| | What is more worrying ? The White Stripes cancel their ACL appearance or the Senate votes to keep Mexican trucks from U.S. highways.
The later I say. While I am all for highway safety, the rhetoric behind this latest fear the Mexicans move is completely off base.
- It is contrary to Department of Transportation recommendations.
- It is hypocritical since we put little to no restrictions on Canadian trucks.
- It is a move made by Senators solely to shore up their labor/union support.
- It is contrary to our treaty obligations under NAFTA.
"We don't want to share our highways with dangerous trucks from Mexico," says Teamster president Jim Hoffa. Oh no we don't Hoffa. But at the same time, why does your rhetoric sounds so polarizing? We want to share our highways with safe trucks. So shouldn't we fund the program that promises to inspect every truck crossing the border. The DOT themselves say that Mexican trucking standards are more stringent than our own...
Pick a side my Democrat friends. Are we going to require our government to own up to its treaty obligations or are we going to use Republican/Lou Dobbs-like trickery to scare the common American from the Mexican invasion as a cover to appease a special interest voting group?
I'm all about highway safety, but convince me this is not more of the same: politics of fear. I've had enough of that.
S
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| | Posted 9/11/2007 10:55 PM - 60 Views - 0 eProps - 0 comments
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