Except for Edwards, Dodd, and Kucinich, why aren't Democrats blasting Bush's Mexican trucks scam????

[brentspeak]

I'm sure there's some other Democrats pi$$ed off by Bush's scheme to allow Mexican trucks to barrel throughout the nation, but their comments are buried by the news under mounds of Larry Craig and Brittany Spears gossip. But why aren't the Democrats, as a whole, denouncing this NAFTA give-away to Big Business, and vowing to try to do something about it in Congress?

Is it that Bush holds all the cards on this issue, and there's nothing really anyone in Congress can do about it? Or is it that the DLC-wing of the Democratic party is stymieing the Democrats as a whole?

NAFTA is a total disaster, and the Mexican trucks scheme is a giant arrow right through the heart of American truckers, west-coast longshoremen, American highway safety, border security, and the American consumer (more cheap Chinese crap, coming your way straight from Mexico.)

:mad: :mad: :mad:

[Maggie_May]

1. Just saw this and I know I am pissed

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20070901-9999-1b1mextruck.html

There is one thing I know about truck drivers you don't piss them off.

[NotGivingUp]

7. It's the new North American Union...United States, Mexico, Canada.

"President Bush is pursuing a globalist agenda to create a North American Union, effectively erasing our borders with both Mexico and Canada. This was the hidden agenda behind the Bush administration's true open borders policy.

Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to encompass the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. What the Bush administration truly wants is the free, unimpeded movement of people across open borders with Mexico and Canada.

President Bush intends to abrogate U.S. sovereignty to the North American Union, a new economic and political entity which the President is quietly forming, much as the European Union has formed."


http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=14965


It's been the plan of the powers that be...and it has been happening...and will continue unless we can find some way to put an end to it.

The powers that be are in control of our ENTIRE government.

[smoogatz]

20. This is actually a whacko right-wing conspiracy theory

with no apparent basis in fact. Bush is following the provisions of NAFTA which allow cross-border trucking to and from Mexico. NAFTA was signed into law by Bill Clinton. I don't personally think much of NAFTA because it raises a lot of health/safety/jobs issues, but this whole North American Union thing is pretty crazy. But I have to give you credit for one thing: unironically quoting (and linking) an article from "Human Events" ("Leading the Conservative Movement Since 1944") on DU is pretty fucking hilarious. Thanks for the chuckle.

[NotGivingUp]

2. Because they work FOR the corporations and AGAINST the people.

That is who they are. People just have to be willing to see it.

[pocoloco]

3. Which raises a larger question,

why is bush still president?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. Even DU isn't blasting it. I posted an article about this earlier this week and 2 responses.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1697470&mesg_id=1697470

[brentspeak]

6. Meanwhile, we've got 200 threads going about public bathroom sex and other B.S. topics

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

12. I agree. I also have to add to your OP...it isn't only the teamsters to be affected but the dock

workers union on the west coast. Do you recall how Shrub tried to bust their union in the beginning of his tenure? Well here it is. Cargo will be unloaded in Mexico and sent into the US avoiding our ports. This is outrageous.

[WinkyDink]

11. I know I posted a response to SOME thread on this topic!

[OzarkDem]

5. Fear ofcorporate campaign donors

In the previous couple of elections, Dems have seen major increases in the percentage of donations coming from individuals at the grassroots level.

This makes corporations nervous and they're likely increasing their donations to Dems to offset the growing influence of grassroots in both funding campaigns and influencing Dem policy.

Bottom line, our Dem elected officials are greedy and afraid to put their faith in Dem voters. They must think they can have it both ways by doing corporate bidding while giving us some lame ass excuses for their failures in politics and public policy.

[spindoctor]

8. Why are you still surprised?

Same old song and dance.

[leftofthedial]

9. because nearly all members of both parties

are equally in thrall to the same corporations

[Booster]

14. Ding, Ding, Ding. The winner.

[WinkyDink]

10. THE issue to lather, rinse, REPEAT, REPEAT, REPEAT = HOMELAND SECURITY!!!!

How dumb does our Party have to be not to SEE this?!

[madrchsod]

13. it`s all about money

who has it and how they can get it.

[RaleighNCDUer]

15. You answered it yourself.

"...the DLC-wing of the Democratic party is stymieing the Democrats as a whole..."

[Colorado Progressive]

16. There was an earlier post this week. A new one will help.

Bush is a hypocrite, period. There are no big bad terrorists out there apparently, else he wouldn't be throwing the fucking border open.

Our truckers go through rigorous training and licensing procedures. Mexican truckers do not.

Plus, I am just so sick of giving American jobs away. I would rather pay 25 cents extra for my lettuce, grown by an American farmer and shipped by an American trucker.

I can remember when the Democratic party was the workers party. My grandmother-in law spent much of her life volunteering for the Democratic party because of this. I dont know when it became the "Lets fuck ourselves" party. Or is the Repuke party the "Lets fuck ourselves" party? See now I'm getting confused...

I dont trust Hillary to turn this around,

but Edwards has been screaming pretty loud about workers rights.

[Faux pas]

17. I can imagine all those trucks filled to the top with terrorists.

Fight them over there so no one is watching when they come trucking through here. Sheer madness.

[ben_meyers]

18. And why do we let them bleeping Canadians in too? n/t

[bvar22]

19. Because Clobama haul their loot in Mexican Trucks.

[bbgrunt]

21. you'd think that by now, everyone could see

very clearly what is going on with this administration. I am wondering if and when it is going to reach the boiling point.