I agree with my Senator Dorgan for a change. The only thing Mexican Truckers in the U.S. will do is increase the supply of truckers, thereby lowering the price (wage) of truckers.
If we can import Mexican truckers, why not Chinese slave labor? It’s a cheap supply of labor, and we can keep them in camps and put GPS trackers in their butts.
I have no problem with trade. I have no problem with legal immigration.
I have a problem with a purposeful dilution of a specific worker pool in the U.S. by foreign workers working here, that merely decreases the wage of the U.S. trucker.
There. I’m a capitalist and manager. Truckers, unite!
Yep. I also have a problem with the need to build new highways, bridges and ports to accommodate the longer distribution route of products, with taxpayer dollars, thereby artificially keeping the cost of foreign products low. I have a problem that the relative price of those products remains low because our politicians continue to put limitations on U.S. productivity (global warming regs, anyone?), increase the minimum wages, and a slew of other laws that our trading partners are not required to follow.
We need to reduce regulations in the U.S. and quit subsidizing foreign products. What we see now is anything but "free" trade.
There. I’m a capitalist and manager. Truckers, unite!
There. I'm a capitalist and fed up with government! LOL.