Proof the NAFTA Superhighway exists

[Digger]

Imploding America: NAFTA superhighway / NASCO supercorridor DOES exist

Media Matters is smugly claiming it tripped up Lou Dobs when one of their people, Paul Waldman, asked him to prove claims about a NAFTA superhighway.

If you watch the video, Dobbs does seem a bit flustered in his response, but that proves nothing.

In fact, Paul Waldman either has not done his homework, or is acting as an agent of disinformation.

The facts are easily found in a series of Google searches. The Texas Department of Transportation is very aboveboard about the TransTexas Corridor. And the provinces of Manitoba and Alberta are very open about the NASCO Supercorridor. The city of Kansas City, MO is openly promoting itself as an inland port.

If you don't believe me, follow the links:

Here is the Kansas City Smartport site

Here is the site for NASCO, North America's Super Corridor Coalition.

Here is a Texas Agriculture site that makes this claim:

The state's most ambitious transportation project ever moved a step closer to reality in December 2004, when the Texas Transportation Commission (TTC) selected a proposal by Cintra—an international group of engineering, construction and financial firms—to develop the Oklahoma-to-Mexico portion of the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC-35).

Cintra proposes to invest $6 billion in a toll road between Dallas and San Antonio by 2010, give the state $1.2 billion for additional transportation improvements between Oklahoma and Mexico, and to extend the corridor into the Lower Rio Grande Valley to Mexico

Notice the clear involvement of Cinta, a Spanish conglomerate.

Here is Ron Paul's blog on the House of Representatives website.

Here is the site for CorridorWatch

Here is TxDOT's Keep Texas Moving site, which openly talks about the Trans Texas Corridor.

Here is a NASCO pdf file, promoting the supercorridor to businesses.

Also go to YouTube and search both NAFTA superhighway and NASCO supercorridor.

Is this enough proof for Mr. Waldman?

This highway definitely exists. If it isn't stopped, there will be open borders for Mexican trains and trucks to roll right into the interior of the US uninspected.

Does that sound like security to you?

[BOP]

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[AndyMarquisLIVE]

Originally Posted by BOP

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Media Matters is smugly claiming it tripped up Lou Dobs when one of their people, Paul Waldman, asked him to prove claims about a NAFTA superhighway.

If you watch the video, Dobbs does seem a bit flustered in his response, but that proves nothing.

In fact, Paul Waldman either has not done his homework, or is acting as an agent of disinformation.

The facts are easily found in a series of Google searches. The Texas Department of Transportation is very aboveboard about the TransTexas Corridor. And the provinces of Manitoba and Alberta are very open about the NASCO Supercorridor. The city of Kansas City, MO is openly promoting itself as an inland port.

If you don't believe me, follow the links:

Here is the Kansas City Smartport site

Here is the site for NASCO, North America's Super Corridor Coalition.

Here is a Texas Agriculture site that makes this claim:


The state's most ambitious transportation project ever moved a step closer to reality in December 2004, when the Texas Transportation Commission (TTC) selected a proposal by Cintra—an international group of engineering, construction and financial firms—to develop the Oklahoma-to-Mexico portion of the Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC-35).

Cintra proposes to invest $6 billion in a toll road between Dallas and San Antonio by 2010, give the state $1.2 billion for additional transportation improvements between Oklahoma and Mexico, and to extend the corridor into the Lower Rio Grande Valley to Mexico

Notice the clear involvement of Cinta, a Spanish conglomerate.

Here is Ron Paul's blog on the House of Representatives website.

Here is the site for CorridorWatch

Here is TxDOT's Keep Texas Moving site, which openly talks about the Trans Texas Corridor.

Here is a NASCO pdf file, promoting the supercorridor to businesses.

Also go to YouTube and search both NAFTA superhighway and NASCO supercorridor.

Is this enough proof for Mr. Waldman?

This highway definitely exists. If it isn't stopped, there will be open borders for Mexican trains and trucks to roll right into the interior of the US uninspected.

Does that sound like security to you?

[David]

I heard about this years ago, probably around 2001 when I came back from So. America. I believe that at the time, someone said there was an official government website about the superhighway -- and sure enough I found it via Google. It was a second level .gov domain and right on the front page was a big, professionally prepared, illustration of North America with the highway outlined and big 3-D arrows depicting traffic flow between Mexico, US, and Canada. It was clear to me at the time that this website was an official U.S. Government site (.gov), and that its purpose was to talk about the highway. I think they called it the NAFTA Corridor, but, its been too long to remember for sure. Anyway, after finding it and reading through it, I pretty much set my mind that the NAFTA Superhighway was real.

I just now spent a half hour trying to find that .gov website via Google to no avail. I have to believe they either took it down or I am delusional. If it is the former, and everyone is now denying it, I would have to guess that someone got overambitious and put that website up without the blessing of the powers that were.

I know other people told me about that website, so I am surprised that I can't find other posts on the net that talk about it. Maybe I was delusional

Actually, the map I saw in yesteryear was very similar to the one in this NASCO PDF on pp. 6, but the colors were different.

http://www.inboundlogistics.com/digi..._digital06.pdf

The only other explanation I can think of is that somehow these NASCO guys got a .gov domain by mistake back then -- if that is even possible.

One of the biggest complaints I remember hearing about this was that it would allow cargo ships from China to come into Mexican ports instead of west coast US ports, e.g. Long Beach. This would allow the use of cheap non-union Mexican dock workers (vs Long Shoremen) and cheap non-union truck drivers driving Mexican trucks that do not meet the safety and environmental requirements that US trucks do. Seeing as how much junk comes from China these days, this plan if implemented would probably do a lot to boost WalMart profits... The resultant loss of yet more American jobs in the name of corporate profits is explanation enough to understand why any politician would deny any involvement in a NAFTA superhighway.

Originally Posted by David

Seeing as how much junk comes from China these days, this plan if implemented would probably do a lot to boost WalMart profits... The resultant loss of yet more American jobs in the name of corporate profits is explanation enough to understand why any politician would deny any involvement in a NAFTA superhighway.

Yeah I would eventually expect substandard Chinese goods ... to breeze right on into the heartland ... lead painted toys ... poisoned milk ...

Al Q Nukes ...

not like anyone will have the balls to stop the TACO Express once it starts rolling out of 'ol Mexican't ....