There appears to be little realization that the 2008 presidential election is about our future and that we need young women and men.
Our future is clouded by an economic downturn, a slowly ending war in Iraq, spiking inflation and a failed foreign policy.
But obsessed with nonsense issues such as race, feminism, religion and age, we the voters are not asking the right questions.
Until Nov. 4, each candidate should be bombarded with questions about the North American Union, a name for the much-talked-about combined maxi-state created by the once-independent countries of Canada, Mexico and our United States.
This union was conceived in Waco, Texas, in March 2005 by President George W. Bush, then-President Vicente Fox of Mexico and then-Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada. They issued a joint statement announcing a "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America," or SPP.
There was no debate or decision in the U.S. Congress about this partnership. The Department of Commerce just created a new division to implement working groups to advance the North American Union in a great range of activities -- from manufactured goods and transport through energy and environment, from financial services to security, health and agriculture.
In each country, three Cabinet members head up the SPP; ours are Carlos Gutierrez (Commerce), Michael Chertoff (Homeland Security) and Condoleezza Rice (State). Their mission is to produce an agreement, to be implemented by regulation, without any reference to voters or the Congress.
The pattern being followed is clearly that of the European Union, the monster created by Belgian and French socialists, which has opened borders, made regulations, imposed taxes and written laws that affect millions.
In the United States, we can expect this union to become operative in two years - by 2010 -- and it will be goodbye to many of our freedoms and the dollar and "hola" to the "amero," its replacement.
If this bureaucratic coup d'etat takes place, it will be a triumph for the Council on Foreign Relations, an elite political and business think tank, and a smug handful from Washington's leftist think tank, the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), led by a Harvard-trained Ph.D. in political science, Robert Alan Pastor, a longtime IPS activist.
Pastor now is a dignified professor of 60 years. He had a hectic youth -- from the Peace Corps in Malaysia to a Fulbright Scholarship to Mexico and an active social life as an anti-Vietnam War activist. Pastor married Margaret McNamara, the daughter of Robert McNamara, the former secretary of Defense. McNamara went on to head up the World Bank...
One of our tasks for this year is to make sure that every presidential candidate is informed about Bob Pastor and his plans for the North American Union, which will increase neither our security nor our prosperity.
And we might begin to realize that there could have been other secret decisions made at Waco, which could account for the president's strange decisions on immigration and border problems.