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 Post subject: Continental-modal... Maybe?
PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 1:09 am 
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Continental-modal... Maybe?

By: Michael Strauss -- County Director - La Porte County Citizens Action Agency

In order for La Porte to grow and flourish we must say yes to progress... but only to the right type of progress. As I have pointed out several times before this is only another sell out of the American people not an improvement to our county. Most of these jobs will be filled from other areas of the country because La Porte does not have the skilled labor that is needed. Our Local government keeps giving tax abatement's without mandating that these employers train a percentage of their local employees in skilled labor positions. If they did so we would have a better skilled labor pool and local citizens would be paid more and have better benefits. Just look at: http://www.kcsmartport.com this is what our intermodal will be like. Not many people in this area have the qualifications needed to work in the higher paying areas of this facility.

This intermodal is planned along the path of the NAFTA Superhighway mostly ran by CINTRA Concessions. If you go to: http://www.nascocorridor.com/ you will see the path that has been outlined for the transportation of goods.CINTRA is mostly owned by two major companies that have the same board of directors and have major shareholdings in utility companies and middle eastern manufacturing firms. They want to bring these goods in thru their ports in Mexico, up thru the US and into Canada. These goods will be made cheap and have little if no tariffs placed on them. Since CINTRA runs the roads, intermodals, and ports of entry to soon include border ports (once the government decides to lease them out too), they can sneak their products by. We have already started to see this by allowing trucks from Mexico to cross our borders and roam freely delivering their cargo instead of transfering it to US trucking companies. This not only opens a big security hole but also causes hardships on our American Professional Drivers. Pretty soon Wal-Mart's and retailers like Wal-Mart grow bigger and US factories go out of business causing retailers to either purchase CINTRA's products or go out of business themselves.

While you are spending your time praising this intermodal they are trying to push for an Amero and the consolidation of North America. What a way to lose your sovereignty. Oh wait we lost that when we joined the United Nations and started paying Millions in membership dues. The Security and Prosperity Partnership (http://www.spp.gov) is an executive agency that is helping to push forward with this plan in the United States without oversight from congress.

Any one that wants the facts can put them all together by going to the Cintra Investor Relations website and investigating the CEO and Board of Directors. After that look into the Nasco Corridor and it's alignment with how they wanted to place the Illiana and the placement of the proposed Intermodal Facility. Cintra is about 80% of the way done purchasing the roadways they need to accomplishing this plan.
This intermodal project has been real secretive and their failure to provide the public, who will be largely effected by this change, with information has led me to do my own research. I hope you conduct your own research and start stepping up to encourage the right kind of change in our community. The Transportation realignment debacle we will soon be a part of will have a major impact on not only our community but every US Citizen.

Change is good if it is in the best interest of all Americans and more importantly our local citizens when it comes to local economics. Lets stop pushing for false hopes that will lead to disaster and start pushing for newer and better opportunities that will bring a revitalization to our southern La Porte county region that do not mean an end to our local businesses and the local factories we have left after the NAFTA disaster.

The NAFTA agreement is almost over with no hope in sight for a revitalization in it's current form, but can still be carried on in more literal "concrete" terms if we allow this to continue.


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