NASH...... The NAFTA Super Highway

Coming Through! The NAFTA Super Highway (by Kelly Taylor): "Integration vs. Independence
How would all of this affect you, your family, and your community? Let us count the ways. One of the most striking features of the proposed Super Highway is the plan to do away with our borders, as evidenced by the joint U.S.-Mexico Customs facility already under construction in Kansas City, Missouri. A U.S. Customs checkpoint in Kansas City? But that's a thousand miles inside America's heartland; isn't the purpose of U.S. Customs to check people and cargo at our borders?
Ah, but the mere asking of that question shows that you're still operating under the old paradigm that sees the United States as an independent, sovereign nation. However, that paradigm began to change following passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994. NAFTA, which was sold to the American public as a simple trade agreement, was actually far more than that, setting in motion a process for the gradual social, economic, and political 'integration,' or merger, of the three NAFTA countries - Canada, the United States, and Mexico - into a North American Union."

Federal Legislation Overview for NASH

Federal Legislation Overview
For over ten years, NASCO has been developing a strong coalition of cities, counties, states, Canadian provinces, and private sector companies to lobby for federal funding and promote a "SuperCorridor" to address the transportation, trade and security needs of the three NAFTA nations.

We have succeeded in bringing hundreds of millions of dollars to the NASCO I-35 Corridor, resulting in High Priority Corridor status for I-35 in 1995 under the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA). In addition, we successfully lobbied for the creation of two new categories under the Transportation Act of the 21st Century (TEA-21) – the National Corridor Planning & Development Program and the Coordinated Border Infrastructure Program.

The NASCO "SuperCorridor Caucus" was formed on Capitol Hill to promote corridor development and to help secure NASCO legislative initiatives in both the authorization and appropriation processes.

We continue to be recognized as the strongest International Trade Corridor Coalition on Capitol Hill, and we are the only Corridor Coalition with true international representation from the three NAFTA nations.

NASCO Board Members

NASCO Board Members: "SENATOR DEBBE LEFTWICH
NASCO Secretary
State Senator
The State of Oklahoma
Debbe Leftwich, State Senator District 44, was elected in a special election December 9, 2003 to fill the vacancy left by her husband, Senator Keith Leftwich who died of cancer in September. Keith was instrumental in the creation of NASCO and Debbe is excited to carry on his vision.
She serves on Appropriations, Aerospace & Technology, Transportation, Human Services Committees and Appropriations Sub-Committee for General Government & Transportation. She is also Chairman of Business & Labor, Vice-Chair of Veterans, and Military Affairs & Public Safety Committee. She has also received appointments to the Oklahoma Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Advisory Committee, the Joint Legislative Committee for Review of Coordination of Efforts for Prevention of Adolescent Pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Diseases, the Attorney General's Task Force to Improve End-of-Life Care in Oklahoma and the Interagency Coordinating Council for Early Childhood Intervention.
Debbe has worked in both the private and public sectors. She has held management, supervisory and administrative positions for Globe Life, Aetna, Kerr McGee and the OSU Extension Center. She was Division Administrator and then later Director of Administration and Personnel for the Chief Medical Examiner's office. She's had training and experience in Strategic Planning, State Ethics, Government Purchasing and Administrative Law. She served as a member of the Office of Personnel Management's Advisory Council and the Employee Benefit Coordinator's Association.
Debbe holds degrees from Oklahoma Baptist University as well as University of Central Oklahoma."

CFR in dreamland

The North American Super Highway is a silly dream cooked up by the egomanic eggheads at the Council on foreign Relations.
It is a super highway free trade zone outside the jurisdiction of state and national authorities that stretch from the Panama Canal zone to Northern Canada. It would be a 1/2 mile wide and follow (or take over) I35 thru Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, etc.