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Old 09-08-06, 10:39 AM   #11
floydian slip
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Originally Posted by Mazer
Color me ignorant, but the pros and cons of this kind of future aren't obvious to me. This issue seems to be a subset of the Nationalism versus Globalism debate which is itself fairly complicated. Would anybody care to explain this to me? Is voluntarily merging the three North American nations into one nation a good thing or a bad thing?

if you would like your standard of living to decline its a good thing.
it would also consolidate the power of the corporations



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A key purpose of the project is to take jobs away from U.S. longshoremen in Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., who earn $140,000 a year, and replace them with Mexican laborers at $10,000 a year. U.S. truck drivers and railroad workers will likewise be replaced by Mexicans.
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