"Mexico as the 'pier,' Arizona as the 'docks' — meaning that Mexico serves as the initial port of entry while Arizona supplies the warehousing and transportation facilities — is the vision of John Munger and his newly formed political action committee, ImagineArizona. Munger, the chairman of ImagineArizona, has served as chairman of the Arizona Republican Party and as president of the Arizona Board of Regents. He now wants his state to work with Mexico to make Arizona a major center for shipping inexpensive foreign products into America.

The Arizona Daily Star spoke with Munger and reported on April 10 that his goal is to have Arizona "encourage Mexico to build a major deep-water port on the country's northern west coast," probably "near Guaymas, about 250 miles south of Arizona in Sonora." According to the Daily Star, Munger sees that the "shipping ports in Los Angeles and San Diego are near capacity at a time of growing Asian markets," and this presents an opportunity to "make Arizona a center for international trade and investment that rivals the port of Los Angeles."

At the ImagineArizona website, the reasoning behind this is spelled out: "Mexico will build the port and piers for shipping, but, in fact, Arizona will be the principal warehousing and shipping point accessing the US market.  Mexico has no more efficient way to access that market other than by using Arizona's access to transcontinental highways, railroads, airports, and its free trade zones and warehouse for storage pending transit. Simply stated, the new Mexico port will be the pier, but Arizona will provide the warehousing and transportation facilities that any great port needs." And what, according to ImagineArizona, will be the result? "If it takes advantage of this opportunity, Arizona will become a critically important and large part of a major international sea port serving shipping from all parts of Asia, including China, Japan and Korea."

Therein lies the rub. While Munger and ImagineArizona portray only the benefits of bringing more international trade through Arizona, they are not considering the effects of flooding U.S. markets with cheaply made foreign products that no American company can afford to compete with. The net result will be detrimental to the U.S. economy.

Additionally, the harmonization of regulations for increased trade facilitates the process of political merger that began with President George W. Bush's Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) agreement with Mexico and Canada. The New American magazine, in its October 15, 2007 special issue dealing with North American Union, had this to say about the SPP: "Conceived completely as an executive-branch initiative, without any participation or authorization from Congress, the SPP established 20 trilateral "working groups" composed of current and former government officials, academics, and corporate leaders. The groups are directed to bring about continental 'integration' on a wide range of political, economic, and social issues, such as manufacturing, transportation, energy, environment, e-commerce, financial services, food and agriculture, law enforcement, immigration, infrastructure, and health."

Making Mexico the "pier" and Arizona the "docks" may just serve to further sink the U.S. economy and hasten the day when Canada, Mexico, and the United States could all come aboard an arrangement of regional government.

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archtoplee said:

	Idiot former state GOP chairman Munger, what an idiot.
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Thomas Paine said:

The NWO stops at nothing Good article. Thanks for acknowledging that the US can't compete with all cheap producing countries. Fair trade doesn't exist now that we buy from Communist China who pay $1 per hour to 1 billion people living in poverty. No benefits, no freedoms, no religion. In an imperfect world, we must require fair trade, not totally free trade. The NWO elite know how to exploit and move on. We are in a race to the bottom. PS. I guess I better watch out as critisizing trade with China now qualifies as right wing extremism according to the new Homeland security report.

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