With "Republicans" like National Review's, who needs liberals...
national review, townhall.com, populated by pinkshirt countryclub republicans like fred barnes etc.
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.
Protectionisim is not Obamas goal, more beauracracy, to oversee forigen trucking is, thats more jobs he “created”.
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.
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?
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.
If this were just a free trade vs. unions issue, the author would be on firmer ground, but realities about the border and NAFTA make this a good move.
1. Mexican trucks are usually sub-standard vehicles in terms of maintenance and driver skills (and probably insurance as well).
2. While the agreement is supposed to allow American goods to be trucked into Mexico by American truckers, no trucking company or independent operator in their right mind would risk taking a load of anything into Mexico. The risks of hi-jacking and / or kid-knapping are too high.
3. Mexico has not made good on opening their markets to many American goods under NAFTA and has treated the whole thing as a one-way street.
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Treaty.
FREE TRADE WILL KILL YOU
http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/lou/video/x2a7gh_lou-dobbs-china-manufacture-in-mexi_news
right up from mexi
Who can imagine the carnage if we let these Mexican trucks on our road? Oh, that’s right, they’ve been operating since August or September. Never mind.
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All I know is that over the last year and a half, I’ve seen scores more “retreads” all over our roads and highways than in previoous years...
The damage to property and lives lost because of that I’m sure the insurance companies have had to pay out a lot of money to fix what has been left on the roads and highways...
Mexican trucking survives on low maintenance and low standards of safety etc etc to keep in business...
This all would/could be an educated assumption on my part, but the timing is incredible...
I have a long-distance (independent) trucker that lives across the street from us, and we had a conversation last year about this very thing...
Hmmm, who should we support:
1. Specially inspected mexican trucks who ship products from Mexico without unloading, thereby avoiding wasteful (and slow) unloading of equipment — and who have a better safety record than USA trucks
-or-
2. The teamsters who vote Democrat, donate Democrat, and who desire to steal a little of the cargo off the top for their mob friends -— a theft made easy by the unload/re-load process.
I think I’ll go with No. 1, Alex.
Screw the teamsters.
Cool, another industry wants to put downward pressure on the wages of its workers. Free trade has really made our economy awesome.