Let's have a rational discussion on the North American Union

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Here on mylot it is sometimes hard to have a rational discussions about certain controversial issues. What I hope to do with this discussion is to shed light on the positive and necessary sides to the North American Union. I must say before I start this discussion that I used to be an ultra-nationalist that would always have a knee jerk reaction that I heard something like this, but reality eventually sets in. And the world that we live in is different than it was 10 years ago. About 10 years ago, the European Union was in its infancy, and it appeared that it was going to break up. 10 years ago, Canada had more population than 1/2 of the European countries. 10 years ago, the U.S. was 4 times as big as the most populated country of Europe, and Mexico was 150% the population of the largest European country. Now we sit here with a unified Europe that is becoming stronger every day. The total population of this European Union is 493 million people. Lets just look at how that compares to each one of our individual countries: Canada- 33 million. If I do the math, that makes the European Union 15 times the size of Canada. United States- 300 million. The European Union is 150% larger than the U.S. Mexico- 100 million. That puts the European Union 5 times the population of Mexico. If we unite as the Europeans across the ocean, that would put our combines population at 440 million people. That would put us at just about 50 million short of our European counterparts. If you look at our Chinese counterparts at 2 billion, and the Indians at 1 billion, you can obviously see that we are not strong enough as individual countries. I am not talking about doing away with Constitutions or what not. I am discussing an economic and military alliance. If we pull our resources together like the Europeans do, we would be a bigger block in a trade war.