Shrug, shit happened a long time ago. I am not going to apologize for the things that made this country great. We fucked over the Native Americans much worse. Are you suggesting we just give it all back?
No, since you apparently are having difficulty following what I was replying to, I'll repeat it.
There was a post that Mexico should be doing much better economically because our greatness should just have sprinkled off on them since they're close.
I was pointing out that rather than their doing better because we're doing well, that we've done a lot of harm, and listed examples.
Contrary to the implication in your post, I did not list those things just 'out of the blue' not responding to anything.
Such is the way business works.
What an empty, vapid, ignorant comment about the issue of mega-agribusiness corporate government subsidies' effects on local farmers.
No, in fact, this is a policy issue, not the way it simply works. And it is an issue that needs a lot better policy analysis than your comment.
Again, would you prefer we put American farmers out of business and rely on Mexico for our food? I am no fan of Ag subsidies but I am REALLY not a fan of being utterly dependant upon another country for our food.
Could you be a little more ridiculous? I think you're close to an award.
Hint: the next step from big Agra being subsidized and stomping on the local Mexican farmers is not our being dependent on Mexico for our food.
That's like saying we have to invade and conquer Brazil right now, because the alternative of their conquering us is worse. Your logic needs medical attention.
You got a point there, the drug war has made a very profitable blackmarket trade. When there is a fuckton of money to be made someone will always step up to make it.
The point is that we are hiring with our billions of dollars, a vast criminal enterprise in Mexico, not exactly doing them a favor.
Then we demand they devote their limited government resources to fighting the vast criminal enterprise we're arming with billions of dollars; and we're having a lot of other negative effects, such as draining their labor force away from something productive into the drug industry to serve our market.
No, they actually do. They are the suppliers and we are the buyers. They pour billions into making it and we pour trillions into buying it. They get drug cartels and we get gangs and street violence as a result. I will concede that it is the result of our drug policy, not theirs.
Their drug industry is created by our funding. One more gift from us to them.
We're not some victims where they're the ones pushing unwanted drugs on us for their benefit, like the history of the Chinese having Opium pushed by the British.
An 'enemy' might say, 'Here are billions of dollars for you to form criminal organizations and harm your society'. The drug market does the same thing, basically.
Mexico has a legitimate argument that we are causing devastation on them with our drug money.
Americans don't understand that because they can't relate. There's no one able - yet - to do anything like that to us.
