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White House OKs Mexican truck program (despite a new law by Congress against it)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/4/08 | Andrew Taylor - ap

Posted on 01/04/2008 2:48:57 PM PST by NormsRevenge

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To: Veto!

I watched Obama”s acceptance speach last night and for the and heard nothing of substance, just “change”.


61 posted on 01/04/2008 7:58:25 PM PST by TheLion
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To: NormsRevenge

PING


62 posted on 01/04/2008 7:58:31 PM PST by AnimalLover ( ((Are there special rules and regulations for the big guys?)))
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To: NormsRevenge
So when is the next FREEP THE WHITE HOUSE??

I had forgotten and dont remember which day.

63 posted on 01/04/2008 8:02:16 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Your FR Pledge: Bookmark It Today! "I Won't Support Mitt/Rudy/McCain/Huckster in General Election")
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To: Veto!
Everyone's fed up. That's why candidates promising CHANGE are doing so well. Trouble is, they don't specify what kind of change and how they'll achieve it. Almost certainly the change will be worse than the status quo. Horrible thought.

Right. Not only fed up, but fractured, few are united for anything. Unfortunately it seems half the people in the country have their heads up their up their a***s. Throw in tens of millions of people that don't even belong here, are not Americans, and could care less about becoming Americans and it's a recipe for chaos, dissension, anger, and lawlessness.

I hardly recognize the GOP and have much contempt for them negotiating conservative principles at low bidder and wholesale discount prices.

What this government is becoming, scares me to death.

64 posted on 01/04/2008 8:41:21 PM PST by dragnet2
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To: SpaceBar
You beat me to it...my blood started boiling as I read the darned article and all I could think of was DICTATORSHIP anyone???

I wonder how long it’s going to take for the people of this country to wake up to the realization this Administration...with lots of enabling by Congress....thumbs their collective noses at rule of law and our Constitution on an almost daily basis...since when is ANYONE above the law in this country??? well I guess we know.

65 posted on 01/04/2008 11:13:21 PM PST by Molly T.
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To: rockinqsranch

Are you familiar with EPI? Or did you just post something you found in a Google search? The reason I ask is because I’ve always been surprised by the number of people here that do not realize it is (for all practical purposes) the economics think-tank of the DNC.


66 posted on 01/05/2008 3:54:22 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: NormsRevenge

“The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent”


67 posted on 01/05/2008 3:57:28 AM PST by endthematrix (He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
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To: 1rudeboy

I did a yahoo search, read it, thought at the time it sounded waaaaaayyyy Leftist, but posted it anyway as some of it rang a tad of truth as does the Union arguments against the Mexican Trucking program. Many here at FR have posted their own dismay at having to agree with the Union on this topic.

Include me in the dismayed, but more reading about NAFTA causes me to wonder WHY the 1993 agreement signed by Clinton in 1994 cannot be undone. Why does GW have to persue this agreement that isn’t truly a sanctioned treaty, but another coerced by Clinton situation?


68 posted on 01/05/2008 6:43:16 AM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: rockinqsranch
Include me in the dismayed, but more reading about NAFTA causes me to wonder WHY the 1993 agreement signed by Clinton in 1994 cannot be undone.

If you think about it in terms of contract law, you need to look at NAFTA's recission clause, that I imagine it has. One cannot go back to a contract after it is signed to pick and choose the provisions one wishes to uphold. One needs to tear-up the contract.

69 posted on 01/05/2008 6:47:47 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: untrained skeptic

Everything Congress and the President does seems to have one goal: don’t let the economy slow down...for any reason. Keep bringing people in. Keep expanding.

This creates the illusion of a good economy, but allows more income to temporarily deal with the increasing costs of government programs.

All the time this slides back the day of financial reckoning; while increasing the liabilities. Hey, if you have to go bankrupt you might as well do it for billions of dollars instead of a few pennies.

Am I making sense here? It’s the only reason I can think of.


70 posted on 01/05/2008 6:54:20 AM PST by Loud Mime ("If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking." George S. Patton)
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To: SpaceBar

It’s for our ‘own good’ and never question the powers that be, or the corporations that hold them accountable /sarc


71 posted on 01/05/2008 6:56:30 AM PST by Rush4U
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To: Diplomat

NAFTA is not a treaty, it is an agreement. Treaties require 2/3 in senate. Agreements only need a simple majority.


72 posted on 01/05/2008 7:05:26 AM PST by jpsb
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To: Perchant
"Bush has total hostility for working people."

He has never worked a day in his life.

Next on the globalist agenda is the NAFTA super highway. The NAFTA super highway will let Chicom shippers avoid high wage dock worker/trucker in US ports, instead the Chicoms will ship goods to Mexico and Mexican (low wage) labor will move the stuff. Bush never passes up an opportunity to screw American labor.

73 posted on 01/05/2008 7:12:35 AM PST by jpsb
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To: jpsb
If you think specifically about those dock workers, it would be more accurate to say "American labor never passes up an opportunity to screw American labor."

Even Schwarzenegger and the California legislature hopped on the "let's screw the worker" bandwagon. You need to focus on the direct causes, not your alleged proximate ones.

74 posted on 01/05/2008 7:38:49 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: untrained skeptic

hard to believe otherwise and undermines everything Bush claims to be doing to protect USA


75 posted on 01/05/2008 10:36:04 AM PST by righteousindignation
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To: NormsRevenge

thanks for your post and your patriotism!!


76 posted on 01/05/2008 10:37:13 AM PST by righteousindignation
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To: johnthebaptistmoore

Amen and dont forget Ramos and Compean in your prayers!!


77 posted on 01/05/2008 10:38:44 AM PST by righteousindignation
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To: johnthebaptistmoore

dont be!!


78 posted on 01/05/2008 10:39:19 AM PST by righteousindignation
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To: bshomoic

It would be a good question to ask all the candidates in these next two debates. Both Pub and Dem. After all, with the fence now dead, why not put the onus of these people to say what they would do if elected?


79 posted on 01/05/2008 11:29:15 AM PST by phillyfanatic ( tH)
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To: raybbr
To say Reagan supported NAFTA is not true. He supported a trade agreement with Canada.

How old are you? NAFTA is effectively Reagan's idea. And yes he was the first to try to get it done. He campaigned on a free trade agreement with Mexico during his first successful run.

BTW, Reagan SIGNED AND GRANTED AMNESTY TO MILLIONS WHILE HE WAS IN OFFICE. Going to tell me that isn't true either?

80 posted on 01/05/2008 1:43:17 PM PST by Diplomat
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