Mexamerida!

How would you feel if you woke up one day and found that the U.S.A., as we know it today, no longer existed, but in its place was a "North American Union" (ala the European Union) made up of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico? It seems like a pretty far-fetched idea. Then again, maybe not. There are groups of people today that want just that. Why is illegal immigration such a non-issue? Why are the people that defend our borders prosecuted, and not the criminals from over the border that run drugs or murder people? The majority of immigrants that come to this country are great people. They work hard for next to no pay, and in horrible conditions. All this to help their families. However, the strain on our health, education, and correctional institutions are undeniable. Plus, employers that hire illegals will do so at a lower price than Americans are willing or legally able to work for. Does that mean that we should erase the border in favor of one North American Union? I should hope not. The liberties that we enjoy in this country are way too unique and essential to be influenced or changed by input from other countries. Canada has a horribly managed universal health system and worsening freedom of speech. Drug trafficers easily make their way through Mexico to the United States. Our border agents are sometimes all that stands between a shipment of drugs reaching our children or not. There are too many variables; too many negatives. We must make our stand now before this idea picks up any steam. We don't want to fight this battle once the opposition has strengthened. We'll be threatened as racist, and worse, if we don't go along with their plans. Below is one article of many I've read on the subject. Read it. Think about it. Call your representatives. Let them know that you like our borders exactly where they are. Thank you.

THE NEW WORLD DISORDER12 states oppose North American UnionEagle Forum working with legislators to halt globalists' plans
Posted: March 9, 20071:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

A dozen states are working on resolutions that would oppose not only the implementation but the idea of a "North American Union," or other plans that would lead to the integration of the United States into a larger structure.
"Americans are rapidly learning the new vocabulary of the globalists," Phyllis Schlafly of Eagle Forum told WND, "and they don't like it."
While President Bush, many members of Congress and Bush administration officials deny there are plans for a North American Union under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, some state legislatures are taking no chances.

Already, 12 states have introduced resolutions to oppose the SPP, the NAU and even the idea of the amero, a proposed currency that could be used to replace the dollar.
The resolutions also typically oppose the creation of North American Free Trade Act superhighways along the model of the Trans-Texas Corridor, the car-truck-train-pipeline corridor four football-fields wide being built parallel to Interstate 35 from Laredo, Texas, to the border with Oklahoma, south of Oklahoma City.
Schlafly told WND lawmakers, and their constituents, are reacting against a wide range of concepts and structures generated by the increasing pace of the integration of North America they see under the Bush administration.
"That's why state legislators are responding with resolutions criticizing a 'North American Community,' SPP, 'harmonization' of regulations, NAFTA superhighways, foreign-owned toll roads, totalization of Social Security and speculation about the amero," Schlafly explained. "The groundswell is growing against measures that lead to 'economic integration' with other countries."
Schlafly also has joined with Howard Philips of the Conservative Caucus to create an organization specifically opposing the NAU and NAFTA superhighways.
"Phyllis Schlafly is doing a magnificent job leading the charge to oppose the North American integration at the state level," Phillips told WND. "Once again, we see the genius of Eagle Forum being able to communicate a message throughout America in terms that mobilize voters to take action."

Robert Pastor is an American University professor who is using his book, "Toward a North American Community," to promote a regional government and adoption of the amero as a common monetary currency to replace the dollar and the peso.
The resolutions are typically worded to oppose, in addition to SPP and the NAU, the construction of NAFTA Superhighways and the creation of the Amero as a North American unitary currency.
Anti-NAU resolutions have been introduced in the following state legislatures:
Arizona: Senate Concurrent Memorial 1002 Click to check bill status.
Georgia: Senate Resolution 124
Illinois: House Joint Resolution 29 Click to check bill status.
Missouri: Senate Concurrent Resolution 15 House Concurrent Resolution 33
Montana: House Joint Resolution 25
Oregon: Senate Joint Memorial 5
South Carolina: House Concurrent Resolution 3185 You also can find the bill here under "H 3185"
South Dakota: Senate Concurrent Resolution 7 Click to check bill status
Tennessee: Senate Joint Resolution 88
Utah: House Joint Resolution 7 Click to check bill status.
Virginia: Senate Joint Resolution 442
Washington: Senate Joint Memorial 8004 House Joint Memorial 4018
StopTheNAU tracks state legislative motions to oppose the SPP and NAU.

The Taxman Cometh! (and he cometh for thee)

I’m usually not the kind of guy to tell somebody, “I told you so”. I don’t even, really, mean this as an “I told you so”. But it’s so frustrating, because I saw this coming the whole time, and I feel powerless to do anything about it. I mean sure, I have a bit of a platform as a musician who is out in public, and I have a microphone, but I have been reluctant to use the stage as any kind of political platform. I have to get this off of my chest, however.

The lawmakers in Minnesota seem to have this crazy notion that they are welcome to any and all fruits of our labor. Like a child, they have been sneaking around for a long time, looking for an opportunity to steal cookies before dinner. Well, they have finally been caught with their hand in the cookie jar. Minnesota is the 4th highest local/state tax burden in the nation (http://www.taxpayersleague.org/NewIssues/TaxFacts/TaxFacts.htm). Yet they want to increase the:
gas tax (http://ros.leg.mn/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H1469.0.html&session=ls85),
income tax (http://ros.leg.mn/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H1738.0.html&session=ls85),
alcohol tax (http://ros.leg.mn/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H1050.0.html&session=ls85),
and sales tax (http://ros.leg.mn/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H1463.0.html&session=ls85).

They want to create a mileage tax, a special prefab home sales tax (http://ros.leg.mn/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H1458.0.html&session=ls85), and a plastic surgery tax (to quote the author of that bill: because the people that can afford to get plastic surgery, can afford to pay the tax). This is their most brazen example of irresponsible behavior, to date.

Let’s look specifically at this gas tax proposal. The money from this tax is supposed to go to fix the roads. Everyone wants better roads, right? Remember an article I wrote in November called, “Just Vote No”? (You can scroll down to find it.) Here was my argument in a nutshell. We, the voters of Minnesota bought the “Vote Yes” campaign, hook, line, and sinker. It was a constitutional amendment to divert 100% of all vehicle taxes over to roads and mass transit. So far, so good. No one, however, seemed to read the small print. It stated that no more than 60% could be used for roads, and no less than 40% could be used on mass transit. So, there’s no floor on roads. They can spend as little as 0% on roads. There’s no ceiling on spending for mass transit. They can spend as much as 100% on mass transit.

See where I am going with this? No one seems to remember that we just appropriated a bunch of new monies to the roads. No one seems to be talking about that. What happened to those monies? Where are they? I want to see figures. Why won’t we? Light rail is eating up all of that money! They have nothing left for roads. Do you really trust them with more of your money? If your friend asked you for $100 to get his car fixed, and then came back to ask you for another hundred dollars, because the last hundred dollars was eaten up by a phone bill and a case of Corn Nuts, would you give it to him?

I demand accountability from those we send to represent us in government. The sneaking around has got to stop. No more money. You have a huge surplus of our money ($2.136 billion)that you’re already refusing to give back! Learn to use what you have better, before you reach your hand into my pocket.

If you live in Minnesota, here’s how to get a hold of your government officials and demand (politely) to keep your money- http://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/legdir.asp. After all, you worked hard for it.