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1AC IDCATournament: IDCA JV State | Round: 1 | Opponent: Homewoor Flossmoor LS | Judge: Pipkin PlanPlan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its infrastructure investment toward Mexico by authorizing the North American Development Bank to fund infrastructure improvement projects along the United States-Mexico border.Contention 1 is EconomyStatus quo border infrastructure investment is lagging behind export growthO’Neil, 13 Initiatives to modernize the border and build resilient communities (pillars three and four of Plan is key to resolve congestion, increase trade, and boost border infrastructure for both the US and MexicoWilson 12 (Christopher Wilson, associate at the Mexico Institute of teh Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. "U.S. Competitiveness: The Mexican Connection" 2012. www.issues.org/28.4/p_wilson.html) Policy for a competitive region¶ The border. With an integrated regional manufacturing sector Plan creates new funding which serves as a catalyst for more investmentMosqueda, Bachelor’s in journalism, 12 ~Priscila, 7-18-12, Texas Observer, "Sister Organizations Continue to Improve Infrastructure Along Border: Binational Institutions Fund Projects to Encourage Economic Growth," http://www.texasobserver.org/sister-organizations-continue-to-improve-infrastructure-along-border/, accessed 6-26-13~ Projects are partially funded by the Bank, with local, state and federal governments Infrastructure constraints create business uncertainty – it’s reverse causalDonohue and Zozaya 11 (Thomas Donohue, President and CEO of the US Chamber of Commerce, José Zozaya President American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico, 2011, "Steps to a 21st Century U.S.-Mexico Border A U.S. Chamber of Commerce Border Report" online @ http://www.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/reports/2011_us_mexico_report.pdf Businesses rely on just-in-time inventory management and depend on predictability and Expanding the NADBank mandate solves infrastructure development — the plan ensures accountability, private investment, and Mexico says yes.Rodriguez 9 — Raul Rodriguez, serves as the Chairman of the Board of Advisors of the North American Center for Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. He is also the Benson Chair in Banking and Finance and Distinguished Professor at the HEB School of Business and Administration at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas and the President of RMI, an investment and trade consulting firm in Mexico. He served as CEO and Managing Director of the North American Development Bank (NADBank) until October 2005. Prior to joining the NADBank, he was Executive Director of the Mexican Foreign Trade Bank; the Bank’s Director for Asia; Mexico’s Trade Commissioner in Canada during the NAFTA negotiation; and Secretary of Economic Development for the Mexican border State of Tamaulipas. Mr. Rodriguez participates actively in community affairs at home in San Antonio, Texas, as Chairman of the World Affairs Council; Chairman Elect of The Free Trade Alliance; Mayoral appointee to the Board of Directors of the Port Authority of San Antonio; Chairman Elect and Vice President of the San Antonio - Mexico Friendship Council, among others. He is also a founding member of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Advisory Council of the Harte Research Institute at Texas A26M University, the North American Forum, the U.S. - Mexico Futures Forum and the Border Trade Advisory Committee of the Texas Transportation Commission. He participated in the Foreign Affairs task force with President Calderon’s transition team in Mexico in October and November 2006 (Raul Rodriguez, The Wilson Center Mexico Institute and El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, June 2009, "The Future of the North American Development Bank", http://wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/RODRIGUEZ20NADBANK.pdf-http://wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/RODRIGUEZ NADBANK.pdf, Accessed 08-21-2013) Many agencies and programs have a bearing on border issues, but the region still Loss of confidence creates a negative feedback cycle annihilating the economyRubin et al 4 – PhD Economics, Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institute and Chief Global Economist at Decision Economics inc. (Robert E. Rubin, Chairman of Citigroup Financial, Peter R. Roszag, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute, and Allen Sinai, Decision Economics, "Sustained Budget Deficits: The Risks of Financial and Fiscal Disarray" Paper presented The Andrew Brimmer Policy Forum, "National Economic and Financial Policies for Growth and Stability," Sunday, 1/4/04) Mexico’s economy will fail from inefficient infrastructurePastor, 8 Others have pointed to Mexico’s declining competitiveness and attribute that to ¶ Mexico’s inability or Infrastructure is key to long-term Mexican growthAschauer 98 (David Alan Aschauer, Elmer W. Campbell Professor of Economics at Bates College. "The Role of Public Infrastructure Capital in Mexican Economic Growth" 1998. http://www.economiamexicana.cide.edu/num_anteriores/VII-1/02_ASCHAUER_47-78.pdf) VP A number of tentative conclusions pertinent to Mexican infrastructure policy can be drawn from the Mexican economy is vital to the US – trade, exports, jobs, fundamentalsSarukhan, 12 (Arturo, Ambassador of Mexico to the United States, "Mexico ’Critically Important’ to US Economy," Wilson Center, 2/24/12, video testimony, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/mexico-E28098critically-importantE28099-to-us-economy, Tashma) It’s an incredibly strong relationship, for starters, because a lot of people sometimes US is key to the global economyLagarde 13 (Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. "Strong U.S. Economy, Strong Global Economy—Two Sides of Same Coin" September 19, 2013. www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2013/NEW091913A.htm) In a world of increasing economic interconnections, the United States’s stake in the global Economic growth is key to prevent global nuclear war and terrorismHarris 26 Burrows 9(Mathew, PhD European History @ Cambridge, counselor of the U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC) and Jennifer, member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit "Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis" http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/twq/v32i2/f_0016178_13952.pdf) Mexican Economic growth guts the drug trade Creating more economic opportunitieswillbe Mexico’s greatest weapon in the war on drugs, the country’s Mexico drug violence leads to oil shocks and economic collapseMoran 9 (7/31/09, Michael, executive editor and policy analyst, Council on Foreign Relations, "Six Crises, 2009: A Half-Dozen Ways Geopolitics Could Upset Global Recovery," http://fbkfinanzwirtschaft.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/six-crises-2009-a-half-dozen-ways-geopolitics-could-upset-global-recovery/) Energy shocks cause great power nuke warIslam Yasin Qasem 7, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics and Social Sciences at the University of Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona, MA in International Affairs from Columbia, July 9, 2007, "The Coming Warfare of Oil Shortage," online: http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_islam_ya_070709_the_coming_warfare_o.htm Contention 2 is WarmingWarming is happening and increasing now – the US is key to solvePassell ’12 (Peter Passell, a senior fellow at the Milken Institute in Santa Monica, as well as the editor of its quarterly journal on economic policy. "Two world one climate" May 23, 2012. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/05/23/two_worlds_one_climate?page=full26wp_login_redirect=0-http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/05/23/two_worlds_one_climate?page=full26wp_login_redirect=0) Climate change, we are often told, is everyone’s problem. And without a Status quo investment in energy is not sufficientWood, 2013 (Duncan, director of Mexico Institute at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, researcher at Centro de Derecho Economico Internacional at ITAM, studied at UK in Canada, PhD in Political Studies, Wilson Center, http://wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/wood_energy.pdf-http://wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/wood_energy.pdf) Harbeck Expanding NADBank investments to border infrastructure leads to more environmental and clean tech projectsBalido, 11 – Nelson, president of the Border Trade Alliance ("Bill to expand NADBank projects holds potential to make big impact for border," Border Trade Alliance, http://www.thebta.org/btanews/bill-to-expand-nadbank-projects-holds-potential-to-make-big-impact-for-border.html~~23top) Investment is key for renewables – specifically the NADBankHendricks, 2012 (David, Business writer and columnist, "NADBank expands renewable energy portfolio," November 8, 2012, http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/NADBank-expands-renewable-energy-portfolio-4021606.php-http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/NADBank-expands-renewable-energy-portfolio-4021606.php) Renewables solve climate change without harming the environmentKomor, 2004 (Paul, Renewable Energy Policy, author, Researched and taught energy policy at Princeton, Stanford, currently at Unveristy of Colorado, Director of Energy Education http://books.google.com/books?hl=en26lr=26id=CnHnsUBCgSUC26oi=fnd26pg=PA126dq=alternative+energy+solves+mexico26ots=nT42L718AW26sig=N8wN4andIpdCDCrN3R1JbScm7ZA~~23v=onepage26q26f=false-http://books.google.com/books?hl=en26lr=26id=CnHnsUBCgSUC26oi=fnd26pg=PA126dq=alternative+energy+solves+mexico26ots=nT42L718AW26sig=N8wN4andIpdCDCrN3R1JbScm7ZA, page 4, March 15, 2004) Harbeck One possible solution to the various problems with our energy system is a switch to Warming is the most likely scenario for extinctionDeibel 7 ~Terry L. Professor of IR @ National War College, 2007. "Foreign Affairs Strategy: Logic for American Statecraft", Conclusion: American Foreign Affairs Strategy Today~ Finally, there is one major existential threat to American security (as well as US-Mexico cooperation solves – leads to global spilloverSelee 26 Wilson ’12 (Andrew Selee, Wilson Center’s Vice President for Programs. Ph.D. in Policy Studies from the University of Maryland; M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of California, San Diego; B.A. in Latin American Studies (Phi Beta Kappa) from Washington University in St. Louis. Christopher Wilson, an Associate at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. "A New Agenda With Mexico" November 2012. http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/a_new_agenda_with_mexico.pdf ) Over the past few years, the U.S. and Mexican governments have Global warming will cause a massive increase in famine.Reuters ’05 ~May 27, "Climate change likely to increase famine: FAO," http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1378213.htm~~ Global warming is likely to significantly diminish food production in many countries and greatly increase Famine must be rejected and outweighs extinction.Watson ’77 ~Richard, Professor of Philosophy at Washington University, World Hunger and Moral Obligation, p. 118-9~ One may even have to sacrifice one’s life or one’s nation to be moral in More investment in NADBank key to environment infrastructure – solves for environment sustainability and flora and faunaKaplan and Hammacher, 00 – Gordan, attorney with the firm of Hillyer 26. Irwin in San Diego and Linda K., attorney ("A Bigger Role for NAFTA’s Development Bank?," San Diego Business Journal, 11/13/00, http://ehis.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?sid=74ef2ace-3feb-4b1f-80f5-660cbb179c8840sessionmgr11326vid=126hid=11426bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ3d3d~~23db=f5h26AN=382648626anchor=toc) Destruction of the sea turtle population leads to a domino effect – brink is now.Todd Steiner, xx-xx-2010, Sea Turtle Restoration Project, Executive Director at Turtle Island Restoration Network, San Francisco Bay Area, "Are Sea Turtles Worth Saving?" http://www.bonaireturtles.org/explore/are-sea-turtles-worth-saving/ Sea turtles demonstrate the ultimate lesson of ecology – that everything is connected. Sea Loggerhead turtles are keystone species – key to global marine ecosystems.Coastal Breeze, 8-23-2012, locally owned and operated bi-weekly community newspaper, "Sea Turtle Tidbits," http://www.coastalbreezenews.com/2012/08/23/sea-turtle-tidbits-6/ There are five species of sea turtles that nest on Florida’s beaches. The most Marine biodiversity collapse causes extinction.Craig, 2003, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana U School Law, McGeorge Law Review, 34 McGeorge L. Rev. 155 Lexis Biodiversity and ecosystem function arguments for conserving marine ecosystems also exist, just as they | 3/14/14 |
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