Last week’s resolution of a long-simmering dispute between the U.S. and Mexico over long-haul, cross-border trucking represents a milestone in the economic integration of North America.
By itself, the trucking deal, a three-year pilot program, is a modest gain for free trade. But it brings the North American Free Trade Agreement to a satisfying, if tardy, conclusion at a time when ratification of other trade deals with Colombia, Panama and South Korea is delayed in Congress.AAAAARGH!!!
They admit it will cost jobs. They admit it will be dangerous. THEY DON'T CARE.
What do you expect from a "news" company that caters to Wall Street -- one that was founded by Bloomzilla, the billionaire mayor now in the process of destroying New York City??
Here's a much better op-ed about Mexican trucks. It's written by Teamsters General President Jim Hoffa for the Detroit News.
The last thing American workers need right now is a trade deal that puts more of them out of work and lowers their wages. And yet that is exactly what our government is doing to its own people – not once, but four times.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood went to Mexico last week to sign a deal that opens our borders to unsafe trucks from that country. In reporting the agreement, the mainstream press was strangely silent about the 40,000 people killed in Mexican drug wars since 2007. The media made no mention of our widening trade deficit with Mexico since NAFTA was signed in 1992, nor did reporters say anything about the 700,000 jobs lost since then.
Three more job-killing trade deals are in the hopper, and you can bet the news media will swallow whole the phony claims made about them by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other multinational front groups...
Lately it seems our trade policy is of the corporation, by the corporation and for the corporation.Much, much better, don't you think?
