North American Union & the Amero

[Turtle]

Just heard the phrases North American Union & Amero for the first time tonight. I heard the plan is to have them in effect by 2010. I have to go check a couple sites, but a quick Googlet gave me:
Web Results 1 - 10 of about 15,700,000 for North American Union. (0.42 seconds)

What's up with that!?
Prepare to respond....

OK On your mark, get set, ....GO!

[Turtle]

Beet ya to the first goivernment link!
http://www.spp.gov/


Post Script More links & an 'official' statement of intent:

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=14965

Originally Posted by humaneventsonline

The North American Union plan, which Vincente Fox has every reason to presume President Bush is still following, calls for the only border to be around the North American Union -- not between any of these countries. Or, as the CFR report stated:

The three governments should commit themselves to the long-term goal of dramatically diminishing the need for the current intensity of the governments’ physical control of cross-border traffic, travel, and trade within North America. A long-term goal for a North American border action plan should be joint screening of travelers from third countries at their first point of entry into North America and the elimination of most controls over the temporary movement of these travelers within North America.

[TheBigDog]

I didn't catch this when it was posted. As a fan of really bad ideas I must say this is my favorite.

Bill

[TheFaithfulStone]

Okay, so Human Events Online's article is a bunch of black helicopter fear mongering, but it really does seem like a pretty bad idea.

TFS

[Turtle]

Originally Posted by TheBigDog

I didn't catch this when it was posted. As a fan of really bad ideas I must say this is my favorite.
Bill

Originally Posted by TheFaithfulStone

Okay, so Human Events Online's article is a bunch of black helicopter fear mongering, but it really does seem like a pretty bad idea.
TFS

Let's just start a pool then on how many months from now Thursday June 29 in the year of our lord 2006, the Amero appears on the World Monetary Exchange trading 1 for 1 with the Euro.
Get set....Go!

[Racoon]

First you need to build the infrastructure. It will be a great boon to the economy, like building dams and stuff.

But then... the invasion. the fleecing. the economic empirialist greed taking control.
I hope I'm wrong; that'd be great But sorry, I don't trust George W. as far as I could throw him. (granted he could never have devised and facilitated this himself)

Coming Through! The NAFTA Super Highway

The planned NAFTA Super Highway would radically reconfigure not only the physical landscape of these United States, but our political and economic landscapes as well.
Kelly Taylor is an Austin-based writer and filmmaker, and the producer of a politically based TV talk show.


All across America, mammoth construction projects are preparing to launch. The NAFTA Super Highway is on a fast track and it's headed your way. If you don't help derail it, you may soon be run over by it - both figuratively and literally.

The NAFTA Super Highway is a venture unlike any previous highway construction project. It is actually a daisy chain of dozens of corridors and coordinated projects that are expected to stretch out for several decades, cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and end up radically reconfiguring not only the physical landscape of these United States, but our political and economic landscapes as well.

Ah, but the mere asking of that question shows that you're still operating under the old paradigm that sees the United States as an independent, sovereign nation. However, that paradigm began to change following passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994. NAFTA, which was sold to the American public as a simple trade agreement, was actually far more than that, setting in motion a process for the gradual social, economic, and political "integration," or merger, of the three NAFTA countries - Canada, the United States, and Mexico - into a North American Union.

In 2005, this merger process became more explicit and aggressive when President Bush, Mexico's President Vicente Fox, and Canada's Prime Minister Martin launched what they call the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). Any serious study of the SPP will clearly reveal that its ultimate aim is the dissolution of the United States into a North American Union patterned after the increasingly dictatorial regional government now running the European Union. Henceforth, under this plan, the borders between our nations will be incrementally erased in favor of a joint "perimeter" around all three countries.

One part of this plan calls for streamlining the flow of traffic from Mexico, including a massive increase in containers from China and the Far East offloading at Mexican seaports and then being transported by truck and rail into the United States via the new NAFTA Super Highway. These new cargo streams would cross the border in supposedly secure FAST lanes, checked only electronically until the first Customs stop in Kansas City!

[Racoon]

The NAFTA Super Highway

It's not just American ports that are fast slipping into foreign ownership; it's highways, too. A Spanish company, Cintra Concesiones de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A., has bought the right to operate a tollroad through Texas and collect tolls for the next 50 years.

Called the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC), on which construction is planned to begin next year, this highway would bisect Texas from its border with Mexico to Oklahoma. Hearings held by the Texas Department of Transportation this summer attracted hundreds of angry Texans.

Plans call for a ten-lane limited-access highway to parallel I-35. It would have three lanes each way for passenger cars, two express lanes each way for trucks, rail lines both ways for people and freight, plus a utility corridor for oil and natural gas pipelines, electric towers, cables for communication, and telephone lines.

Central to this plan is a massive taking of 584,000 acres of farm and ranch land at an estimated cost of $11 to $30 billion, property then lost from the tax rolls of counties and school districts. After the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London, no one need worry about the power of eminent domain to take private property.

The Trans-Texas Corridor will be the first leg of what has been dubbed the NAFTA Super Highway to go through heartland America all the way to Canada. This would be a major lifeline of the plan to merge the United States into a North American Community.

[Boerseun]

Hey - I kinda like the idea. Not the foreign ownership of the toll concession, but the idea of unification. And, if you unify far enough, there won't be any foreigners left to make foreign ownership of anything possible!

...but do you think if North America unifies, and they trade in the peso and the US and Canadian dollars for "Ameros", emulating the Euro, and if Africa eventually reaches the stated goal of monetary unification in 2015-2020, they'll call it the "Afro"?

That'll bring a whole new dimension to the hairstyles of the '70s!

[InfiniteNow]

Originally Posted by Racoon

That NAFTA superhighway goes right through my house... Seriously. You see the "N" in Austin on the map, where I-35, Hwy 290, and Hwy 183 converge...


Curious, Racoon. Thanks for pointing this out to me, as my ignorance on the topic was unintentional, and I will be searching to learn more.

[Sacri Sankt]

Originally Posted by InfiniteNow

That NAFTA superhighway goes right through my house... Seriously. You see the "N" in Austin on the map, where I-35, Hwy 290, and Hwy 183 converge...

wow. time to move!

as for the union, i dont think there is any chance of it ever happening. a reduction in tarrifs and more open trade sure, but an actual customs union? it suits the usa too well to have the current situation. they get cheap mexican labor, and access to cheap canadian drugs and such, not to mention the 'brain drain' that attracts all of canadas best and brightest to the usa. a union would spread the wealth more equally, so there is no way americans will ever vote for it (who votes for a reduction in quality of life???)