More of the wonderful ideas from the traitors in Congress and the WH. On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:54 PM, JSM <[email protected]> wrote:
> The important ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles, are in danger of being > replaced thanks to yet another implementation of the North American Free > Trade Agreement (NAFTA). > > Southern California's twin ports are the nation's biggest cargo container > hub. These two ports are a national treasure. Their value for both inbound > and outbound cargo is priceless, not just for the region, but for the entire > nation. > > Hit hard by the "Great Recession", in 2009, the two ports moved about 2.5 > million fewer containers than the year before. Many longshoremen, railroad > workers, warehouse workers and truckers have been idled. These represent > working class American jobs that have been lost and diminished that will be > difficult to replace. > > Recovery will be a daunting task, but NAFTA is not helping. Thanks to the > integrated giveaway that NAFTA has done to move our jobs to cheaper > locations, like Mexico, and facilitating transportation networks to easily > move these goods back to the United States, our ports are in serious > trouble. > > In Mexico, two ports -- Manzanillo and Lazaro Cardenas -- have emerged as > real players, benefited by rail infrastructure improvements by lines such as > Kansas Southern. Together, these ports in western Mexico handled millions of > containers in 2009, most bound for the U.S. bypassing our workers either by > rail, or by Mexican trucking companies. These trucking companies can now > directly compete with U.S. drivers by being able to drive in this country, > again because of the NAFTA treaty. (See my article at the above linked > website titled "Fairness For America's Truckers") > > Most shocking of all is the planned current building of a major port at > Punta Colonet, located just 150 miles south of San Diego. The plan is to > turn this into a multi-billion dollar deep water port able to handle > next-generation vessels. Construction will be conducted in earnest over the > next 10 years. This mega-port will be as large as the U.S. ports of Los > Angeles and Long Beach combined! The projected multimodal maritime center > would make Punta Colonet the third-largest in the world, after Singapore and > Hong Kong. > > Said Jack Kyser, an economist with the Los Angeles County Economic > Development Corp., "We can't just sit back and assume that we will get rapid > growth again at the ports when the recovery starts, we are going to have to > sing quite hard for our supper." > > When elected to US Congress from CA-45, I will fight to abolish NAFTA, and > any proposed North American Union. America's truckers, port workers, rail > workers, and warehousemen can also count on me as a friend to an industry of > hard working men and women. I will fight to keep these American jobs for > Americans. As a truck driver myself for about a year in my youth, I > understand this industry. I am a defender of professions that keeps America > well supplied, and has jobs for Americans! > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at > http://www.PoliticalForum.com/<http://www.politicalforum.com/> > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. >
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