I have been following the port in Mexico that they are trying to build so they can get around our West Coast Longshoremen. I am sure you know about that. It is being built by the Chinese and Wal-Mart and now Mexico and the Bushies are bringing trucks into the U.S. to get around using the West Coast Ports and the U.S. Truckers. I tried to get some interest in it but seems that some think any time you mention something like that you are against immigrants. I am far from that - we all have to stick together or our middle class is going to be gone! They are moving so many of the manufacturing plants to Mexico too.
Here is a link if anyone is interested - it isn't fiction and by the way the Teamsters have endorsed Obama:
Hoffa Blasts Bush Administration's Indifference to NAFTA Harm
http://www.teamster.org/08news/nr_080310_1.aspTeamsters General President Says U.S. Drivers at Risk to Unsafe Trucks From Mexico
March 10, 2008
(Washington, D.C.) – Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa blasted the Bush administration today for its reckless indifference to the economic struggles of working Americans who are suffering under the North American Free Trade Agreement with more than a million lost jobs and billions of dollars in lost wages.
“No matter how many jobs we lose, no matter how many foreclosures, no matter how many people die on the highways, the Bush administration just doesn’t care about the safety and security of American workers,” Hoffa said.
Hoffa’s comments followed a news conference by Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, who extolled the so-called benefits of NAFTA. Peters claimed that closing the border to unsafe Mexican trucks would hurt American businesses that want to sell to Mexico.
Hoffa said he doubted that because of the crime problem in Mexico. “I mean, hello, do you really want to take a load of Cadillacs down there and park? I don’t think so.”
Peters also claimed that Mexico will retaliate against the United States if it closes the southern border.
Hoffa pointed out that the United States buys $70 billion more goods from Mexico than it sells to that country.
“I don’t buy it,” Hoffa said in a conference call with reporters. “They’ve got a $70 billion trade surplus. They’d be foolish to do it.”
He cited a long list of companies that have moved their operations to Mexico, including Teamster employers such as Swingline Stapler, Square D, Mr Coffee, and others such as Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, Whirlpool, Pillsbury, Lexmark, Eastman Kodak and Levis Wrangler.