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2005-08-20 Caribbean-Latin America

Mexico: Study urges better wealth distribution

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Posted by Gleretch Unans6034 2005-08-20 06:34|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Socialism - the gift that keeps on giving...

Posted by Raj 2005-08-20 09:16|| 2005-08-20 09:16|| Front Page Top

#2 By 1952 South Korea was basically zero'd out in economic terms because of the war. South Korea lacks the natural minerial or petroleum resources of Mexico, lacks the vast ariable lands for agriculture, and far less land mass. Circa 2000, South Korea per capita income $16,100; Mexico pci $9,100. Kleptocracy is not an equal opportunity provider.

Posted by Shomonter Threater9114 2005-08-20 09:24|| 2005-08-20 09:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Wealth distribution:
Code word for communisim.

Tell you what Mexico needs, a true democratic government, free trade, low taxes and better access to health care. Mexico would do just fine on its own after getting those things.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-08-20 09:57|| 2005-08-20 09:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah brilliant that way everyone will be equally poor. Of course thou that will only apply to the common folk peasant class. After all the nobles cough "political leaders" have to be able to have Dasha's all over the world and top of the line wine, food, cloths, ect... but of course this is in the "motherlands best interest" only has nothing to do with personal wants.

Socialism looks great on paper the only problem is we are human beings that are naturaly defected. Without reason to drive ourselves we don't and of course power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutley. The Russian workers learned that the hard way after the revolution.

Posted by C-Low 2005-08-20 10:08|| 2005-08-20 10:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Yes and no, in the case of Mexico. For example, in the same country where you have "el Juppies" with MBAs in the city, with statues to Pasteur, Beethoven and Ghandi; in the countryside, you even have a few tribes that are literally stone-age troglodytes. Huge numbers are subsistance farmers who live on tortillas and beans, for which the subsidy is the most winning campaign platform there is in the whole country.

To totally restructure the country, you need what I would call "Jeffersonian socialism", that is, to force *all* children to attend school, where they would get at least a minimum education, minimum food and clothing, and minimum health care. That is, put them in barracks and keep them there until they are 16 years old.

Of course, if their parents could afford better, they should be able to give it to their kids. But for the agonizingly poor it does several things.

It takes the pressure to raise the kids off of parents, so they can build up their family resources. It breaks up the inefficient family farm that is reliant on child labor and wastes arable land on subsistence farming. It gives the children the health care, food and clothing they need to eliminate many diseases of malnutrition and poverty. Lastly, it gives the children a strong national identity at the expense of racism and tribalism.

Talk about your brutalitarian government! But it is about the only thing that could break the back of the many demons that haunt Mexico. With one generation of suffering, perhaps two, it would propel the country from the 18th century into the 21st.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-08-20 11:48|| 2005-08-20 11:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Jeffersonian Socialism! Hey I like it. Course they might also go with Jeffersonian expansion.

Posted by Shipman 2005-08-20 12:08|| 2005-08-20 12:08|| Front Page Top

#7 Hey Moose, that usually occurs in revolution. However, dumping vast numbers of their poor, uneducated, unemployed on the US solves that problem for the ruling class of Mexico.

Posted by Whosing Spavirt5801 2005-08-20 12:19|| 2005-08-20 12:19|| Front Page Top

#8 Thierry Lemaresquier---isn't that a Fred Subroutine-generated name on Rantburg? But the algorithm should have generated a number, like 7734*. Fred, check your code.

*"hell" upside down.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-08-20 12:49|| 2005-08-20 12:49|| Front Page Top

#9 Wealth redistribution - a phrase that causes investment to flee.

Posted by Super Hose 2005-08-20 13:35|| 2005-08-20 13:35|| Front Page Top

#10 Replace a corrupt latin goverment with Socialism.
Thats crazy enough to work. Look at Cuba. Whoops bad example...Uh how bout Venezuela? Let me get back to ya on this one.

Posted by DepotGuy 2005-08-20 14:16|| 2005-08-20 14:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Why don't they try the rule of law?

Worked pretty well in the US, Canada, Britain, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Israel...

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-08-20 14:51|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-08-20 14:51|| Front Page Top

#12 We have rule of law. We also have "one man, one vote." I am the man and I have the vote.

Posted by Vincente Fox 2005-08-20 19:42|| 2005-08-20 19:42|| Front Page Top

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