Reply #8: "...economic consequences will not be felt by the super-Rich." Gee, [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

I wonder why they and their government and the corporate news monopolies are stirring up all this trouble by refusing to recount all the votes--if they have nothing to lose. I think Lopez Obrador WOULD give Mexico fair taxation and a more equitable economy, and that is precisely why they wouldn't recount the votes.

As for the middle class/working poor being "in mortal fear of having their economic scrapings evaporate to AMLO"--it's classic divide and conquer. Why shouldn't THEY be getting higher wages, more tax breaks, and more services, instead of just scraping by? Who do they think has been stealing from them--the poorest of the poor? Fuzzy thinking, I'm afraid. The ones who ARE stealing from them, hand over fist, get a pass--and they tremble in dread of those poorer than them getting a fair shake. They need to take a lesson from Argentina, where the poor and middle class banded together and drove the World Bank/IMF--which had crippled their economy and forced draconian cuts to all social services--out of their country. They are much, much better off now--free of onerous debt, with all indicators rising.

It sounds to me like your contacts are like all of us, who believed Clinton's promises that he would include labor and environmental protections in NAFTA. Now our country is bleeding jobs, while our major manufacturers stop off briefly in Mexico, to exploit unorganized labor at $3 an hour, then, the moment the Mexican sweatshop workers start to get organized, jump over to Cambodia where they only have to pay 25 cents a day. Shopping for the cheapest, most unprotected labor, all over the world. Global corporate predators. Born here, used our infrastructure, our educational system, our science and engineering communities, our highly productive and creative and loyal work force, our emergency and fire protection systems, our medical system, our legal system--all of them once the envy of the world--and our favoritism to big business in tax cuts, land and other benefits, and our reliable banking system, to build themselves into global corporate megaliths, and now crap all over our heads and all over the rest of the world, from the polluted cotton fields of Uzbekistan to their mid-ocean oil spills to their corporate oil war, and with their slaveshop labor and their pittance wages with no benefits.

That's what Fox is doing to Mexico. The same thing. The rich get super-rich--and the poor and the middle class get shafted.

Well, I hope your friends wake up and join the revolution. If they think Fox/Calderon are going to protect what little they have, they are fools.