Union busting: Mexican semis in the US

[Stargazer99]

Before this excuse for a leader of the US becomes retired his ilk plan on destroying the strongest unions in the US...the dock workers and the teamsters with allowing Mexican freight haulers in the US. Along with not knowing about the safety of the rigs and the educations Mexican drivers have or have not been given or the lack of procedures our US semi drivers are by law required to post.
I find no one I encounter knows about this union busting activity of my own government! Which corporation do you want to pledge alleigance to? And what makes you think that is impossible? Those of you who are fortunate enough to have a government union...make note your next. Get out there and support your fellow unions. And those of you who don't belong to a union...your job is next...you will be training someone who will work cheaper than you. Don't believe it...open up your kool-aid sogged mind and start checking what has been going on in this nation. And I add any Republican has supported this administration ought to be pointed out and let it be know what they have allowed to happen in this country and it is time to clean up the mess they created and stop reaching for more and more wealth.

[papau]

1. True - 500,000 programers are out of programing as India's H1'a are used as replacements

by corporations hiding their hiring via contracts to "consultant firms" that do the actual hiring. The minimal ability and screwed up results are overlooked because someone in management is getting kudo's for saving money.

Then Bill Gates throws out the crap that we need to graduate more programmers.

If Mexico actually allowed free unions it would not matter that much - but the unions down there must use violence to get around the government's tools to shut them down.

[illinoisprogressive]

2. the consequence of free trade. We need a 'no free trader' in the white house.

[Romulox]

6. That ain't Obama...

His website doesn't even mention trade or the economy in the "issues" section!:think:

Everything I've heard him say suggests he's a "free trader", however.

[China_cat]

3. This was tried once before. Under Reagan.

Not only were the unions (stronger then) opposed to it but the citizens of this country were horrified and stopped it. The Mexican trucks were found not to be safe then and the idea that they might be now is laughable. Even those who don't think unions are necessary have to agree that it's a danger to all of us to allow these unsafe rigs on our roads.

[madrchsod]

4. they have to stop for food , fuel, and repairs........

is there going to be trouble? i guess we will have to wait and see what happens out there on the road

[Romulox]

5. Every top Dem supports NAFTA, MFN for China...

Americans are schizophrenic on this issue. They want to buy their Mini Coopers and Hyundais, but they cry when their own job is threatened. They flock to Walmart to buy Chinese made garbage, putting millions of Americans out of work, but we're supposed to be up in arms when the jobs of L.A.'s longshoremen who will have less work unloading Chinese made goods are threatened.

Schizophrenic.

[redqueen]

7. This is why I CAN'T get excited about our oh-so-exciting top tier candidates. n/t

[txaslftist]

9. Hrmmmm.

You should google Ron Paul.

[redqueen]

10. I believe a woman has a right to choose.

Thanks anyway.

Doesn't he have some more odious platform ideas as well? I can't remember...

[txaslftist]

11. I do to.

Although he is not pro-choice, he wants the feds out of the question altogether, which would leave it to the states. It doesn't matter, though. Six years of Bush has shown us that even a hind-tit sucking bible thumping neocon idiot can't flip Roe v. Wade.

[redqueen]

12. Not can't... won't.

It's one of their biggest moneymaker issues. They'll never 'fix' it, or else they'd cease automatically getting all the fascist idiot money.


And as I said above... that's not the only problem with that guy.

[VP505]

13. Been paying into

Social Security, have elderly parents or other relatives drawing SS, kiss it good by if RP get elected.

[txaslftist]

14. Not so.

He's said he won't dismantle SS, but wants to give new workers the right to opt out and invest elsewhere.

Besides, ballooning deficits and inflation are doing a pretty good job of annihilating SS anyway.

[VP505]

15. He must

have changed his position to something a little softer, as I heard him say in the past he wanted to DO AWAY with SS. Regardless, he is so far to the right on so many issues, I wouldn't even consider voting for him.

[txaslftist]

16. Well, he's right on the war.

And on the budget and fiscal responsibility and the constitution.

I recognize that he's not right on healthcare or abortion. On guns, I'm a Texan, so you have to understand I'm a 2nd Amendment guy genetically, so for me he's right on that issue, too.

But out of all the candidates, he's the ONLY one who has been right on the war from the beginning. He's also a non-interventionist, which is a position I used to equate with isolationism, but which really isn't the same thing. Isolationism is sealing the US off from the rest of the world and that's a recipe for disaster; non-interventionism is entering the world with the kind of neutral non-involvement of a Switzerland, and frankly, I think that we need some time like that before we can get right with ourselves again.

[txaslftist]

17. Here's a link to Ron Paul's position in 2004 on social security.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul215.html

It doesn't appear that he's against social security so much as he's against the way congress has refused to protect the money.

[txaslftist]

8. I hope the teamsters post the names of the Mx trucking companies.

So I know whose valve stems to cut.

[Stargazer99]

18. They should also post the name of the companies using

the Mexican semis and boycott