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I can’t believe Michelle Malkin isn’t having a tizzy over this. It’s one of her pet issues. But she’s got lots of other garbage on her plate, so ...

US Highways Now Open To Mexican Trucks

Yeah, this is going to jumpstart the economy alright. I guess the Teamster’s isn’t the right union; they have no pull with the White House apparently. Not elitist enough. My expectation is that droves and droves of American drivers will soon be out of work. And air pollution, traffic accidents, drunk driving accidents, and drug smuggling are all about to have a field day. Great move, DC, great move.

It’s official - the U.S. has opened its highways to trucks from Mexico, and vice-versa, signing an agreement Wednesday ending nearly two decades of bickering.

The three-year memorandum was signed by Transportation Secretaries Ray LaHood and Dionisio Perez-Jacome of Mexico, implementing a key provision of the 1994 North America Free Trade Agreement.

The agreement was announced in March by Presidents Barack Obama and Felipe Calderón.

NAFTA, signed in 1994, had called for Mexican trucks to have unrestricted access to highways in border states by 1995 and full access to all U.S. highways by January 2000. Canadian trucks have no limits on where they can go.

Well, duh, Canada has a vehicle inspection system and safety standards at least as good as ours. Mexico? Do they have anything? Anything? Bueller? Bueller?

The public debate surrounding the accord had mostly focused on the safety of Mexican trucks. But labor unions and other groups were strongly opposed to the agreement, which they say will cost Americans trucking and other jobs.

The U.S. Department of Transportation says the safety concerns have now been resolved. Electronic monitoring systems will track how many hours the trucks are in service. Drivers will also have to pass safety reviews, drug tests and assessments of their English-language and U.S. traffic sign-reading skills. Mexico has the authority to demand the same of U.S. truck drivers entering their territory.

But those won’t do much to resolve the U.S. debate over the migration of jobs, which dates back to the NAFTA debates of the early 1990s. The question: Will a freer flow of cross-border cargo traffic boost business and allow owners to hire more workers, or will it ship U.S. jobs to Mexican drivers who work for lower pay?

Is this the stupidist question of the day, or what? All NAFTA, CAFTA and whatever other FTA has ever done is suck jobs out of our country.

LaHood argued the first position Wednesday in an email to The Associated Press.

“By opening the door to long-haul trucking between the United States and Mexico, America’s third largest trading partner, we will create jobs and opportunity for our people and support economic development in both nations,” he said.

The Teamsters Union was incensed. General President Jim Hoffa said the agreement was “probably illegal” because it goes further than a previously agreed-on pilot program and described it as “opening the border to dangerous trucks at a time of high unemployment and rampant drug violence.”

Other U.S. groups from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association to the National Christmas Tree Association celebrated the end of the punitive tariffs and hoped for higher sales. The tariffs tax $2.4 billion worth of U.S. exports according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, including tariffs up to 45 percent on certain fruits according to a trade group.

Those tariffs will be cut in half within 10 days and then eliminated completely when full cross-border traffic begins.

I wonder how many thousand American lives all those Christmas trees are worth? But good golly, the Teamster’s President thinking that some act done by the Obama regime is illegal??? A union, speaking out against Teh Won?  Pinch me, I must be dreaming.

Watch the jobs evaporate here. And watch how sales of US made stuff don’t increase much at all south of the border, tariff or not. Once again, we’re about to get screwed by another Free Trade agreement none of us ever wanted, that works almost exclusively to the benefit of some other country. And I don’t buy in to the “the safety issues are resolved” one iota. “The bribe came through” is more like it. Somebody ought to start a counter to track the wrecks and breakdowns that are on their way. And we might as well stop wasting money trying to stop the flow of narcotics. Free trucking from the land of Montezuma’s Revenge north? Narcotraffic picnic. If they were corporations they’d be declaring a dividend.

Stupid stupid stupid.


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