I predict that the agenda to destroy the "middle" class in America is too far along to reverse. In the future, many of us will find even the goods at Wal-Mart largely beyond affordibility. The minimum wage will be important to many more millions of us than it is today, as we join the new underclass. The plan is to bring us "down" to the earnings level of Mexicans, not to bring them "up" to our current level.
Make no mistake....TBTB are intent on the further lowering of our previous standard of living, and their new scheme involves the elimination of the union scale and benefits jobs of Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach dockworkers and of the American truck drivers represented by the Teamsters Union.
If the Teamsters Union workers are inhibiting "growth" or profits, why has UPS been so successful and efficient? <a href="http://www.laborresearch.org/story2.php/211">UPS employs 230,000 Teamsters Union members.</a> Is it not in the interest of U.S. small business to have customers who are paid wages and benefits that keep them in the "middle class", have health care and retirement benefits, that guarantee that they are not "queued up" along side Wal-Mart workers who require public subsidy in the form of medical care, food stamps, and welfare payments because they cannot make a "liveable" wage?
The first step is an disinformation "Op", led by this handpicked, partisan mouthpiece, as he "poses" as a "dissenter", who is actually assigned to float a trial balloon, to condition us as to what is coming....replacement of U.S. infrastructure in order to accelerate the plan to eliminate remaining union jobs and to "integrate" the entire low wage Mexican workforce everywhere in North America. There is nothing wrong with existing west coast port facilities, or U.S. highway distribution systems....they just are not quite as profitable for TBTB as they potentially might be.....
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200408060010">MMFA investigates: Who is Jerome Corsi, co-author of Swift Boat Vets attack book?</a>
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http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15497
Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway
by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted Jun 12, 2006
..........Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman’s Union in the process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation’s most modern highway straight into the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross border in FAST lanes, checked only electronically by the new “SENTRI” system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, their new Smart Port complex, a facility being built for Mexico at a cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City.
As incredible as this plan may seem to some readers, the first Trans-Texas Corridor segment of the NAFTA Super Highway is ready to begin construction next year. Various U.S. government agencies, dozens of state agencies, and scores of private NGOs (non-governmental organizations) have been working behind the scenes to create the NAFTA Super Highway, despite the lack of comment on the plan by President Bush. The American public is largely asleep to this key piece of the coming “North American Union” that government planners in the new trilateral region of United States, Canada and Mexico are about to drive into reality.
Just examine the following websites to get a feel for the magnitude of NAFTA Super Highway planning that has been going on without any new congressional legislation directly authorizing the construction of the planned international corridor through the center of the country.....
.....The details of the NAFTA Super Highway are hidden in plan view. Still, Bush has not given speeches to bring the NAFTA Super Highway plans to the full attention of the American public. Missing in the move toward creating a North American Union is the robust public debate that preceded the decision to form the European Union. All this may be for calculated political reasons on the part of the Bush Administration.
A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico may be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the heart of the U.S., all without the involvement of any U.S. union workers on the docks or in the trucks.
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Jerome Corsi's fake indignation in the "piece" above, is quickly endorsed by someone who can make money on this scheme:
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http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=en&t...oll%20it%20out
A Mexico-U.S.-Canada highway? Roll it out
By ROBERT P. CADY
Published on: 06/23/06
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.
The idea, however, illustrates how closely our three countries are intertwined.....
.......<b>Over time, the free market would regulate traffic and economic movement.</b> 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.
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After these greedy, "visionaries" destroy the purchasing power of the folks who formerly could have bought the "goods" that their newly built "parallel" freight handling system will distribute throughout the North American continent, where do the expect the demand side for all of this "freight", to come from? If there is a "war on terror", is it really "safer" for U.S. national security, to move the principle ports to an adjacent, third world country, and allow the "goods" to travel all the way to Kansas City in Mexican trucks before any customs inspection of the incoming trucks?
The same political party that blocked the U.S. senate vote to increase the minimum wage, last week, also brought us the "new" deficit. Both the "no vote" on the minimum wage, and the deficit increase are intended to do the same thing....distribute the most wealth to the fewest and the most powerful interests....and it's working !<a href="http://www.startribune.com/587/story/508126.html">The measure drew the support of 43 Democrats, eight Republicans and one independent. Four of those eight Republicans are seeking re-election in the fall.</a>
How much and how quickly would the federal debt have to increase, to influence anyone to vote to replace republicans with democrats? How much longer will folks support "more of the same", as the "strategy" in the Iraq war?
How many of your neighbors will have to experience falling wages and loose their health insurance benefits, before you would vote for candidates who favor increasing the minimum wage? I guess we'll find some answers in about 4 months and 2 weeks from now.....