--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 10/22/06 3:40:05 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Mexican farmers and US farm subsidies. > > US (and European) goverment subsidises its farmers such that > bankruptcy is avoided by their farmers. Without these subsidies the > US farmers would have a hard time to compete with other countries. > The US makes a vast fortune in arms sales around the world and other > dubious business. These subsidies mean that a Mexican farmer cannot > compete so he cannot afford to hire farm hands, so the workers go to > the US (illegally) to work and gain from the US subsidies. The > Mexican farmer cannot compete. The US farmer gets cheap, illegal > labor, and the right-wingers in this country try to build a joke > fence to stop them coming in. The US continues to make money from > oil companies, selling arms, and racking up a massive debt which > stands today at: > > $8,553,293,703,$8,553, > > _http://brillig.http://brhttp:/_ (http://brillig.com/debt_clock/) > > Thus, through these dubious methods of funding its farmers, the US > contributes directly to keeping the poor, poor, and the Mexican > economy subserviant to US control at a low economic level. > > One instance where the US makes others stay poor (very bad karma for > US), and I am looking forward to watch MDIXON and Shemp's usual > avoidance of the issues, changing the subject, slinging names > around, and cutting and running. It is like watching Laurel and > Hardy build a house. > > OffWorld > > > > Well, why doesn't the Mexican government subsidize their farmers? Quite > frankly I'm against some farm subsidies. But I can tell you this from what little > I know about it, there would be a lot of family farms go under in the United > States and that isn't a good liberal position. It means big business > controlling more American agriculture which would do more to drive down the prices > for the Mexican farmer. >>>
You mean like the republicans have been doing all along? <<<I'm still trying to figure out how arms sales by the > US ties in with farm subsidies and the Mexican farmer and the US debt is > making us money.>>> I know you are still trying to figure that out, since that is the crux of the matter and not being able to figure these things out is the reason why you support the likes of this administration. OffWorld > To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
