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

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (13085)	7/25/2001 7:48:47 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 59480

What would you think an average Mexican worker makes in the Maquila? The best I have been able to figure is about a buck an hour average. Is poverty, illiteracy, and early death preferable? Have you been to some of the border towns? I think you are right to say that some few skills are gained, , and they have a little more money, but try finding a house in Juarez. Just more rows and rows of shacks, the public transportation is made up of discarded school busses, pollution is very bad. I just think they jumped in with both feet before even attempting to figure out some of the problems it would create. As far as Mexico taking care of the problem;;;; web.net <<<<The ecological situation is almost unimaginable. The border region has been justifiably referred to as a toxic time bomb due to massive poisoning of the water table surrounding the Rio Grande River. Toxic chemicals from the maquilas pollute ditches that run through the colonias or residential districts in which the maquila workers live. Economic development is rapid and chaotic throughout the border region. It takes place with virtually no regard for the impact on the environment. Such horrors exist, and will continue to exist, principally because the Mexican government considers the Maquiladora Zone an indispensable source of employment, hard currency, skill development and the transfer of new technology. Plants located in the Maquiladora Zone are deliberately left alone to do as they please so that Mexico can acquire these things quickly and pay off its crippling national debt. .>>>>> Who do you think will end up paying the cleanup costs----how long before the Mexican government will be screaming "reparations"?