Luis Gonzalez, Transportes Olympic driver makes inaugaural cross border trip
It occurred to me that a year ago today, the Mexican Cross Border Program began it’s successful run.
None of the chaos and calamity that was foretold by the opposition occurred. There have been no deaths on the highways from these trucks and their drivers as many still say would and will happen.
There has been no economic crisis to the American trucker by allowing these trucks into the country.
There has been no flood of drugs and illegal aliens brought into the country as many suggested.
All in all, it has been a success!
But it still bothers some people. What brought the anniversary to mind was a title on an OOIDA blog, TIME TO ENGAGE THE BULLSHIT METER
Spin, distortion, misrepresentation and, in some cases, outright lies will fill the airwaves for the next two months. You can count on it.
I read that and thought, yep! that’s how OOIDA intends to keep opposing the program since this describes their method over the past year, but reading further, they were talking about the political season.
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A House-Senate conference committee agreed Thursday night, Nov. 8, to a fiscal 2008 transportation spending bill that would block funding for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s program that allows long-haul trucking across the U.S.-Mexico border, wire services reported Nov. 9.
The full House and Senate still must approve the conference report, and President Bush must sign it. The President has indicated he will veto it.
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