Posted on 01/25/2006 2:48:19 PM PST by clawrence3
Founded in 1914, Greyhound Lines, Inc. is the largest provider of intercity bus transportation, serving more than 3,100 destinations with 16,000 daily departures across North America. It has become an American icon, providing safe, enjoyable and affordable travel to 22 million passengers each year. The Greyhound running dog is one of the most-recognized brands in the world . . .
Greyhound has four subsidiaries in the United States, which are a part of the nationwide Greyhound network. They include: Carolina Trailways, serving the Southeast; Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma Coaches ("TNM&O"), serving the Southwest; Valley Transit Company, serving the Texas-Mexico border, and Vermont Transit, serving New England.
In addition, Greyhound has interline partnerships with a number of independent bus lines across the United States. These bus companies provide complementary service to Greyhound Lines' existing schedules and link to many of the smaller towns in Greyhound Lines' national route system . . .
For those within Mexico who wish to travel by Greyhound in the United States, Greyhound subsidiary Greyhound de Mexico can sell Greyhound tickets at one of more than 100 agencies located throughout Mexico. The agencies also sell tickets for several Mexican bus companies, like Estrella Blanca, which connect to Greyhound service at the United States-Mexico border cities.
Address and phone number of principal executive offices
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There are several Mexican bus companies that run all over I-20 and prolly other interstates too that carry nothing but mexicans. Even have mexican drivers...why settle for a dozen on greyhound, when you can nab a whole busload??
oh that's right whore hey bush says they just wanna ride busses that Americans don't want to ride!!!
It wouldn't bother me at all if this was a huge inconvenience for illegal aliens either.
You are dangerous to yourself and liberty. What is wrong with erecting checkpoints on interstate highways? They could staff them with TSA trained personnel. But they would need heavy weaponry, to mow down Greyhound busses full of illegals. Just the price that YOU are willing to pay. Not ME.
Are you being sarcastic, or is that your real response? If it is your real response, I have no idea where you could possiby have interpreted that in his post.
Being sarcastic is different than trying to smear you in front of others that haven't been following the other thread (at least I posted a link to the other thread and ping'd you) so I resemble your "Shame on you . . . disingenuousness . . . Now you have shown your true character. You just want to stir up trouble" comment!
What do you think of my thread?
And rising prices, and lots of companies going out of business.
Most Americans would experience an improved standard of living.
Unlikely. You could achieve the same effect by throwing out the last several decades of technology; suddenly we'd need lots of secretaries and phone operators and such, but it would not be good for the economy, or for the average American.
But why not consider a strictly enforced guest worker program, with strict provisions, and no path to citizenship, and make most people happy. I really believe that alot of people who are strongly opposed to illegal immigration would support a TEMPORARY worker program, as long as it did not include an amnesty, and was seriously enforced.
"Help wanted signs everywhere and rising wages."
The result would be massive cost-push inflation.
"Most Americans would experience an improved standard of living."
No, they wouldn't. Prices would race ahead of wages. Also, with a graduated income tax, inflation would shove people into higher brackets faster than Congress could index the brackets for inflation, so their tax bite increases even as their "increased pay" is debased in value.
"It would be the kind of recession that was hard on the rich but good for the middle class and the poor."
In other words, it would be hard on people who have capital to invest, which means investment (both foreign and domestic) in the U.S. would slow down or stop. What would be most likely to happen is capital flight to more investor-friendly climes, along with the capitalists who own said capital.
Last I checked, 1% of the population pays 37% of the taxes. Convince that 1% to leave, and you have the almost the same number of mooches trying to get their "fair share" of the loot . . . and only 63% of the loot to go around. Congress can either borrow a lot more money (at much higher interest than now), or they can raise taxes on the rest of us to "make up" that 37%.
"I've never seen one of those before and I think I might like it."
I have. It was back when we had double-digit inflation in the 1970s. The result was interest rates hitting record highs. That would cause ARMs to cycle to at-present unbelievable rates, which would result in many people losing their homes.
I have news for you: it will not be the rich losing their homes. It will be middle-class and poor people getting foreclosed.
Yeah, I'm sure you'd like losing your home.
Ok, I agree. I just could not figure out what you were trying to say. I wish the Feds would do their job, because then this would not even be an issue. That being said, if the Fed gov't continues to neglect their responsibility, I think individual states doing what they can is the only option.
Outstanding job.
But what is the alternative? Allow people to continually break our laws? If it is necessary, institute a TEMPORARY worker program with no amnesty. That would solve the problem. Leaving the situation as it is is a bad idea, and amnesty is an even worse idea.
"What is wrong with erecting checkpoints on interstate highways?"
They already have them, you csn't get out of San Diego County without going through a border patrol check point.
Cut off all social services, jail and fine employers of illegals, eliminate automatic birth rights, and the illegal problem will solve itself.
Thanks : )
"But what is the alternative? Allow people to continually break our laws?"
Admit that our present immigration laws are about as enforceable--and as followed by all interested parties--as the Volstead Act was.
Would you agree that border control is the responsibility of the federal government. Not Wells Fargo bank?
Easing the process of legal immigration is one thing, but allowing millions of illegals to flow into this country is unacceptable. If the need for workers is truly there, institute a TEMPORARY worker program with no amnesty. It would solve the problem.
your vitriol is mis-aimed on this thread....
The main companies going out of business would be those that rely on illegal aliens and cheap labor to make their faulty business models profitable. I really don't care. Some of the businesses that were driven out by the people who obtained an advantage by breaking the law would probably reappear.
And as far as rising prices, are you trying to frighten me with expensive lettuce? About 10% of the cost of lettuce is attributable to labor. That means that you could double the cost of labor and the labor cost on a $1 head of lettuce would rise from 10 cents to 20 cents and the price in the store might rise to a $1.10. I dare say I would save that extra dime on my medical insurance premiums when the hospital emergency rooms quit cost shifting all the indigent care to insured customers.
Illegals make up about 3% of our population. A lot of them are children that cost us money but don't work. They are at the very bottom of our economy so they (labor plus consumption) can't account for more than 1 to 2% of our GDP particularly since about $50 billion of their earnings get sent out of the country as remittances and don't recirculate in our economy. Our GDP grows at about 3% to 4% annually so do the math. A bona-fide recession requires 3 quarters of shrinking GDP. Losing the economic contribution of all the illegals would barely qualify as a real recession. We'd grow it all back in nine months. Its a price I'd pay to be rid of them.
Well said.
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