NAFTA Superhighway And North American Union a Scary Reality - Political Opinion
June 10, 2008
The NAFTA Superhighway is not a myth, but instead represents a road leading to a troubled future.
In an attempt to facilitate and create a North American trade bloc, quickly transporting cheap imported goods from China to America’s many Wal-Marts – our leaders are creating a North American Union and a massive highway – four football fields wide – running from Mexico to Canada. The highway promises to import a surplus of goods, destroy any country-side in its path and ease a process of outsourcing American jobs south-of-the-border to cheaper rates of pay and lower environmental standards.
Source Right Side News:
While most other major national newscasters have blindly accepted the government’s line that the “NAFTA Superhighway” is a “myth,” Lou Dobbs has refused to be fooled. In search of the truth, Mr. Dobbs sent investigative reporter Bill Tucker to Texas to see for himself.
The evidence Mr. Tucker uncovered was powerful, compelling, and shocking. It confirms everything we here at the NAU War Room have been saying about the government’s hidden drive to absorb America into a “North American Union” (NAU) with Canada and Mexico, anchored by a massive “NAFTA Superhighway” designed to speed cheap Red Chinese and foreign goods from Mexico into the U.S. and Canada.
by Jeff Bennett
Source: Economy in Crisis
Net News Publisher for Economy News
There’s one extremely critical NAFTA issue that all of the parties, pro and con, have either ignored or dodged. The issue is the denial of Mexican mandated labor and human rights by the US companies of the hapless Americans relocated to work in Mexico. The resulting contingent liabilities owed by each one of the thousands of US companies in Mexico will probably eclipse the corporate indiscretions of Enron.
Recently (2007), the Mexican Supreme Court upheld a lower courts adverse rulings against Halliburton. These two rulings shed light on the despicable practices by US companies to defraud compensation, evade payroll taxes, avoid social security levies, and reject minimal workplace safety measures - to name a few.
The Halliburton rulings are just two of a long litany of comparable rulings dating back to the 1930’s. The abuse is not unknown to the Mexican Government that accedes to the corrupt influences of NAFTA and Maquiladora industry representatives.
Why would the US companies commit such indiscretions? Money - lot’s of money. Estimates place the abuse of the Americans working in Mexico at c. $4.5 billion dollars yearly. Furthermore, the US companies avoid payment of c. $2.5 billion in taxes, fees and levies to the Mexican and US Government’s. To recoup lost corporate revenues, the Mexican Government has levied a personal income tax against the hapless Americans. The $6 to $7 billion dollars of income benefits the executives of the US companies who receive promotions, raises, bonuses and stock options as rewards for their activities.
The American citizenry are injured when neighbors lose their jobs because US executives decide to succumb to the temptations of dishonest higher profits and export their jobs. But, this is not the only wrong. American manufacturer’s who’ve not succumbed to temptation, must compete with intentionally undervalued goods made by the scofflaw US corporations. The American consumer is wronged when they’re duped into buying purposely undervalued goods believing they’re made by honorable US companies.
Why would the US companies leave themselves open to redress for their dishonest activities? The activities have gone on for more than seventy years. But, the last forty years has shown a dramatic growth. The hapless Americans are not told their rights by either their employers or the Mexican Immigration or Labor Departments. If one or more of the Americans happens to learn of their rights and they seek redress through the corrupt Mexican legal system, they are rewarded with a ruling that only they can levy. The Mexican Government is charged with the responsibility of enforcing the laws – the courts have little recourse.
The US companies are protected by a duplicitous Mexican Government, complicitous industry representatives, and uninformed American workers in Mexico. Representatives of the executive and/or the legislative branches of the US Government dodge the issue because it will either impact corporate donors and/or upset a whole voting segment of the American citizenry.
The President and Congress need to suspend all connections with the scofflaw corporations and their rapacious executives until all corrective actions have come to fruition. The Federal law enforcement agencies need to gather the evidence necessary to pursue charges of fraudulent transfer pricing schedules, fraudulent US Customs valuation reports, false financial reports, and false Sarbanes-Oxley reports. All of these deceptions lead to underpayment of US and State taxes, fees and duties and Mexican taxes, fees and duties.
The US Supreme Court ruled in Pasquantino vs. The United States that intentionally unpaid foreign taxes are an offense of the RICO laws of the United States. In the United States vs. The Palumbo Brothers, the court ruled that the use of the mails and wires in furtherance of payroll fraud is also a RICO offense. Most of the US companies use the mails and/or wires to gather and transmit payroll and tax data. The mails and/or wires are further used to remit payroll and taxes.
To mitigate the actions to be brought by the US Attorney, the US companies should be required to remit all earned monies, including interest, to the unfortunate Americans who’ve worked in Mexico. The US companies should also deduct the appropriate Mexican and US levies from the earned monies and interest and remit this sum including late filing charges to the US and Mexican Governments. The US companies should also compute all relevant Mexican and US corporate levies, including late filing fees and interest, and remit these sums to the Mexican and US Governments. The consequences expected to befall on the culpable US executives should depend on the repayment of all dishonestly earned rewards.
The billions due the Mexican Government will do much to; restore the pensions due retired Mexican workers, reinstate and expand the medical services provided to Mexico’s citizens, revive and enlarge the investment in the education system, provide decent wages for Mexico’s beleaguered law enforcement, and upgrade Mexico’s infrastructure. This will go a long way toward re-establishing hope among Mexico’s poor and provide them with the jobs they so desperately need.
The billions due the US and State Governments will do much to restore their fiscal security and relieving pressures to cut essential services and raise taxes. If the scofflaw US companies had fulfilled their ethical, moral, legal and fiscal responsibilities from the beginning, many of the ills facing the US and Mexico would not exist or would be ameliorated to a point irrelevancy.
For those who want to access the two Halliburton rulings, first go the Mexican Supreme Court website @ http://www.scjn.gob.mx/PortalSCJN/. Next, click on “Actividad Jurisdiccional”, then click on “Jurisprudencia”, then click on “IUS 2006”, and then click on “BUSQUEDA POR NUMERO DE IUS (TESIS).” Next input 182067 or 182068 into the space and press “BUSCAR.” When the synopsis appears, click on the underlined number. Viola!
LOUU DOBBS IS THE ONLY REPORTER WHO HAS THE COURAGE TO REPORT ON THE SUBJECT OF NAFTA. THE HIGHWAY IN WHICH YOU HAVE MENTIONED IS CALLED THE TEXAS CORRIDOR DOWN HERE IN TEXAS.
IT IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE ENSLAVEMENT OF THE UNITEDSTATES THAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN IF WE AS A PEOPLE DO NOT ACT THROUGH VOTING.
THE TEXAS CORRIDOR IS THE LIFE BLOOD OF THE COMING AMERO. THAT WAY UNITEDSTATES,MEXICOAND CANADA CAN TRADE FREELY WITH A COMMON CURRENCY THAT WILL DRAIN THE U.S. YES I BELIEVE THAT THE U.S SHOULD ENFORCE ITS IMMAGRATION LAWS HOW EVER POOR FARM WORKERS AND CONSTRUCTION WORKERS IS NOT THE MAIN COLPRET THEY ARE JUST PAWNS IN A BIGGER PLAN LIKE US AMERICAN CITIZENS. IM NOT SAYING THAT THEY SHOULD GET OFF SCOTT FREE IM SAYING THAT THE MEDIA SHOULD CONSCENTRATE ON THE POWERS THAT BE (GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS,BIGBUSINESSMEN,AND SPEACIL ENTEREST GROUPS) THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IS NOT IN CONTROL. I UNDERSTAND THAT IF ILLEGAL IMMAGRATION ALL OF SUDDDEN STOPPED MEXICO’S ECONOMY WOULD PLUMMIT.
I KNOW THAT THIS IS OFF THE SUBJECT BUT YOU ALL KNOW HOW THAT HANNITY FELLOW WANTS OIL COMPANIES TO DRILL IN ALASKA AND OFF AMERICA’S COAST, THAT IS ANOTHER PLOY FOR BIG BUSINESS TO BE ABLE TO GO AROUND OUR ENVIROMENTLE LAWS. THE OIL COMPANIES ARE NOT DRILLING FOR US THEY ARE DRILLING FOR THIER PROFITS, IT WOULD TAKE OVER A DECADE FOR THAT OIL TO REACH OUR GAS TANKS AND ALSO THAT OIL” WOULD NOT” BE SOLD EXCLUSIVLY OR ONLY TO AMERICA THAT OIL WOULD GO TO THE OPEN MARKET INCREASING THE OIL COMPANIES PROFITS EVEN MORE MEAN WHILE THE DOLLAR WILL STEADLY PLUMMIT PAVING THE WAY FOR THE AMERO. THERE IS “HOPE” IT ALL DEPENDS ON HOW WE AMERICANS VOTE AND HOW THE MEDIA ATTACKS THESE SLAVE DRIVERS OUT HERE. EXSPOSING THIER PLOTS AND LIES.