FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
January XX, 2000
BUCHANAN HAILS HOFFA FOR
STOPPING 'ROLLING TIME BOMBS'
NEW YORK, NY -- Today Presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan released the
following statement:
"The International Brotherhood of Teamsters and President James P. Hoffa
have scored a major victory not only for their own 12,800 car-haul workers
but for tens of millions of American motorists and their families by
stopping the National Automobile Transporters Association from using
Mexican trucks and drivers to deliver American cars.
"The 3.3 million Mexican trucks entering the U.S. each year average three
times the age of American trucks, and of the fewer than 1 in 100 that are
inspected, nearly half are forced out of service. Their brakes are often
faulty, their tires unsafe, their drivers uninsured or unqualified, their
emissions standards abysmal. Deliberately imperiling American families by
increasing U.S. highway access for these rolling time bombs would have
been unconscionable.
"The U.S. has no shortage of reliable trucks and qualified American
drivers, but under NAFTA, our workers are forced to compete with Mexican
truckers earning one-tenth their wages. NAFTA's ruinous merger of our
economy with that of a nation with Third World wages was a betrayal of
America's working families.
"I commend the IBT's stand for the security of American jobs and the
safety of our highways. Mr. Hoffa is one union leader who puts both his
own people and his own country first."
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