I am still waiting for Tempest to respond to my post #49 to tell me why this was a bad idea.
My guess is he is consorting with the DUmmies or the Kos Kiddies to plan his response, and I won't hear back from him until they come up with something.
I have a problem with characterizing any cross-border economic activity as "100% free-market". Marketarian as it may be on this side of the border, on the Mexican side there are so many subsidies of basic living costs (corn meal and gasoline, to name two) that hold down wages, that the entire border economy, the maquiladora phenomenon (now admittedly passe'), and outsourcing to Mexico in general are all tied up with lower Mexican wage/living costs and Mexico's subsidized economy, and are therefore a huge arbitrage play, playing off differences in wage/price structures in two substantially different economies and cultures.