Showing posts with label #NAFTA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #NAFTA. Show all posts
Friday, February 28, 2014
Sunday, February 2, 2014
Comprehensive recovery of Mexico should spear head economic war with China
Our only future plan for Mexican immigration is to reverse the magnet a bit. Companies in America that willfully hire illegals may need to reconsider their means and mode of production. Through a better North American trade agreement, we can look at turning Mexico into the worlds new China. To go into a store and find anything that does not "Made In China" is hard anymore. China is rapidly on its way to becoming the worlds largest economy because we have made it that way.
But did we have any other alternative?
When laws made it so appealing to find cheap labor, corporations did just that. Made In America was always teetering on the precipice of trade agreements. Third world countries saw America's need of third world labor and responded.
As I grew up, those tags that once said Made In America slowly became, Made In Vietnam, Made In Taiwan, Made In Thailand and made anywhere in the world except America. Only recently has China (still a communist nation) taken over the allegiance of America's thirst for a robust economy.
If Mexico does not teach us something about the impact of third world labor sources and what companies will do to gain it, Mexico should teach us something about income redistribution. In essence, the income that was transferred from the Mexican soil is now being earned on America's soil and sent back to Mexico. Socialism, once again, has reared its head in response to those moments that capitalism hurts.
Aside from the danger of Mexican drug cartels, redeveloping Mexico will expand the capacity for American imperialism. To hurt China, we must disconnect our dependency upon them. Mexico offers a fertile land for relocating corporations that consume products currently being purchased from China. For every corporation who makes this investment we can treat their products as domestic production in regards to both labeling and taxation. Mexico gains new industry and retains its most vital resource, its people, and America stops bending over to be raped by China. After all, Made In North America sounds a lot better than Made In China anyway.
Of course we could ignore Mexico and pretend that immigration and dangerous drug cartels will fix themselves. We could do like Eric Cantor says and tell ourselves that we must secure the border before we address the problem. We can continue to allow criminal corporations to be less accountable than the immigrants they hire.....
.....Or we could get real about immigration and embrace all of North America as more than just next door neighbors, but countries who's futures are intimately connected with our own.
Previous Post: Since we can never secure our border, we must have a sensible plan for future illegals.
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| Can't we make it in Mexico and label it Made In North America? |
When laws made it so appealing to find cheap labor, corporations did just that. Made In America was always teetering on the precipice of trade agreements. Third world countries saw America's need of third world labor and responded.
As I grew up, those tags that once said Made In America slowly became, Made In Vietnam, Made In Taiwan, Made In Thailand and made anywhere in the world except America. Only recently has China (still a communist nation) taken over the allegiance of America's thirst for a robust economy.
If Mexico does not teach us something about the impact of third world labor sources and what companies will do to gain it, Mexico should teach us something about income redistribution. In essence, the income that was transferred from the Mexican soil is now being earned on America's soil and sent back to Mexico. Socialism, once again, has reared its head in response to those moments that capitalism hurts.
Aside from the danger of Mexican drug cartels, redeveloping Mexico will expand the capacity for American imperialism. To hurt China, we must disconnect our dependency upon them. Mexico offers a fertile land for relocating corporations that consume products currently being purchased from China. For every corporation who makes this investment we can treat their products as domestic production in regards to both labeling and taxation. Mexico gains new industry and retains its most vital resource, its people, and America stops bending over to be raped by China. After all, Made In North America sounds a lot better than Made In China anyway.
Of course we could ignore Mexico and pretend that immigration and dangerous drug cartels will fix themselves. We could do like Eric Cantor says and tell ourselves that we must secure the border before we address the problem. We can continue to allow criminal corporations to be less accountable than the immigrants they hire.....
.....Or we could get real about immigration and embrace all of North America as more than just next door neighbors, but countries who's futures are intimately connected with our own.
Previous Post: Since we can never secure our border, we must have a sensible plan for future illegals.
Since we can never secure our border, we must have a sensible plan for future illegals.
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| NAFTA force the Mexican farmer to chase the work. |
If I were Cantor, I would force demands upon this bill that set timelines around what we do next. A holistic approach to immigration demands a realistic approach to the cause and effect model.
Before NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) the Mexican farmer could make a reasonable living in Mexico. After NAFTA, he was swallowed up by the strength of the American farm corporations. When the supply and demand model shifted the supply source to America's soil, it shifted the job as well. Immigration exploded after NAFTA as did crime in Mexico. A weakened Mexico has provided few real alternatives for industry, and thus, weak resistance to the emerging drug lord economy.
Immigration grew because Mexicans had to choose to either live really poorly in Mexico on what you can make, or you chase the jobs in America and send a little cash back if you can. Economist say that this lost money that is generated in America but sent back to Mexico is an issue worth addressing as well. Truly desperate youth in Mexico shorten their life expectancy by making money within the drug trade which is another significant American trade arrangement with a one sided benefit (save for the guns that Texas sells to drug lords). Some of the drug money makes its way back into the Mexican economy, but at the cost of fear and terror on the Mexican streets.
In the absence of a stronger industry, the drug cartels grow stronger. In time, our main concern from the southern regions of our continent will not be the immigrants but the industry of evil that will increase its ability to control Mexico on America's dime. They may already be expanding tunnel systems to insure future immigration and drug routes. America owes it to America to address the decline of Mexico with legislation and strategy before it requires soldiers and guns.....and bombs.
Next Post: Comprehensive recovery of Mexico should also be the spear head of our economic war with China
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Immigration is about the migration of human beings towards hope and prosperity
Immigration is much much more than a big word to describe people who travel from their home country into another. In the scope of what it means to the future of the American electorate, it is much more important than healthcare. Immigration could become the conversation that quiets the ObamaCare scare.
For several months now it has been confirmed that if given a chance, the current immigration bill that has passed the Senate would also pass in the House of Representatives. Majority leaders have the power to filibuster a bill and deny it a day in the sun. For weeks now, president Obama has talked about moving legislation through executive order if congress refuses to act. When the president threatens to pull out his pen and phone, he is talking about immigration for sure.
On CBS's Face the Nation, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said,
"There's not been a determined sense that we are going to secure the borders and make sure that the laws on the books are being implemented now. I would say that is a precursor and has to happen first."
Why are republicans drawing new red lines on immigration when there is already immigration legislation with headcount to pass? This is not about immigration at all anymore, (another post for another day) but republicans are forcing the immigration debate once again.
Republicans and democrats who are ready to pass an immigration bill understand the utter hypocrisy of this debate. The cost of deportation (which is a federal responsibility) might be twice the cost of stopping human beings from moving across land and sea and settling in fertile soil. Why? Because it will never end. Where there is a will.....and a job......there will always be a way. The search for hope and prosperity is irrepressible.
Remove the magnet, remove the problem.
The only criminal is the corporations that happily create the low wage worker magnets that ultimately draw the immigrant; especially the post NAFTA immigrant. Companies find ways to look the other way because America government looks the other way. As is the case with marijuana, the cost of enforcement is no longer worth the fight.
Yet, this problem is much more complex because the impact and the ramifications of the Mexican immigrant, to Mexico and to America, demands a holistic perspective.
Consider these things.
For several months now it has been confirmed that if given a chance, the current immigration bill that has passed the Senate would also pass in the House of Representatives. Majority leaders have the power to filibuster a bill and deny it a day in the sun. For weeks now, president Obama has talked about moving legislation through executive order if congress refuses to act. When the president threatens to pull out his pen and phone, he is talking about immigration for sure.
On CBS's Face the Nation, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said,
"There's not been a determined sense that we are going to secure the borders and make sure that the laws on the books are being implemented now. I would say that is a precursor and has to happen first."
Why are republicans drawing new red lines on immigration when there is already immigration legislation with headcount to pass? This is not about immigration at all anymore, (another post for another day) but republicans are forcing the immigration debate once again.
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| Can we ever stop humans from migrating across the earth? |
Remove the magnet, remove the problem.
The only criminal is the corporations that happily create the low wage worker magnets that ultimately draw the immigrant; especially the post NAFTA immigrant. Companies find ways to look the other way because America government looks the other way. As is the case with marijuana, the cost of enforcement is no longer worth the fight.
Yet, this problem is much more complex because the impact and the ramifications of the Mexican immigrant, to Mexico and to America, demands a holistic perspective.
Consider these things.
- Since we can never secure our border, we must have a sensible plan for future illegals.
- Comprehensive recovery of Mexico should also be the spear head of our economic war with China
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