Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide, through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.
Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman’s Union in the process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation’s most modern highway straight into the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross border in FAST lanes, checked only electronically by the new “SENTRI” system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, their new Smart Port complex, a facility being built for Mexico at a cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City.
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So essentially, we're building a superhighway on which to smuggle illegal immigrants (or anything else) into the country, without checking the contents until it gets all the way to the heartland? And in the process, we're importing cheap far east goods and cutting American workers completely out of the picture. Is it me, or is this not the same bizarro reasoning that led the Bush administration to think it was a good deal to allow Arabs to run our ports? And is there still anyone out there who doesn't think the Bush administration's cozy relationship with big business can't best be described as man-on-man ass sex with an obligatory reach-around?
Zod
Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman’s Union in the process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will be the nation’s most modern highway straight into the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross border in FAST lanes, checked only electronically by the new “SENTRI” system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, their new Smart Port complex, a facility being built for Mexico at a cost of $3 million to the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City.
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So essentially, we're building a superhighway on which to smuggle illegal immigrants (or anything else) into the country, without checking the contents until it gets all the way to the heartland? And in the process, we're importing cheap far east goods and cutting American workers completely out of the picture. Is it me, or is this not the same bizarro reasoning that led the Bush administration to think it was a good deal to allow Arabs to run our ports? And is there still anyone out there who doesn't think the Bush administration's cozy relationship with big business can't best be described as man-on-man ass sex with an obligatory reach-around?
Zod
Cheney
No, really
