Mary Had A Little Lamb, This Inspection is a Scam

[unhappycamper]

Mary Had A Little Lamb, This Inspection is a Scam
James P. Hoffa
Posted October 19, 2007 | 10:23 AM (EST)


Mary Peters, who pushes tirelessly to let dangerous Mexican trucks use U.S. highways, for the first time publicly stood near a Mexican truck on Wednesday.

Peters is the little-known Arizonan who now runs the U.S. Department of Transportation. She usually avoids the news media like a bad rash whenever the subject of Mexican trucks comes up. Perhaps she's planning on running for governor of Arizona and knows how much the public hates her pilot project to open our highways to Mexican trucks.

She must also know the program is illegal. The law says Mexican trucks have to meet specific U.S. safety standards. They don't. No drug tests for drivers, no restrictions on hours behind the wheel, no ability to inspect every truck at the border, no accurate records of valid drivers licenses.

How do I know? Peters' own inspector general says so.

That's why she went all the way to El Paso in February to announce plans to let some Mexican trucks use U.S. highways - even though she was a large, pleasant office in the middle of a city crawling with journalists.

In August, when she decided to allow the first trucks to cross the border over Labor Day weekend, not a peep came out of her well-staffed public affairs department.


Rest of article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-p-hoffa/mary-had-a-little-lamb-t_b_69106.html

[fasttense]

1. If the congress voted against it,

Why are they still doing it?

"The House voted to block it 411-3 in May, and the Senate cast a similar vote - 75-23 - in September."

The program is illegal and little Mary doesn't care, she's got executive privilege.