News from the left

[barrons]

<p>The US will survive with or without the cheap labor. If the cost of construction goes up as a result some people will be enjoying better pay and decent jobs in construction. The net impact on our tax and public services systems may be a wash. There is lots of conflicting opinion on whether the illegals are a net gain or loss.</p>

<p>The fact remains Mexico or any other country will not become very economically strong by exporting labor and taking back a small cut of the earnings. Maybe it can prime the system but the system needs internal growth to really prosper.</p>

[xiggi]

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Let me explain how NAFTA works: Mexico (or anywhere in South or Central America, for that matter) cannot restrict imports or exports. All of a sudden, no one in Mexico buys Mexican crops because it’s cheaper to buy American crops. The farmers who make their living from farming are driven off their land. The money pours into the pockets of the industrial farms in the Midwest that can turn out crops the cheapest with their massive machines and disposable workforces. That applies to small American farmers as well as Mexican farmers. In other words, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and if Robin Hood comes to save the day, we spit on him and call him a liberal. That’s America.

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<p>Before explaining to others how NAFTA works, shouldn’t you try to read a tiny little bit about it? Mexico is a very complex country that defies overly simplistic -and erroneous- analyses such as yours.</p>

[TianXia]

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Before explaining to others how NAFTA works, shouldn’t you try to read a tiny little bit about it? Mexico is a very complex country that defies overly simplistic -and erroneous- analyses such as yours.

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<p>If you wanted to read an essay, you could go read an essay, I guess. Sure my explanation may be somewhat more simplistic than the truth, but to cover every little thing would end up being a very long post, something I’m not willing to type at midnight.</p>

<p>I doubt you’d want to read it either. And to be completely fair, if you wanted to bash me, you should have offered up an alternative.</p>