Federal Aid Invites Federal Control — Always


By John F. McManus
Published: 2007-05-01 17:39 North American Union & Security and Prosperity Partnership | Email this page | printer friendly version





ARTICLE SYNOPSIS:
Texans don't want a massive highway constructed through their state, especially because it is being rightly perceived as part of a plan to merge the U.S. with Canada and Mexico. So the Texas legislature has taken action to stop the project and the feds are threatening to withhold the Lone Star state's portion of highway funding regularly doled out to every state.

Follow this link to the source article: "Feds threaten Texas over superhighway funds plan"

COMMENTARY:
Need further proof that accepting funds from the federal government means accepting controls? Anyone involved in government-funded education will supply it. And so will farmers, builders, welfare administrators, medical personnel, and a huge number of other categories of the American people. They have all learned that there's no such thing as a free lunch.

Down in Texas, a state-wide uproar exists over plans to connect Mexico to Canada with a monster highway through the state. Called the Trans-Texas Corridor, its promoters have already employed eminent domain procedures to seize land and some concrete has already been poured. So, prompted by growing citizen outrage, the Texas state legislature has passed a measure calling for a two-year funding moratorium of its share of the project. The Federal Highway Commission responded with a four-page letter threatening to cancel the doling out of "Federal-aid highway funds." Texas, like each of the 50 states, regularly accepts these funds for all highway needs.

There is deep concern about the corridor running through their state that will make crossing into the U.S. from Mexico far easier. But many Texans have also become aware that the road is merely part of a larger plan to facilitate merging the three North American countries into a North American Union. Highway opponents feel that, if they can stop the highway project, they can cripple the more sinister plan to fritter away U.S. independence.

Two years ago, President Bush and his Mexican and Canadian counterparts formed the tri-national Security and Prosperity Partnership to promote integration of the three nations. Last September, high-level officials from the same three nations met behind closed doors in Banff, Canada, for a session labeled the North American Forum. There is no difficulty in linking this Trans-Texas Corridor to the hugely more ambitious plans for a North American Union. So, road construction is becoming recognized as a minor part of the overall plan. Also being recognized is the 1994 entry of our nation into NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) as the basis for the planned integration of the three nations.

The almost unanimous vote for the moratorium in both houses of the Texas legislature means that Governor Rick Perry's threatened veto faces a quick override. A close ally of President Bush, Perry seems committed to the entire North American Union plan. He will undoubtedly point to the letter sent to the Texas transportation officials by the Federal Highway Administration's James Ray. It ominously stated that the moratorium "could affect the State's eligibility for receiving Federal-aid highway funds." Yes, federal aid brings federal control.

Texans have a reputation for treasuring independence. Independence-minded citizens throughout the nation hope the mushrooming pro-independence attitude will continue. Resistance to Big Brother in Washington is long overdue.




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