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2010-05-09 Caribbean-Latin America

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Posted by badanov 2010-05-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Why are we importing another underclass?

Posted by lex 2010-05-09 01:18|| 2010-05-09 01:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Underclass = criminal class? I wonder what the Saturday body count is? Time out for Mother's Day?

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-09 12:07|| 2010-05-09 12:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Someday, we're going to need to build a wall around southern California.

Posted by Gleasing Lumumba6409 2010-05-09 12:19|| 2010-05-09 12:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Oooooo! I always wanted to live in a gated community!

Posted by Frank G 2010-05-09 12:37|| 2010-05-09 12:37|| Front Page Top

#5 IIRC that's how Bill Gates and other US oligarchs live, not too far from the border in their gated suburban San Diego compound of Rancho Santa Fe.

We are becoming Mexico: a thin veneer of oligarchs protected by a compliant media and dominating a weak, incompetent regulatory apparatus and bankrupt state, with a swelling underclass and a shrinking middle class paying the inflated salaries and bloated pensions of a huge and growing public sector union base that ensures the oligarchs' continued hold on power.

Mexifornia's only the first step. Coming to your neighborhood soon.

Posted by lex 2010-05-09 12:42|| 2010-05-09 12:42|| Front Page Top

#6 We are becoming Mexico: a thin veneer of oligarchs protected by a compliant media and dominating a weak, incompetent regulatory apparatus and bankrupt state, with a swelling underclass and a shrinking middle class paying the inflated salaries and bloated pensions of a huge and growing public sector union base that ensures the oligarchs' continued hold on power.

If you read Mexican press you will find they have a vigorous, critical, and under the circumstances, courageous press.

Our media would do well to emulate what Mexican journalists have to go through to report the news.

A lot of the stuff I rewrite here: I leave out a ton of critical stuff the press publishes about the government. They love their cops but they aren't afraid to go after them if they think the cops f*cked up.

For example: at the catholic church one older women was screaming at the cops and soldiers who had cordoned the streets around the crime scene, accusing them of being complicit in the murders.

If the Mexican state were run by oppressive oligarchs,would that make it in the press?

Here?

Posted by badanov 2010-05-09 13:46|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2010-05-09 13:46|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm sure _beat cops_ get criticized in the press _all the time_ in oligarchies. It's kinda like China, where _local party officials_ are criticized all the time, but the central committee is absolutely not to blame.

The best ironic description of this mindset I've seen came from Russia, where the saying was "If only the Czar knew."

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-05-09 14:09|| 2010-05-09 14:09|| Front Page Top

#8 The Czar was elected every six years??

Who knew?

Posted by badanov 2010-05-09 14:20|| 2010-05-09 14:20|| Front Page Top

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