Hillary Clinton Tells Mexico that U.S. Feeds Mexico's Drug Trade.

How 'bout you go get your brain back from wherever you buried it?

I don't like her either, and I can't for the life of me figure out why she accepted the position Secretary of State........

I very much dislike hillary- but the dems are NOT making this a third world country, I belive we just got back into the white house and are trying to FIX things.

RIGHT ON!!!

I heard a better description this morning Carol......

we are going to become just another "banana republic"......
FOX NEWS.......

who'd buy up all of the houses for sell if we didn't have all the Mexicans working the jobs ? ? ?

This is hilarious - we're being blamed for Mexico's problems? I guess they finally got on the "blame America!" bandwagon, huh? Sheesh, get in line you dumba$$es.

Let me explain, and I'll try to keep it on an elementary level for the current audience.

Supply and demand: simple business principle at the heart of capitalism... prices are determined by it, markets run on it, if there is supply and demand there can be commerce. Mexico has supply and the USA has demand when it comes to the drug trade.

How USA feeds the Mexican Drug Trade: Americans have a much higher standard of living than Mexicans, even now, and a lot more disposable income. Americans have also embraced a very hedonistic lifestyle of instant gratification and "doing your own thing" which, for many, includes taking a lot of drugs that are not legal in the USA and not produced there. With all that disposable income and a preference for consuming recreational drugs, they are the demand part of the equation. Mexico has a struggling, developing economy and many people who are unemployed, underemployed and very poor, but they do have indigenous plants and access to more South American indigenous plants that wealth, drug taking Americans like to buy. They are the supply side of the equation.

So the Mexican drug trade becomes big, if illegal, business feeding the American market and those engaging in it also tend to conduct their other business affairs with similar disregard for the law: by fighting a gang war instead of having stock driven hostile takeovers.

Get it?

Clinton does, and she merely owned up to America's role in the whole sordid mess.

Rory- trueness

The problem is, in some parts of the US, the authorities have been doing a great job at stemming the drug epidemic. This has led to a proliferation of drug use in Mexico. Factor into that the possibility of making 3 or 4 times as much money dealing drugs as you would working in a maquiladora for Ford/GM and you have the problem we face today.

I can not wait for the next electioin. I hope the constitution will last that long.

Rory;

Thanks for breaking it down so that even Republican idiots can understand it.

Poliwonk:

If George Bush and the Republican buffoons didn't destroy it by pissing on it the last eight years, the Constitution will survive.

Legalize drugs and prostitution. Watch both the national dept and organized crime disappear.

If the Constitution survived what Baby Bush, Darth Cheney, and their "crew" did to try and maim, turture and desrtoy it, I think it's prettty resiliant.

she is so..........

Right on.

THANKS

Thanks for sharing.

thanks for breaking that down Rory,,,, as if we needed it.......
it was pretty obvious we didn't need to be told all of that.......

some people are just sick and tired of some people thinking that taking blame and then apologizing for it (whatever it may be)....fixes everything......

learn to read between the lines.........

don't be obtuse Carol. In the absence of american money, there would be a tiny drug trade in mexico, not an enormous one. 6000 mexicans were killed in their drug war last year, mostly due to our continued appetite for cocaine. It is absurd to argue that we have no role in their problems, just as it would be absurd for us to argue that they have no part in our problems.
Rory explained it pretty well. Pay attention.

Carol must have been otherwise occupied for the past few years since she seems to have missed this former headline!

THE WORLD - Bush seeks Mexico drug war money - He asks Congress for $1.4 billion. It would be the largest U.S. aid package to Latin America since 2000.
By Hector Tobar
October 23, 2007

The White House announced Monday a $1.4-billion military and security package to assist Mexico and several Central American countries in their fight against drug-trafficking groups threatening the region's democracies.

Oh and by the way..the article goes on..............

"Democrats on Capitol Hill complained that the Bush administration drafted the proposal without consulting Congress."

"With 'Plan Mexico,' the devil will be in the details, and to this point, details are scarce," Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said in a statement. "Dropping a $1.4-billion plan on our doorstep without much forewarning makes it harder to build a consensus and develop sound policy."

Maybe it is obvious that the problem was IGNORED 2000 to 2007 then Bush never delivered the ways and means (helicopters, etc) to make the 2007 deal anything more than just some more Bush ITT!

Carol, I disagree.

Rory's point about supply and demand is absolutely right. Americans are creating a demand and SOMEONE will create the supply. It's simple economics.

Until we stop the illegal use of drugs... we can expect to fall victim to to the violence. It's a logical consequence of our own actions.

"now that the Democrats are in power, we are fast becoming a third world country"

Ha ha ha! It was the eight years under Bush and republicans that led America into [almost] becoming a third world country.

Savo the destruction led by the last administration is just now coming home to roost. The damage caused by Phil Gramm and his party may very well be the end of the good life.