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Perry is pushing this to help Mexico and China.
It will hurt most port cities and small time truckers!
It will do only harm to the USA but it will help the Global companies and the Norte American Union.

Not a plus for America!

It will hurt most port cities and small time truckers!

You mean those port cities like at Long Beach CA when thsoe "patriotic" longshoremen went on strike at the worst possible time in Autumn of 2002 disrupting the economy? Estimates put this effect at about $20 billion, even though President Bush invoked the Taft-Hartley Act after ten days.

Or are you talking about truckers --- you know those whose union officials appeal to racist and chauvinist sentiments. A statement on the union’s web site slanders Mexican drivers as potential criminals and says opening the border would “make it easier for traffickers to smuggle illegal drugs into the US.”

What a laugh since the teamsters are guilty of the worst kind of accidents and "drug driving" of anybody!

It will hurt most port cities and small time truckers!

Port cities... When the Panama Canal widening is completed Houston and the rest of the Texas Ports most likely will see increases. Now them 'small time truckers' I don't know. But when all is said and done they will need highways to handle the incoming both goods and people influx.

I think I read an article just a few days ago on FR about the major growth in the China port facilities to handle container exports and new facilities were being built on the Pacific Coast to off load them... I-10, I-40 corridors and others may be next to get major upgrades.

I guess if the people of the US would just not buy those goods coming in via those importers and then businesses could only warehouse so much before they'd decide not to bring anymore in. But my guess the public is not going to give up shopping at the major retailers like Walmart, Target, etc.