The End of the American Trucker: NASCO Emails Uncovered!

Hannity.com ^ | July 6, 2006 | EagleClaw

[Smartass]

LOL, I agree in part, and disagree with the other.
Yep, move the UN out of New York, but not to Oklahoma. The state of Oklahoma is to good for the United Nations trailer trash. How about giving the UN cake walkers some hands on, real world problem solving experience, by having them move to say, Jerusalem, or Gaza City. Imagine, they'd be right in the front row. They can eat out in the sidewalk cafe's, or travel the buses and actually see real people being hurt and/or blown up. Won't get any better than that. Another point is, Iran would never nuke the UN if they were located in the Middle East!

 

[hedgetrimmer]

Iran would never nuke the UN if they were located in the Middle East!

Excellent point!

[Smartass]

For your information...

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New Poll: Americans Prefer House
Approach on Immigration

Poll is First to Offer the Public a Choice
Between House and Senate Plan

Download a pdf of this announcement

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WASHINGTON (May 3, 2006) – A new Zogby poll of likely voters, using neutral language (see wording on following pages), finds that Americans prefer the House of Representatives’ enforcement-only bill by 2-1 over Senate proposals to legalize illegal immigrants and greatly increase legal immigration. The poll was conducted for the Center for Immigration Studies.

• On immigration generally, Americans want less, not more, immigration. Only 26 percent said immigrants were assimilating fine and that immigration should continue at current levels, compared to 67 percent who said immigration should be reduced so we can assimilate those already here.

• While the Senate is considering various bills that would increase legal immigration from 1 million to 2 million a year, 2 percent of Americans believe current immigration is too low. This was true for virtually every grouping in the survey by ethnicity, income, age, religion, region, party, or ideology.

• When offered by itself, there is strong support for the House bill: 69 percent said it was a good or very good idea when told it tries to make illegals go home by fortifying the border, forcing employer verification, and encouraging greater cooperation with local law enforcement while not increasing legal immigration; 27 percent said it was a bad or very bad idea.

• Support for the House approach was widespread, with 81 percent of Republicans, 72 percent of independents, 57 percent of Democrats, and 53 percent of Hispanics saying it was good or very good idea.

• When offered by itself, there is also some support for the Senate approach, thought not as much as for the House bill: 42 percent said the Senate approach was a good or very good idea when told it would allow illegal immigrants to apply for legal status provided they met certain criteria, and it would significantly increase legal immigration and increase enforcement of immigration laws; 50 percent said it was a bad or very bad idea.

• There were few groups in which a majority supported the Senate plan, even when presented by itself, exceptions included Hispanics 62 percent of whom said it was a good or very good idea and the most liberal voters (progressives) 54 percent of whom approved of it.

• When given three choices (House approach, Senate approach, or mass deportation), the public tends to reject both the Senate plan and a policy of mass deportations in favor of the House bill; 28 percent want the Senate plan, 12 percent want mass deportations; while 56 percent want the House approach.

• But when given a choice between just the House and Senate approaches, without the choice of mass deportations, the public prefers the House approach 64 percent version to 30 percent.

• One reason the public does not like legalizations is that they are skeptical of need for illegal-immigrant labor. An overwhelming majority of 74 percent said there are plenty of Americans to fill low-wage jobs if employers pay more and treat workers better; just 15 percent said there are not enough Americans for such jobs.

• Another reason the public does not like Senate proposals to legalize illegals and double legal immigration is that 73 percent said they had little or no confidence in the ability of the government to screen these additional applicants to weed out terrorists and criminals.

• Public also does not buy the argument we have tried and failed to enforce the law: 70 percent felt that past enforcement efforts have been "grossly inadequate," while only 19 percent felt we had made a "real effort" to enforce our laws.

Poll Results:  Click here

 

[Larousse2]

Great post!

How do you know when a politican is lying?

The mouth is moving:-)!

[Larousse2]

As a former teacher, I can tell you and others for a fact that children in public schools are given a calculator in the first grade and taught to use it.

Children in U. S. public schools are NOT taught to calculate math problems in their heads. If you don't believe me, see if a teenager spots, say for example, a $50.00 pair of jeans on sale for 20% off. They can't tell you what the sale price is, unless they have a pocket calculator with them.

Grammar---has't been taught in at least 20-25 years. Kids are absolutely CLUELESS about Parts of Speech and the Rules of Grammar.

Civics or U. S. History--- not been taught hardcore since the 80's.

Remember "The Dear Hillary Letter," written by Marc Johnson to Hillary Clinton? Remember the phrase, "a seamless web from the cradle to the grave"? That means the guvmint plans to OWN YOU from the cradle to the grave. Period.

Ever wonder why hilly's Thesis, allegedly on Saul Alinsky, is reportedly SEALED at Wellsley? Read up on "The Alinsky Method."

And please don't think the Rand Corp. is just a little think tank.

[Smartass]

Thanks...
The idea is, to put the info out, and let people decide for themselves.
Simply, it can be accepted or rejected!

 

[Arizona Carolyn]

Isn't that the model the Clinton's implemented (with success) in Arkansas? This is why the left fears charter schools and homeschooling.

[Smartass]

FYI...

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Saturday, July 8, 2006

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THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
More evidence Mexican trucks coming to U.S.
Internal document anticipates increasing volume of traffic

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Posted: July 8, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi

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© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

(TTNews.com)

An internal document shows a planned "inland port" in Kansas City anticipates an increasing volume of Mexican truck traffic, despite claims it will be restricted to railroad transports from south of the border.

WND has obtained, via a Missouri Sunshine Law request, an internal spreadsheet analysis prepared by the port project, Kansas City SmartPort, indicating that "with marketing," it projects that in 2010 a high of 508 trucks per day would pass through a Mexican customs facility located at the port. The volume would grow to a projected high of 881 trucks per day in 2015.

As WND has reported, KC SmartPort plans to utilize deep-sea Mexican ports such as Lazaro Cardenas to unload containers from China and the Far East as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement super-highway plan.

The plan would include the hotly contested allowance of Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, WND has reported, but Tasha Hammes of the Kansas City Area Development Council has insisted the port will be restricted to railroad traffic.

Internal KC SmartPort e-mails obtained by WND show that both Kansas City and Mexican officials were concerned that enough truck volume would be processed through the Mexican customs facility to make the project economically viable for Mexico to maintain a customs staff on site.

A Jan. 13, 2005, e-mail from David Eaton, the president of Monterrey Business Consultants in Monterrey, Mexico, who is credited with first proposing the Mexican customs facility, stresses the need for success:

Other communities such as Dallas and San Antonio have requested that Mexican Customs put facilities in their communities. Mexico has determined that our project will be the Pilot and others will not be approved until it is determined that this works … as Ken Hoffman [outside counsel to KC SmartPort] said … we need to make sure this works! [ellipsis in original]

An e-mail dated Jan. 10 from Jose M. Garcia, representative of Mexico's Ministry of Finance in Mexico's Washington, D.C., embassy, asks KC SmartPort President Chris Gutierrez to be more precise. Garcia wrote:

The statistical data show in the study hardly offers us a list of potential users (targets), those that we (Mexican Customs and USCBP [U.S. Customs and Border Protection]) must attract and convince to move their cargo through [KC SmartPort] and be cleared by US and Mexican Customs. This list will be used for our promotional efforts.

Replying to Garcia's e-mail, Erendira Rodriguez of KC SmartPort affirmed Jan. 17 that "SmartPort has $400,000 specifically to market the [Mexican customs] facility and the increased exports of U.S. products to Mexico. The marketing will not start until there are more assurances that the facility will open."

KC SmartPort consistently has maintained to WND that the Mexican customs facility was intended to be for outbound exports to Mexico only and would separate from the Lazaro Cardenas-to-Kansas City corridor. In a June 29 e-mail to WND, Hammes of the Kansas City Area Development Council emphasized the distinction:

The proposed KC Customs Port and Lazaro Cardenas to KC Corridor (made possible by KCS [Kansas City Southern]) are two non-related, separate efforts that KC SmartPort is supporting. (One is rail, the other truck. There is no crossover between the corridor and the proposed facility.)

Yet, that contention is inconsistent with a U.S.-Mexico Freight Flow Analysis presented on the KC SmartPort website. According to that study, conducted for KC SmartPort by MARC [Mid-America Regional Council], the dominant mode for hinterland trade export to Mexico was rail.

As the MARC report noted on page 5, "For the SmartPort hinterland, grain products were the largest export commodity group. Manufactured and intermediate goods were the top import commodities." And, again, "Turning to exports by mode, rail is forecast to grow faster than truck which reflects the predominance of bulky and lower value commodities in the export trade with Mexico."

Still, KC SmartPort argues the Mexican customs office is for outgoing trucks only and that only the Kansas City Southern railroad will be used to import goods that enter Mexico via the port of Lazaro Cardenas.

Hammes wrote in her June 29 e-mail to WND: "Mexican trucks will NOT be coming to KC or utilizing the facility."

Even more emphatically, she stated a paragraph later:

The containers that come in through the port of Lazaro Cardenas will enter the U.S. on a U.S. railroad (Kansas City Southern) NOT a Mexican Railroad or via Mexican trucks. The LC to KC corridor is a rail corridor ONLY. As I stated earlier, this is nothing new other than the fact that KCS acquired the Mexican railroad that served the port of Lazaro Cardenas last year.

But the KC SmartPort internal e-mails indicate otherwise. A Jan. 13 e-mail from David Eaton noted: "The authorities agreed that the [Mexican customs] facility will be BOTH TRUCK AND RAIL from the beginning."

Other internal e-mails reveal a determination by KC SmartPort and KC city officials to control their public relations message.

When an Associated Press report hit the wires Jan. 30 revealing a scandal in Mexico that could affect Kansas City's Mexican customs facility, it prompted a flurry of e-mails within KC SmartPort.

A Jan. 30 e-mail from KC SmartPort President Gutierrez to outside counsel Hoffman noted with apparent alarm: "The Associated Press story has reach 30 markets now. Many of the stories have appeared in the last day."

On Jan. 31, Gutierrez broadcast an e-mail to more than 50 respondents, including Kansas City Council members and a Kansas City Southern railroad spokesman, in which he dismissed the AP article, advising that the scandal was only Mexican "presidential election campaigning with one party stirring up things on the other parties and vice versa."

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Previous stories:

Docs reveal plan for Mexican trucks in U.S.

Kansas City customs port considered Mexican soil?

Tancredo confronts 'super-state' effort

Bush sneaking North American super-state without oversight?

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Coming soon to U.S.: Mexican customs office

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[Larousse2]

I'm going to say that the reason homeschooling and charter schools are bad-rapped is for the public school endoctrination of children and the implementation of their brain-washing ideologies such as: There are no Absolutes; Alternative Life Styles are acceptable and to be respected; and further ideologies beyond "Pink" agendas.

I can't even THINK about what I have witnessed without feeling my blood pressure begin to rise (not your fault).

Please read anything and everything you can written by Lynn Stuter and Beverly Eakman. These two women are brilliant ED researchers and authors. They are honest and direct. Each of them is telling the truth.

Additionally, not known by the general public, is student profiling the likes of which would make YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE rise!

[Larousse2]

Thanks for those great links, SA!

I'd misplaced some of them.

[Rockitz]

Your argument makes no sense.

Your example is meaningless in 99.999% of cases. My example is reality for any Long Beach longshoreman compared to almost any 4 year engineering school graduate.

[Rockitz]

So Corsi isn't wrong.

In general, no, but I do believe he may be guilty of drawing conclusions based on limited information.

Why don't you want to talk about wage parity? Your nits with my post have been very minor.

[Rockitz]

I work in an export-controlled industry (defense) so I am relatively secure in my future work here in the US, but H1Bs certainly lower the wage of others within my expertise outside of my industry and that ultimately affects my salary. Hopefully, the US will never be so foolhardy as to trust our national defense to outsourcing, but I have seen evidences of this and am not really so sure anymore.

[Rockitz]

But CEO's are worth 262 times what they pay their employees?

I never said there wasn't a lack of parity at the upper end of the wage scale.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I understand quite a few important aspects of our defense is outsourced to China and during the initial bombing of Iraq we ran low on munitions because they were made in Switzerland (of all places) and they couldn't/wouldn't keep up and Rumsfeld had to fire up production here in the States.

One way to keep production in the states and lower prices to parity with the rest of the world without depressing wages is the fair tax. All the layers of taxes add a whole lot to the cost of goods we produce in this nation.