The Bush regime hopes to establish a similar system in North America, but first existing labor rights in Mexico must be destroyed, and then labor rights in the rest of North America brought down to what are presently sub-Mexican levels, and then free labor mobility with equal rights for all can be pursued.
However with two more years to go and even supposedly "conservative" Democrats espousing populist economic views, there may not be enough time. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
That's the plan, but you don't want to say that on "progressive" websites like Daily Kos.
There's an unfortunate tendency even among people passing themselves of as "people power" advocates to denigrate the intervention of the state in the economy.
Because they think that they economy is more just than the ballot box. Individuals in society express the intensity of their preference through spending greater sums of money. And the preferences of those without money, they get cast to the side.
Because the value of human life isn't intrinsic, rather it comes from the money you have.
I want to bash my head into the wall when I listen to these people, because the moment you challenge their market fundamentalism you somehow are cast as the extremist. And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
