How swell! I'll coin a phrase to describe it: "Insourcing" [View All]

[Stinky The Clown]

During the Reign Of Idiot Son, there was a huge outcry right here DU at just the thought of Mexican truckers running their rigs into the US.



Safety, we cried.

Ruining our wage scale, we yelled.

And so forth.

Today, there's this:

U.S., Mexico reach deal to end trucking dispute

By TIM JOHNSON
McClatchy Newspapers

MEXICO CITY -- Mexico and the United States agreed in principle Thursday to open U.S. highways to Mexican long-haul trucks, ending a lingering safety dispute that prompted Mexico to impose more than $2 billion in retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exporters. "After nearly 20 years, we finally have found a clear path to resolving the dispute over trucking between our two countries," President Barack Obama said at a White House news conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon at his side.

The agreement calls for Mexico to lift 50 percent of its retaliatory tariffs immediately while Mexican truckers undergo safety, language and driver training.

Obama said that he would move ahead "in a way that strengthens the safety of cross-border trucking, lifts tariffs on billions of dollars of U.S. goods, expands our exports to Mexico and creates jobs on both sides of the border."

But Teamsters union President Jim Hoffa charged that the agreement "caves in to business interests," adding that "Mexican trucks simply don't meet the same standards as U.S. trucks."

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/03/2096309/us-mexico-reach-deal-to-end-trucking.html#ixzz1Fad96nWj

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http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/03/03/2096309/us-mexico-reach-deal-to-end-trucking.html

As scarce as jobs are, here's a way to cut wages *and* shed some good ol' 'merican jobs. Legally "insource" low wage workers from another country to replace not-as-low wage domestic workers.

Let's Insource More.

H1Bs were a way that still works.

Surely we can come up with more, can't we?

Sweller and sweller, it gets.

Yippee!


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