Texas: keystone State of the FTAA: because of its location, Texas is integral to the creation of the FTAA and the eventual merger of North and South America under a single regional government like the EU.(FTAA)(Free Trade Area of the Americas)

A little more than two years ago, political allies of Texas Governor Rick Perry quietly passed legislation creating the "Trans-Texas Corridor" (TTC). With the connivance of a largely silent press, the most expensive project in the state's history became law with scant public notice.

It's bad enough that the TTC will cost at least $185 billion, much of it derived from new toll taxes imposed on existing free roads. It's even worse that the project--4,000 miles of roads, rail lines, and other infrastructure crisscrossing the state, bypassing all of the cities--will be built by a Spanish contractor rather than a firm based in the United States. But worst of all is ...