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Here's my view of Cruz:

Cruz is not a natural born citizen. Obviously his political ambition is more important than the constitution and rule of law.

He has pimped for fast track for Obama because 'Historically, since FDR virtually every president has had fast track authority. . There's a great reason to Obama more power.

Cruz supports so called free trade agreements because'“TPA is what the Senate voted on recently,” Cruz continued. “I voted in favor of fast track because I support free trade. I think free trade benefits America. It creates jobs–opening markets to our farmers, to our ranchers, to our manufacturers, improves economic growth.'

That'll make his international corporate donors happy.

Ted Cruz Channels Paul Ryan: ‘A Lot of Misinformation’ on Obamatrade That ‘You Can Get on the Internet’
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/...n-the-internet/

Cruz is for increasing H-1B visas by a factor of FIVE. That'll also make his corporate donors happy... replace Americans with CHEAP, DESPERATE foreign labor.

Ted Cruz, the presidential candidate who wants to increase the H-1B cap by 500%
http://www.computerworld.com/article/290...cap-by-500.html

Cruz's wife and life partner raises lots of red flags:
Heidi is an international investment banker who was invited to be part of a working group at the CFR which reviewed a notorious 2005 paper called “Building a North American Community.” This project was headed by longtime CFR member Robert Pastor and is universally regarded by constitutionalists as the prototype for a North American Union.

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Well, we fundamentaly disagree here.

Cruz did not require naturalization to be a citizen; therefore given the law and prior rulings on the subject, he is a natural born citizen.

"He has pimped for fast track for Obama because 'Historically, since FDR virtually every president has had fast track authority. . There's a great reason to Obama more power." Pimped? Really?

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This has been before SCOTUS and has been long upheld and used since Washington. Thus this is NOT a giving of power to the President but a way to keep him in check. It does not allow anything to be done in US law about immigration. The TPA REQUIRES that once an agreement is negotiated (the TPP) It MUST be put out to the public and the people’s representatives for at least 60 days to even be legal. Once all the representatives and people who want to read it all, it can be voted on. Up or down.. No amendments for the reasons I stated above. It is nothing new.

http://www.examiner.com/article/tpa-taa-...you-pt2?cid=rss

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And, regarding Heidi Cruz:

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Anatomy of a Smear: Heidi Cruz and the “North American Union”

I could go after the ridiculousness of tainting Cruz because his immigrant father fought with Castro as a teenager in Cuba, or because his law firm defended a Chinese tire company in a patent suit, or because he has taken some campaign money from arch-devil of the conspiracy fringe Goldman-Sachs. None of these other attacks make any sense, but there’s one attack which I find more offensive and which is right up my ally because of my past writings on the subject.

You see, it turns out that according to a whisper campaign coming from Dewhurst or Addison or perhaps direct from the John Birch Society, Ted Cruz’ wife is one of the architects of the dreaded “North American Union.” The JBS is the most likely original source in a now-deleted article in the online version of their New American magazine called “Faux Neo-Conservatives Defend North American Union.”

http://blogcritics.org/anatomy-of-a-smear-heidi-cruz/

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Indeed we do

The issue of being a natural born citizen is pretty well covered here:
Sen. Ted Cruz announces his presidential bid

My comments on the TPA are based upon the following:

'The predecessor the TPA is the Reciprocal Tariff Act of 1934 {RTAA}.
"The RTAA’s novel approach freed Roosevelt and Congress to break this trend of tariff increases. First, it tied tariff reductions by the United States to reciprocal tariff reductions with international partners. Before the RTAA, if Congress wanted to establish a lower tariff for particular imports, it would act unilaterally, taking the foreign country's tariff rate as fixed. Congress would choose a tariff rate that was either a little higher or lower than the median preferred tariff, depending upon the composition of the Congress."
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" It also allowed Congress to approve the tariffs with a simple majority, as opposed to the requisite two-thirds majority necessary for other treaties. Lastly, the president had the authority to negotiate the terms. These three innovations in trade policy created the political will and feasibility to enact a more liberal American trade policy.[3]"
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"By giving the President the authority to negotiate these deals, the Congress effectively ceded a part of their power (authorized under US Constitution, Article I, Section VIII) to the executive branch. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_Tariff_Act

The Trade Act of 1974 created fast track authority (FTA) for the President to negotiate trade agreements that Congress can approve or disapprove but cannot amend or filibuster. The Act provided the President with tariff and non-tariff trade barrier negotiating authority
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Act_of_1974

I see Cruz's claim TPA limits the power of the president as the inverse of Rather's 'fake but accurate' i.e. real but inaccurate because it is incomplete. TPA limits the president's power by restoring to congress some of the power they had before 1934 RTAA.

As to the requirement that once an agreement is negotiated (the TPP) It MUST be put out to the public and the people’s representatives for at least 60 days to even be legal. Ho many members of congress could read and evaluate a new 'Free Trade Agreement in that period of time? , That is not a long time even for a highly motivated congress critter considering FTA's tend to be quite lengthy

For example see NAFTA:
https://www.nafta-sec-alena.org/Home/Leg...Trade-Agreement

Most but not president's since FDR's day have had tariff reduction authority for all of some of their presidency.


My take on the article about Heidi, the CFR and the reports she participated in writing:

Additional and Dissenting Views

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I support the Task Force report and its recommendations aimed at building a safer and more prosperous North America. Economic prosperity and a world safe from terrorism and other security threats are no doubt inextricably linked. While governments play an invaluable role in both regards, we must emphasize the imperative that economic investment be led and perpetuated by the private sector. There is no force proven like the market for aligning incentives, sourcing capital, and producing results like financial markets and profit-making businesses. This is simply necessary to sustain a higher living standard for the poorest among us—truly the measure of our success. As such,
investment fund sand financing mechanisms should be deemed attractive instruments by those committing the capital and should only be developed in conjunction with market participants.
Heidi S. Cruz

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pp 33 -34
http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/...ca_TF_final.pdf

What recommendations does Hedi support:

pp 8 - 32
RECOMMENDATIONS
• Establish a common security perimeter by 2010
• Develop a North American Border Pass.
• Develop a unified North American border action plan.
• Expand border infrastructure.
• Lay the groundwork for the freer flow of people within North America.
• Expand NORAD into a multiservice Defense Command.
• Increase information and intelligence-sharing at the local and national levels in both law enforcement and military
organizations.
• Intensify Mexican efforts to accelerate its economic development.
• Establish a North American investment fund for infrastructure and human capital.• Enhance the capacity of the North American Development Bank (NADBank).
• Develop a North American energy strategy.
• Fully develop Mexican energy resources.
• Conclude a North American resource accord.
• Make a North American commitment to a cleaner environment.
• Expand trinational collaboration on conservation and innovation.
• Adopt a common external tariff.
• Review those sectors of NAFTA that were excluded or those aspects that have not been fully implemented.
• Establish a permanent tribunal for North American dispute resolution.
• Establish a trinational competition commission.
• Ensure rapid implementation of the North American regulatory action plan.
• Agree on priority sectors for early action.
•. Open skies and open roads.
•‘‘Tested once’’ for biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.
• Integrating protection of food, health, and the environment.
• Make a North American standard the default approach to new regulation.
• Expand temporary migrant worker programs.
• Implement the Social Security Totalization Agreement negotiated between the United States and Mexico.
• Create a ‘‘North American preference.’’
• Move to full labor mobility between Canada and the United States.
• Mutual recognition of professional standards and degrees.
• Create a major scholarship fund for undergraduate and graduate students to study in the other North American countries and to learn the region’s three languages.
• Develop a network of centers for North American studies.
• Promote Internet-based learning within North America.
• Develop teacher exchange and training programs for elementary and secondary school teachers.
• Develop ‘‘sister school’’ and student exchange programs.
• Encourage imaginative ways to build North American connections.
• An annual North American summit meeting.
• Strengthen government structures.
• A North American Advisory Council.
• A North American Inter-Parliamentary Group.

While the words 'North American Union' is not mentioned the North American Community described in the report equals a North American Union by another name.

Neither the CFR nor the report are as benign as David Nalle describes them.


For anyone interested, here's the conspiratorial, paleoconservative 'origin of the smear'.
Faux Conservatives Defend the North American Union
http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news...mponent&print=1