Posted on 08/28/2010 1:24:26 PM PDT by fightinJAG
Please don't throw me into that Brier patch.
I'd like all subsidies to be eliminated immediately. The only squeals will come from big government "conservatives" like you.
Specifically, how is it not working?
So, in other words, if I buy Heineken . . . our government will fail. Damn foreigners . . . the U.S. government is making me buy their beer,
I’d like all subsidies to be eliminated immediately. The only squeals will come from big government “conservatives” like you.
My weak attempt at humor. I think that the only thing that will stop them coming over is to get serious about our border and to start aggressively enforcing our laws inside the country.
Maybe the US should impose a stiff tariff on the people that Mexico exports to the US.
And yet we still allow their beat up, unsafe, POS trucks ply our highways...
That we can hang on President Bush and the democrat congress that got elected back in 2006...
Amen.
opinion completely unsupported by facts - - > blame Bush first
Really? Please cut and paste the portions of NAFTA that support your claim.
Standby, when I get my broadband connection back and I can do a faster search in the archives here, I will post the two or three threads (that I can recall, along with the discussion on the Texas board) that were discussed here on FR to those keywords...
Back in 2005-06, was when some trade folks were complaining thatthe mexican trucks were not allowed to venture farther than 100 miles into the country, President Bush with the support of congressional committees and the leadership loosened those restrictions...
Standby, when I get my broadband connection back and I can do a faster search in the archives here, I will post the two or three threads (that I can recall, along with the discussion on the Texas board) that were discussed here on FR to those keywords...
Back in 2005-06, was when some trade folks were complaining thatthe mexican trucks were not allowed to venture farther than 100 miles into the country, President Bush with the support of congressional committees and the leadership loosened those restrictions...
How about sending Mexico a bill for medical care for them?!
Incidentally, where's the on-road carnage occuring in the buffer zone now? Mexican trucks have been driving those roads since the late 1980's. You'd think that, by now, the Teamsters, the Greens, Ralph Nader, or some independent trucking groups would've collected some statistics.
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