it's not his decision
On Jan 24, 2:02 pm, Travis <baconl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/> Obama Plans
> to Admit Mexican
> Trucks<http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/obama-plans-to-admit-me...>
> *Scotty Starnes
> <http://scottystarnes.wordpress.com/author/scottystarnes/>*| January
> 24, 2011 at 2:40 PM | Tags: Barack
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> This should be a winner. More undocumented Democrats flowing across the
> border and even more drugs. A win-win if you're a liberal.
>
> Phyllis Schlafly reports, via
> EagleForum.org<http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2011/jan11/11-01-21.html>
> :
>
> It is amazing that, with unemployment unacceptably high, the Obama
> Administration has endorsed a plan that will cost U.S. jobs and make highway
> driving for Americans more dangerous and less pleasant. *Obama wants to
> admit Mexican trucks to drive on all U.S. highways and roads*.
>
> Todd Spencer, executive vice president of the Owner-Operator Independent
> Drivers Association, explained what this means: *"U.S. truckers would be
> forced to forfeit their own economic opportunities while companies and
> drivers from Mexico, free from equivalent regulatory burdens, take over
> their traffic lanes."* We wonder if Mexico has any regulatory standards at
> all.
>
> *Mexican trucks are known to be overweight and lacking in safety regulations
> we consider essential, such as anti-lock brakes. Mexico doesn't have
> national databases that track drivers' records, background checks, drug
> usage, and arrests, and it's known to be easy to get a commercial driver's
> license with a bribe.*
>
> Nevertheless, Obama's Transportation Secretary, Ray LaHood, has announced he
> wants to admit Mexican trucks, and he thinks he can appease Congress by
> presenting on January 6 what he calls a "concept document." It is two pages
> of bureaucratic pablum that does nothing to assure the safety of Americans
> on our highways and roads.
>
> The concept document calls for a "review" of the Mexican carriers' safety
> program, the driving records of Mexican drivers admitted to the program, and
> inspection of Mexican trucks for safety and emissions. But the document says
> nothing about what the standard of review and inspection will be, and
> whether trucks and drivers who don't pass inspection will be rejected.
>
> Under the concept document, Mexican trucks would be subject to border
> inspections at the "normal border inspection rate," and subject to
> inspections within the U.S. "at the same rate as U.S. companies." That
> doesn't reassure us; the "normal" border inspection rate means that only a
> few violators will get caught, which the Mexicans will consider just a cost
> of doing business, and the notion that Mexican drivers need inspection only
> at the 50 percent U.S. rate is ridiculous.
>
> *U.S. law requires truck drivers to speak and understand the English
> language*. The concept document says it will "conduct an English Language
> Proficiency" test of each Mexican driver, but *it doesn't say the Mexican
> drivers must speak English or pass the test*.
>
> We know from the House testimony of the previous Transportation Secretary,
> Mary Peters, that the Department's policy is to approve Mexican drivers as
> "English proficient" even when they *respond to an examiner's questions in
> Spanish*. Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), who was conducting the hearing, was
> so astounded at this answer that he asked Secretary Peters to repeat it.
>
> Just don't ask these Mexican truck drivers for identification. This
> administration considers that racial profiling and will turn you in at the
> U.N.
>
> Continue reading>>><http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2011/jan11/11-01-21.html>
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