From: "Gary Britt" 

Serves them right.  They have to live in Canada, and then commute to
Detroit.  A fitting punishment indeed, on both sides of the border.

Gary

"Randy"  wrote in message news:42572e7f$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Try ex-pats living in Windosr and commuting to Detroit to work.
>
> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
> news:4255fc06$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >A lot of those Canooks are coming here to get better health care, not
just
> > shopping ! 
> >
> > Gary
> >
> > "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> > news:4255f369$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >> This area gets a lot of business from our Canadian friends. The number
of
> >> cars with Canadian plates at our malls is a truly wondrous thing to
> > behold.
> >> The Bridge has serious backlogs and that does affect the bottom line.
> >> $800
> >> million a month is nothing to sneeze at
> >>
> >> http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/1115/134_print.html
> >>
> >> After 9/11 the Ambassador loomed as an undefended economic umbilical
cord
> > to
> >> the U.S. Within days hundreds of National Guardsmen, police volunteers
> >> and
> >> U.S. customs and immigration agents descended on the bridge, forcing
> > trucks
> >> to wait in line for up to 12 hours to be searched for any signs of a
> > terror
> >> plot. Traffic backed up for 15 miles. Even after terror alert levels
> >> fell,
> >> the jams have persisted. Daily truck traffic plunged from 10,000 to
9,000
> >> and hasn't climbed back. Security remains tight, and trucks still can
> >> wait
> >> an hour to cross. Delays at the Ambassador and other crossings into
> >> Canada
> >> cost $800 million a month, by one economist's reckoning. If terrorists
> >> knocked out the Ambassador, the Michigan and Ontario economies could
run
> >> losses of $3 billion a month.
> >>
> >>
> >> "Mark"  wrote in message
news:4255f0c3{at}w3.nls.net...
> >> > Yea, I've caught a bit about that in my peripheral
vision, something
> > about
> >> > tolls collected on the bridge and him not being
accommodating about
> >> > competition for the tokens. But I am curious as to why
we'd want to
> > build
> >> > more access between CA and US -- they claim we're
"cowboys" and want
> >> > nothing to do with us and none of the loudmouths that promised to
move
> >> > north after Bush won were serious -- so why not button
up the border
> > tight
> >> > like the Minuteman project is trying to do in the south?
 >> > the Ambassador bridge to Japan to build a few new Lexi>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >
> >
>
>

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