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A Word with My Republican Friends

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We are all concerned about our economy and jobs, the first President to propose American factories inside Mexico was Lyndon Johnson. Do you know which Presidents favored expanding this program? All of them! Do you know which candidates favored NAFTA? George Bush Sr., Al Gore, Dan Quayle and Bill Clinton only Ross Perot disagreed and was portrayed as a nut and a looney tune by both parties. That giant sucking sound Perot warned us about was coming from our candidates.

The passage of NAFTA prompted tens of thousands of Mexican workers to pull up stakes and move from central Mexico to northern Mexico in search of jobs. The Mexican minimum wage is three dollars a day and if they could land a factory jobs making three dollars an hour that's a pretty strong inducement for poor people to move!

In 2001 after a full court press by the Clinton administration China joined the world trade organisation. The incoming Bush administration welcomed this and thought it was the greatest thing to come along since Cheney's pacemaker. Everyone, Republicans and Democrats welcomed the move. Except, since that time employment in Mexico has fallen. All most half of those low wage jobs moved on to even lower waged China leaving Mexican workers with a choice of going all the way back home to work for three dollars a day if they can get
it or going a little further north.

The drug violence and gangsterism along the border is reminiscent of Al Capone's Chicago in
the thirties. With little honest work available more and more turn to drug trafficking. With increased competition for a slice of the market the gangs add soldiers to fight for their turf, no differently than Al Capone or Bugs Moran.

My point is that there is enough blame to go around. A bad idea is a bad idea no matter who is its father. Today both parties suggest cutting spending because of the economy. Cutting
spending will mean less money circulating through the general economy and more money flowing in the banking economy. Does that make sense to you? When the fire dies down in the fireplace do you take wood out or add wood to get the fire going again?

There is too much rhetoric and not enough honest talk about real solutions. We all live in this
country together and calling each other names will not make our political opponents either leave or be silent. How can we begin to solve these problems if we cannot even call each other by our proper names but instead resort to grade school name calling tactics.

Ask yourself, if you wear a funny hat and carry an ugly sign to a political rally just how serious are you about politics? Is it a game? Did the founding fathers rant about the people whom they disliked, or did they talk about working together?

I have many disagreements with Barack Obama on his policies but they don't extend to his wife or his children or his dog. I simply disagree with the way he wants to run the government. I'm a liberal Democrat, Barack Obama is further to the right than Nixon, has cut more taxes than Reagan and spent more on the military than Bush. That's the reason I have problems with Barack Obama but I still don"t understand why so many Republicans do.

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