Posted on 01/01/2005 11:45:46 AM PST by nanak
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek not your council nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." --Samuel Adams
Yes --- Mexico is interesting --- if not strange. I'm not living in Mexico -- but I might as well be since there are many more poeple here from states like Durango, Zacatecas, Chihuahua than there are from Oklahoma, Ohio or California in my region.
I guess to us the ejido system for example sounds Communist --- but it's probably the model Mexicans have used for farming for centuries --- before the Europeans and Arabs came. One former ejido ranchero was explaining to me how they worked -- and worked out better because water rights were equal --- no one person controlled the water that the rest needed and apparently privatization disrupted that.
Mexico is far more unionized than is the USA --- so apparently they're comfortable with Socialist labor unions also.
I think for most of on here --- if the Mexican government would start to do some of the things they're demanding American taxpayers to do instead, we'd be happy enough. It's not like the millions of immigrants coming over could ever begin to afford our kind of health insurance policies --- and their cheapskate employers aren't about to offer them any --- so it's Socialism either way --- better in Mexico where the costs are lower and where that government takes some responsibility.
Then he sounds like another wise Capitalist --- Henry Ford --- who believed in having workers who could afford his products.
That's always been the main reason. Imagine the changes that would have to take place if we actually started deportations --- millions of people who have become accustomed to the good life returning home --- used to farming with tractors instead of a burro and a simple stick-plow, used to having enough to eat, plus cell phones, DVD's, cable tv....
yeah, but lopez obrador's party voted vetto against the reforms proposed, and the ones he wants to apply aren't different to what the PRI used in their time and worked "so well".
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