Do our representatives care? NAFTA super highway would bypass Unions

[FormerDem06]

I almost fell off my chair when I saw this, why are all of the politicians silent while this is going on?

http://www.nascocorridor.com/
http://www.kcsmartport.com/

Check it out. The cheap Chinese goods come into port in Mexico. They are put on trucks driven by unregulated Mexican truck drivers who drive 14-16 hours straight sometimes, and they take them to Kansas City on an "international, integrated and secure, multimodal transportation system" from Lazaro Cardenas through Kansas City and up to Winnipeg, Canada. This will allow Mexican trucks to haul goods along a 12-lane superhighway through the heartland of the United States.


In Kansas City they are checked in to a MEXICAN "Inland Port" complete with a Mexican customs office. So there would be sovreign Mexican territory in Kansas City, Missouri.

A key purpose of the project is to take jobs away from U.S. longshoremen in Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., who earn $140,000 a year, and replace them with Mexican laborers at under $10,000 a year. U.S. truck drivers and railroad workers will likewise be replaced by Mexicans.

The port of Lazaro Cardenas, on the west coast of southern Mexico, is controlled by Hutchison Whampoa, the same giant Hong Kong shipping firm that owns the ports at both ends of the Panama Canal. Chinese-made goods will be carried by Kansas City Southern Railway de Mexico directly to Kansas City, where freight will be distributed east and west and on to Canada.

Kansas City Southern (a former local railroad) controls a 2,600-mile artery from Lazaro Cardenas to Kansas City. KCS President Michael Haverty was one of five U.S. businessmen who met with President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at their March summit in Cancun, Mexico.

All that is left to do is to get the U.S. State Department to approve the Mexican operation on U.S. soil by signing off on what is called the C-175 document. It has already been approved by U.S. Customs.

Millions of acres of land will be confiscated through eminant domain, and how much money will be brought into US coffers as a result of this? Not much to be honest. The funding of the Texas portion of the highway (tens of billions) involved will be provided by a foreign company, Cintra Concessions de Infraestructuras de Transporte, S.A. of Spain. As a consequence, the TTC will be privately operated, leased to the Cintra consortium to be operated as a toll-road.

I guess the question is WHY AREN'T ANY OF OUR POLITICIANS DOING ANYTHING TO STOP THIS? I haven't seen one person speak out on this subject. Do they think that the loss of Union and Non-Union US jobs in the 200,000-300,000 range as a result of this effort isn't a bad thing?

Are they all just too fat and happy on lobbyist money to even stand up and take a stand on this?

[msongs]

1. China is america's greatest threat thanks to George W Bush and the

american people...

bush because of his huge deficit that is financed by china buying our debts for the interest payments

and the american people for buying all this cheap trash coming from China's slave wages factories.

next time you buy something made in CHINA, especially if it's something you can really do without,
you will know why such a highway project is possible.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[madrchsod]

2. no they don`t...

they don`t give a shit if we live or die

[cornermouse]

3. No they don't care and the people driving this policy are too

blind, too greedy, or too stupid to realize that their sales will be going down as a result. That is, people without jobs are people without the ability to spend money and people without the ability to spend money can't buy the products the companies are importing.

In effect, the companies are sitting out on a tree limb and sawing it off on the wrong side. Congress could not care less about them or us.

[donsu]

4. our politicians don't care because they are in on the take

Mexico's govt. doesn't care about Mexicans because they are in on the take

Canada's govt. doesn't care about Canadians because they are in on the take

whether the super highway is ever finished or not doesn't matter because the builders and land owners are in on the take

just like Boston's big dig. it doesn't matter if the tunnel kills people or not because the builder's and city/state people were in on the take and in on the take to fix it now

being in on the take has caused global warming which is killing off all life on the planet