Did he not just say ….. "A friendlier environment for American small business". Obahama, that's who. I swear I heard him say just those words. Well, that is what his right hand was saying. What his left hand was whispering behind our backs is "Let's take American tax dollars and give them to the Mexican truckers to buy the equipment they need to come across our border to take our American trucking jobs."
Yup, you heard it right. They are at it again. The Mexican truck pilot program is back….. again. Although still in its early stages, this time they have added a few interesting twist according to some of the news articles that I have been reading. Now keeping in mind that we as a country are only about fourteen trillion dollars in debt, Obahama has agreed to pay for electronic on board recorders for every Mexican truck that crosses our borders under this new version of the program. That means as I see it, that they are going to take money from my company that I need for keeping my truck repaired and safe to drive on our highways and give it to a person from another country so they can come up here and put me…. out of business.
Also, in this new version, is the fact that if a company can last eighteen months on our highways, they will forever be able to run in the United States. So even if the program is successfully ended, they remain. And let's not leave out company drivers. No sir. Why pay an American driver American wages when you can pay a third world driver less than half. I was reading just the other day about a company that imports foreign drivers at a reduced pay and houses them here in the states. When will this end.
We as American citizens need to start informing the powers that be of this one fact. You are either for us, or you are against us. We want our jobs,,,, period. We can no longer support the rest of the world while we stand back and watch ourselves fill the welfare lines. I have nothing against foreign trade, but the deals that are being made benefit no one but the other guy and the politicians that make the deals. It has been a long time since a deal has been made to the benefit of the America people and that stretch needs to come to a close…. NOW.
So, once again, instead of building our businesses, investing in our jobs and spending time with our families; we are going to have to drop everything and raise holy hell with the current administration and explain to them that we, as Americans, want our jobs. That we, as Safe truck drivers want to keep our Highways safe for the American public. That they, as our dually elected American officials work for us, not them.
