Drivers Beware!

Sat, January 22, 2011
Many Americans will be on the highways this summer. Some will be simply commuting. Others will be working and others will be traveling. For those of you on the interstates this summer, beware! You will have an unwanted companion on the highways.

Mexican trucks.

That is right. Mexican long haul trucks have been excluded from America, but thanks to the Obama regime, that is going to change this summer. And they are doing it in such a manner that will keep congress out of it unless congress gets creative and busy very quickly.

This is lunacy on so many levels.

First, Mexican trucks and their drivers are not up to American standards. In one of the worst decisions of the Bush administration, a test program was put into place that would allow Mexican trucks to travel in a limited portion of the United States. Fortunately, in 2009, Congress killed that really bad idea.

Mexico has nothing that is equivalent to American standards for a commercial driver’s license (CDL). They do not drug test their drivers nor do they even do serious background checks. Can we say terrorist with a truckload of explosives?

Additionally there are no medical testing requirements for drivers as there are in America and the safety standards for Mexican trucks are a joke. Do you really want to be traveling down a highway, going down a steep grade with a Mexican truck behind you, hoping the uninspected Mexican truck’s brakes do not fail?

The other casualty of this idiocy, besides the Americans who will die at the hands of Mexican truckers, is American truckers. The cost for Mexican truckers is less than American truckers. If you want to ship something on a Mexican truck, the cost will be lower. People being rational economic creatures, generally chose the least expensive option. This will put American companies and American truck drivers out of business. Unemployment in the United States is officially at ten percent and the real figure is much closer to twenty percent.

Does the Obama regime really want to do more damage to the economy and put more Americans out of work?  In a word, YES!

When the United States did not approve the Mexican trucks on American roads, Mexico retaliated by placing tariffs on some American goods. Of course, our worthless government, more interested in protecting foreign interests than American interests, did nothing.

The authority for Mexican trucks to come onto American roads is a part of the North American Free Trade Agreement. NAFTA and the other free trade agreements have been nothing short of a disaster for America. We have gotten nothing out of them and seen our businesses go south (literally).

If we ever needed a good reason to repeal NAFTA and the other free trade agreements, this is it.

For the Tea Party movement, we need to stand up to his idiocy by the Obama regime. This is simply another example of his merry band of socialists trying to hurt America. From a political point of view, this presents a good opportunity. Not only is it something we can use to beat the Obama regime, but also it gives us the chance to split a group away from the liberal coalition.

The Teamsters Union is not going to be happy about this and will not take it lying down. There is an old saying, “my enemy’s enemy is my friend.” In this instance, the Obama regime has made the Teamsters Union their enemy with this decision. Perhaps it is time for us to make the Teamsters our friend.
http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topics/this-is-lunacy-at-so-many


Louis Call
Legislative /Research Committee Chairman
Coastal Carolina Taxpayers Association