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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (13082)	7/25/2001 3:32:47 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 59480

Yes! I am for the improvement of the common lot, and that means invention, investment, and dynamic, free markets in capital, goods, and services throughout the globe. I hate to contemplate the conditions that many people live in, but the best cure is multi- national investment.......

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (13082)	7/25/2001 5:38:53 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

I wonder how many Mexicans now working in maquiladores would go back to their previous existence. yes, but as the overwhelming majority of Mexican Maquilas are owned by US companies, are they really helping the workers up , or them bringing everything down? they and them being the owners. A study shows that a Mexican worker on the border, spends 70% of his paycheck in the US. How does that help Mexico? The degradation of the whole border region is starting to be very evident. Example, read: More directly, the maquiladora industry's production and irregular disposal of waste material blights the region. The assembly plants dump everything from raw sewage through toxic metals into the local environment.4 Numerous reports document the industry's unsafe and illegal disposal practices. They include a case of children being intoxicated at a dump in Ciudad Juárez by sniffing green rocks covered with a solvent containing toluene; and a maquiladora that closed and left in an abandoned building a dozen 55-gallon drums of hazardous material. In 1991, the Texas Water Commission claimed that only sixty percent of the hazardous wastes going from the U. S. to Mexico were being accounted for and returned to the U. S. The other 40 percent may be stored on the Mexican side or disposed of illegally. In 1995 the Mexican Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection asserted that the final disposition of 25 percent, or 13,000 tons, of hazardous and toxic wastes produced by the maquiladora industry were not accounted for. natlaw.com And just the sheer numbers have posed bigtime problems that are not being addressed: In 1970 there were approx. 160 Maquilla type plants with annual average employees of 20,300. In 1995 that had grown to 2136 plants with 497,000 people. In 2000 over 3000 plants and over 1 million people. Disposal of sewage, industrial waste, industrial solvents, have all taken a back seat to the American dollar. The water situation in the Rio Grande border area will be critical in the not too distant future. So there is a lot more at stake than just some folks being able to get to the mall, or what we in the USA consider "poor". While not believing we can put anything into static mode, we seem to have run to a dangerous position too fast. HAve we really done anyone any big favors?