June 27, 2014
NAFTA Has Replaced America
Petraeus: NAFTA Has Replaced America
What comes after America? We are now entering the decade of post-sovereign USA, now we are all “North America”.
20 years into NAFTA implementation, no longer a question of the coming union of Canada, USA, Mexico, and central America.
That puts a whole new way of looking at the flood of illegal aliens, the goal has always been to eliminate the borders and merge into a North American Union. Perot’s giant sucking sound is not just jobs going south and overseas, it is the wave of the poor, unskilled, and needy rushing north across the border to bankrupt our economy by overwhelming the welfare system.
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Perfect Partners
North America’s Shared Future
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With three democracies, almost 500 million people, and economies totaling $19 trillion, North America possesses the economic and demographic heft to put China and a rising East Asia in perspective…
The Canadian, Mexican, and U.S. economies are also highly integrated … and due to the development of regional supply chains, spurred by NAFTA, they are increasingly making things together, not simply selling things to each other.
… success requires a comprehensive and interlocking program of policies and projects that draws together not only the three countries’ national governments, but also their state and provincial authorities, private sectors, and civil societies.
… the region’s aging border infrastructure, which is currently a bottleneck that threatens to constrain growing trade flows and undercut the natural advantage of geographic proximity.
North America’s borders should be an asset, not a choke-point, for advancing continental cooperation in security, commerce, and protection of the environment.
Making the most of this … will depend on developing North American human capital through … matching of workers with jobs across all three countries, and putting in place immigration reform.
