Texans Protest Against NAFTA Hiway


	Texans Protest Against NAFTA Hiway

blueridge

2-26-2008 2:53 AM

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bush, nafta, north american union

blueridge says:

...while another Texan in the White House pushes it on them, against their will! Then another Texan, whom republicans rejected, Ron Paul, fights for the Texas people.

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The projected cost is $183 billion over fifty years, with no American companies expressing interest in financing it.  </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Texans_protest_against_planned_NAFTA_superhighway_0220.html"><P>With no public approval required to begin construction, repeated calls against the TTC at public meetings, with seldom a word of support, may easily go unheeded.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Texans_protest_against_planned_NAFTA_superhighway_0220.html">"This is about international--global companies that are coming in and having their way with our politicians," says Terri Hall of <A href="http://www.texasturf.org/">TexasTURF</A>.  </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Texans_protest_against_planned_NAFTA_superhighway_0220.html">Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) is among opponents of the TTC</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6B5F0134-9ACF-4EE3-8D0D-0438093610C7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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