Two in a row! More B.S. from the master, Jimmy Hoffa!

I have no problems with union activists although I am not pro union. They had their place in history but that time is past I believe. I am curious though as to why your earlier post used one email address and this one has another, the same as several posts accusing me of being a "paid shill" for "International Trucking", whoever the hell that is. Mmmmm, IP adresses match also. Not a problem though. But since you are a union activist, I fail to see what in the hell Jimmy Hoffa has to say in the matter of cross border trucking except in his misguided way. I know it irks the hell out of the unions, but Texas is a right to work state. On the border, the forwarding warehouses are all non union. Union trucking for the most part, is LTL. Cross border carriers are not. This program can in no way threaten the livelihood of Union members, whatever the union they belong to. It is a non issue. The 1035 or so Mexican carriers who have been operating safely in this country for almost half a century have not lowered wages for Americans, taken American jobs or any of the things that Hoffa and other claim will happen with these 57 trucks now in the US. Something to think about

In the interest of full disclosure and accuracy - I have no idea who or what you are talking about. This is the first time I have ever been to this blog, and I would have never even found it if it wasn't for you leaving a comment on the Logistics Management website: http://www.logisticsmgmt.com/TalkBack/Comments?ta... I am a union activist and, as Union Review could tell you, an active blogger on progressive issues. I am not part of some conspiracy to "destroy your reputation". I just did a little research and found that other post on your background.

Nothing of the sort. The comments you were referring to went into a special review section since the author is well know for his trolling of this site and his stated desire to try and destroy the reputation of myself through slanderous and false statements and accusations. He and his friends emerge from under their rocks on occasion to push their agenda and call me a liar and when they are discovered, they are deleted. My site, my call! That in no way impugns the integrity and voracity of the information presented here. Every fact, statistic, document and photograph, is proof of the oppositions opportunistic and protectionist agenda. Because try as they may, they cannot come up with factual evidence to support their tenuous positions

What is so fascinating about this dialog is that I was in the middle of reading a few comments here when I got interrupted. I come back to the site and it appears that the very criticism that I was enjoying on Rev. Corn was deleted ... which then begs the question: WTF? I am not so sure what you are trying to hide behind, but if the comment that was deleted is any indication - not to mention the link the writer left for us, one must truly question your motivations and veracity of this blog. If you are going to censor people who come to post with opposing views, perhaps you should leave Mexico and head off to Havana where there is a great paper called Granma that you might want to get a job at. In all seriousness, however, you are standing behind a pilot program that congress pulled funding for. I know you are a Mexican resident, and that’s fine, unfortunate for you, we still need to follow the law. When our country or your adopted one breaks the law, don’t you think the people should know?

Thanks for the comment but I do not have any vested interest in the border being opened. None at all! I started this blog to counter all the bullshit being spread about a country I am proud to call home and in defense of people who do not deserve the slanderous stupidity being directed at them. You speak of low wage commercial drivers coming into this country. I fail to see what the pay of company drivers in Mexico has to do with drivers wages in the US. Canadian drivers are paid slightly more than we are but we have not seen that effect our wages. What is "low paid" in you opinon? Wages on the southern border for US drivers are between $.28 and $.38 cents per mile. In contrast, Mexican drivers are paid, according to Fernado Paez and Luis Gonzalez, $.13 cents per mile. But there is a slight problem with this. Mexico is a country using metrics. So if they are paid $.13 per mile, then they are actually earning about $.22 cents per kilometer. In addition, Mexican companies pay their drivers are per diem, of $200 pesos per each day they are out, or about $20.00 NAFTA is not the cause of the loss of jobs in America. It was only an option for the companies and corporations who were tired of being bullied by the unions and their members who were unwilling to give an inch in their demands. You could withdraw from NAFTA tomorrow, and the jobs lost would not return. And with the US on the edge of a recession, would it be wise to pull out of NAFTA? Canada and Mexico throw up tariffs for all good coming and going. The cost of the tariff's causing massive inflation? I am not ashamed of my support for this program, because the truth is, I could care less whether the border is open or closed. What concerns me is the lies, and deliberate misinformation being tossed about by those who would further their protectionist, nativist and isolationist agenda. People like Jimmy Hoffa and Todd Spencer have never set their feet on the ground in Mexico in the manner that I have. Sure, they may have visited the tourist enclaves on vacation, or had meetings in Mexico City. But they have never spent the time to travel the highways of Mexico and see for themselves, what they profess to be such experts on. I have and that gives me the right and authority to comment and try to set the record straight. I seem to be doing this with some success. Jimmy Hoffa is a public figure. He stands in front of crowds and makes claims that are patently untrue. There is volumes of evidence to dispute anything he has ever uttered about the Cross Border Program, the safety of Mexican carriers and their drivers. He choses to ignore this evidence to pursue his protectionist agenda. He continues to jump on anything having to do with a Mexican truck and twist the facts to fit his opinion. For this, I righteously refer to him as "The Master of Bullshit!"

I suspect you have a vested interest in opening the border. Forget about safety - let's talk about how many American jobs we will lose when the floodgates are opened to low-wage commercial drivers from Mexico. If you think that corportations that have alread moved operations into Mexico won't exploit the Mexican drivers that you hold so dear, then you are living in a dreamland. NAFTA has been flawed from the begining. Millions of manufacturing jobs have been lost because of NAFTA and trade agreements of its ilk. Until we have fair trade agreements that require equal labor standards for both countries involved, then we cannot allow any additional threats to American jobs. Opening the border is definitely a threat to American professional drivers. As a commercial driver, you should be ASHAMED that you support this cross border program. I would also like to say that you have ZERO class. If you want to debate the issues, fine. But calling a man names that you do not know, who is standing up for the rights of his union members and protecting American jobs is just childish.