Militarized Immigration

I simply stated that this Mexican president has failed to keep his citizens safe. There is more crime, murder, and chaos. If he concentrated more on the people of Mexico RATHER than Government control of everything maybe there would not be that many people being chopped into pieces and hung from bridges.

Actually from what I understand crime and murders are down somewhat but whatevs.

Even if what you say is true I'm puzzled as to what AMLO shouid do. Various presidents have tried various strategies to combat this problem: A get-tough militarized policy - that didn't work. A laissez-faire, live-and-let-live policy - that didn't work. A hybrid strategy and that didn't work either. The truth is that the cartels have more resources and firepower than the government has, and that disparity will remain as long as US thinking remains somewhere in the Cretaceous Era, thus guaranteeing that stratospheric drug profits, and cartel criminal behavior, will continue on unimpeded. The cartels and the US government have a kind of symbiotic relationship that way. US military intervention might work, temporarily, but Mexicans are understandably leery of US intentions, and will make the calculation that an intervention would be worse, and probably much worse, than the cartels themselves.

Easy to make accusations. Much harder to actually come up with a workable solution.

Reading skills are so important.

Writing skills are more important.

I simply stated that this Mexican president has failed to keep his citizens safe.

That is not at all what you did. You stated that the Mexican president is the scariest thing you have ever seen, then you went on a multi-sentence rant about socialism. Then as a loose thought, unrelated to any previous comment in the posting, you said that the president can’t keep his people safe.

I do not care what your whataboutism is for, or for in America.

I understand why you would not want to discuss the record of the failed former president of the USA. Was he responsible for the tens of thousands of killings in the USA during his four years of failures?

100,000+ Americans Have Been Killed by Gun Violence Since Trump Took Office

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Gas now costs me $5.41 a gallon [usd] and my electric bill is about 3 times more than in the USA. All brought to me by the socialists of Mexico.

Now we know the extent, and limited nature, of what you know.

Good thing the Mexican Gobermint does not have control of tomato production.

Guessing you will include another response about toilet paper. RATHER THAN how the Mexican Gobermint represses its own people financially by killing competition and free markets.

I’m not about to defend the poor quality of service I have experienced from CFE, but I don’t believe that is a function of government ownership. I live part-time in British Columbia, Canada, a place that you may well consider the be a hell-hole of socialism.

Our electric system is owned and operated by the provincial government. We are just north of Washington state. Our government-owned and operated ferry system is much more extensive than that of Washington State. Americans marvel at how well-developed our ferry system is. It’s only recent significant problems occurred when a right-wing government tried to operate it as a private business and installed an American as president. He ran it into the ground until “choosing early retirement’.

By the way, both of the ferry system and the electric grid were privately-owned and were “nationalized” by a right-wing government in the 1950s. No government has dared to return to the bad-old-days of private ownership of these important public utilities.

Vehicle insurance is mandatory and is provided exclusively by the government owned and operated insurance corporation.

I enjoy high quality health care through the public system, including hospital care, without having to worry about how I will pay for it. Prescription medications are now largely covered by a provincial pharmacare program to be superseded by a federal pharmacare program.

Flaws of CFE are not the result of government ownership, they are affected by of challenges of hundreds of years of colonialism followed by decades of revolutions, including foreign (largely American) interference.

If the flaws were the function of government ownership, TelMex would not have its long history of unsatisfactory service.

We repeatedly see that “free markets” are anything but free. The capitalist markets are oligopolies. “Competition” is a gentlemen’s club of understandings of what prices will maximize profits for the wealthy.

I mean, how many brands of toilet paper do we really need, all wrapped in disposable colorful plastic? Current capitalism will kill the last of every species because it can fetch a price some rich asshole will pay. Current capitalism will continue concentrating more wealth into the hands of fewer people.

Might it be possible that even you know one has lost the conversation when toilet paper somehow makes a point?

I posted much more than that, but no surprise you simply ignore the most relevant parts of my argument to be snarky.

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Gas now costs me $5.41 a gallon [usd] and my electric bill is about 3 times more than in the USA. All brought to me by the socialists of Mexico.

Good! It should be expensive to kill the planet with petroleum products. And CFE bills on excessive use. Do you run A/C all day and night?

Good thing the Mexican Gobermint does not have control of tomato production.

"Might it be possible that even you know one has lost the conversation when tomatoes somehow make a point? "

Guessing you will include another response about toilet paper. RATHER THAN how the Mexican Gobermint represses its own people financially by killing competition and free markets.

Killing free market competition? What the hell are you talking about? Foreign investment in Mexico exceeded 29 billion dollars in just the first half of the year. I don't see any foreign investors pulling out of Mexico, quite the opposite. I certainly don't feel financially repressed. Whose competition was killed? A few predatory petrochemical companies? Ask Canada and the Chinese how their mining operations are going.

socialism, social and economic doctrine that calls for public rather than private ownership or control of property and natural resources. According to the socialist view, individuals do not live or work in isolation but live in cooperation with one another. Furthermore, everything that people produce is in some sense a social product, and everyone who contributes to the production of a good is entitled to a share in it. Society as a whole, therefore, should own or at least control property for the benefit of all its members.

This conviction puts socialism in opposition to capitalism, which is based on private ownership of the means of production and allows individual choices in a free market to determine how goods and services are distributed.

I do not want to redefine Socialism today. This definition will do!

Your definition simply underscores that you don't know what socialism is or how it's practiced in the real world. But if you're so against it then be consistent and refuse your SOCIAL Security payments, stop using PUBLIC roads, PUBLIC parks and all PUBLIC services. Personally I prefer socialism blended with MORALLY ETHICAL capitalism.

No one is coming for my property in Mexico. And I'm glad to see socialistic practices reducing poverty in Mexico.

Natural resources should all be socialized, unless you want to start paying for the air you breathe, the sunlight that illuminates your days and the breeze that refreshes you. Under the USA's current form of capitalism most of the world's resources are WASTED so that Joe Blow can have a miniaturized boombox (made with rare earths) and drink flavored sugar-water from plastic bottles (that poison the air, land and sea forever and ruin Joe's health so that he takes up space and resources in a medical facility that someone who's been more careful with their health may need). There's such a thing as too many varieties of a product so that it simply becomes a wasteful endeavor to produce it. I mean, how many brands of toilet paper do we really need, all wrapped in disposable colorful plastic? Current capitalism will kill the last of every species because it can fetch a price some rich asshole will pay. Current capitalism will continue concentrating more wealth into the hands of fewer people. It's a broken system we can no longer afford and it's literally destroying the planet. The USA's healthcare system is a prime example of broken capitalism.

The real problem is none of these "incentives" do anything more than punish ordinary people. $5 a gallon gas is not going to motivate the guy who sells fruit from the back of his '89 F150 to buy an electric vehicle, it just makes him that much poorer. When a Coke in a plastic bottle is almost half the price of an aluminum can, it's no real surprise that the beach is littered with plastic. When power companies literally charge you more for using less and generate artificial shortages, who's going to put out the effort?
I couldn't really care less what my carbon footprint is because as long as governments and corporations refuse to deviate from their profitable status quo, nothing I do will make a damn bit of difference. I care what it costs me to live.

So don't put all this on Joe's lifestyle. Joe is not on his knees in Sam's Club begging for a wider choice of TP. Joe would likely not be buying so much sugar water in plastic bottles if he were able to drink from the faucet, instead of buying water in freakin' plastic bottles!!

Not sure why you're angry with me.

That US$5 (or whatever it is) for gasoline in Mexico is a capitalist-driven market price, not the subsidized price that used to keep gasoline prices artificially low. Ask Europeans about gasoline prices and see how they've innovated and adapted their lifestyles and their public transit systems.

People in Mexico drink sugary drinks (not bottled water) out of bad habit, not for lack of fresh water. You have an odd misconception about the source of the plastic bottles choking up sewers, arroyos, rivers and washing up on our shores. The current federal government has done much to change that with their required product labeling.

Power companies DON'T charge more for using less. YOU have a problem that you haven't fixed.

And I can't help you with your moral dilemma. I've made sacrifices and adjustments pretty much my entire life not to be wasteful or live "the American dream" because it's always been obvious to me that it's an unsustainable lifestyle. I willingly do what I can as do tens of millions of people around the world regardless of their income or what others do or what their governments do. We do so because it's the right thing to do.

The real problem is none of these "incentives" do anything more than punish ordinary people. $5 a gallon gas is not going to motivate the guy who sells fruit from the back of his '89 F150 to buy an electric vehicle, it just makes him that much poorer.

The actual incentives and subsidies have been to petroleum corporations.

“The United States subsidizes the fossil fuel industry with taxpayer dollars. It’s not just the US: according to the International Energy Agency, fossil fuel handouts hit a global high of $1 trillion in 2022 – the same year Big Oil pulled in a record $4 trillion of income.”

“But the really big subsidy is the license to pollute for free. The IMF calls this global free pass an ‘implicit’ fossil fuel subsidy. Economists call it an ‘unpriced externality.’ You tally up the harms, and the IMF estimates it at a $5.4 trillion annual subsidy worldwide. In the United States, it’s $646 billion – every single year.”

US Senate Committee on the Budget

Add up the true costs of petroleum and $5/gallon hardly begins to cover it.

When a Coke in a plastic bottle is almost half the price of an aluminum can, it's no real surprise that the beach is littered with plastic.

The reason there are plastic bottles strewn about is because some governments permit these “unpriced externalities”. (A cost externality is when there is a business cost that the business gets someone else to absorb.)

I walk on the beach most days when I am at my home in Canada most days. I have never seen a plastic bottle on the beach. I walk on the beach in Mexico and it is strewn with plastic bottles. Why? Because where I live in Canada, plastic bottles can be returned for C$0.10 (M$1.26) each.

In Mexico, I sometimes see aluminum can litter, but it doesn’t stay there long. People collect them because they can be sold for recycling. Imagine how quickly the beaches woukd be scoured if every 100 soft drink bottles yielded M$126.

When power companies literally charge you more for using less and generate artificial shortages, who's going to put out the effort?

Nice allegation. Proof?

I couldn't really care less what my carbon footprint is because as long as governments and corporations refuse to deviate from their profitable status quo, nothing I do will make a damn bit of difference. I care what it costs me to live.

At least you are open about your self-interested approach to perhaps the greatest existential threat to human societies after nuclear war. Like the corporations you criticize, you are more interested in generating “unpriced externalities” for yourself.

So don't put all this on Joe's lifestyle. Joe is not on his knees in Sam's Club begging for a wider choice of TP. Joe would likely not be buying so much sugar water in plastic bottles if he were able to drink from the faucet, instead of buying water in freakin' plastic bottles!!

Joe doesn’t have to drink from the faucet. In fact, the idea of drinking from the faucet is preposterous for anyone who thinks about it. In the US and Canada we spend billions of dollars and use many tonnes of processing chemicals to purify water that will be used for watering lawns, cleaning cars, washing pets, flushing down toilets, etc. Consider the stupidity of purifying water to poop in.

In Mexico, a two litre bottle of water is cheaper than a two litre bottle of sugar water. In fact, a two litre bottle of Coke is more expensive than a 19 litre bottle of water.