Economic reality: Why I reluctantly said goodbye to Mexico last week...
While all my neighbors in Berkeley were stoically trying to endure
all those adverse weather conditions from Hell including heavy storms, flood
waters and two-day power outages, I was happily down in sunny Mexico and
having a fabulous time. If only I could afford it and could speak Spanish
and didn't look like such a Gringo, I would gladly move south of the
border forever.
Mexico is a warm friendly safe happy country filled
with history, creativity and helpful community values. Drug lords and
street gangs are just a small part of the story down there. Most places
in Mexico are safer at night than New York City.
"But if Mexico is such a heaven on earth," you might say, "then why are
millions of Mexicans choosing to leave it in droves, sneak into America
and steal all our jobs?"
Good question. And I have a good answer too. "Economic reality."
The pay scale is much better here in America -- or at least it used to
be before COV$D, Ukra$ne, the Federal Re$erve, central bank dig$tal
currency, bank fa$lures, $raq, Afghan$stan, L$bya and 9-$1 happened to
us. Not to mention getting stuck with Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush lite,
Obama, Trump and Biden. "You just don't like authority figures,
Jane," said my friend. Got that one right -- especially ones that lie through their
teeth and think that "war" is a fun sport and not the major cause of climate
catastrophe. But I digress.
What's not to love about Mexico? Before the Europeans invaded, Mexico
had a highly impressive pre-Columbian civilization. And there are still
Aztecs, Mayans, Zapotecs and Mixtecs living there now. And they are
hard-working, friendly people who smile a lot. Who the freak would ever
voluntarily want to leave Mexico? Not me. And probably not them
either.
Remember seeing all those long lines of immigrants on TV, crossing the
Rio Grande with only the clothes on their backs? Do you honestly
imagine that any one of those desperate people wouldn't much rather be
back in their homes, with their families, if it weren't for the drug
lords supplied with U.S. weapons and the poverty encouraged by Latin
America's greedy neighbor to the north?
Whenever I see a Mexican ex-pat living up here in America, I just want
to give him or her a warm hug and say, "So sorry that you've been
forced to leave your lovely home to come up here to this cold unfriendly
place. I feel your pain. Economic reality's a bitch."
PS:
Speaking of human migrations, one of the saddest things I ever saw was a
deserted room in a deserted home in Baghdad back in 2007. It was covered in
dust. A broken toy doll lay in one corner.
"A university professor and his family used to live here before they
were forced to flee from our incoming mortars," said U.S. Army captain
Hernandez, my military escort. "I hear that the whole family died
trying to escape to Syria."
And I recently met a Haitian woman who had fled Port au Prince after U.S.
thugs and enforcers toppled Jean-Bertrand Aristide's popular Lavalas democracy.
And just the other day I read that the dead and bloated bodies of Libyan refugees are still
washing up on the shores of Italy, years after their entire country was
brutally destroyed by the U.S.A. People who once had free university
educations and free medical care under Qaddafi are now just piles of
unclaimed corpses on some deserted European beach.
And let's not forget the millions of terrified refugees who have fled
American-created hell-holes like Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Cuba, Yemen,
Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Honduras, Guatemala, Ukra$ne, Angola, El
Salvador, Allende's Chile, Lumumba's Congo, Iran's Mosaddegh, etc.
It seems like the whole planet Earth has become just one giant ant hill
that's been carelessly kicked open by some sadistic boy named America.
No wonder nobody likes us.
PPS:
Let's review: In its rush to deprive us of our cars, our streets, our stoves and our
cows, the mainstream media always forgets to mention that "war" is the
number-one cause of climate catastrophe. No one in power ever talks
about depriving us of "war".
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