NAFTA superhighway to mean Mexican drivers, say Teamsters

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 28 AUG 2006 | WorldNetDaily.com

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I ran a bunkering business in Duluth/Superior and the North Shore for 16 years. The port is more of a bulk commodities port than a container port like Seattle or Long Beach. The boats are self-unloaders and have thrusters so there are not many Longshoreman and tug boat jobs like our east and west coasts. European and Asian vessels visit the port via the St. Lawrence Seaway and get onto Lake Erie (and up to Superior) via the Welland Canal. The Welland will allow 75 feet maximum width ships so this keeps the big boys off the lakes. Of course, the newer American ore carriers are 105 feet wide and 1,000 feet long. They were built on the lakes and will sail no where else.

[who knows what evil?]

He adds: "If the Bush administration succeeds (with the NAFTA superhighway), American drivers and their families will be forced to share the roads with unsafe, uninsured trucks and millions of good-paying American jobs will be lost. And just one weapon of mass destruction in an unchecked container will be too many."

Good luck to all you children out there...

[hedgetrimmer]

Just imagine the jobs that will be available for Mexicans at those ports. Improving the Mexican way of life just might deter many of them from trying to escape up here all the time

You have an incorrect view of the purpose of our government.

[Jacquerie]

Improving the Mexican way of life at the expense of the Teamsters and Longshoremen who have priced themselves right out of their jobs, is OK by me.

It sounds great to me.

[Ben Ficklin]

Governer,Officials Cheer Toll Road Offer

This probably deserves a thread.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I will post it tomorrow with other TTC stuff.

[Conservative4Ever]

Hey, Jeff Head has something along this line in his Dragon series books. Trucking line tied with Mexico and working with the terrorists. Paging Jeff Head...

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I pinged him already with my mega-PING.

[The Red Zone]

If the Teamsters can organize the illegals (and wouldn't they love to) they'll shut up in a new york millisecond. Teamsteros, there is a ring to it.

[upchuck]

Your response shows your lack of knowledge regarding immigration patterns into this country. Go get some education.

And, FWIW, can you reference another American President that has signed onto anything as anti-American and damaging to our country as the Global North American Community?

[Deek]

Your response shows your lack of knowledge regarding immigration patterns into this country. Go get some education.

That is a laughably absurd response. Educated in the fine arts of tin foil and black helicopters? If you have facts you can use to make your case, please present them. Otherwise...

And, FWIW, can you reference another American President that has signed onto anything as anti-American and damaging to our country as the Global North American Community?

Oops, no facts here either. Just more anger and vitriol.