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Friday, March 20, 2009

Mexico Bites Back

Investor's Business Daily has a good editorial on the decision to bar Mexican trucks from the United States, a decision in direct violation of a major treaty Congress approved long ago. One of President Obama's first actions as president is to show one of America's largest trading partners that its word is no good.

One thing the editorial left out is that the program just cancelled allowed just 98 Mexican trucks into the United States. That's right. Congress and the president kicked off a trade war that could cost some 40,000 Americans their jobs over 98 trucks.

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