According to The Trucker, The U.S. Department of Transportation will make no attempt to stop Sen. Byron Dorgan’s effort to kill the Cross Border Demonstration Project.
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has indicated he will not stand in the way of Dorgan’s efforts. Asked whether LaHood was in favor of letting the project die, a DOT spokesman declined comment. (What a pussy)
How the elimination of the project will impact the North American Free Trade Agreement is uncertain. Officials at the Commerce Department, which oversees NAFTA, declined comment.
Let me clue you in! From talks I have had with participants on both sides of the border, you ain’t seen nothing yet!
Pull funding, you pull funding for the new inspection facilities and additional commercial vehicle inspectors which will impact safety and cost American jobs.
If Mexico decided to throw up tariff’s, which they have the legal right to do (and which we fully support) watch the cost of your goods rise!
And watch for potential legal actions and injunctions once this is signed into law!
They talk about the “arrogance” of the former administration, in fulfilling our obligations under NAFTA, what about the arrogance of that little piss ant Dorgan who appears to have Hoffa’s verga lodged firmly in his throat!
And that is my final word until the lawsuits begin!
Star-Telegram
To hear Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., tell it, Congress is in a tizzy because the Bush administration has not halted the pilot program that allows some Mexican trucking companies to send their big rigs deep into the United States. Many of those trucks, of course, follow interstate highways into and through Tarrant County.
Dorgan has sent a letter to Transportation Secretary Mary Peters, calling the program under which 11 Mexican companies have been given permits to drive 56 trucks beyond the border “both arrogant and wrong!”
His outrage comes because Congress passed, and President Bush has signed, a transportation funding bill that rules out spending money to “establish” such a program. The administration counters that the current program, which could allow for as many as 500 trucks from 100 Mexican companies into the U.S., was established in September, long before Congress acted. The administration promises not to establish any new programs, but it plans to continue this one.
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