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The NAFTA free-way

by Tryan Hartill

From the Texas Poll Party:

With only 5,000 miles of toll roads in the United States today, The Trans Texas Corridor is a 4,000 mile plan of supertollways more. The Corridor will include tollways for 12 passenger vehicles lanes, 4 truck lanes, 2 passenger train tracks, 2 commuters train tracks, 2 freight train tracks, underground lines for water, natural gas, petroleum, telecommunication, fiberoptics and overhead high-voltage electric transmission lines and electrical transmission towers.
Plans also include gas stations, garages, restaurants, hotels, stores, billboards, warehouses, freight interchange, intermodal transfer areas, passenger train stations, bus stations, parking facilities, dispatch control centers, maintenance facilities, pipeline pumping stations, and of course, toll booths. The Trans Texas Corridor is the largest engineering project ever proposed for Texas. This statewide network of corridors will measure a quarter mile wide and cost over $180 Billion dollars.
Secret deal with a private foreign company.
Gov. Rick Perry has had secret negations with a company from Spain, Cintra, to hold a 70 year concession for a portion of the Corridor. Perry and Cintra/Zachery withheld the agreement from the public, claiming it included proprietary information, even though taxpayer dollars to the tune of $3.5 million is going to Cintra’s partner, Zachry, for planning.

Here is a map of the plan:

I just don’t get this, I mean who will be happy with this whole Government sponsored bongdoggle?

  • Conservatives won’t like it because it basically means an open border, with major smuggling (Human and drug) opportunities for some.
  • Liberals won’t like it for obvious reasons.
  • Libertarians won’t like it becuase it will cost billions in tax-payer subsidies to build and operate.

Not surprising that the only ones who will support this is the Authoritarian rich, but pandering to them has been par for the course for years now.

Head-scratcher?

Nah, makes perfect sense.

Jun 14, 10:16 pm | Tryan Hartill
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1 On Jun 15, 07:29 am, Walter Richards wrote:

1 – NAFTA isn’t a treaty, never being ratified by the Senate. Thus, we can quit it at anytime.

2 – If this goes through, it will lead to an increased rate of the balkanization of America.

3 – If the “trinationalists” want to combine Canada, Mexico, and the USofA so much, they should go about it by having a joint Canadian-American military force overthrow the corrupt Mexican “regime”.

2 On Jun 16, 10:36 pm, Tryan Hartill wrote:

Canadian-American military force overthrow the corrupt Mexican “regime”.

The Neocon speaks!

Since we are so good at “overthrowing corrupt regimes” we might as well move on to Mexico and give it another try!

3 On Jun 17, 06:33 am, Walter Richards wrote:

On the other forum, I thought you said I wasn’t a “Neocon” ... now I am?

Which is it Tryan?

btw – that point was (mostly) sarcastic. Just pointing out how the “trinationalists” basically want one nation, but don’t want one national government. I can’t think of a single instance in history where that has worked.

4 On Jun 18, 10:57 pm, Tryan Hartill wrote:

On the other forum, I thought you said I wasn’t a “Neocon” ... now I am?

Well you have never discussed overthrowing “Corrupt Governments”, which is a very slippery slope becuase there are so many out there.
This is also a Neocon talking point.

That’s why I said the “Neocon speaks”, because the little neocon inside you has been silent for a while.

5 On Jun 21, 09:12 am, Walter Richards wrote:

;)

Oh, please, Tryan. I’ve said numerous times, usually on threads about “No WMDs in Iraq”, that I favor overthrowing any genocidal/oppressive dictator/tyrant.

And, if overthrowing corrupt gov’ts is a “neocon” trait … I guess our Founding Fathers were “neocons”, and I’m in good company. Why, IIRC, Jefferson espoused needing a revolution every decade or generation … just to prevent gov’t from getting too corrupt.

:)

6 On Jun 21, 03:48 pm, Tryan Hartill wrote:

“I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.”

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