Happy labor day
What did dubya do to celebrate Labor Day weekend?
Get ready for this one - he wanted to gut the American trucking industry and open the border to potentially unsafe, uninspected trucking from Mexico. American companies would have to compete with Mexican wages and their rules - no limits on number of hours driven in a row, no environmental or safety checks on the trucks, no drug testing on drivers, no healthcare for workers, no US safety training. If that's not enough, it would open the door for smuggling illegals, drugs, weapons, even terrorists
Fortunately, Congress - even the Republicans - saw this as potentially devastating to America, and voted against Bush 411-3. However, Bush just declared Congress irrelevant and chose Labor Day to announce that he will allow this anti-American action. The party line is that America will have to take them to court to uphold the law, and they'll delay the ruling as long as possible.
Big business is demanding this because they can use it to push Mexican wages down to American truckers – even though this will be very detrimental to national security, highway safety and US standard of living. Sound ridiculous? Well, it is. Unfortunately, it's also true. Try typing "mexico trucks" into news.google.com
Get ready for this one - he wanted to gut the American trucking industry and open the border to potentially unsafe, uninspected trucking from Mexico. American companies would have to compete with Mexican wages and their rules - no limits on number of hours driven in a row, no environmental or safety checks on the trucks, no drug testing on drivers, no healthcare for workers, no US safety training. If that's not enough, it would open the door for smuggling illegals, drugs, weapons, even terrorists
Fortunately, Congress - even the Republicans - saw this as potentially devastating to America, and voted against Bush 411-3. However, Bush just declared Congress irrelevant and chose Labor Day to announce that he will allow this anti-American action. The party line is that America will have to take them to court to uphold the law, and they'll delay the ruling as long as possible.
Big business is demanding this because they can use it to push Mexican wages down to American truckers – even though this will be very detrimental to national security, highway safety and US standard of living. Sound ridiculous? Well, it is. Unfortunately, it's also true. Try typing "mexico trucks" into news.google.com
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