Jan

7

This morning's Washington Post fronts an amazing article (In Mexico, 'People Do Really Want to Stay') that manages to discuss the internal Mexican economy without giving the U.S. any positive credit for acting as a customer, a labor outlet, and a source of inbound capital.

I was truly reminded of the translations of Pravda I read in college, where reality was twisted beyond recognition to fit the needs of the Kremlin.

They mopped floors in Fresno, poured concrete in Tempe and tended other people's children in Galveston, measuring their lives in dollars.

Up north, even though they pay more, you're not necessarily living as well

Mexican farms will compete directly with an American agribusiness nurtured by subsidies on the corn that feeds the birds.

What's going to happen? People are going to get fired. People are going to go north.

If the U.S. starts selling things extra cheap outside the U.S., then it won't just be small farmers and individuals who will be leaving. It will be people like me. 

Reading between the lines of this dreck, it looks like an article planted by Mexican lobbyists who are attacking U.S. agricultural subsidies, with the angle that they can recruit the anti-immigration folks to their side.

Of course, when the relevant bills are being marked up, we'll see a copy about the struggling American small farmer who can only stand up to cheap foreign competition with the help of subsidies. 

…and the news business barons remain puzzled at their ever-shrinking mindshare.


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