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To: USMCPOP
At least we have the hard-working Mexicans up here. Maybe the Mexican government has a problem with us dumping rice down there because they might stay home and eat?
Except for the out of work Mexican rice farmers and processors -- and the shopkeepers and equipment salesmen and buyers who do business with them.

This is an unintended consequence of "free trade" -- it's not a win-win market. The real big downside is it means that Mexican who didn't own much -- but were owners of something, so had middle-class values -- have to become workers. A good number of whom will consider working in the U.S.

13 posted on 09/17/2006 1:46:37 PM PDT by rpgdfmx
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To: rpgdfmx

I suppose you get the nickel, albeit you get it in an oblique fashion. Are you suggesting that U.S. trade policy necessarily needs to take into account Mexican subsistence farmers? A jobs program for Mexicans, if you will?


15 posted on 09/17/2006 1:53:32 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: rpgdfmx

The Mexican farmers would have a better chance of competing and surviving if we and the Europeans didn't subsidize our agriculture.


18 posted on 09/17/2006 2:00:16 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Going partly violently to the thing 24-7!)
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This is an unintended consequence of "free trade" -- it's not a win-win market. The real big downside is it means that Mexican who didn't own much -- but were owners of something, so had middle-class values -- have to become workers. A good number of whom will consider working in the U.S.
13 posted on 09/17/2006 3:46:37 PM CDT by rpgdfmx

27 posted on 09/17/2006 3:24:53 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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