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In April, America opens her border to the south to Mexican shipping companies. Does this trouble anyone?

America's trucking industry is about to be undercut by Mexican drivers that accept wages less than 40% of what American drivers are getting. This open border is going to contribute to a higher accident rate, increased insurance rates, and will cause American shipping companies to fold because they can not compete with Mexican prices. American truckers are about to be replaced with inexperienced drivers, drivers who do not know or respect DOT laws, and unsafe vehicles that have not and will not have to pass American inspections. My husband has been an OTR semi driver for close to 20 years now and he is not sure what his next job will be when American shipping firms hire Mexicans in order to compete in the market. Why should Mexicans be allowed to hurt our economy in such a manner?

Public Comments

1. Only in America. The Federal Reserve Bank is behind this because if money leaves the country, companies and people will have to borrow more money. The FRB is in the business of printing and loaning money. It's terrible. The amount of money the FRB has printed has devalued our dollar to the point that it is wotrth less than 1/10 of what it was 20 years ago on the world market. We used to get 100 pesos for a dollar and almost 1,000 yen. Check and see what we're getting now. The FRB will say that their economies got better. Anyone can see that the economy is actually worse in Mexico and it has not changed much in Japan except that more of our dollars are now over there. I know this is more complicated than what you are worried about but it is the cause. The FRB is a privately owned corporation owned mostly by about 12 wealthy familuies.. The only thing that it has to do with our federal government is that it loans Congress money to do things like fight the war in Iraq without raising taxes. In order to loan the money, it has to print it. Everytime money is printed, the value of the dollar goes down in the world economy. More and more people are starting to realize his and write their Senators and Congressmen to get them to take back the control of our currency from the FRB. We are not the only ones. The U.K version of the FRB is called "The Crown" and is also owned by a number of wealthy families. The Crown has susbstantially devalued the Euro and Pounf over the past 10 years. If we don't get together and do someting about this, there will be nothing left for us let alone our children.