Farewell to a changed, subtle Iran

[Urbane Guerrilla]

My point, of course, is that this ends up being an improvement of their condition. Billions of US dollars in remittances (or envios, as the Spanish has it) going south don't lie -- they are affording to do this, and en masse. I live in the middle of where this sort of thing is going on, and frankly, what I see is a lot of these people earning enough to put them in at least the lower middle class. The crop pickers mostly get to the fields in private automobiles -- of various vintages, never the very newest, no doubt a couple-three per vehicle, but private autos.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

My point, of course, is that this ends up being an improvement of their condition. Billions of US dollars in remittances (or envios, as the Spanish has it) going south don't lie -- they are affording to do this, and en masse. I live in the middle of where this sort of thing is going on, and frankly, what I see is a lot of these people earning enough to put them in at least the lower middle class. The crop pickers mostly get to the fields in private automobiles -- of various vintages, never the very newest, no doubt a couple-three per vehicle, but private autos.

Well whoopee fuckin' doo.... they can scrape together a few bucks to buy a used car. Maybe it's because there are limited things they can spend their money on.

Can they buy a house? Can the become part of the general community where the people that hire them live? Can they pay for hospitalization if they get sick? No, they are in limbo... at the mercy of the whims of the boss man.

Even the billions of dollars being shipped to Mexico do nothing but allow those left behind to exist. Nothing gets fixed, corruption remains rampant, even personal property rights are tenuous. Why? Because they are running away instead of fixing there own country. The Dickensian bosses allow, no, encourage, this to happen.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.