Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper (C) gestures while standing with President Bush and Mexico's President Felipe Calderon following a joint news conference at the two-day North American Leaders' Summit in Montebello, Quebec August 21, 2007. (click here)
This is the Port of Oakland (click here). It sees a huge amount of container traffic everyday. Longshorement work at this facility.
These are longshoremen reporting for work. One of the best paying jobs for unskilled labor in the USA. They have a vested interest in the country's national security.
In actuality how much is there to say, except, NO MORE BUSH !!!!!
George Walker Bush hopes to build ports in Mexico that will directly result in lay offs of workers in the USA and will cause their unions to be incompetition for wages. Bush is planning on closing down the ports of the USA and replacing them with imports from Mexico that will be transported by substandard trucks on 'superhighways' between Mexico and Canada.
Bush is risking national security for one purpose; to defeat and demoralize even further American labor. Ruthless to the core. The borders between the USA and Mexico can't stop illegal immigration now. We have no border security as it is and Bush is going to exploit cheap labor in Mexico to facilitate the movement of cargo coming into the USA and passing through to Canada.
I don't think so. I don't really see the best interest of Americans here at all. Not American Labor and not American National Security. No Mexican will be interested in securing the USA away from danger as the American Laborers of the Longshoremen already do.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 — For years, the Bush administration has shrugged off concerns about the trillions of dollars that the United States owes to China, Japan and oil-producing countries in the Middle East, arguing that these debts give no undue leverage to foreign governments. But at a time of global financial instability, the administration has started to worry that foreign governments are increasingly converting their dollar holdings into investment funds to acquire companies, real estate, banks and other assets in the United States and elsewhere. The fear is that these so-called sovereign wealth funds could destabilize markets or provoke a political backlash. In response, the Bush administration is pressing the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to examine the behavior of these funds, which control up to $2.5 trillion in investments, and develop possible codes of conduct for them. Among the proposed rules would be an obligation to disclose investment methods and to avoid interfering in a host country’s politics. Officially, the United States welcomes all investments, except those that could compromise national security. “Money is naturally going to gravitate toward dollar-based assets because of the strength of our economy,” the Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., said in an interview. “I’d like nothing more than to get more of that money. But I understand that there’s a natural fear that they’re going to buy up America.” ...
