Posted on 08/30/2006 6:02:42 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
You are using deceit.
ping.
Are you aware that a Mexican port sitting on I-35 is opening in Kansas City in the near future? Are you aware they are projecting over 1,000 trucks per day from Mexico to Kansas City? Are you aware the rail system is being expanded to handle the cargo containers from Mexico to Kansas City?
I think you mean a Mexican "customs office," not a "port."
And it's for American exports leaving Kansas City so they don't have to go through customs at the Mexican border.
You know, if all those U.S. Customs preclearance facilities overseas are intended to erase national borders, then they are doing a piss-poor job.
Um yeah, at the airfield south of KC (near Grandview, Girbaeu Airport or some such name) served by the KCS. Though actually it isn't on I-35 but between the US69 and US 71 freeways. The Mexican border officials will be there to inspect, seal, and do the paperwork for containers BOUND for Mexico. KCS partnered in t 1 of the 3 rail concessions when Mexico privatized its previously nationalized railroad. They now have majority control, and are working with Hutchison-Whampoa to develop the port of Lazaro Cardenas. The idea is to capture the overflow traffic from LA (remember the port shutdown a few years ago and the delays that happen every year from congestion at the LA port, LA freeways, and rail routes funneling to there?) and also some of the warehousing, sorting, repacking, and distribution business (think jobs) that is taking place in So. Cal. and spilling over into the high desert of Victorville. Since that is some of the most expensive real estate in the country, there is plenty of opportunity to capture some of the growth in this warehouse segment. That's what San Antonio, Dallas, Houston, Memphis, and a number of other cities are trying to do. KC is simply trying to replicate this inland port concept, which has been taking place for years at Front Royal, VA. The only difference here is that instead of through the port of Norfolk the containers will come in from a Mexican port, with the word "Mexican" setting off the ignorant knee-jerk crowd the way "Bush" sets off their intellectual equals on the left.
Are you aware of Front Royal? That KCS is already shipping containers from Lazaro Cardenas to Atlanta, with plans to open a new intermodal terminal outside of Houston? How many trucks per day travel to/through KC every day? How much that increases a year? That KC and their planned inland port aren't anything new or unique? And who exactly are 'they' that you keep referring to?
Warehousing and distribution traditionally takes place near the port of import. Inland cities are trying to capture some of that business. So you are opposing KC capturing some of this business (and huge number of jobs) instead of it taking place next to Mexican ports?
That's just not true no matter how many times you say it.
If it's not true why are so many banks offering services in spanish only signs at the branches, why all the dual language packaging in stores, why are illegals given a whole buffet of welfare style services as well as the ability to buy houses and cars, etc.?.......all of which can be done by using matricula cards created by the Mexican gov't. and endorsed by our gutless politicians?
I think this has been in the works a very long time in Kansas City. If one would get into tht area where the caves are one would hear it called an international trade zone 25 years ago. Of course, the rail hub dates from the stockyard days.
You're talking about something else entirely. Nobody disputes that hispanics, millions of them illegals, are here in this country. That the free market considers them potential customers.
That doesn't affect the legal status of the border.
Gee, how shocking, a marketing person for an econ development project in competition with numerous other cities CLAIMING that his project is somehow unique.
Research inland ports, Front Royal, Dallas' "Agile Port" (stupid name), "The Port of San Antonio" (LOL), etc. It has all being done or proposed elsewhere around the country.
You don't see the correlation between allowing all these illegals in here as a gradual dissolution of our soverignty and border? Ever gave any thought that the reason this is going on is a conditioning process to force Americans to accept this No. American Union the business/political elite want to ram down our collective throats?
Why do you support secret policy making? Are you afraid the light of day will hurt our democracy? What is your stake in all of this that you find secrecy so appealing?
I've been asking them the same question and all I get is "Your a Kook". Whispering: I think they have complete trust in Gov and the big Corps.
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