From: Anthony Martinez anthony77123 on
On 24 Feb 2007 05:16:00 -0800, tedorn44(a)hotmail.com wrote:

>On Feb 23, 9:33 pm, "johnny@." <johnny@.> wrote:
>> [February 23, 2007, 9:30 pm]
>>
>> By LESLIE MILLER
>> Associated Press Writer
>> WASHINGTON
>>
>> The news that Mexican trucks will be allowed to haul freight deeper into
>> the United States drew an angry reaction Friday from labor leaders,
>> safety advocates and members of Congress.
>>
>> They said Mexico has substandard trucks and low-paid drivers that will
>> threaten national security, cost thousands of jobs and endanger
>> motorists on the northern side of the border.
>>
>> The Bush administration's plan to let 100 Mexican trucking companies
>> carry cargo beyond the immediate border area was announced Thursday in
>> Mexico.
>>
>> "This...
>> ...program will make trade with Mexico easier and keep our roads safe at
>> the same time," Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Friday. She
>> announced details of the plan in El Paso, Texas, at the Bridge of the
>> Americas, which connects to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
>>
>> Said Teamsters President Jim Hoffa: "They are playing a game of Russian
>> roulette on America's highways."
>>
>> Access to all U.S. highways was promised by 2000 under the 1993 North
>> American Free Trade Agreement, as was access through Mexico for U.S.
>> carriers.
>>
>> That aspect of NAFTA was stalled by lawsuits and disagreements between
>> the two countries,though Canadian and U.S. trucks travel freely across
>> the northern border.
>>
>> The Bush pilot project will let Mexican truck companies travel from
>> Mexico throughout the United States and back. No hazardous material
>> shipments will be permitted.
>>
>> According to the Transportation Department, U.S. inspectors will inspect
>> every truck and interview drivers to make sure they can read and speak
>> English. They'll examine trucks and check the licenses, insurance and
>> driving records of the Mexican drivers. Inspectors will also verify that
>> the trucking companies are insured by U.S.-licensed firms.
>>
>> The first Mexicantrucks are expected to drive into the United States
>> beyond the border area in about 60 days, the Transportation Department says.
>>
>> National Transportation Safety Board member Debbie Hersman questioned
>> how the U.S. could spare sending inspectors to Mexico when only a tiny
>> percentage of the hundreds of thousands of U.S. truck companies are
>> inspected every year.
>>
>> "They lack the inspectors to conduct safety reviews of at-risk domestic
>> carriers," Hersman said. "That situation only gets worse if resources
>> are diverted to the border."
>>
>> One-fourth of all U.S. trucks are taken off the road after
>> randominspections because they're so unsafe, she said. An even higher
>> percentage of Mexican trucks are taken off the road at Texas border
>> crossings, she said.
>>
>> Mexican carriers insist their rigs meet U.S. standards. And according to
>> the Transportation Department, 240 government employees deal with
>> Mexican truck issues.
>>
>> Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, said inspections will be
>> meaningless because the trucks won't be equipped with black boxes that
>> record how long a driver has been behind the wheel.
>>
>> "They have no way of telling how many hours these truck drivers have
>> been driving before they getto the U.S., let alone when they get here,"
>> Claybrook said.
>>
>> Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., chair of the Senate Appropriations
>> Subcommittee on Transportation, announced a March 8 hearing to determine
>> whether the arrangement meets safety requirements.
>>
>> Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., chair of the House Highways subcommittee,
>> said Congress will keep a close eye on the program.
>>
>> Mexico responded to the U.S. announcement by saying it will allow trucks
>> from 100 U.S. companies to travel across the border.
>>
>> Business groups have wanted the border opened to avoid middleman costs
>> of transferring goods fromMexican to U.S. trucks.
>>
>> The American Trucking Associations said it supports the program, but
>> wants to make sure that U.S. and Mexican truck companies are held to the
>> same standards.
>>
>> "We also are waiting to see that when US carriers are allowed to travel
>> into Mexico that the regulatory and permitting process that U.S.
>> carriers undergo is fair and transparent," the ATA said in a statement.
>>
>> http://www.wkrn.com/nashville/news/ap-mexican-truck-deal-draws-angry-...
>> ___
>>
>> On the Net:
>>
>> Transportation Department:http://www.dot.gov
>> --
>> Tom Tancredo for President in 2008
>> For a Secure Americahttp://www.teamtancredo.org/http://tancredo.house.gov/
>
>Wave that flag, shout for joy! Don't we have a wonderful government?
>
>ted
>

E mail Senator Dianne Feinstein. She's on the Senate Appropriations
Committee panel that plans to launch an inquiry into the pilot program
that will allow hunreds of Mexican trucks on to the streets and
highways of southern California. It's a program that spells doom for
California's air quality and highway infrastructure. E mail her, and
tell her that you as American citizen don't want Mexican trucks on
America's streets and highways.

http://feinstein.senate.gov/email.html
From: Anthony Martinez anthony77123 on
On 24 Feb 2007 05:16:00 -0800, tedorn44(a)hotmail.com wrote:

>On Feb 23, 9:33 pm, "johnny@." <johnny@.> wrote:
>> [February 23, 2007, 9:30 pm]
>>
>> By LESLIE MILLER
>> Associated Press Writer
>> WASHINGTON
>>
>> The news that Mexican trucks will be allowed to haul freight deeper into
>> the United States drew an angry reaction Friday from labor leaders,
>> safety advocates and members of Congress.
>>
>> They said Mexico has substandard trucks and low-paid drivers that will
>> threaten national security, cost thousands of jobs and endanger
>> motorists on the northern side of the border.
>>
>> The Bush administration's plan to let 100 Mexican trucking companies
>> carry cargo beyond the immediate border area was announced Thursday in
>> Mexico.
>>
>> "This...
>> ...program will make trade with Mexico easier and keep our roads safe at
>> the same time," Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Friday. She
>> announced details of the plan in El Paso, Texas, at the Bridge of the
>> Americas, which connects to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
>>
>> Said Teamsters President Jim Hoffa: "They are playing a game of Russian
>> roulette on America's highways."
>>
>> Access to all U.S. highways was promised by 2000 under the 1993 North
>> American Free Trade Agreement, as was access through Mexico for U.S.
>> carriers.
>>
>> That aspect of NAFTA was stalled by lawsuits and disagreements between
>> the two countries,though Canadian and U.S. trucks travel freely across
>> the northern border.
>>
>> The Bush pilot project will let Mexican truck companies travel from
>> Mexico throughout the United States and back. No hazardous material
>> shipments will be permitted.
>>
>> According to the Transportation Department, U.S. inspectors will inspect
>> every truck and interview drivers to make sure they can read and speak
>> English. They'll examine trucks and check the licenses, insurance and
>> driving records of the Mexican drivers. Inspectors will also verify that
>> the trucking companies are insured by U.S.-licensed firms.
>>
>> The first Mexicantrucks are expected to drive into the United States
>> beyond the border area in about 60 days, the Transportation Department says.
>>
>> National Transportation Safety Board member Debbie Hersman questioned
>> how the U.S. could spare sending inspectors to Mexico when only a tiny
>> percentage of the hundreds of thousands of U.S. truck companies are
>> inspected every year.
>>
>> "They lack the inspectors to conduct safety reviews of at-risk domestic
>> carriers," Hersman said. "That situation only gets worse if resources
>> are diverted to the border."
>>
>> One-fourth of all U.S. trucks are taken off the road after
>> randominspections because they're so unsafe, she said. An even higher
>> percentage of Mexican trucks are taken off the road at Texas border
>> crossings, she said.
>>
>> Mexican carriers insist their rigs meet U.S. standards. And according to
>> the Transportation Department, 240 government employees deal with
>> Mexican truck issues.
>>
>> Joan Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, said inspections will be
>> meaningless because the trucks won't be equipped with black boxes that
>> record how long a driver has been behind the wheel.
>>
>> "They have no way of telling how many hours these truck drivers have
>> been driving before they getto the U.S., let alone when they get here,"
>> Claybrook said.
>>
>> Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., chair of the Senate Appropriations
>> Subcommittee on Transportation, announced a March 8 hearing to determine
>> whether the arrangement meets safety requirements.
>>
>> Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., chair of the House Highways subcommittee,
>> said Congress will keep a close eye on the program.
>>
>> Mexico responded to the U.S. announcement by saying it will allow trucks
>> from 100 U.S. companies to travel across the border.
>>
>> Business groups have wanted the border opened to avoid middleman costs
>> of transferring goods fromMexican to U.S. trucks.
>>
>> The American Trucking Associations said it supports the program, but
>> wants to make sure that U.S. and Mexican truck companies are held to the
>> same standards.
>>
>> "We also are waiting to see that when US carriers are allowed to travel
>> into Mexico that the regulatory and permitting process that U.S.
>> carriers undergo is fair and transparent," the ATA said in a statement.
>>
>> http://www.wkrn.com/nashville/news/ap-mexican-truck-deal-draws-angry-...
>> ___



The American Trucking Associations said it supports the program. This
is the same association that advocates that all trucks be governed at
68 MPH.


>> On the Net:
>>
>> Transportation Department:http://www.dot.gov
>> --
>> Tom Tancredo for President in 2008
>> For a Secure Americahttp://www.teamtancredo.org/http://tancredo.house.gov/
>
>Wave that flag, shout for joy! Don't we have a wonderful government?
>
>ted
>

From: Day Brown on
While agree that Ron Paul & John Dean have shown innovation and ideas
worth thinking about, I've noticed the way other senators defer to
Biden in hearings. I've seen Biden is the one who asks the most
relevant questions of witnesses. He is a very sharp cookie who prolly
understands more about how congress works, and how to get it to work
than any others I've seen suggested for 2008.

If the system lasts that long. And no matter what we here, who are
paying attention think, it will be the *majority* of the sheeple who
select the leadership. Or- demagoguery as the case is most likely to
be. It remains to be seen if Hillary will make some stupid mistake to
eliminate her, or whether Obama will, and thereby remove himself from
the obvious VP slot.

i dont see anyone in the GOP who can win whether the system cranks
along like always, or seriously tanks, which everyone will blame on
Bush, just as Hoover took the hit for the many mistakes that led up to
the last great market crash in 1929.

As for Mexican trucks coming in, that mite be the last straw on the
war on drugs. The government mite just throw in the towel, admit it
lost that war, and start dealing with it as a public health issue.
Which mite actually work. There's been real progress in understanding
the nature of addiction, like the work on endorphins and serotonin,
that have already resulted in appropriate meds now being used in
Switzerland.

But its not upta us. And by the time we get to vote in 2008, the
decisions will already have been made by big media to convince the
couch potatoes who to vote for. At best, you will be able to figure
out who that will be, and make the choice on where to live so as to
benefit, or at least have the best chance of surviving, the effects of
folly. The only vote you have that cant be stolen, and will really
count, is with your feet. Or a U-Haul. Thinking about the effect of
Mexican trucking, its prolly time to move out of CA. Lots of folks
already have, surprisingly moving to NW Arkansas, which is an emerging
hi-tech, but still low rent region like RTP in NC started out as.

From: Brent P on
In article <1172381663.023217.167480(a)p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>, Day Brown wrote:

> As for Mexican trucks coming in, that mite be the last straw on the
> war on drugs. The government mite just throw in the towel, admit it
> lost that war, and start dealing with it as a public health issue.
> Which mite actually work. There's been real progress in understanding
> the nature of addiction, like the work on endorphins and serotonin,
> that have already resulted in appropriate meds now being used in
> Switzerland.

The war on drugs hasn't been about stopping drugs at all. It's been about
using drugs as an excuse to dismantle the bill of rights. It's been pushed
about as far as it could go and has been replaced with the war on terror.

From: David R on

"Brent P" <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:veWdnXtAnqW_nnzYnZ2dnUVZ_h3inZ2d(a)comcast.com...
> In article <Kc7Eh.1322$m85.980(a)newssvr29.news.prodigy.net>, David R wrote:
>
>> who has been letting them in for the last 6 years ?
>
> See here we go again, you need to try to make me into one of the two
> teams. The same people who've been letting them in for the past half
> century, the democrats and republicans.
>
>> before that they were being caught by Social security, reported and
>> deported,
>
> Bullshit. There are token round ups and that is it.
>
>> bush has stopped the INS and the SS administration, except for a few
>> incidents
>> to make people think they are serious about stopping the illegal
>> immigration
>
> That's how it's been since Ike left office.
>
back in the 70's and early 80's the INS would surround and search large
companies in Chicago and
clean them out,deport the illegals
in the 80's and 90's my company would get notification from the SS that a
number was not valid, the
employee would be required to come up with a valid SS number, most
disappeared but they couldn't
work for us anymore,

the company then went to rehiring the same people when they came back with
new names and numbers,
because they could work for 9 months to a year before SS caught on again

for the last 6 years we have had no notifications from the SS or IRS, 75% of
the 175 illegals working for
us have 6 years of seniority

the company has now started terminating senior American workers for poor
performance, a subjective
thing that is hard to disprove, senior as in 15 to 20 years seniority, this
even though almost all of
the illegals speak little if any english and have to be directed through an
interpreter and use the
excuse of misunderstanding to explain poor performance

the illegasl are younger, mainly women,easily bullied, don't have a problem
working in an unsafe environment
and violating osha safety rules,they don't buy the mostly company paid
medical plans,instead
they use medicare with a different name at no cost whatsoever,they also get
food stamps under other names,
they work longer and harder for less

this is what the illegals are here for, to benefit the corporations who
finance the politicians,

it's both a republican and democrat scam