Posted on 07/12/2011 8:59:11 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
Not content with soaring unemployment numbers and destroying our banking housing healthcare auto making and oil drilling industries (to name just a few) Barack Obama has just handed Mexico virtual control of the American trucking industry.
One of Obama’s most useful idiots,putative Republican U.S. Secretary Transportation Ray LaHood,traveled to Mexico City to sign the “agreement” far from our gaze as he made certain America’s humiliation was complete.
By ratifying a so-called “pilot” program to allow Mexican junk wagons disguised as long haul trucks onto the highways we pay for Obama has handed his pal Felipe Calderón another way to sneak undocumented fraudulent Democrat voters all over our nation.
Unless a lawsuit brought by the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) is successful,within weeks Mexican trucks,many of which are American fleet castoffs,will be found in every corner of our country.
Mexican Commercial Drivers Licenses the essential document for all truckers do exist,but they are just as easily purchased on Mexican streets as any other phony documents. Drug testing of Mexican drivers will be done by Mexican laboratories not a single one of which in the whole of Mexico is certified to American standards. Union resistance?
Hoffa: talking but certainly NOT walking ……..If you can find any indication he will be taking action…….
“Opening the border to dangerous trucks at a time of high unemployment and rampant drug violence is a shameful abandonment of the DOT’s duty to protect American citizens from harm and to spend American tax dollars responsibly.”
“It adds insult to injury to force U.S. taxpayers to pay for monitoring equipment on Mexican trucks so Mexican carriers can take away their jobs.”
“The DOT shows more loyalty to the Mexican people than it does to Americans.”
“This pilot program doesn’t even meet NAFTA’s requirement…….
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I know it goes against my grain, and every good Republican.
However, how about Republicans draft a bill that REQUIRES membership in the Teamsters Union for all Mexican nationals who wish to drive on United States highways?
As I understand it...
The treaty allows Mexican drivers to carry freight from Mexico to a destination in the US, and it allows US drivers to carry freight from the US to a destination in Mexico (though IMO you'd have to be pretty stupid to drive a truck into Mexico these days). The treaty does not allow Mexican drivers to pick up freight in the US and carry it to another point in the US.
First you give them the best high powered weapons stimulus money can buy, second you make sure to keep the borders wide open, third you sue any state that tries to enforce the immigration laws, fourth you open the drawbridge to their cargo vehicles and illegal, unqualified, and uninsured truckers.
BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!
Yet another American industry destroyed by an allegedly American government.
I hate to say it, but this trucker deal goes back well before Obama was ever heard of. Although I’m sure he just loves it.
I'm not so sure about that. It certainly doesn't play well with his union buddies.
Aside from the jobs lost, another issue no one seems to address is that Mexicans drive like 16 year olds. They speed on residential streets, drive 40 on the freeway (in the fast lane), they take unnecessary risks, and the truckers think that being in the biggest vehicle makes them king of the road.
I live in El Paso where the Mexican truckers are already allowed to drive and trust me, you do not want these people driving in your town.
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