Posted on 03/23/2009 2:28:30 PM PDT by GOPGuide
With "Republicans" like National Review's, who needs liberals...
national review, townhall.com, populated by pinkshirt countryclub republicans like fred barnes etc.
Open-borders fellow travellers like the Wall Street Journal. Kudlow is one as well. I donated to Club for Growth until CEO Steve Moore came out for open-borders. The checks quickly stopped.
I used to like NR but they are sinking now. i do not waste my time going there anymore.
Poor Bill Buckley - he was a good man.
If I wish to buy goods from Mexico, you are a tyrant if you stand in the way of MY RIGHT to do so.
Protectionism caused the Great Depression.
Protectionism, under Smoot-Hauley, made the Depression deeper and longer than it needed to be.
Cut the corporate tax rate, we have some of the highest corporate taxes in the world!
Cut regulations, cut “green” mandates, provide some liability protection and the United States will win in the global economy.
Protectionism is for tyrants and banana republics.
Free trade and open borders are NOT the same thing.
The Mexican trucks don’t have as good safety inspection as the US.
They are not safe for our roads.
And I support trade, but letting dangerous trucks on our road is NOT trade.
Protectionisim is not Obamas goal, more beauracracy, to oversee forigen trucking is, thats more jobs he “created”.
The Mexican trucks dont have as good safety inspection as the US.
Really .... Who does the inspections for those trucks in the program to ply the interior US roads?...... The US or Mexico? I thought it was the US inspectors, if so and they are fudging then they need to be held accountable.
How can they check and track ALL the thousands of Mexican trucks that will be unleashed on US highways everyday.
This Jackass Lowry probably doesn’t even know how stringent the safety rules are for American truck drivers because he’s been sitting on his ass counting money and typing on a keyboard in New Yaawwwwk his whole life.
The Teamsters simply want to protect their economic turf. .. and those who want Mexicans to replace "expensive" American drivers just want to keep on trucklin' to Mexico.
Send more U.S. taxpayer-subsidized cheap labor, please!. Obama's running up trillions of dollars of new debt.. just what we need. More "guests" (cheap-labor families) to feed, house, educate, heal, entertain. . . .
OK, I will support the ban on Mexican trucks IF the Teamsters give up their support for Card Check.
Not every trucker is a Teamster, and I would still rather have these jobs for Americans than cheap labor.
Wow..... How do they check and track the tens of thousands of American trucks that are unleashed on US highways every day?
FWIW, the "Mexican trucks" in question have to cross the border. The safety inspections can be (and are) performed at the border.
Something that never seems to be mentioned is these discussions is: what about American trucks going into Mexico?
Do they?
Do they want to deliver into Mexico?
Is it considered safe?
Or would the cheaper Mexican drivers get all the freight in each direction?
Anyone know about US drivers going into Mexico?
How dare you state facts!!!!!!
You can’t do rigorous safety inspections at the border everyday, not enough agents trained for inspections.
Also missing is the fact that the trucking program was a pilot program that was due to end a long time ago. They can throw all the tantrums they want.
NR has many authors who oppose immigration, NAFTA, etc. Conservative populists get used to agreeing with conservatives on so many issues, we forget to recognize taht there often are conservative arguments for both sides of an issue. As much as I think that Mexican truckers are an absolute menace on the highways, and the congressmen who support them are selling out our own workers, there are certainly conservative justifications for this argument.
And I think that’s the problem with the label “conservative.” It doesn’t always capture the essence of an issue.
How can they check and track ALL the thousands of Mexican trucks that will be unleashed on US highways everyday.
Well maybe they will be thousands and then again maybe not. The initial test phase was 100 trucks. The trucks are required to meet the same standards, safety, ins. etc that US carriers meet.
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