Trucking another job we don't want?
Mexican trucks with Mexican truck drivers are now permitted to enter the U.S. and drive to any destination. These trucks are loaded at Mexican ports.
Mexican drivers are paid half or less than American drivers. Soon all deliveries in America will be cheaper by using Mexican drivers. American drivers will lose their jobs, homes and cars, not pay property taxes and then the government will say, "See? These are jobs Americans don't want."
Bin Laden said this week he has a message for the American people. Whatever his plans are, he can ship it into this country via Mexico.
Our government is building a NAFTA superhighway from the Mexican ports through the U.S. to Canada, and it is paid for by American taxpayers losing job after job. When it is far enough along, American longshoremen will lose their jobs to Mexicans unloading the ships, and there will be another group of jobs that the Americans don't want.
Our elected politicians want Americans to lose jobs and be lower paid. At a conference on maintaining American competitiveness earlier this year, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan offered a "solution."
"Our skilled wages are higher than anywhere in the world," he said. "If we open up a significant window for skilled workers, that would suppress the skilled-wage-level and end the concentration of income."
Our politicians should be proud because this policy is succeeding. We are losing jobs by the millions. Why doesn't anyone ask about this in the debates?
Robert Chmela
Elgin