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