When the United States catches a cold…
30 May 2008
… Mexico develops pneumonia. And when the U.S. is really down in the dumps…
Report from Al-Jazeera:
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1:46 “Other observers say the amount of remittances sent from the US to Mexico should begin to rise in a year or two, once the US economy is back on its feet again.”
Is there any concrete basis for believing the US economy is going to get back on its feet again, instead of continuing along the present path?
I question that myself. Maybe Al Jazeera knows something we don’t… or they’re hoping they can keep selling oil, and the U.S. will keep paying for it. Who knows/
The US economy will rebound, it always does. It would be a faster process if we would quit turning corn into fuel, drill for more oil in our own country, develope shale oil into profitability, and quit worying about GM and GE foods.
The Democratic party is too protectionist with the US economy and wants nothing more than to have higher gas prices so that “alternative” fuels will be equal to the price of gas. These people really don’t care how many people are starving in Indonesia due to farm subsidies that get paid to produce ethonol.
Their goal is to have government management of the economy. When the Democrats took over congress in 2006 they promissed to raise the minimum wage and investigate the fuel profits of the oil companies. They have done those things and it has given us nothing but a worse economy due to their obstruction of the free market.
The sad fact is that this will likely go down as Bush’s failure and they will gain the presidency based upon a bad situation that they created in Congress. Bush is no free trade conservative and he is far not liberal enough on personal freedom, his entire presidency will be concidered as a Centrist who couldn’t figure out what to do or how to get it done.
He might have worked as a dictator, but as an elected and limmited power President, he faced too much opposition from his own party to get any of his great ideas passed into law. (like immigration reform aka “Amnesty for illegals”, perhaps a map towards a realistic North American Union, Education reform and the voucher system, and Domestic Oil Exploration)
We were left with increased spending on nearly all social programs, more border wall BS, and more environmental regulation.
And now Libertarian and Conservative voters are left with another Big Government Centrist Republican that wets his finger to see where the political wind is blowing that day. Reagan is never going to come back to life it seems. Obama would be another Jimmy Carter, and Hillary has no chance of winning. President McCain might just be more of the same appathy for everyone. That is unless Bob Barr becomes the next Ross Perot.