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| Mexico's Cult of Holy Death |
| 2010-05-17 |
| Posted by:charger |
| #3 millions of peasants were undermined by the 2008 elimination of farm tariffs under the North American Free Trade Agreement Actually, NAFTA has indeed hurt small Mexican farmers and campesinos, but it's because of a carveout that allows major US ag exporters, esp Cargilla nd ADM, to continue receiving massive US government subsidies and then dump their subsidized corn into Mexico. If the US would end its subsidies of corn, then we'd have free trade, but what's happening is essentially dumping by the uS side. Of corn. Into Mexico. This is the quivalent of dumping rice into the Japanese market! Only the Mexicans get such a raw deal. ANd of course, all the pain is felt by the rural Mexcan poor, who then emigrate to El Norte, thereby undermining one of the key selling points for NAFTA. Remember how Al Gore in 1996 sold it to us as reducing Mexican illegal immigration? We've had about 7 million illegals enter since NAFTA's passage. Another shining example of the mendacity and incompetence of our political class. |
| Posted by: lex 2010-05-17 19:31 |
| #2 Not just paganism, but very, very dangerous paganism. If those SOBs got a charismatic leader, a strong possibility, we would be looking at 1m Thuggees on both sides of the border. This would be bad. Remember that the Conquistadors were battle hardened mercenaries, who had seen some pretty vicious combat in Europe. But they took one look at the Aztec Empire and quickly decided that "this shiat has to be destroyed. All of it." The Catholic priest who accompanied them forbade them from destroying the great codex library at Tenochtitlan. Then he read every one of those codex. Then he personally burned them, which is why only a small handful remain today. He had some very unkind things to say about Aztec culture, reaching the learned conclusion that the Conquistadors were right. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-05-17 16:15 |
| #1 Just paganism in a new wrapper - the article is larded up with a ton of liberal crap liek this: millions of peasants were undermined by the 2008 elimination of farm tariffs under the North American Free Trade Agreemen |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2010-05-17 15:42 |