If the protectionists and obstructionists are successful, America’s economy will be hurt and her reputation as a world leader further damaged
The massive fraud visited upon the American public by the Teamsters and OOIDA concerning the Mexican Cross Border Pilot Program continues to make the news as more mainstream newspapers see through the campaign of misinformation and xenophobic pablum these two organizations have put forth.
Since they do not have facts to back their position, they have chosen to prey upon the ignorance and fears of Americans with stories of chaos and disaster waiting to hit America’s highways. Of course, as we have seen over the past year, it hasn’t happened, and in Mexico, highway safety concerning big rigs is much better than the US, and with less regulation.
The San Antonio Express News continues to weigh in on the subject with an editorial that goes to the heart of the matter.
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Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator John H. Hill responds to Jimmy Hoffa
We all know the controversial Mexican Cross Border Program was extended for two more years on August 8, under Federal guidelines concerning Pilot Programs, and as we reported, Jimmy Hoffa immediately showed his no class ignorance by continuing his boring mantra about those unsafe, dangerous and illegal Mexican trucks, a notion we have continually disproved on this site.
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The Senate and the House approved the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993.
If a nation decides to withdraw from NAFTA, the agreement specifies a six-month notification process.
A president, with the support of Congress, can initiate this process. And a president, with the support of Congress, can attempt to renegotiate NAFTA.
What a president and Congress can’t do is willy-nilly abrogate provisions they decide are not to their liking.
But that’s exactly what Congress has been trying to do for 15 years by obstructing a cross-border trucking provision.
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