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Campaign Fluff-Even A Modicum Of Truth?
[Fluffy is turning out to be as slimy as 99% of the congress!! This sum'bitch wouldn't know the truth "if it hit him over the head!!" If you need further verification, just look through this article; there's several examples. From restarting a Mexican cross-border trucking program to sending an envoy to Canada to reassure them that Fluffy's campaign talk about NAFTA was just "so much BULLSHIT!!" Can you see a trend here; the bordering governments have more influence with Fluffy than American citizens do!! I can attest to this Mexican cross-border crap-I saw it first hand in the 20 mile commercial area. Let me tellya how it worked. American truckers haul crap down to a border city. I primarily went to Laredo, Tx. We put our loaded trailers in a drop lot; Mexican national drivers brought loaded trailers into Texas and parked them in the same or other drop lots {MOST US trucking companies refused to go into Mexico because of the murders, kidnappings, cargo thefts and other highway crimes}. The American drivers were then dispatched on trips bringing products from the drop lots to various destinations in the Continental US. I can do my best to describe them, but you'd have to see the Mexican trucks to believe them!! I've seen trucks with mirrors torn off and the drivers using hand-held mirrors as replacements; trucks with various body parts [INCLUDING DOORS] missing; wire coat hangars holding headlights in place; truck tires as "bald as a baby's rear;" trucks leaking almost as much fuel as they're burning; I could go on and on. And, that's just the equipment!! Mexican national drivers have NO REGARD for the "rules of the road," hell-for that matter-even human life. To them, S-T-O-P means State-Tax-On-Prostitutes; to them, a safe rolling speed thru a STOP sign is 25-30mph-an'ya better not be in their way!! The Mexican government has ABSOLUTELY NO WAY to verify equipment inspections, operator's licensing, driver's operating violations, hours-of-service and other trucking specific regulations, NOR DO THEY TRY. In the transportation industry, the Department of Transportation has established what's known as "cabotage rules;" it works this way: A trucking company from Canada or Mexico [if Fluffy gets his way] CAN deliver loads originating in their home countries to any destination in the US; They CAN then be dispatched on any load originating anywhere in the US-going ONLY back to their home country; they CAN NOT be dispatched on a load from one American city directly to another American city. You can "bet the stains in your drawers" that those rules would realistically cease to exist!! The Canadian drivers are paid on a par with American drivers of the same levels of experience. Mexican drivers can and do, work for what we'd consider "slave wages." When I stopped as a company driver in early 2006, I was paid 44 cents per mile. I've known Mexican drivers who earn 20 pesos {10 cents} per mile!! Hell, students right out of an American "truck driving mill" earn 30+ cents {60-70 pesos} per mile!! If Fluffy gets his way and our Mexican friends are turned loose on American highways driving 80,000 pound vehicles, traffic accidents WILL INCREASE exponentially!! They have no compunction about walking away from a wreck and making their way back across the border; it's been done many times before. Traffic fatalities mean nothing to them. Mexico is a completely lawless country; their natives have no regard for the law in any form {much like our own MEMBERS OF CONGRESS}!! The drug cartels and the Mexican mafia control all the border states {counties} in Mexico-ya want those sociopaths and those they control on America's highways?? It's time to resist The Fluffer's socialist agenda-just how, I haven't a clue!! Complaining to your representatives and senators has no affect-they're ONLY for their own self-interests and ta' Hell with YOU!!!!]
One day after signing the $410 billion omnibus funding bill into law, along with provisions ending the Department of Transportation's Mexican truck demonstration project, the Fluffy Administration has announced intentions to restart the program as soon as possible.
Debbie Mesloh, a spokeswoman for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, told the Associated Press The Fluffer has asked the office to work with Congress, the DOT, the State Department and Mexican officials to come up with legislation to create "a new trucking project that will meet the legitimate concerns" of Congress and the U.S. under the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.
The Fluffy administration's determination to see Mexican long-haul rigs roll throughout the U.S. is a setback for labor unions, including the Teamsters, who supported The Fluffer in the 2008 presidential election, in part on his promise to renegotiate NAFTA to preserve U.S. jobs.
The sharp policy reversal will also be a blow to many Democrats in Congress, including Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., who fought hard for the past two years to stop the project out of concerns that Mexican trucks do not conform with U.S. safety regulations.
After Tuesday's vote in the Senate to pass the funding bill with language ending the truck project, the Mexican government put immediate pressure on the Fluffy administration to reinstate approval for Mexican trucks to operate throughout the U.S.
"Mexico still believes that the United States' noncompliance on this issue, more than 14 years overdue, is a violation of the North American Free Trade Agreement," Mexican Embassy spokesman Ricardo Alday told the AP.
Alday insisted Mexico is willing to work with Congress and the U.S. "in finding a solution that honors its international obligation."
The Mexican truck issue became rancorous over the past two years as Bush administration Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters fought off repeated efforts by Congress to confine Mexican trucks to a narrow 20-mile-wide commercial area north of the southern border.
An examination of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration database revealed hundreds of safety violations by Mexican long-haul rigs on U.S. roads.
The contention of opponents has been that Mexican trucks and truck drivers do not reliably meet U.S. standards.
As WND reported, in a contentious Senate hearing last March, Dorgan got Peters to admit that Mexican drivers were being designated at the border as "proficient in English" even though they could explain U.S. traffic signs only in Spanish.
In the tense hearing, Dorgan accused Peters of being "arrogant" and in reckless disregard of a congressional vote to stop the truck project by taking funds away.
As WND reported, opposition in the House was led by DeFazio, who in September 2007 accused the Bush administration of having a "stealth plan" to allow Mexican long-haul rigs on U.S. roads.
"This administration [of President George W. Bush] is hell-bent on opening our borders," DeFazio then said, "but has failed to require that Mexican drivers and trucks meet the same safety and security standards as U.S. drivers and trucks."
Previously, Peters had argued the wording of the Dorgan amendment did not prohibit the Transportation Department from stopping a Mexican truck project already under way, even if the measure prohibited DOT from starting any new project.
Despite strong congressional opposition, the Department of Transportation under President Bush had announced it planned in its final months to extend the truck project for another two years – an attempt to force the incoming Fluffy administration to comply.
The Fluffer backtracking on NAFTA promises?
The administration's determination to open the U.S. to Mexican trucks raises questions about whether Obama intends to fulfill campaign promises to renegotiate NAFTA to get provisions more favorable to American workers and jobs.
During the presidential campaign, top Fluffy economic adviser Austan Goolsbee, an economics professor at the University of Chicago business school, stirred controversy after reporters learned he traveled to Canada to reassure Canadians that Fluffy's harsh words about NAFTA were just campaign rhetoric.
In the Ohio and Pennsylvania Democratic Party primaries, Obama pledged to renegotiate NAFTA as part of his appeal to workers in the states that have lost manufacturing jobs under the free trade agreements negotiated by Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush.
Now, Goolsbee has joined the Fluffy administration, having taken a leave of absence from the University of Chicago after The Fluffer appointed him chief economist and staff director of the newly created Presidential Economic Recovery Advisory Board, chaired by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volker.
The Fluffer also appointed Goolsbee to the Council of Economic Advisors, or CEA, which is charged with assisting in the development of White House economic policy.
In his first trip to a foreign nation, The Fluffer traveled to Canada, where he used a press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to backtrack on his promise to renegotiate NAFTA.
The London Guardian reported The Fluffer's comments in Canada "muddied his position" on NAFTA.
The Fluffer responded to a question at the joint press conference with Harper saying, "Now is a time where we have to be very careful about any signs of protectionism."
Translated, this meant that any renegotiation of NAFTA by the Fluffy administration might involve fine-tuning some of the side agreements, not renegotiating NAFTA itself in any fundamental way.
Then there was the issue of the "Buy American" provision inserted into the administration's $787 billion economic stimulus plan.
Canada was concerned that the provision could hurt Canadian steel exports to the U.S., and the EU complained the provision was antithetical to the spirit of the Transatlantic Economic Council, which President Bush signed with the EU last April.
The Fluffy administration did not object when language was added to the economic stimulus bill to specify that the "Buy American" provision would be interpreted as buying American products if it was consistent with U.S. international trade obligations. That meant any free trade agreement would override the obligation.
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