MEXICAN MYTHS THROUGH THE EYES OF AN AMERICAN TAXPAYER
Dear Mexican Leaders:
Whenever you guys take time off from ruining your formerly wonderful cities, like Ciudad Juarez, you pop off about how there is "shared responsibility" between you and the US to fight your drug gang problem.
Your reasoning is twofold: First, you say, the addicts with money are in the U.S. and, if there were no money, there would be no drugs or gangs; and, second, most of the guns that your thugs use to kill each other and relatively few honest cops who actually fight drugs come from the U.S. Amazingly, some US journalists actually buy this crap.
With all due hemispheric respect, your reasoning is cowflop. Since the dawn of man, there has been addiction. It doesn't really matter where the noses and veins are, there will be money for drugs. That you have excessively uncivilized dope dealers and poor enforcement has nothing to do with the venue of the users.
More than half your manufacturing comes from U.S. companies. Are your people sending any of their wages back here as "shared" bounty? Almost all of your medicines come from here. Does that mean we have "shared responsibility" to make sure you get them to all your needy people? Naw, that's an internal Mexican national issue, right? So gun runners pierce your country. That's my problem exactly how?
Shared responsibility sounds to me like "Vietnamization" and I didn't care much for that "shared responsibility" program either. It's your country. Your people have to decide whether they want a hellhole or not. You're a democracy, right?
This taxpayer is not prepared to "share" any responsibility for your unchecked greed, violence and corruption. We've got our own drug gangs to worry about.
posted by UMRBlog @ 06:22
6 comments
6 Comments:
Sorry, Tony, but I question your logic here. Demand fuels the drug business. Demand for the forbidden is always higher than for the readily available. (Yes, Prohibition is the classic example). Which is why it is logical to conclude that the real purpose of the co-called "war on drugs" is to enhance demand, control supply and thus keep the price up for dealers and cartels. Yes, legalize it all. Yes, people would still buy stuff, but probably not as much. Yes, addiction would still be a problem but it might be treated as a disease instead of a crime. And just think of the savings to taxpayers if stopped incarcerating pot smokers. I don't expect anything to change, however, because money and power remain the only practiced "family values" of the political class, left and right.
"They" determined that only 17% of the guns used in crimes in Mexico were traced to the US. The 90% propaganda came out because 90% of the gun numbers sent to US for tracing, came from US. Most guns were not from US, and were not traceable. But the "blame US first" crowd loves to "hate America first".
I agree partly with josephus ... farmers here could grow pot cheap, the good chit ... then we could tax it to high heaven ... (cost of production would be dollars per ton, sold at many dollars per ounce).
This eliminates tons of crimes and puts the money into the system where it could work for more effective and cheaper rehab than the prison system, where the average toker might become a more hardened criminal, or Mohammad's next terrorist.
But too many politicians make money from the drug trade to allow that I guess.
Mexico is just one big drug cartel now, it seems. But I fear we are becoming third world like ourselves, rather than bringing democracy to the world.
I appreciate both of your opinions.
All I'm saying here is that most Americans have no guilt here that needs assuaging by the use of our dollars and possibly the blood of our enforcement personnel.
TYFCB
josephus-
I'll bet that was really hard for you to put the word "left" in that last sentence.
Anon:
Of course the Media is lying about the source for the guns. Most are SKS, AK-47's, neither of which are made in our country. The few AR-15's they find, are either stolen, or traced back to another country that purchased them legally from a dealer in the U.S. and then were stolen, and given to the drug dealers. Either way, we can't do anything about it.
UMR:
I agree, I feel no guilt about shooting Mexican Drug dealers, especially when they step over the river.
But we need drywall,lettuce,roofs,radishes,cabbage,
babysitters,----ect,ect,ect.
We need the workers. Make them pay taxes, stay out of the school system and the health-care system, don't let workers' babies become citizens just because the made it to a San Diego Hospital in time for the delivery, and go back to Mexico when the job is over.
Complicated problem, but what we're doing now isn't working.
Thanks,
But this really wasn't intended to be an immigration thread. It's about the big guilt trip the Mexicans are trying to lay on us about their violence and corruption IN MEXICO.
Immigration gives me a headache.
TYFCB
Sorry,
Immigration makes me mad. Don't know to be for or against.
I grew up in LA, and know we need workers, but we need rules.
Mexicans can do some great Auto Upholstering. I've still got a '64 chevy to prove it.
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