I used to get mexican Marijuana in 1 Lb. “Peach cans” though unlabeled, A slick operation, none the less. 99% of our Meth comes from Mexico today. I am sure most crosses as a liquid. See where I’m going with this? Let’s put the brakes on this “Free trade” before it’s too late. The only thing ‘Free” are corporate profits !!

These Mexican truckers should NEVER have been allowed here in the first place. Get rid of them and good riddance.

Quote: “But Teamsters spokesman Bret Caldwell said, “Look, we’ve lost the trade war with Mexico.

“We sent 1 million jobs to Mexico. There’s nothing that Mexico could do to us that is worse than what they’ve already done.”

We certainly have via the maquiladoras.  From Wikipedia:

“Mexico has a 48 hour work week, with employees receiving a full day of pay on Sunday. Additionally, Mexico has a socialized medical system which every employer must pay into, social security, severance pay, paid holidays, mandatory bonuses and child care. The fully loaded wage rate for a new unskilled laborer working in a maquiladora is $2.30 an hour, taking into consideration all of the cash and non cash fringe benefits.”

Wonder what the take-home pay is….10 cents?......4cents!?  Slave labor pure and simple.  But some have definitely benefited, like multinational corporations, the Wiki article continues:

“Corporate Income Tax - Companies operating under the Maquila program can choose to pay their corporate income tax in one of three ways, 6.9% of the total value of all assets that the company possesses in Mexico, 6.5% of the operating cost and expenses for that year or arrange to have a transfer pricing agreement approved by the appropriate US and Mexican tax authorities. In all cases, the tax is deductible from US corporate income tax.”

A sweetheart deal, low taxes in Mexico but even that is “deductible from US corporate income tax”.  Additionally the article states:

“However, profits generated from maquiladoras are typically sent back to the United States, or other investor-based countries, and therefore, maquiladoras do not promote direct economic development within Mexico.”

Unreal.  In Mexico it’s the maquiladoras, in America the prison-industrial complex, same shit…different pile.

Article quote: “A $410-billion spending bill that passed the Senate on a voice vote Tuesday would end funding for the cross-border trucking program, one of the most contentious issues to arise out of the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement.

These things never cease to amaze me…. am I reading this correctly?  Taxpayers were “funding” this “program”......in ADDITION to the sweetheart deal…...am I understanding this correctly….?  And was this “program” paying the shipping costs for the very same multinationals who exploit this slave labor and have profited via extortion of taxpayers….., isn’t that a fascist business and industry model?

John, having traveled in many states as a vendor, the worse drivers of the big rigs I had the unfortunate experience of sharing the x-ways with were always Canadian truckers.

Now to this article. I hope they keep the Mexican truckers in their own country. My son-in-law just was let go as a trucker as they claim work is down. While he was on the road out west this year for his company, they had a Mexican trucker pick up the Michigan load to take to Mexico and was supposed to return back with another load to be driven back to Michigan. The Mexican trucker never returned, after the company had him wait 5 days, with no pay for his time waiting for this Mexican trucker to return, the company decided to have him return without the scheduled load as no one knew who it went and what became of the trucker.

The year before President Bush authorized extended travel for Mexican truckers-more than the the 25 mile limit- they were driving big rigs in Michigan, heading south and out of the state with the name MEX-AM-CAN all over the back and sides of it.

We need to keep our truckers working here and not import more people to take our jobs from us. American truckers know our roads, someone coming into the country who does not speak or read the language is not the best candidate for this type of employment. And with all the illegal drugs and the other problems going on in Mexico currently, is it in the best interest of “homeland security” to have all these semis coming in, we know that inspections are lax.

The Northwesten Economic Region(Canada,USA and Mexico)is coming.  The details will be as always.  If it is profitable it will prosper.  Congress and Wall Street want it that way.

I commuted between Burlington, Vermont and Swanton, Vermont for 6 years. I could always tell a Canadian truck from a U.S. truck by sound alone. Long before I could read the truck’s plates. The Canadian trucks didn’t sound safe and I doubt that they were safe.