There is an opportunity to consolidate the North American region as a more competitive region, a more productive region that will be more competitive than other blocs that have integrated in the rest of the world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We should reconsider greater integration of North America to achieve a region that is more competitive and capable of creating more jobs.
America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.
We are beginning to see the benefits of global consolidation.
If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social.
Creating a vertically oriented regional ecosystem is a pretty amazing accomplishment for any country or industry.
Specifically, the U.S. holds strength. Its own context makes it a very competitive country, but I believe that if we recognize how interdependent the U.S. with its neighbors from the North and the South, we are part of NAFTA, a trade agreement.
Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.
We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.
In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
Competitiveness demands flexibility, choice and openness - or Europe will fetch up in a no-man's land between the rising economies of Asia and market-driven North America.