The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) project will offer We The People of the United States neither. Read it for yourself at the SPP’s Home on the web. If you wish for the US to be merged into some conglomeration where you have even less say-so than you think you do now (although many of us know that we actually have a lot of say-so when we exercise it), then you’re probably not interested in becoming a member of US-First, either…so long. With all that cheap labor south of the border, why…even more of our decent-paying and sorely-needed manufacturing jobs and infrastructure will disappear. Have we forgotten the words of Ben Franklin, that stodgy old white stale-male fart who said, “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.“?
How could we possibly be served by a 10-car/6-rail line that looks like a tree with its trunk on the border of Texas and Mexico? In Texas alone, if the Trans-Texas Corridor ran the 508 miles from Laredo to Wichita Falls (actually goes up I-35 thru Dallas/Ft. Worth for well more than 500 miles total), eminent domain will be used to confiscate at least 10,000 acres (one-tenth of the King Ranch!) for this monstrosity. (Based on 16 lanes, 12 feet wide each, plus 8-foot buffer zones on the outsides, for a distance of 500 miles, calculated as follows: One acre is 208×210 feet, one mile is 5280 feet — that’s 500 miles x 25 acres/mile = 12,500 acres.) On the other hand, we are well-served by the US Interstate Highway system, which covers our nation like a net, affording modern and rapid travel from anywhere to anywhere within our borders, not just from the border with Mexico northward.
Mexico has pledged to help us secure our common border. Uh-huh. So far, we’ve also noted that they have offered us some good and cheap land about 300 miles south of Galveston. Our troops, if brought home from Europe and Asia, could do quite a nice job of securing our borders, thank you. (Our Navy’s aircraft carriers and subs will insure that we can project our power into Europe and Asia, if it should be needed.)
After we’ve finally shut down the last of the manufacturing facilities we need to equip our armed forces, what shall we do when the friends who supply our needs today become tomorrow’s enemies? Maybe they’d be stupid like us and sell us the rope we’d use to hang them. I’m not willing to bank on it — certainly not with the Chinese or the Arabs.
