Posted on 01/22/2011 3:50:04 AM PST by greenhornet68
Department of Transportation officials and the U.S. trade representative's office are in Mexico this week negotiating final details of a renewed Mexican truck demonstration project with the goal of allowing foreign long-haul loads to roam U.S. roads by summer.
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They screamed, shouted, overtalked each other for 10 minutes. If anyone soberly analyzed what they said it boiled down to this.....
Geraldo was playing the race card derived from his own Hispanic ethnicity , using emotional arguments to press for legal employment of illegals, amnesty and no repatriation.
O'Weasely pulled his usual yelling so no one could catch the fact that he was arguing BOTH sides of the issue as he went along, which he does on a lot of issues, especially when he's protecting, defending and excusing Obama while gently criticizing him at the same time.
He capped it off with the old canard that Americans don't want to do most of the jobs the Mexicans do. Really, O'Reilly?
Bill doesn't understand that when folks don't have a job and they're hungry or have a family to feed, they'll WORK at just about anything.
Bill craftily wants just about everything Geraldo wants (amnesty, for instance), only with tighter border patrol....with barbed wire on top of the fences the illegals easily scale every day.
That's correct by the way....I heard and saw him say it while he was commenting on a clip showing two women having no trouble climbing the high border fence constructed at the cost of millions of dollars.
BOR is mucho loco.....never seeing the broader picture and long range consequences, only "barbed wire". He's NOT on the "side of the folks" all the time as he's fond of bragging about every night.
Are the truckers union leaders so enamored of Obama that they'll accept less work for American drivers in favor of foreign drivers getting the work on that highway?
Sounds like the highway to hell to me.
Leni
So, if very many Mexican trucks start operating in the US, that will be lost work for US truckers since few if any of them will elect to haul in and out of Mexico.
About what I thought it would be, more one-sided BS that will cost US jobs.
Watch your vehicle insurance premiums very closely in the next year.
Your UNINSURED motorist portion will skyrocket.
When the “benefits”NAFTA was first reported, people from Arizona were telling of Mexican trucks along I-10 driving, not passing in the high-speed lanes.
I can remember in the CB-craze days, I used to hear truckers talk of poor Ole Bill going into “Mexican Overdrive” on some mountain road. Years later I learned that MO meant “No Brakes”.
As others have pointed out, those Mexican drivers may know the international signs, but how about “One Lane Ahead” or what flares on the road mean. Then there’s driving in rainy/snowy weather. Insurance companies and mortuaries are gonna be busy.
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