TEAMSTERS: A union filed a suit against Obama?

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I have been saying that Obama is such a union man that I may not be able to vote for him but some unions don’t like him and actually have just filed a suit against his administration.

The TEAMSTERS union has filed a suit in yet another attempt to block Mexican trucks from entering the United States.

If you remember, we passed NAFTA (The North American Free Trade Agreement) in 1994; that’s a long time ago and YES, WE passed it but we didn’t mean it?

It allowed Mexican trucks to deliver goods into the U.S. as American trucks were allowed to deliver goods into Mexico. Well the Teamsters did not like that so they paid off the Democrats to block this passed legislation for nearly 20 years!

The Teamsters preferred the Mexican truck drivers unload their goods at the border and Teamster truckers would then pick the goods up and deliver them in the U.S. Well that makes no business sense at all and all it does is enrich the Teamsters at the expense of the businesses doing the importing of goods from Mexico.

The Teamsters used all sorts of lies to block the legislation. First they said Mexican trucks were unsafe which a study proved absolutely false and in fact, the Mexican trucks were safer than the Teamster trucks.

Then they said that the Mexican truck drivers didn’t speak English well enough to drive safely in the U.S. That is total bull and of course Teamster drivers not only cannot speak Spanish, some of them barely speak English.

Here is why Obama had to allow the legislation to proceed as agreed to in 1994; Mexico was allowed by the NAFTA treaty to impose punitive tariffs against American goods coming into Mexico IF the deal was not enacted.

Well since 2009, $2.4 Billion in U.S. goods slated for export to Mexico have been affected and in some cases blocked ANNUALLY, yes that is every year.

A loss of $2.4 billion in exports means LOST AMERICAN JOBS all because the Teamsters are some greedy-ass twits.

If Obama wants to create more jobs in the U.S., he has to stop coddling the Teamsters who are in effect, costing Americans jobs; this is a good example of the tail waging the dog.

Hoffa of the Teamsters argues that his truck drivers will lose some business if Mexican drivers are allowed to drive into the U.S. and as we know; it is all about the Teamsters and screw everyone else.

Can you believe that a union has so much power that they can block an agreement signed by the U.S. government since 1994? Something definitely wrong with that!

Obama, on the other hand, can redeem himself somewhat, IF he enacts this treaty that he agreed to and the rest of the trade agreements with South Korea, Columbia and Panama that are also being blocked by the unions…let us see if Obama can do what is RIGHT or is he a union puppet.

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