Chew On This . . .

I want to offer these few thoughts to you for your consumption. Chew on them, then let me know if you think I’m off my rocker or if I’m on to something. The following items are matters of public fact:

• N.A.F.T.A., signed into law by President Clinton in December of 1993. By creating a free trade block between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, U.S. companies have favored sending their factories into Mexico for two reasons:
  1. Cheaper work force/lower wages
  2. Since there is free trade, there are no tariffs involved in having their manufactured goods shipped back over the border for sale in the U.S.

  Therfore, Mexico’s economic base has been strengthened and the U.S. has been weakened, effectively redistributing the wealth.

• The Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America was founded in 2005 between President Bush, President Fox (Mexico), and Prime Minister, Paul Martin (Canada) with the stated purpose of providing greater cooperation on security and economic issues.
• President Bush, despite being the Governor of Texas, has displayed a dismal willingness to deal with issues of illegal immigration from Mexico. Neither has he paid any attention to the border with Canada, which remains the longest unguarded border between two countries in the world. One would think that after 9/11 securing these borders would be a top priority.
• The economic collapse which we are seeing in progress is partly the result of a gradual weakening of federal oversight over the markets. Our presidents and lawmakers over the past 20 years have slowly removed most oversight of the market through deregulation. While in theory this sounds like a good idea – to let the market handle the market – that strategy does not take into account corporate greed. So we’ve all been spending money we don’t have, and guess what the fix is….. infusing money into the economy that is . . . get this . . . borrowed!

I’m not normally a big conspiracy person. But the convergence of these things in my mind leads only to one destination: the formation of a North American Union of sorts – like the European Union. I know this idea has been around for a while, so I’m not saying anything new. My analysis of the national landscape has just brought me to the same conclusion. What does it mean? It means a lot of things, but most immediately for you and I it means that our currency will be replaced by a common currency, which in all likelihood will be called the amero. The effects of that replacement will be painful. Overnight your dollars will lose all of their value. And no one will be offering to give you ameros to replace them. You’ll be starting from zero, unless you have invested a good portion of your money in precious metals and/or foreign currencies like the British pound. Eventually we would emerge from the crisis, but we would be a completely changed people.

There are other repercussions from such a transition. For instance, all three of our countries would immediately lose much of their sovereignty since we would be liable to a common government. The redistribution of wealth would be massive, with Mexico having the most to gain from this transition.

Now does this bother me? Yes and no. It makes me angry, but it does not cause me to worry. My faith is not shaken by the whims of men and their governments so I don’t worry. I do get angry though because our elected officials have betrayed our trust and there really isn’t a quick and easy way to fix it. Changing a government without a revolution would take years. But maybe that’s what we’re in for and honestly, maybe it’s what we deserve. A New Revolution.

Am I off base?

Rick Warren Hosting a Presidential Discussion

Tomorrow night Rick Warren is going to be hosting a presidential discussion at Saddleback. It doesn’t sound like it’s going to be a debate. Rather what will happen is Pastor Rick is going to have a set of questions that each candidate will have opportunity to answer, uninterrupted, and apparently neither candidate will hear their opponent’s answers. McCain and Obama will both receive approximately 50 minutes. I’m actually intrigued by this whole event. To my knowledge, this is a first in presidential elections, and a first for an evangelical church. What I would advise you to do is not just listen to their answers, but listen to the types of questions which Pastor Rick asks. For this event, I am just as interested to see what Rick Warren has to say, as I am about the two candidates. Rick Warren is viewed now on a national level, maybe a world level. His leadership as an evangelical will send waves through the evangelical world (actually he already has) in the wake of this event. We should watch all three of them with a cautious eye.

For more information on the event, you can visit the website for the event. The forum will be broadcast on CNN, Fox News. The broadcast begins at 6:00 PM Mountain Time.