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You probably don’t even remember my ramblings about NAFTA
(North American Free Trade Act) that was signed / agreed to in 1994 but blocked
by the Teamster Union, yes since 1994, because they didn’t like Mexican
truckers delivering goods into the US
What has been happening up to now is that Mexican trucks
would deliver goods to the border where Teamsters would pick up the goods and
deliver them to the end user; this was a very inefficient and expensive way to
import goods from Mexico
Good from Canada
can be delivered into the United States
by Canadian trucks; yes, any place in the US
The Teamsters used every trick in the book to block passage
of an act already agreed to by Congress saying Mexican trucks were unsafe and
Mexican drivers could not speak English and any bullshit excuse they could
think of.
Our government found out that Mexican trucks were safer than
U.S.
When Mexico
enacted “punitive” tariffs against American goods being sold into Mexico and basically killing exports to Mexico
The Mexican trucks will have to pass safety reviews, the
drivers will have to take drug tests and pass an English test, all this to
placate the Teamster twits. BUT American drivers wanting to deliver goods into
Mexico have to pass the same tests…good luck with that…speak passable Spanish,
pass drug tests, have a safe rig…I don’t think so.
Anyway, the first Mexican truck to deliver goods into the U.S. will roll through Nuevo Laredo
The Mexican government did say that if the Teamsters manage
to block this NAFTA deal again…the tariffs come back and American jobs go out
the window again.
Obama should make a big deal out of this issue since it is
11 years late (Mexican trucks were scheduled to roll in 2000) and new jobs will
be created and this is a GOOD thing but maybe Obama may not want to piss off
the Teamsters any more than he has already.
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