I agree. My point was more toward Mexico's dependence on the U.S. Sure, there are some areas that are very poor and others that are prosperous, but 40% of the population lives below the poverty line, and many people rely on income from remittances from relatives in the U.S. to survive.
The whole problem with Mexico is structural. Socialist employment rules, entrenched bureaucracy, and endemic corruption in civil institutions hurts the average Mexican worker, discourages external investment, and prevents economic prosperity. I'm trying to dovetail into the original topic of the thread, which is communism/socialism v. capitalism. Mexican workers have gotten in the US. If Mexico would just open up its economy and reform its civil institutions, the country would be on par with the US in prosperity within two generations, and we wouldn't have this crazy argument about building a giant fence on the border to keep people out. So, to summarize, capitalism good, communism bad. On 8/23/06, Dana wrote: > > my point has always been that it's not uniformly poor. > > On 8/23/06, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dana wrote: > > > "Income distribution remains highly unequal, with the top 20% of > > > income earners accounting for 55% of income. If municipalities of > > > Mexico were classified as countries in the HDI World Ranking, Benito > > > Juárez, one of the political districts in D.F., would have a similar > > > development than that of Italy, whereas Metlatonoc, Guerrero, would > > > have an HDI similar to that of Malawi. [9]" > > > > > > > So your point is that there's income disparity so ... I'm lost. > > > > > -- --------------- Robert Munn www.funkymojo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:214052 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
