent of your workforce on government assistance, you devastate your economy.

America's economy is NOT healthy. Transnational corporations push up the DOW, and their success depends on their foreign investments, not investment in the US economy. As for the unemployment rate, its ludicrous to trust the numbers of a government that says there's no inflation, while the cost of energy, food, housing, college tuition, you name it has multiplied astronomically in the past 20 years.

[gcruse]

" Transnational corporations push up the DOW,"

Nuts much?

[steve8714]

We have lost what I will refer to as strategic positions in sensitive industries. Food, banking, manufacturing, (even defense) and technology have had their centers of ownership, management and production moved offshore to countries which subsidize the acquisition of American companies to acquire proprietary information and in some cases dual-use technology. If you think there will never be another war, it's alright. If you think the next war will be like a video game, it's alright. I say, however, that administrations from Eisenhower on have squandered both our retail power as the world's largest market, and allowed foreigners to acquire large pieces of these strategic industries in the name of "free trade" and "less regulation". Make no mistake, the modern corporation is not interested in classical economics...when you have to have the highest stock price in order to control your destiny as a corporation, when CEO pay is based on a quarter's earnings, when the government will stand in the way of no merger no matter how it distorts markets, "optimization" is a concept that goes away, replaced by "maximization" Add to this the lack of Christian enlightenment in the common education, and yes, our economy is in trouble. Not because of current numbers, but because it is detatching from the historical roots of our free economic system.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Trans-Texas Corridor PING!

[1rudeboy]

The American taxpayer is footing the bill for globalization, not the so-called "free traders" and transnational corporations.

"Free traders" are not taxpayers? What a relief, no 1040 for me this year.

[gcruse]

"Christian enlightenment "

I love oxymorons in the morning. :)

[SwinneySwitch]

Sheila Jackson Lee will take care of the roads!

Jackson Lee to chair panel on transportation security

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1770463/posts

[Diddle E. Squat]

All of which has zero to do with the Trans Texas Corridor. What the Corsi Kooks fail to point out (even though it has been explained to them 100 times) is that:

1) The road will open from San Antonio to Dallas around 2015, but any extension to Oklahoma and Laredo won't begin construction until after 2025. If this road was about smuggling illegal aliens, nuclear bombs, and all the other North American Union BS, why is it not being built to the borders at the start?

2) The road will NOT cross the border, will NOT create a new border crossing, and will NOT change any border crossing procedures/inspections. Any int'l traffic using the road will have to utilize already existing border crossings.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[TXnMA]

Thanks, TSR!

[A. Pole]

"As to what kind of union might there be, I see one based upon free trade, that would then entail commitment to markets and democracy, transparency, rule of law," Bush told media after that meeting.

Hmm

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

You're welcome.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

bump.