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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (148845)	7/25/2002 2:32:53 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574230

We won't have to have the equivalent of the EU with Canada and Mexico. It would be better just to push for relatively free trade world wide. Barring that we can continue with something like Nafta and gradually lower the allowable trade barriers with our current NAFTA partners and anyone else who joins. All the international political bodies and regulations would just hurt our economic competitiveness, we certainly don't need that. The EU will become a major power when Russia joins. To insure our eco., mil. and pol. positioning in the world, we will have to join with Canada and Mexico......that's how it will be sold to American public even though the EU will still be our ally. As for willingly joining a world government, I think not and hope not, at least not until the world has changed so much that we can reasonably expect our rights to be as protected by the world government as they are by our current constitutional system. Of course...........we would be stupid to join if there will be less rights. However, we will have to make compromises since many of the member states will not be as advanced. I not only don't expect this to happen in my life time, I wouldn't expect it to happen in my great-grandchildren's life time (should I ever have any). I think it will take at least 100 years or more. As for desire for EU unity, its not just the UK and Denmark who are against it. One of my links went to an EU wide poll. Many are skeptical about what is happening with the EU and the majority are against trying to make the EU in to one country. That was in 1995-96. The latest version of the EU has only been in place since 1998. Still people are growing more comfortable with it. In ten years it will second nature. ted