Interstates Are Going to be Much More Da ngerous

“Mexican trucking closer to being a reality:

Gov't Closer to Admitting Mexican Trucks

WASHINGTON — Some Mexican trucks will be allowed to carry cargo anywhere in the United States as soon as a federal inspector general certifies safety and inspection plans, the Bush administration announced Friday.

The latest step toward implementing a controversial provision of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement drew instant condemnation from labor and driver-owner groups that fear the program will erode highway safety and eliminate U.S. jobs.

The decision was announced by a Transportation Department notice in the Federal Register, a dry, daily compendium of new federal rules read mostly by lobbyists and lawyers.

A one-year demonstration project allowing 100 Mexican motor carriers full access to U.S. roads will begin as soon as the department's inspector general certifies that safety and inspection plans and facilities are sufficient to ensure the Mexican trucks are at least as safe as U.S. trucks. That requirement was imposed by Congress.


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If you drive to work on an Interstate, kiss your (relatively) safe commute goodbye!”

“as long as they dont let korean truck drivers on the roads, i can live with it”

“How much you wanna bet that if some Mexican rig damages your vehicle, trying to sue them and collect will be darn near impossible?”

“And, how much a we spending on Boeings little camera system for the border. What a complete joke. Impeach now!!!”

“That sure is tightening up the borders!”

“They can't be as bad as the Canadian trucks from Quebec.”

“Just what we need, more truck traffic. Our highways and bridges are falling apart as it is.”

“yeah, they won't be smuggling in illegals ... duh”

“or drugs/gangs/criminals.”

“Nothing a AK-47 won't fix”

“I heard a thing on the radio about this and these trucks have been seen doing runs from Mexico to Canada. One thing I heard is that when trucking companies get rid of their 1,000,000 mile worn out trucks they sell them in Mexico.

http://www.mexuscan.com/Frameset_index_e.htm”

“Those trucks drove two round trips to the moon and I'm gona follow them on the interstate? Well that's okay , they'll all be half full of insurgents.”

“Mexican immigrants, both legal and illegal, have lower crime rates than native born Americans. More Mexicans, less crime.

http://www.azstarnet.com/news/171109”

“and more great mexican food

viva la mexico!”

“You've never eatten menudo.”

“reaching AROUND more like”

“The soup menudo is a traditional Ecuadorian & Mexican dish; a frequently spicy soup made with tripe. It is often thought of as a cure for a hangover, and is traditionally served on special occasions or with family.

In pre-revolutionary Mexico, poverty among the campesinos was chronic, and little if anything that might be prepared as food was left to waste. Usually, the best cuts of meat would go to the hacienda owners while the offal went to the peons. These leftovers consisted of organ meats, brains, head, tails, hooves, etc. As cattle and sheep are ruminants that require lengthy intestinal tracts to digest their diet of grasses and raw seeds, the stomach is one of the largest pieces of offal available from these animals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menudo_(soup)

Yum.”

“haha i always knew that band was sht soup”

“and anyone got a stat for how many vehicles cross the border now?”

“I just hope China does not start trucking through the US.”

“LOL

http://www.lmtonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18750357&BRD=2290&PAG=461&dept_id=569392&rfi=6

Kinda like the Trooper I know who walks up to a car load of "insert phrase here" and has them get out of the car...they are standing there he un snaps his holster and says outloud "I'm gonna shoot the first son of a *&&^ I see wearing brown shoes."

LOL the first one to look down..thats the interpretor.”

“Mexican immigrants, both legal and illegal, have lower crime rates than native born Americans. More Mexicans, less crime.

http://www.azstarnet.com/news/171109 - Prosecutor

The article bases its PC conclusion on this: "The incarceration rate of U.S.- born men 18 to 39 years old in 2000 was 3.5 percent — five times higher than the incarceration rate of their immigrant counterparts, the study found"

and it goes on to say: "The study concludes that the children and grandchildren of many immigrants become subject to economic and social forces, such as higher rates of family disintegration and drug and alcohol addiction, that increase the likelihood of criminal behavior...the impact of high immigration on crime will not be known for a long time because children born to recent immigrants are still growing up. "

Leave it to a sleazy lawyer to skew the facts on this. I wonder what his angle is.

I'm willing to consider real evidence about crime rates, but I'm coming from the perspective that illegal immigrants are criminals by definition.”

“I-40 Bridge Closed

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) -- Transportation officials have closed Interstate 40 in both directions in West Memphis near the Mississippi River.

Officials say an inspector discovered that a bridge pier on the approach bridge west of the river had settled overnight. The bridge on the Arkansas side is being retrofitted to keep it stable during an earthquake.”

“I bet that's causing a cluster fuk.”

“http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=80049


27 Cases of Illegal Alien Sexual Assault Against Children in 30 days!”

“Countries are following the Cuban model and sending their problems accross the border.”

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The Hill's Congress Blog

Labor Day Message to Congress: Stop Bush’s Illegal Plan
September 3rd, 2007

In a matter of days the Bush administration is going to illegally open our highways to unsafe Mexican trucks.

And though the Department of Transportation says it will inspect every truck, the fact of the matter is it can’t. Sure, they are starting the so-called pilot program with 151 cherry-picked trucks and even the DOT can manage to conduct that few inspections. But in a year when the Bush administration calls the so-called pilot program a “success” and opens the border to all Mexican trucks, how are they going to protect our highways then?

(more)

by International Brotherhood of Teamsters


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Among other things, this appears to be an end run around the Port of Long Beach for Chinese goods and a hearty 'Screw You!' to American dockworkers and truckers.  More profits for MalWart.

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“I think "unsafe" has very little to do with it.”

“LOL.. the truly amazing thing is the CIS can find a single FRUIT in a person's luggage but can't do the rest of their freaking job.”