[DumpsterDiver]

NAFTA Gives Mexicans New Reasons to Leave Home
10.15.98

A blast from the past, eh?

Now we have CAFTA and FTAA to look forward to. Whoopee! < /sarc >

[Age of Reason]

The region, where farm machines are few, the land is rocky and rainfall is erratic, simply could not compete with the mechanized, nature-blessed bounty of U.S. agriculture. Those who had the misfortune to live in the Tlacuitapa region -- and in many other regions throughout Mexico -- had no way of making a decent living.

Mechanized, nature-blessed bounty of U.S. agriculture???

Gee, I thought our farm produce cost less because of all those cheap illegal Mexican immigrants.

I mean don't we hear over and over about how the cost of U.S. produce would skyrocket if we had to pay U.S. Citizen farm workers a living wage?

Mexico is full of those hard-working Mexicans, yet their produce costs more than ours. Hmmmm.

[Age of Reason]

Mechanized, nature-blessed bounty of U.S. agriculture???

Gee, I thought our farm produce cost less because of all those cheap illegal Mexican immigrants.

I mean don't we hear over and over about how the cost of U.S. produce would skyrocket if we had to pay U.S. Citizen farm workers a living wage?

Mexico is full of those hard-working Mexicans, yet their produce costs more than ours. Hmmmm.

[NRA2BFree]

FARMING WOES In Tlacuitapa, farming has never looked worse, and local farmers blame foreign trade.

A few months back I read that about 10,000 people in Guatemala demonstrated against CAFTA fearing that it would hurt them like NAFTA did to Mexico. Only the big corporations are getting ahead. That seems to be the goal of the globalists. There's going to be two classes of people. The elite wealthy and the poor. They have been destroying the middle class in America for a while now. IF they can get our guns away from us, then they'll be taking more from us to give to the poor. I think that's her highnass Hillary's plan.

[JarheadFromFlorida]

[[Several years later, NAFTA appears to have done just the opposite.]]

Just as Ross Perot perdicted. He was right on the money. BTW, who was president at that time? Wasn't it that guy who was getting his bone smoked in the oval office? The one that was impeached, disgraced, and lost his law license for 5 years? What was that liberal democrats' name again?

[Ciexyz]

The purpose of government is to codify laws to help certain groups of people to triumph over other groups of people (those who don't bribe and buy their way into the first group).

[logician2u]

What's that large sucking sound I'm hearing?

Oh, just those jobs disappearing in Mexico . . .

Well, Ross was half right.

[1rudeboy]

Check out some of the replies on this thread. They're a hoot.

[moehoward]

BTTT

[quadrant]

I understand the antipathy that most Mexicans feel toward the US ("Mexico so far from God, so close to the United States") but Mexicans must realize their country is becoming little more than an empty shell.
The popular belief is that oil is Mexico's greatest asset, but its greatest asset is its people, and they are desert- ing the country as do rats from a sinking ship.
This statement should not be taken to mean that Mexicans are rats, but simply that rats - despite popular belief -are intelligent creatures with a strong survival instinct; they know when a ship is sinking or a house burning and leave ASAP.