Truckers outraged at impending opening of Mexican border

I despise President Bush for this. Well, one good thing is MAYBE truckers will stop being apathetic now as well will the family's of the slain. There will be many deaths from this...and, not just from freeway accidents.

PS, not a freaking peep on the goofy news channels!

 

Unfortunately, I am the same as you Brickman. Except, I did not vote for the lesser of two evils.

I recall seeing something about Bush going ahead with this even though Congress wanted to wait and review. It was something about keeping an even keel with Mexico's leader.

I may be wrong, but this is what I recall.

 

I dont see it that way---you going to vote for Al Gore?!! My ONLY disappointment with the Bush Admin is the border issues---not securing and NAFTA trucking! But I am not a 1-issue voter! Look at the whole picture---the fleeing rats are just that!!

 

This makes a newbe like myself just coming into the industry concerned for my future as well.

 

The Teamsters and OOIDA have been fighting the Mexican trucks, but all their valliant efforts have proven to be in vain because they've been fighting a symptom, rather than the cause of the problem: NAFTA itself. Other than merely delaying them, the only way to stop the Mexican trucks is to repeal NAFTA altogether (which the U.S. should never have signed-into in the first place and has been nothing but detrimental).

H. Con. Res. 22, which was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives in January 2007 by Congressman Virgil Goode of Virginia, is a bill to repeal NAFTA. Nothing has been happening with this legislation because very few people, probably even many congressmen, know that it even exists. The reason this bill is such a well-kept secret is that the "mainstream" media have had a total "black-out" on it; the Teamsters and OOIDA, being single-issue groups, have been failing to mention it, too.

There's much more at stake here beside the impending decimation of American trucking: Mexican trucks are sure to greatly enhance smuggling of illegal aliens, drugs, guns, and even biological agents or nuclear materials. Anyone who really wants to stop the Mexican trucks needs to pressure his congressmen to support H. Con. Res. 22; otherwise they'll just be wasting their time on "band-aid fixes" that only postpone the inevitable.

 

Nothing like a little fear mongering to make a point.

 

This is the second post I've read of yours that uses "fear mongering" as a your rationale...

Do you think for a moment that this is outside the realm of possibility? Good lord man, it's hard enough to examine that goods waiting at the Ports, let alone examine or track anything that will come across the border with this new program. AND now, we can have it delivered "right to the doorstep" of any American city.

In a time of diminishing freedoms in this country, can you say "illegal wire tapping?" , enhanced airport security checks, Homeland Security directives, increased hostility from "terrorist" groups and an overwhelming desire from the American Public to stem illegal immigration, do you honestly think that implementing this plan RIGHT NOW is a good idea?

Do you really beleive, that someone or some group, hostile to the US will not attempt to have harmful agents, biological or otherwise, smuggled into this country through Mexico?

I'm not "fear mongering" here, and I AM a rational, intelligent person, but geez, the writing is on the wall dude. At a time when I walk into a truck stop and see the "threat level" posted above the door, I don't think it's wise to sell the program on the merit of saving the American Consumer "millions of dollars" when we have other security issues still unresolved.

 

Then I suggest we tighten border security. There's a novel idea.