Originally Posted by Strawman

By Frosty Wooldridge
March 5, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

President Bush announced that Mexican truck drivers will be allowed on America’s highways within sixty days.

Seems like sixty days have passed since this was written, I haven't seen the roads overrun with Mexicans.

Soon, he’ll announce that Mexican drivers will “do the jobs that American truckers won’t do.”

He will? What evidence at all do you have that this is going to happen?

How many ways can an American president screw his own citizens? On Bush’s watch, America’s poor suffer job losses in landscaping, construction, dry wall, hotel, restaurant, lawn mowing, retail, fast food, roofing, taxi and dozens of other trades.

As they did under Clinton, Bush I, Reagan, Ford, Nixon. This is not a new phenomena.

On Bush’s watch, outsourcing, insourcing and offshoring work cost American citizens 1,000,000 jobs. On Bush’s watch, America’s manufacturing sector lost 3 million jobs. On Bush’s watch, over 10 million illegal aliens crossed our borders in six years. On Bush’s watch, hundreds of thousands of killers, drug dealers, rapists and child molesters roam free in America.

Please provide a credible source for your numbers.

Now, President Bush drives his serrated knife into the heart of American truckers.

Why? Soon, Mexican truck drivers will undercut wages of all American truckers, just like Mexicans destabilize wages from construction workers, roofers, landscapers and other trades.

Again, please provide proof of this claim, without proof, its just hot air.

This is a reality check from a man who has driven the big rigs across 48 states. As a teacher in the 70s, my salary at $5,400.00 a year, barely kept me above the poverty line. Each summer for 24 years, I loaded, drove 1,500 to 2,000 miles across America, and unloaded for United Van Lines. I busted my hump. I worked 70 to 100 hours a week. Don’t tell the DOT. I earned four times as much money in three months as I made in nine months teaching math and science.

What did I discover? American truckers consist of the finest, most dedicated and outstanding professionals in the world. Their office is America’s Interstates. They’ve got to be 100 percent perfect 10 hours a day as they drive 40,000 pounds of freight down the expressway. “Breaker one nine, you got the Rubber Duck here; what’s your 20?”

CB radios make up their communication network.

As do laptop computers, satellite tv and many other enhancements.

They listen to country and western music; wear cowboy boots and baseball caps.

Nothing like stereotyping

Truckers fill your life with food, clothing, cars, gasoline, mail and everything else. America moves by trucks. I still carry my CDL.

As a teacher and a trucker, you need to know what I know.

So you have all the answers? please.

The average Mexican trucker tops out with a 6th grade education in a foreign language with Third World educational standards. For starters, 63 percent of Mexico’s 104 million people remain illiterate. What does a 6th grader think about? Mostly: me, now and perhaps recess in ten minutes. They lack critical thinking skills and cognitive reasoning of an adult.

Do you see how ridiculous that statement is? Obviously not. Nice scare tactics, very republican of you.


That means Bush allows thousands of substandard, uneducated Mexican truck drivers on America’s highways at 70 milers per hour carrying 40,000 pounds of freight. It means that every accident they cause will leave American families as collateral damage.

What? Please explain the correlation between education and the ability to control a big rig. There are plenty of U.S. truckers who can barely read and write, do you think we should ban them too?

You can expect the following:

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Bush allows substandard, uninspected 18 wheeler trucks on America’s highways driven by drivers who read and write in Spanish at a 6th grade level, but allows them to give a safety check of their trucks from a Third World perspective. That’s like giving your 6th grader the keys to the car and tell him to be careful as he drives through downtown Denver at rush hour.

Please supply a shred of evidence that this will occur.

Bush allows thousands of Mexican drivers who have never seen a snow storm or driven in our insane traffic. That’s like giving your 6th grader the keys to your car and have him learn how to drive in a snow storm in downtown Chicago.

I grew up in Chicago, there are already plenty of Mexicans who seem to do fine there.
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How about Mexican drivers delivering tons of drugs into our country in false bottomed or walled trailers?

Then supply will go up and prices will fall, cheap weed.
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How about Mexican truck drivers delivering even more illegal aliens?

More voters for the democratic party, you should applaud this.
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Mexicans possess an unusual propensity for drinking. How many of you want to drive on the same road as a hung over or drunk Mexican truck driver?

Once again, nice racism, nothing like perpetuating a stereotype.
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How about terrorists paying Mexican drivers to carry WMD into the USA?

Maybe they will pay a Canadian. I thought fear mongering was a republican trick?

As soon as Mexican drivers establish themselves, American trucking companies will start hiring them for half or even a third of American wages. The reasoning will be, “Mexican truckers drive cheaper.”

then you better learn to adapt.

Soon, Bush will say, “Mexican truckers do the jobs that Americans won’t do.”

You said this already, and its still stupid

Somewhere in the middle of this little shindig Bush created, American truckers will strike back. Their anger will seethe below the surface as they drive down the Interstate. They’ll see Mexicans at their truck stops. They hear them speaking another language. They’ll see Mexican flags in Mexican trucks. They’ll see baseball caps that read, “Your New America.”

They will?

First you’ll hear of an incident where an American trucker cut the air lines or deflated the tires on a Mexican truck. Then, you’ll hear of huge pileup with a Mexican truck. Later, you’ll hear about American truckers playing cowboy football with their leather boots with Mexican drivers used for the pigskin. Following that, you’ll hear about riots in the truck stops with American truckers busting Mexican heads.

Great, then all you knuckleheads will end up in jail, where the mexicans will have a field day with you, if you know what I mean. They'll call you Senorita.

It’s not too much for illegal aliens taking away hotel jobs from American workers, landscapers, drywallers, painters and fast food workers. It’s yet another thing to take jobs away from American truckers.

So truckers deserve special treatment not reserved for food workers? I thought discrimination was a problem. Only if it affects you I guess.

Four million truckers’ families depend on a living wage that will be taken away by Mexican drivers.

American truckers are big, smart, savvy and protect their own. They’re not going to take kindly of Mexican truck drivers horning in on their work.

Obviously not all of them are. You are the poster child for ignorance.

Bush made huge mistakes; 9/11, WMD, Iraq, open borders, total failure with Katrina, ‘the surge,’ federal debt, outsourcing our jobs, homeless, America’s schools, hospitals overwhelmed, prisons overloaded with illegals, American deaths from drunken illegals and much worse.

But giving Mexican trucker drivers jobs over our American truckers will prove a national disaster. It proves to me that Bush doesn’t understand nor does he care about American workers and he most certainly doesn’t care about American truckers.

So truckers are more important than all the other groups you've mentioned?
That’s a big ten four!

What you can do for a better future for your country:

A republican form of government is not a spectator sport. It means you must jump in, roll up you sleeves and take personal and collective action. Of course, you could let a dictator take over and do everything for you, but that path would give you Cuba, China, North Korea and other unsavory examples

Originally Posted by Bunny

So the question is.. How do we fix it? The cost of removing those here already is so high it makes it impractical to even try. So we stop the incoming flow. How? A fence is not going to hack it and we all know it. And how do we fill those jobs that the American public has deemed themselves too good to do? Like picking fruit? I lived in a farming community and know first hand that most average Americans felt is was beneath them to pick or cut fruit. And god forbid you should suggest they actually go out in a field and pull onions or garlic.


As for the Burrito lady...My first thought is end the social programs. All of them. Make people take some personal responsibility. Social programs killed the family unit anyway. That and Daycares