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Aug. 18, 2007, 7:50AM
Perry's push for super highway raises conspiracy buzz
Some say it's part of a plan to create one nation in North America

Perry's push for the Trans-Texas Corridor super highway is part of a secret plan, the conspiracy theorists say, to create the North American Union — a single nation consisting of Canada, Mexico and the United States with a currency called the Amero.

Perry enhanced the conspiracy buzz earlier this summer by traveling to Turkey to attend the secretive Bilderberg conference, which conspiracy theorists believe is a cabal of international monied interests and power brokers pressing for globalization.

And the conspiracy rhetoric is likely to ratchet up this week as President Bush meets with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Quebec in their third summit to discuss North American relations under the Security and Prosperity Partnership.

Government denials of the North American Union and descriptions of it as a myth seem to add fuel to the fire. A Google search for "North American Union" and "Rick Perry" returns about 13,400 Web page results.

Fast-forward to March 2005 to Crawford, when President Bush, Harper and then-Mexican President Vicente Fox agreed to pursue the Security and Prosperity Partnership, SPP. The idea was to promote cooperation among the countries on economic and security issues.
But conservative author Jerome Corsi — in his new book: The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada — argues the SPP is a "stealth" attempt to wipe out the nations' borders and form a single economy like the European Union.

With an entire chapter dedicated to Perry's Trans-Texas Corridor plan, Corsi says the first step to integrating the economies is to integrate the transportation infrastructure.

"His (Perry's) actions have been to fight hard to build this toll road and not listen to the objections expressed by the people of Texas," Corsi said.

Corsi became nationally known in 2004 as the co-author of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry. Corsi said extensive research shows the SPP has created working groups on the North American Union that answer to presidential Cabinet secretaries.

"This is more of a shadow bureaucracy, a shadow government already in effect," Corsi said. "Unless it is stopped, it will turn into a North American Union with an Amero."

Houston Chronicle

Why was Texas Gov. Perry at the secretive Bilderberg conference in the first place?
He won't say..it's secretive ..congers up sub rosa government and star chamber proceedings, which of course the Bilderburg Group is all about ...wait I can't say that it's a secret ..wait I can say it because they're not refuting it.

In fact a good libelling of that organization would do one of two things...actually probably only one ...first ..your untimely demise, or number two a counter suit in which discovery would have to be done...never happen.

Whatever it is the NAU and the SPP are not open for debate within our own Congress...this is all taking place within a very small group of very influential and very rich people....not good

Barrister,

"It appears that liberals and the left tend to be unhappier people in general. Perhaps we conservatives just are genetically blessed with sunnier dispositions."

I know personally I possess one of the sunniest skeptical dispositions an individual can have.

One thing for historical perspective ..todays "liberal" two score ago was called a radical revolutionary. Liberalism today bears no direct lineage to the liberalism of Jeremy Bentham, generally acknowledged as the "Father of Liberalism"

From the title thread:

"What I found was that economic inequality doesn’t frustrate Americans at all. It is, rather, the perceived lack of economic opportunity that makes us unhappy."

Well, well, there's an old Hollywood entertainment saying that "if they buy the premise they'll buy the bit"

The author presents a semi load of data to shore up the premise. He should have focused on the above quote with particular enphasis on "the perceived lack of opportunity bit. That is what rankles people, the lack of opportunity, not the perceived lack of opportunity.

He makes no mention of the captains of industry who are offshoring American jobs as fast as they can thus creating not the perception of the lack of opportunity , but the real concrete loss of those opportunities. The people understand this, and their not particularly keen about it.

The talk about the truly cavernous disparity between the captains and the crew has merit. It is possible for an absolutley horrid CEO to make multi millions of dollars, have the company go bankrupt , and then find another position at another company making millions again. The Japanese have a much more civilized approach to that magnitude of failure....Seppuku.

I have a difficult time watching CEO's who run companies that don't pay dividends, whose share price moves at glacial speed, the stock never splits due to the shareprice not rising and then getting a year end bonus of ten million dollars. Or watching a very successful company, solid in every way ,in say auto tires, get a new CEO who immediatly thinks that the company treasury shouldn't hold all that cas for maybe a dividend but rather plays the "no risk, no reward" dictum to the hilt by purchasing a mayonaisse factory in Itta Bena, Mississippi. The Itta Benas are happy, the stockholders probably not. But then that voting packet the investor gets with his voting papers in it for the company board comes and he votes...he might as well have thrown it in the trash. Big institutions control those moves, not Joe sixpack.

In summary. Few if any of the CEO's today are worth anywhere close to what they're getting paid. The opportunities, well, they're all going to Shanghai or Uttar Province or some other place where healthcare and all the other company expenses don't figure. The American worker..well let me just say I don't buy the premise or the bit of the author and as Mark Twain so eloquently put it, there;s lies, damn lies, and statistics.

Productive is the key element. The formulation needs no particular complexity. If the company prospers, then by all means reward the Captain and acknowlege his crew.

If the company founders under his navigation it is folly to reward him with excess rewards for tawdry a performance.
And it is no unusual circumstance that many a Captain has jettisoned crew in order to lighten the burden and save the gold, but to no avail.

In other words if the guys sucks and drives the company other than forward in real terms he should get no reward, which is not the habit developing in this country.
He should in fact be docked salary which should be performance based and usually isn't.

As far as people brooding over what other make I think you protest too much. They want some measure of an equitible playing field, but brooding isn't their raison de colère it's the return of the Robber Baron mentality.