Mexico to build port in Baja to serve U.S.

Nuke them the land is about useless anyways

 

Well said.

There is no room for port expansion either in Long Beach or LA. CARB is putting people out of business with their ridiculous demands (Although Swift and Knight have been quick to step to the plate to comply for the monopoly)

It's only logical to look south for the solution where unions are less demanding and easier to deal with.

 

And soon there will be a surplus of good used trucks that CARB determined unfit to drive by American O/O's but would pass Mexico's strict "environmental" standards.

 

Educate yourself on Mexico's version of the EPA and you'll see they have standards also. Just not as anal as CARB's or for that matter, USEPA

 

So you are saying Mexico has standards???

"Anal" is not the correct term.

We have a governor with a "Green" agenda.
We have corrupt politicians who I'm sure would love to see your fellow country men working/driving up here for less than half of what the American worker/driver gets paid.

And before you accuse me of being the "R" word...

I grew up in the construction industry and and have observed wages rise and then fall back to less than 1970's averages. I started out as a labor at $11 per hour. 30 years later it's now around $8 per hour and non union (not necessarily a bad thing) and predominantly Hispanic workers who appreciate those (low) wages (more than what they could ever make in Mexico).

We can't blame you and yours entirely for the wages driven down since it's the "bottom line" that determines a company's survival and profitability.



The bottom line is Mexico is not a strict when it comes to air quality, labor, education, safety, environmental issues ect.... And that fact makes Mexico much more attractive to large corporations that are only concerned with $$$$$ and not social and environmental responsibilities.

 

Nobody with any sense will accuse you of the "R" word. There are many fears that are founded.

Maybe a provision to NAFTA that requires Mexican truck companies to abide by US union regs for truckers they send up here would be a good solution. Then they would have to deal with Teamsters and etc.

Mexican union laws tend to favor "white unions" (unions pre-established with a sole privilege with a company that work in the company's favor. Workers have no choice.) and in many cases allow it to be done by an open vote instead of a secret ballot.

Mexico does have environmental laws that are often enforced, but action against a company that has funds to fight it takes forever, and caseloads are backed up. There is a neighborhood in Tijuana where many babies are born with only a brain stem because of massive ground contamination that ran off from a battery plant. The case has been pending for over a decade!!! (Ejido Chilpancingo)

However the Punto Colonet port is an excellent idea and will aide in US development since it seems impossible to even build a simple oil refinery or port in the US. Soon natural gas will be refined in Baja California and shipped up to the US, reducing price pressures on low income families during the winters by increasing the supply.

Folks not everything is rosy in Mexico, but not everything going on is negative either.

Lets just fight against the NAU and the provisions that infringe on the sovereignty of our respective nations and at the same time encourage trade and growth. Its possible. Its called facilitating trade while requiring obedience to laws within a national jurisdiction. That NAFTA arbitration board that is allowed to meet and make decisions in secret has to go as well. This can be done bilaterally.

So....... I guess I am somewhere in the middle between ron-Mars and MexicoTrucker on the issue but at the same time unabashedly pro-sovereignty.

 

I hope someday Mexico will come into it's own and not have to rely on "second-hand" jobs, "handouts" ect....

Currently the average American has a less than positive view of Mexico and it's people. That's because the most of us only see the poor, the farm workers and other low wage workers who flock to the US.
Unfortunately since we are in a major recession, Mexicans are the "scapegoats" and will continue to suffer the ire of Americans who have been replaced by low-wage counterparts in the name of "Economizing"; the Americans who feel as though their government has forgotten them in favor of illegal immigrants.

In California it is against the law to discriminate in areas of housing, education, and health care to anyone, including illegal aliens.
An illegal alien can actually receive up to full grants and scholarships to attend colleges and universities here. Never mind that quite a number of American citizens are unaware that they can qualify for the same, but that information is not readily available to legal citizens. Most are left with the impression that they can't afford send themselves or their children to higher levels of education, meanwhile watching more and more illegals attending college since our biased media constantly presents stories of "success" achieved by "Undocumented" workers and their children.

That same media when the subject of illegals versus American workers will unabashedly degrade Americans with pejoratives such as "lazy" and "over-paid" while praising the illegals as "hard working", "dedicated", "family oriented", and "reliable", furthering the anger in Americans especially those whose jobs were outsourced or those who were replaced by low-wage workers.



Another issue is the closures of most emergency/trauma centers throughout the state. It's a well known fact that illegal aliens utilize emergency health care as "primary" health care since they lack insurance either because they don't qualify in their employee benefits or they are not self-insured. This created a major burden on hospitals including private hospitals that were required by law to provide health care to non-paying patients such as illegals. The only difference between the public and private hospitals is that private hospitals could not recoup the cost (county hospitals are tax-payer supported) and lost money, and could no longer cover the cost of EMC. Most have shut down emergency care, resulting in hours of waiting, even for serious cases in the county system.

That's the view that most Americans see in regards to Mexico and Mexicans. Never mind that Mexico has a developing middle-class, a developing economy, and a first rate university system for those who can afford it.

Mexico must realize that they cannot continue to push the poor and under-educated onto the US and other nations adding to our burdened economies. Mexicans must also consider that the lands in the Southwest were not "stolen" from them and that the US is a sovereign nation with borders that must be respected, despite the message that liberal professors and secondary teachers are sending to our youth.

The people of the US must also consider that we cannot save every nation on the earth; that our charity is not always welcome with open arms; and that there is a huge resentment from nations that are still far behind the US in economic, social, and educational levels, some do not desire to brought into the 21st century just quite yet.

 

Actually it makes more sense to stop importing that Chinese junk here anyway. I am no fan of California but this is part of the Security Prosperity Partnership (SPP) Google it.