Resolved: That "CANADIAN-AND-MEXICAN" be linked in all border-issue threads!!1

[UTUSN]

This might be a tiny step forward in moving those topics towards discussion of specific issues--Labor, unions, safety, environment---by REMOVING the implication of racism when ONLY "Mexican" is used in the thread.

For the record, the Mexican trucks that were allowed to proceed, DID perform well, all the way to NYC where they delivered their loads and back again with return loads. Since the courts had already ruled against obstructing the program, the successful runs knocked the feet from under those hysterics railing about their lack of safety and their inability to understand English traffic signs, now din't it.


And digression: With the Congress's renunciation of the Mexican trucking deal, leave us not forget that Shrub is not the first one to go back on the U.S.'s word, when one of his first acts was to reject Kyoto, and his other crap. The U.S. has a long history of crapping on its treaty partners, starting with the Native Americans on to the League of Nations and beyond.

[RB TexLa]

1. K and R

[tsuki]

2. OMG, they performed well on a pilot program. Who'd of thunk it?

This is about screwing American and Mexican workers so that the American public can get cheaper and cheaper goods and the corporate masters can pocket more. Racism is the distraction.

My solution, guarantee Mexican drivers union wages and benefits when they drive on US highways.

[UTUSN]

3. Sounds good. Is that what Canadian truckers get? (Get the concept?) n/t

[tsuki]

4. I suspect more now that the looney is up there. They have medical and

unions.

[tsuki]

5. And, I should add, this is not a foreign concept to the US. In our

area, when a private construction crew works on a base, they must make a minimum hourly wage set by the military.

[pampango]

6. K and R

Shrub was certainly not the first. I was just hoping that the Democratic Senate would not join him as great "renunciators".

I believe that the Senate never ratified the League of Nations treaty, so I don't think that should be included in the list of our past renunciations. It was signed by the president but never ratified. If only NAFTA had suffered a similar fate. ;)

There must be many others besides besides Bush's trail of broken treaties, the Senate's new addition to the list, and the genocide against Native Americans. What are they?

[UTUSN]

7. Oh, something like de facto gutting of the Geneva Conventions. Sound familiar?

How about the violations of sovereignty into Texas-Mexico, and the rest of the Southwest? Perhaps I cornered myself by using the word "treaty." Maybe I should have left it general, as in "serially WELCHING," aggression, and thieving.

[pampango]

8. I was including the gutting of the Geneva Conventions among

Bush's trail of broken treaties. You're right, once you get beyond the "treaty" limitation, the list grows much longer.