No conspiracy theory, the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America is quite real, and it is NOT government by the people! Join Ron Paul today in the battle against this sovereignty-robbing boondoggle! by creator
(libertarian)
Monday, April 28, 2008
It seems that corporate and globalist interests are bent on merging the United States, Canada, and Mexico into a so-called "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America."
"In reality, this new "partnership" will likely make us far less secure and certainly less prosperous." - Ron Paul
In their regular blog today, Downsize DC points out that it is the security and prosperity of major corporations like Wal-Mart, General Motors, General Electric, Home Depot, and others that is at stake.
A key reason for this mess is that congress has abdicated their legislative responsibility to bureaucrats and lobbyists from corporations and other special interests.
"I hope my colleagues in Congress and American citizens will join me in opposing any "broad and ambitious" effort to undermine the security and sovereignty of the United States." - Ron Paul
I have done so. In mere minutes this morning, using Downsize DC's brilliant interface, I sent the following personalized message to Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, and to Congressman Brian Bilbray:
"I want YOU, my representatives, to take responsibility by actually WRITING the laws you pass. If a law is important enough to affect me and all other Americans, it should be important enough for you to actually write. If YOU wrote the laws and regulations, I wouldn't have to worry about irresponsible obscenities like the so-called "Security and Prosperity Partnership" that will line the pockets of the likes of Wal-Mart, GM, GE, Home Depot and others at the expense of MY safety, prosperity, and security."
You can fight the SPP too. Why not try the Downsize DC system like I just did? Invest five minutes today to sign up, and then from time to time you can help bombard congress and pressure them into doing the right thing.
And now, with their permission, I turn the floor over to Downsize DC:
Today's Downsizer Dispatch . . .
Subject: How to Stop the SPP
Last week, the Presidents of Mexico and the U.S. met with the Prime Minister of Canada to work on the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). The SPP is a working relationship between bureaucrats in all three countries to promote greater uniformity in economic and security matters. Here are two of the SPP's goals, from the SPP's own website:
Safe Food & Products: Strengthen cooperation to better identify, assess and manage unsafe food and products before they enter North America, and collaborate to promote the compatibility of our related regulatory and inspection regimes;
Energy and Environment: Develop projects under the newly signed Agreement on Science and Technology; and cooperate on moving new technologies to the marketplace, auto fuel efficiency and energy efficiency standards ;
What's the goal here? Simply, if something is manufactured in Mexico or Canada, it won't have to be inspected when entering the United States. In addition, if something is imported into Mexico or Canada, their inspections will be "good enough" and the goods can be trucked into the United States with no further inspections.
What is the driving force behind this integration? Not the people of the three countries. Congress had no say in the formation of the SPP. Instead, these government bureaucrats are working hand-in-hand with the North American Competitiveness Council (NACC). And who are the members of the NACC? Representatives from some of the largest companies on the continent, including Wal-Mart, General Motors, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Merck, Chevron, New York Life, and Home Depot [see here].
For some strange reason, you weren't invited.
The SPP isn't government by the people, for the people, but rather government by bureaucrats, for Big Business. It seeks to harmonize regulations in the three countries to make it easier for the largest companies to do business. Whether or not these new regulations will benefit the people is beside the point. Whether or not these regulations would be good for small business is beside the point.
To preserve national sovereignty and representative government, we must put an end to the SPP. While we're at it, we must put an end to all cozy relationships between Big Business and bureaucratic regulators. DownsizeDC.org's Write the Laws Act (WTLA) will accomplish this. Under the WTLA, any law or regulation must be written by Congress itself, not by unelected bureaucrats. Regulatory agencies, instead of crafting policy, will be confined to investigating and prosecuting laws and regulations written and passed by Congress. The WTLA will put an end to the SPP because it will strip the Executive Branch of the power to implement its recommendations and regulations. You can learn more about the Write the Laws Act here.
And please tell Congress to pass the Write the Laws Act. In your comments, tell them you oppose the SPP. Tell them you don't believe that bureaucrats working in concert with foreign counterparts and Big Business should be making policy. Tell them Congress should write every law and regulation. You can do so here.
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Funny how true libertarians are for open borders and are always pissing and moaning about how the value of the dollar has dropped, that a workable solution to merge to nations that are almost exactly the same into one and have a third that would supply cheap labor and miles of ocean front property into one nation with a stronger currency is such a bad idea. If anything this might lead to a huge debate about ending farm subsidies since Mexican farmers don't get any and are struggling to compete with US Corn and other products. It might also lead to the legalization of Mary Jane. But no we don't want only one country with only one currency that would make the Euro look like a joke!
Posted By: Gary R. Carter
Date: 2008-04-28 15:13:44
Yeah, libertarians are always eager to have wealth further consolidated, secretly and dishonestly no less, by unelected socialists. In fact, I am going to go sign up right now!
There is something so laughably funny about all the conservatives who are so afraid of Canada and Mexico. Are they afraid of the Meskins and Canadians or just afraid of increased trade? Are they cowards or just protectionists? It is a mystery to me.
"Maybe folks just want the United States to stay the United States, Canada can stay Canada, and Mexico can stay Mexico? Can't it be that simple?"
Sure let's have all three break up and give all the land back to the Amerindian tribes that were here before all of the Whites, Blacks, and Yellows showed up.
Then we will have all of the Amerindians go back to Northeast Asia! Then we will all migrate to Africa where we theoretically origionated over a hundred thousand years ago! That or we will just go to Basra and try to dig up the Garden of Eden.
Posted By: Gary R. Carter
Date: 2008-04-28 22:00:21
Whats laughably funny is that, at first glance, open access to Canada and Mexico does sound quite appealing. In fact, I would love to integrate all of central and south America into one fancy road trip. Unfortunately, I tend to be rather dubious of things done covertly. If its so good, why not bring it out into the open?
Have you seen what happens to good ideas when brought up into the open?
Oil drilling in ANWAR
Amnesty For Illegal Immigration
Killing Farm Subsidies
Welfare Reform
Gun Laws debate
Free Market Alternative Energy Competition
Need I go on?
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