Thread: Mexican Crime Adversely Affects the Economy

Mexican Crime Adversely Affects the Economy

Written by John Fisher
Monday, 08 September 2008 21:50



Mexico's finance minister, Agustin Carstens, says that crime and violence have had a significant impact on the country's economy, cutting growth by 1 percent.

Crime has stopped companies from investing and creating new jobs. This year in Mexico at least 2,700 people have been killed and 300 kidnapped, mostly in drugs-related violence.

The need for extra security is increasing business costs by up to 10 percent, damaging job creation, sales and development. This translates into a loss of at least one percent in growth. The situation in Mexico proves the importance of stability through the rule of law. Not only is the proper application of the rule of law, as opposed to the arbitrary rule of a unitary leader's whim, important to the maintenance of a free people, but it is also a singular necessity for a productive economy. In Mexico, or anywhere else, a stronger rule of law would created the trust that is necessary to entice companines to invest in the economy.

While more than 30,000 Mexican troops have also been assigned to fight drug trafficking and related violence, the country is not safer.
Despite public anger, drug cartels and kidnappers continue to threaten the peace, often with the assistance of corrupt police officers.

This is the state of the country that our leaders would bring into a North American Union with us. Even now this corruption seeps across our borders and into our heartland through the constant flow of illegal immigration and drug smuggling. The NAU would only exacerbate the problem and open our borders further to crime.

Integration with Mexico would only serve to put greater burdens on the rule of law within the United States. And as demonstrated in Mexico itself, that leads to an underperforming economy, joblessness, and poverty.

Dr. John Fisher teaches communications and researches in the area of mass media and political decision making.
http://www.jbs.org/index.php/jbs-news-f ... he-economy

A little reminder of why kidnapping for ransom is so rare in the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping

Integration with Mexico would only serve to put greater burdens on the rule of law within the United States. And as demonstrated in Mexico itself, that leads to an underperforming economy, joblessness, and poverty.

I said that from the very start when they talked about the NAU. No way! It's mixing oil and water. I could see us with Canada, but not Mexico. And with the vast cultural differences and attitudes.....they'd do better joining with South America and letting us protect our borders.

Bush will send them a check to help their economy so he can sink ours more!
The idiot just sent Georgia (near Russia) 1 BILLION!!!
Like we have that money.

It's to fix their infrastructure, and ours is terrible.
He is trying to spend all the money he can in order to get that Amero in and then the NAU follows.
I will be very surprised if he steps down as President.
He will invade Iran next probably, to stop that from happening!

I am sure American business can't wait to set up or expand their businesses in Mexico. No wonder that country's No. 2 contribution to their GDP is remittances from (and grants) from the US. Be ready for more starving and threatened Mexicans flooding across the border.