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pahunkboy -> RE: NAFTA Superhighway (8/18/2007 11:54:41 AM)
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the trend is to sell interstate highways for 75 years. Indiana just sold i80. many states are considering selling also. how is it- public assets can be sold????
excellent p[oint about cheap labor working the ports.
American truckers are bad enuff- granted - they are pushed to the brink via management- many have a real and fake log book. each pot hole loosens the rivots. so- over time- our disrepair roads- wear out the trucks faster. we can put a man on the moon- but our road building tecknology is woefully inadequate- i submit- that its planned to wear out quickly so as to need replacing sooner- hence more money for the cement industry- which in Kansas city is a force hidden- but the cement cartel controls more then you would guess.
putting ports in MX is a no brainer- as per the not in my back yard attitude.
Sadly- the idea of imminenet domain- many states strengthen landowner rights after that assinine supreme court decsiion. PA- is at the bottem of the list for land owner rights. in fact my city of 12,000 is taking 9 properties this year alone- due to "blight".
well if you zone a property into obsolescence- and it has no use of course owners will loose interest in improvements!!
consider that truckers- once a highly paid occupation- can then all be outsourced to MX- maybe even pay the driver $5 an hour.
then the rickety condition of such trucks.
it wasnt long ago- we had a scandal here in PA. "back hauling". this is where a rig transports garbage to a lndfill one direction, then on return=-transports food. unfortunately PA is the garbage can of teh country! the supreme court ruoled that PA cant stop other states from using landfill. this includes a surcharge even.
so as currupt as things are in the USA- the last thing we need is a MX influence.
Canada- I have no problem with joining. In many way CN is a great example of how a country should work.
*waves to Canadian nieghbors!*
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