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Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway
by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted Jun 12, 2006
Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.
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.
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. . ."
InterCountry One? NarcoOne? Name that highway.
When it comes to making money, and in this case an additional extra goodie--union busting, the Bush Administration can move at warp speed. Anything else, including national security, not so fast.
2 comments:
Isn't this regime utterly vile and depraved? This is nothing less than the groundwork for a totall corporate overthrow of our government. If they control the vertical and the horizontal (in terms of our ports and our highways) we will have no way to effectively block the implementation of a multi-national corporate theft of our democracy.
We have to raise holy hell about this now and not stop until the f'ing Teamsters and Longshoremen do something about it. We can't stop this unless we have the numbers.
Let's make some freaking noise.
I am the most pro-union non-union member ever-- the only reason I've never been in an union is because the region and state that I work in has laws preventing public employees from joining a union. Even in the private sector, it's tough to find a union.
The decline of freedom and the economic power of the average American can be traced directly to the decline of unions and the rise of corporate influence in government and in the media.
We desperately need the unions to stage a come-back on recruitment and quit worrying so much about maintaining the shrinking status quo. If we had 50% union membership, national health insurance wouuld be a foregone conclusion.
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