Lionel Waxman

I suppose it’s still an open question whether Arizona will yet have to issue IOUs. I would call them “Brewer Bucks.” But if this state does issue them, let’s be smarter than California was.

In California the currency replacements look like legal documents. The Walt Disney Company’s theme parks have been issuing their own currency for years. They are good only within their theme parks. They are colorful and sprightly as you would expect from Disney. And if people have some of theme left in their pockets when they leave the them park, they usually keep them as souvenirs. Because of this Disney Dollars are a source of revenue for the Walt Disney Company.

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So if Arizona has to issue its own currency, we could make it colorful and beautiful, something people would want to collect. If they’re never redeemed, the state would be able to keep the funds they would otherwise have to cough up to buy the things back.

North America merger?

What ever happened to the plan to merge the United States, Mexico and Canada into one country called North America? It called for replacement of the U.S. dollar with something called the Amero. We haven’t heard much about that program or the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) of North America. That’s the name it adopted when the opposition to “North America” got too intense.

Now, most of the websites explaining the SPP have been taken down or abandoned. The U.S. Commerce Department, which is the department in charge of that deal, hasn’t issued a single press release about it in over a year.

So is it dead? Did it die of neglect? Did the opposition to it prevail? No, no, and no – in that order. It just went underground. Now it is called the North American Leaders Summit. Three names in about as many years. Clip and save this column so later on you can follow the bouncing ball.

Secret meeting planned

Did you know there is a meeting scheduled for Aug. 8-11 in Guadalajara, Mexico, for the purpose of discussing and presumably advancing this North American thing, whatever its name will be by then? No, of course you didn’t know about it. The only place it was nominally made public was on the calendar of the U.S. State Department, and it provides no information about the agenda. It doesn’t even say where in Mexico it’s supposed to take place but several newspapers, including one in Guadalajara, say that’s where it will be. What’s more, the SPP designation has vanished.

How can they make policy and law hidden away in some basement in Mexico? How were they able to pass the “cap-and-trade” bill before it was even written? If you can do one, you can do the other.

Changing government

My fellow Americans, do you get the impression our government has slipped the bonds by which it was supposed to act in the interest of the people not just the members of the club? Suddenly, the idea of replacing the dollar with the Amero doesn’t look as preposterous as it did when it was first leaked. Our employees in government have their own agenda. Barack Obama, the principal character in my forthcoming short story, “Obama Mama,” seems to be executing his own schedule.

“North Korea? Iran? Pakistan? Yes, yes. But first we must deal with the pressing problem of health care reform, raising taxes but only on the rich who make more than $18,000 a year.”

My book, by the way – well, more of a pamphlet — is the fanciful tale of a brash young lawyer who charms his way into the presidency of the most powerful nation on the planet and executes a plan he coyly calls “Change,” which few know about and fewer would approve.

Here’s the twist. The man is not even qualified to be president because he’s not a citizen of the country. But he swears he is and only his aged grandmother survives to blab she witnessed his birth in a backward country on another continent, hence the title. Just then, his grandmother dies of natural causes and our hero is hailed when he changes again and makes his motto “Simon says Change Back.”

Contact Lionel Waxman at territorial@waxmanmedia.com or visit his website: www.newflashpoint.com.