{"id":2245,"date":"2009-05-13T21:54:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T01:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2009-05-13T21:56:07","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T01:56:07","slug":"global-atlanta-on-american-enemy-1-vicente-fox-and-his-open-borders-outlook-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/13\/global-atlanta-on-american-enemy-1-vicente-fox-and-his-open-borders-outlook-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Atlanta on American enemy #1. Vicente Fox and his open borders outlook VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Global Atlanta<\/em><\/p>\n

Former Mexican President: North America Can Learn From Europe <\/strong><\/p>\n

ENTIRE ARTICLE and VIDEO HERE<\/a>
\nDavid Beasley
\n05.13.09<\/p>\n

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox sees the European Union as an \u201cinspiration\u201d for much closer economic ties between the United States, Canada and Mexico.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat they have is a super-national organization without losing sovereignty<\/a>, culture or anything,\u201d Mr. Fox told GlobalAtlanta in a May 12 interview at Kennesaw State University. \u201cIt\u2019s not just a trade agreement. It\u2019s a partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n

The EU system, which has a common currency and trade standards, no passport requirements for travel from one member nation to the other and other standardized regulations, has helped narrow the wealth gap, Mr. Fox said.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday Ireland has about the same per capita income as France and Germany or Britain,\u201d he said. \u201cToday, Spain is very close to the per capita income of the leading nations. Now, the newcomers, Poland, the Czech Republic, Turkey are joining the union and now they begin the process of reducing the gap, increasing their income.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Fox, a former Coca-Cola Co. executive who was president of Mexico from 2000-2006, stressed that gains by the poorer countries in Europe have not come at the expense of the wealthier nations. \u201cThe most significant thing is that nobody has lost income,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Fox drew a contrast to North America, where Mexico\u2019s per capita annual income of $10,000 is less than a fourth of that in the United States and Canada. A more prosperous Mexico would go a long way toward solving problems such as illegal immigration, he said. \u201cWhat would better for the United States than having a healthy, wealthy neighbor?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

Canada and the U.S. already are on par economically, he added. \u201cWhen you have that, you don\u2019t have problems on the border,\u201d said Mr. Fox. \u201cYou can open the border to go back and forth freely.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Kennesaw State, Mr. Fox was the keynote speaker at a meeting of the Commission for North American Prosperity, a forum on the future of relations between the U.S., Canada and Mexico. On May 11, Mr. Fox gave the commencement address at Emory University.<\/p>\n

In the interview with GlobalAtlanta, Mr. Fox praised the North American Free Trade Agreement, which went into effect in 1994, but said that even broader economic integration is needed. \u201cNafta is just the beginning,\u201d he said. \u201cWe can see a Nafta plus ahead which is further integrating, which will bring many additional benefits to our three nations.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Nafta focused primarily on trade, the push now should be on creating \u201ca real partnership,\u201d Mr. Fox said. He envisions Canada, Mexico and the U.S. having standardized duties for imports and exports, financial systems that work in harmony, standardized rules and regulations perhaps as simple as recognizing academic degrees from one country to the other.<\/p>\n

But he fell short of calling for a complete duplication of the European Union. \u201cI would only say that it is an inspiration,\u201d said Mr. Fox. \u201c It is a very bright idea but has to be adapted to our circumstances here in North America. I think there are many good ideas that we can take from that 50-year-old exercise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Strengthened cooperation would make it easer to fight the drug problem, said Mr. Fox. Yet he emphasized that it is not Mexico\u2019s problem alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one that permits the drugs to be distributed and lets it circulate in its territory is the United States,\u201d said Mr. Fox. \u201d When the drugs cross the border, who moves it? Who takes it to the Chicago market, who takes it to the Atlanta market? Who collects the money from selling the drugs, who launders that money? Who brings that money back to bribe Mexican officials?\u201d<\/p>\n

A closer relationship with the United States will help create more developed societies, with higher levels of education and less poverty, making it easier to cooperatively fight the drug trade, Mr. Fox said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a joint responsibility,\u201d he said. \u201cWe all have to work together.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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