What is NAU and Why Should You Care?

..."Historically speaking a country is usually lost through war or aggression. Canada, the United States of America and Mexico are three separate, unique, sovereign nations. That is about to change without an invasion or missile attack. None of the terrorist threats we are continually told to fear, are the threats that we face as free people. The real threat to our freedom, our way of life and our future, is the North American Union. Anyone who clings to the hope that the people will be given a say in this matter, will be disappointed to discover that most of the deals have been signed without you. It began with Free Trade, then NAFTA, CAFTA and now SPP (security and prosperity partnership) also referred to as NASPI ( North American Security and Prosperity Initiative )."....

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Canada's New Government invests over $430M for smart, secure borders

..."The Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of
Public Safety, today announced an investment of $431.6M over five years to
reinforce smart, secure borders. This funding will allow three key initiatives
under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) -
eManifest, Business Resumption and Partners in Protection - to move forward."..

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The truth about conspiracy theories

..."According to them, the UN has no teeth to make policy stick and is no threat to any nation's sovereignty; the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) is not the beginnings of a plan to create a North American Union, just a steps to grow the American economy and improve trade; America's public education system is really the best in the world, there is no effort to use the classroom for anything but good old fashioned reading, ritin, and rithmatic; There is no effort underway to create a national Big Brother surveillance system, the Patriot Act is just a tool for helping law enforcement fight terrorism and the Real ID Act is not a national ID; and the Nature Conservancy and the Sierra Club really just want to help protect the environment, not restructure our entire economic and social system."...

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There Isn't Going to Be a North American Union

..."A think tank called the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) had a task force that put out a report called "Building A North American Community." If you read through the report, contrary to what you've heard said time and time again by NAU conspiracy theorists, you'll find that it does not call for a "North American Union." Moreover, the CFR itself doesn't even take official positions on foreign policy issues because its members have a wide variety of different opinions on the issues. So, there's no cabal of globalists sitting around at the Council on Foreign Relations, rubbing their hands together sinisterly, and plotting to sell us out to Canada or Mexico—but even if there were, so what? Think tanks champion all sorts of ideas, good and bad; it doesn't necessarily follow that they're implemented by the government."...

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TOTALIZATION IS A BAD IDEA

TOTALIZATION IS A BAD IDEA

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Through a Freedom of Information Act Request, a private group recently obtained a copy of a 2004 agreement between the United States and Mexico that will allow hundreds of thousands of noncitizens to receive Social Security benefits.

The agreement creates a so-called "totalization" plan between the two nations. Totalization is nothing new. The first such agreements were made in the late 1970s between the United States and several foreign governments simply to make sure American citizens living abroad did not suffer from double taxation with respect to Social Security taxes. From there, however, totalization agreements have become vehicles for noncitizens to become eligible for U.S. Social Security benefits. The new agreement with Mexico would make an estimated 160,000 Mexican citizens eligible in the next five years.

Ultimately, the bill for Mexicans working legally in the U.S. could reach one billion dollars by 2050, when the estimated Mexican beneficiaries could reach 300,000. Worse still, an estimated five million Mexicans working illegally in the United States could be eligible for the program. According to press reports, a provision in the Social Security Act allows illegal immigrants to receive Social Security benefits if the United States and another country have a totalization agreement.

It's important to note that Congress, like the American people, heretofore had not seen this totalization agreement. This decision to expand our single largest entitlement program was made with no input from the legislative branch of government. If the president signs it, Congress will have to affirmatively act to override him and in essence veto the agreement. This is the opposite of how it's supposed to work.

There are obvious reasons to oppose a Social Security totalization agreement with Mexico. First, our Social Security system already faces trillions of dollars in future shortages as the Baby Boomer generation retires and fewer young workers pay into the system. Adding hundreds of thousand of noncitizens to the Social Security rolls can only hasten the day of reckoning.

Second, Social Security never was intended to serve as an individual foreign aid program for noncitizens abroad. Remember, there is no real Social Security trust fund, and the distinction between income taxes and payroll taxes is entirely artificial. The Social Security contributions made by noncitizens are spent immediately as general revenues. So while it's unfortunate that some are forced to pay into a system from which they might never receive a penny, the same can be said of younger American citizens. If noncitizens wish to obtain Social Security benefits, or any other U.S. government entitlements, they should seek to become U.S. citizens.

Also, totalization agreements allow noncitizens to quality for Social Security benefits by working in the U.S. as little as 18 months. A Mexican citizen could work here for only a year and a half, return to Mexico, and retire with full U.S. benefits. This is grossly unfair to Americans who must work more quarters even to qualify for benefits – especially younger people who face the possibility that there may be nothing left when it is their turn to retire.

Those in favor of sending U.S. Social Security benefits to Mexican citizens argue that crushing poverty in Mexico demands some form of U.S. assistance to that country's aged. While poverty in Mexico truly is deplorable and saddening, the fact remains that Congress has no constitutional authority to enact what is essentially another foreign aid program.

Ron Paul

America’s Border War

..."But such oversight is not an accident. A 2005 Council on Foreign Relations document spells out a five-year plan to forge a North American Union in which America, Canada and Mexico form an entity similar to the European Union. Titled “Building a North American Community,” the document’s recommendations were allegedly adopted during a 2003 meeting at Bush’s Texas ranch by the President, then Mexican President Vicente Fox and then Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. Since that time, collusion between the three governments in pursuit of this goal has continued under the watchful eye of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America."...

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North American Union Isn't Going Away

..."Medved and Hawkins make much of arguing that American University professor Robert Pastor has specifically gone on the record saying he does not support the creation of a North American Union. Yet, this is only part of the story. I have consistently pointed out that even Jean Monnet, a key intellectual architect of the European Union, acknowledged in his memoirs that he intentionally used a stealth methodology to advance his regional government goals. I have referenced an important book by Christopher Booker and Richard North, “The Great Deception: The Secret History of the European Union,” that presents a careful and exhaustive study of the intentional deception used by proponents to create the European Union. Medved and Hawkins refuse to respond to these points."...

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