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The China-Kansas Express (Mexico-Kansas City NAFTA Super Railroad)
forbes. ^ | 06.19.06 | Dorothy Pomerantz and Evan Hessel 06.19.06

Posted on 08/18/2007 8:47:50 AM PDT by dennisw

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To: KevinDavis

No you, your all important petty little self should revel in the fact that Americans would lose their jobs to people in a corrupt natiion like Mexico.


21 posted on 08/18/2007 9:20:25 AM PDT by em2vn
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To: Jaysun; All

I thought so....


22 posted on 08/18/2007 9:21:54 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Mitt Romney 08)
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To: dennisw
byzantine Mexican legal system

I resent that. (It's not like the Mexicans use the novellas of Justinian as the basis for their legal system.)

24 posted on 08/18/2007 9:24:26 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: dennisw
Haverty has gotten smarter about doing business in Mexico

And then they go on to detail how he has acculturated himself to the ways of Mexican corruption.

Mr. Haverty may have to leave town soon. Or talk to some of those Lockheed guys about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

25 posted on 08/18/2007 9:25:28 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Jaysun
Now they won’t have to pay the outrageous union worker wages in California to unload.

And our nation can deteriorate futher.

Sounds great.

26 posted on 08/18/2007 9:25:42 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Trails of troubles, roads of battle, paths of victory we shall walk.)
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And our nation can deteriorate futher.

Sounds great.


Yeah, it's sad. Being financially raped by unions is what made America great.
27 posted on 08/18/2007 9:29:17 AM PDT by Jaysun (It's outlandishly inappropriate to suggest that I'm wrong.)
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To: dennisw
Haverty's Mexico bet has made what was once a second-tier railway a valuable acquisition morsel for Burlington Northern and Union Pacific

They may have to stand in line behind Norfolk Southern, which has a number of ties to KCS. There would also be fewer antitrust concerns.

28 posted on 08/18/2007 9:32:33 AM PDT by PAR35
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This has nothing to do with American jobs. But, of course, there aren’t American jobs just like an American trade deficit is a figment of one’s imagination, too. There are just a bunch of wannabes who are not employers trying to lay claim to rights they are not entitled to. I think it would be nice if he would put a cattle car on the end of every Mexico-Canadian bound train so illegals could go straight to Canada.


29 posted on 08/18/2007 9:35:55 AM PDT by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: Jaysun

>All this talk of lost union jobs has given me an erection.<

Statement: You sound as if you are queer.

Fact: You are a disgusting person.


30 posted on 08/18/2007 9:46:55 AM PDT by B4Ranch ( "Freedom is not free, but don't worry the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.")
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So what happens when it’s all built and the myriad Chi-Coms’ problems — not the least of which is the restless stirrings of the Party’s Maoists (Marxists) — cause it all to come tumbling down, either by revolution or by Maoists taking the Party back from the corrupt Dengists then seizing all useful idiots’ property and pulling that Bamboo Curtain shut?
Can’t happen?


31 posted on 08/18/2007 9:51:14 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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I applaud this effort to lower costs and increase efficiency. We will see lower prices for imported goods and increased efficiency and lower labor costs on the west coast ports because of the increased competition. We desperately need competition for the union thugs who control the west coast ports. Union monopolies are worse than corporate monopolies because we have anti trust laws to deal with corporate monopolies. Union monopolists enjoy broad support by the Democrats and little opposition by the Republicans.

Obviously, controls on illegal immigration must by established. With political will, illegal immigration should not be a problem because of this transportation corridor. Increased illegal immigration is not a direct result of this transportation corridor. Increases in illegal immigration will be a result of a lack of political will, not a result of investment in this transportation corridor.


32 posted on 08/18/2007 10:06:02 AM PDT by businessprofessor
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You’ve got me all wrong. Every time I pay $30,000 for a car I look towards Detroit with my eyes full of tears and say, “God Bless you boys. You’re the real Americans.” And when I call a plumber I always tell them, “Whatever your price is triple it.”

And I’m not a queer.

33 posted on 08/18/2007 10:22:54 AM PDT by Jaysun (It's outlandishly inappropriate to suggest that I'm wrong.)
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To: businessprofessor

I also think it’s good.


34 posted on 08/18/2007 10:23:59 AM PDT by Jaysun (It's outlandishly inappropriate to suggest that I'm wrong.)
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To: dennisw

Bump.


35 posted on 08/18/2007 10:26:14 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne (Compromise on your vote and you get a compromised government.)
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To: dennisw

**The Mexican government still owns the land under KCS’ rails south of the border and can revoke its concession at any time.**

Should call it the San Sebastian Line.


36 posted on 08/18/2007 10:53:54 AM PDT by Swiss
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You sound like a broken record. Unionism in the private sector is way down IOW you are hallucinating. Save your anger for Government unions. They have no competition


37 posted on 08/18/2007 10:54:19 AM PDT by dennisw
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So basically, it’s a rail line to ship Chinese junk from Mexico to the north?


38 posted on 08/18/2007 10:58:20 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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Maybe they should start a copper mine, too.


39 posted on 08/18/2007 11:02:34 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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So basically, it’s a rail line to ship Chinese junk from Mexico to the north?

It will be a race to see if the port/railway gets finished before the US Dollar tanks so bad we won't be able to afford so much ChiCom crap

40 posted on 08/18/2007 11:11:07 AM PDT by dennisw
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