The United States of North America?

A new book is coming out by Jerome Corsi titled The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada. I haven't read the book or much of anything about it, but I'm sure it posits that with the current trade deals (and other agreements north and south) that the time is coming when the three North American countries will form some sort of union, maybe similar to the European Union, or maybe an entirely new country.

I posed in a prior blog, somewhat tongue in cheek, that we could begin to solve the illegal immigration problem by annexing Mexico. We had done so in the past (Texas, California, New Mexico, and Arizona) so it is not without precedent. From the title of Corsi's book, I suspect he doesn't see that merger as a good thing.

But hey (and Ola and eh?), it might just work to bring us Norte Americanos together. First, as I had said previously, U.S. businesses would race to open sites in Mexico to be closer to the now legal work force causing the need to move north for a job to evaporate. Second, the money we already send to Mexico would be used to help our own states (those created in Mexico) and not a foreign nation. Then, of course, we are already bi-lingual is so many ways (For Spanish, press 2).

And who wouldn't want to join Canada? Its people are nearly like us demographically, with their own accents that would then join our Midwestern twang, southern drawl, and New England's dropped Rs. Plus with so much room to expand if you just don't mind the cold.

And what an economic force we could be when all were united. The natural resources alone could be mined and drilled to make us energy independent, and the winds across the Yukon would excite T. Boone Pickens no end.

So I may read the book to see what the downside might be, but right now it sounds not half-bad as we used to say. I already planned to brush up on my Spanish, and I can say "oot and aboot" as well as any of them. Now, Quebec might be a problem.