Merger of the Century: Why Canada and America Should Become One Country

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There are a few drafts of the NAU and a few functioning aspects are already falling into place little by little without any official deal.

There is no turning back now and Canada will lead the way as one of the world's economic powerhouses.

The Tea Party is afeared of it.

In September 2006, U.S. Representative Virgil Goode proposed with six co-sponsors non-binding House Concurrent Resolution 487, which specifically outlined opposition to a North American Union or a NAFTA Superhighway as a threat to U.S. sovereignty. The bill never left committee.[61]

The same resolution was reintroduced by Goode in January 2007 for the 110th Congress as House Concurrent Resolution 40, this time with forty-three cosponsors,[62] including 2008 Republican presidential candidatesDuncan Hunter, Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo, who have all expressed opposition to a North American Union during their campaigns.[63][64][65]


The evidence is abundant that Canada's economic future involves pushing deeper into US markets.

Think not? The banks and trust companies already moved in and picked up hundreds of $ Billions in properties and American public assets.

 

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Why Canada and America Shouldn't........








Is rest a basic human right? That's the question facing the Dallas City Council.


Wednesday, members began consideration of a rule mandating rest and water breaks for people who work construction jobs in the blazing summer heat, like Lourdes Ontivaros' husband.


She says she can tell if he's been on a job site that allows rest and water breaks or not.


"He comes home [after jobs without breaks and] he's really tired. He doesn't want to eat," Ontivaros said. "You can notice the difference between one job and another."


Dallas City Council members got a first look at an ordinance, first passed in Austin, requiring construction companies to provide:

• 10 minutes of rest for every four hours of work
• Access to drinking water
• Meaningful penalties for violators

Some members spoke against too much regulation. Others framed it as a basic human right, like Councilmember Sandy Greyson.


"This also about giving people water and a ten-minute rest break," Greyson said. "I can't believe we're even talking about this."
Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin interviewed construction workers in Dallas and found:

• 1-in-3 reported getting no rest breaks
• 2-in-3 reported they were not provided drinking water

Jack Baxley, with the construction trade group TEXO, spoke against rest breaks. He didn't say why he was opposed to them, but said that the industry needed to be included in any discussions about rest breaks.


"See where we want to tackle this issue, if we need to tackle this issue," Baxley said. "That it doesn't mean unintended consequences, or that we create a situation to a problem that just may not exist."


Towards the end of the discussion, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings put some skin in the game.


"I just want to say - personally, obviously - you know of companies that don't allow this. I would like to know, personally, which companies those are," Rawlings said. "I am going to make the phone calls and I'm going to go down there and I'm going to figure this out."


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Construction workers demand brief breaks from heat

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

More damn socialists coddling lazy scum. It's class warfare. You can tell because nobody's proposing rest breaks and water for construction company executives.