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Barbara Paulus
Born 1954, Sidney, Ohio
Not dead yet
- Bachelor's Degree of Arts in Accounting, Michigan State University, 1976
- Graduate School: 1 1/2 years, Univ. of Michigan and Leslie College (Massachusetts)
- Continuing education: finance, accounting, management, psychology, race relations
- 7 years in local government accounting and auditing (1976-1983)
- 15 years in various management positions (1983-1998) as Treasurer/Vice President of Citizens Insurance Company in Michigan, and at the parent company Allmerica Financial, in Worcester, Massachusetts as Assistant Controller and Vice President of Finance
- Member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, MENSA, Audubon Society, Sierra Club
Other:
Political volunteer for various campaigns and in various years (both Democratic and Republican)
Author of various newspaper articles and websites, mostly about politics and genealogy
Helped form and served on the first Diversity Council in Howell, Michigan to combat racism
Past and present interests: private pilot, instrument rated; music; genealogy; sports; oil painting
Certifications: Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU); Certified Internal Auditor; Certified Information Systems Auditor
Travel: all 50 states, the Caribbean, Europe and to Russia.
Webmasters' Thoughts
"No guest worker program that includes US transportation and road building jobs."
Here is a letter I sent to my Senators on January 7, 2007. Feel free to copy and send to yours if you wish.
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Dear ___________:
"No guest worker program that includes US transportation and road building jobs."
I'm sure you are aware, that hundreds of thousands of good paying transportation jobs in the US will be OFF SHORED over the next few years as our ports and warehouses make a significant shift to Mexico (a key partner in this shift is the Kansas City SmartPort and the development of the Lazaro Cardenas–Kansas City Transportation Corridor).
It is also assumed that building and operating the NAFTA corridor system (as outlined by NASCO, and including the Trans Texas Corridor, and the expansion and improvement of I69 and I35) will require an army of labor-and the developers and operators of the NAFTA systems are planning to exploit Mexican labor on an unprecedented scale.
Many U.S.Senators and Representatives have previously stated and written that there is no "NAFTA Superhighway"-and that it is a myth of the blogosphere. However, the North American Trade Corridor continues to be pursued, approved, and completed in piecemeal fashion.
I urge you to oppose the use of cheap, foreign labor to build and support this corridor because it will ultimately reduce the number of good paying, US Citizen jobs in transportation, trucking, rail, warehousing, port and road building occupations.
Sincerely,
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October 12,2006
Letter submitted to the KansasCityStar: (unpublished)
I find it interesting that your paper has provided nearly no coverage of H.Con.Res. 487 "Expressing the sense of Congress that the United States should not engage in the construction of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Superhighway System or enter into a North American Union with Mexico and Canada."
The Bush administration's construction of a North American Union through its "Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America" initiative with Mexico and Canada must be stopped. The elite planners behind this project are working toward a borderless North America by 2010, which would be a disaster for U.S. national security and would spell the end of U.S. independence.
Obviously this issue affects every American, in the areas of homeland security, immigration reform and through our economy. I'm wondering if the KC Star is reluctant to publish information about this topic because of the influential KC SmartPort initiative.....and because Kansas City is perceived as a "sanctuary city" for illegal immigrants...and out of fear of alienating the large Hispanic population of Kansas City. These are not valid journalistic reasons to fail to report the issues.
I urge the KC Star to examine its ethics in reporting.
September 12, 2006
Jerome Corsi's article today in Human Events Online (I-69: Yet Another NAFTA Super-Highway) cites at least 10 examples of funding of the NAFTA superhighway, in spite of our Congressmen and Senators' denial of its existence or funding. I suggest you send his article to your "uninformed" elected officials.
September 10, 2006
On this eve of the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks on our soil, I am disgusted by the lack of candor, to put it nicely, from our elected officials at all levels.
In researching material for this website concerning SmartPort and the NAFTA Superhighway, I have run across many many denials by Senators, Representatives, Governors, Mayors, and Federal and State agency representatives of the existence or funding of a NAFTA superhighway. They almost all state that the superhighway is a myth, a fiction of the internet or the blogosphere. They are just plain lying.
For example, after all the denials from Kansas Dept of Transportation (KDOT) that the NAFTA superhighway is a myth.....I can find tens if not hundreds of references to it in State and Federal documents. It may be called a corridor, or highway or a trans-modal whatever.
Here's an excerpt from the KDOT website, 2004-2005 Rail Plan:
• KCS’s NAFTA Railway extends from the upper United States to Mexico through three primary rail entities: Kansas City Southern Railway, Grupo Transportacion Ferroviaria Mexicana (TFM), and Texas Mexican Railway (Tex Mex). On an annual basis, the KCS rail system generates combined revenues of approximately $1 billion, transports more than one million carloads of intermodal containers/trailers, and employs a total work force of more than 7,000 employees.
• Through a marketing alliance with Canadian National the KCS network extends into Canada. Shippers using this line can secure a rate and access a single rail line to move commodities through North America.
I don't know how much clearer one could be. Of course, there is the public REMARKS FOR THE HONORABLE NORMAN Y. MINETA SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION NORTH AMERICA’S SUPERHIGHWAY COALITION TRANSPORTATION FORUM FORT WORTH, TX APRIL 30, 2004. So if there is no superhighway, why did our US Secretary of transportation attend a mythical event?
We just can't trust them to tell the truth! So far this week, I've caught Rep. Jim Ryun (R,KS) , Senator Pat Roberts (R, KS) and Rep. Roy Blunt (R, MO) denying the truth about the NAFTA "superhighway". They don't want us to link these "big business" deals with the poor economy for our lower 95% of the income bracket, and illegal immigration. Well, Americans are smarter than that.
I have found one candidate for Congress who is telling the truth about this-Nancy Boyda-running for the House of Representatives, 2nd district, Kansas. She is "outing" NASCO and the NAFTA super-corridor plans.
We need to find more Nancys, and we need to elect them into office.
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