Woh, Mexico, never really been, so I don't really know.
--James Taylor "Mexico"
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
--Ann Coulter
“Okay, yes — Trump shouldn’t call them “shithole countries.” A little respect is in order. They are shithole nations.”
--Ann Coulter
I spoke with a man yesterday who works for a company which makes medical devices. He travels to Mexico on business frequently, mostly Guadalajara, but elsewhere as well.
He told me his company had a million square feet of manufacturing space in Mexico, that there were plenty of well educated workers down there, many of whom spoke English. He described shopping malls and suburbs and wealthy communities untouched by the drug cartels and vast landscapes of automobile manufacturing plants. He said the automobile plants and the medical device plants were pristine and their products world class quality. Guadalajara is in the center of Mexico so it can truck its products to the East Coast and ship them to the United States or it can send them to the West Coast and off to China. It's a great place for any manufacturer, American, German or Chinese.
And the landscape of factories is vast, seems to go on to the horizon.
It sounded as if he were describing China.
I expressed amazement. I thought Mexico was over run by drug cartels, the people most illiterate, but certainly uneducated. Not that I assumed Mexicans are rapists, narco terrorists, but still, pretty close to a desperate, failed state.
"Not the Mexico I know," he said. "That sounds more like Alabama. We got a plant in Alabama, too. But it's in the part of Alabama where all the space program people live. There's parts of Alabama where the defense plants are, and people are well educated and affluent. But my kid went to Georgia Tech, and I gotta tell you, there are parts of Georgia...well, let me put it this way, if they deported a lot of those White, Christian Georgia folks to Mexico, those folks would be taking a step up in life."
American business people are apt to travel nowadays. The rapists on the other side of the wall on our Southern border are not just an applause line to them. They know something about the world Donald Trump and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh and Louie Gohmert do not know.
I am so parochial I cannot know about the rest of the world. But at least I know I'm ignorant.
But I can see from what I've seen in America, wealth and poverty have an osmotic relationship. When you have poor people living in squalid and unsafe conditions, they tend to want to leave those places and they move toward places where there is more wealth, where the streets are cleaner and safer, just as if you put a highly concentrated space in any organism next to a more dilute space, water travels from more concentrated to less concentrated; it moves along what is called an "osmotic gradient" ineluctably. Eventually both spaces have equal concentration of solute and you have what's called "osmotic equilibrium."
Likely the same happens with respect to wealth. There's always movement.
Of course, you have membranes along the border, separating the inside from the outside, but all membranes have to be porous to some extent, or what lives inside would eventually perish. Things have to move back and forth across that membranous border, or the cell dies.
--James Taylor "Mexico"
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.
--Ann Coulter
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| Professor Coulter |
--Ann Coulter
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| Can I say something to get a rise out of you? |
I spoke with a man yesterday who works for a company which makes medical devices. He travels to Mexico on business frequently, mostly Guadalajara, but elsewhere as well.
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| J.T. |
He told me his company had a million square feet of manufacturing space in Mexico, that there were plenty of well educated workers down there, many of whom spoke English. He described shopping malls and suburbs and wealthy communities untouched by the drug cartels and vast landscapes of automobile manufacturing plants. He said the automobile plants and the medical device plants were pristine and their products world class quality. Guadalajara is in the center of Mexico so it can truck its products to the East Coast and ship them to the United States or it can send them to the West Coast and off to China. It's a great place for any manufacturer, American, German or Chinese.
And the landscape of factories is vast, seems to go on to the horizon.
It sounded as if he were describing China.
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| Mexican industry |
I expressed amazement. I thought Mexico was over run by drug cartels, the people most illiterate, but certainly uneducated. Not that I assumed Mexicans are rapists, narco terrorists, but still, pretty close to a desperate, failed state.
"Not the Mexico I know," he said. "That sounds more like Alabama. We got a plant in Alabama, too. But it's in the part of Alabama where all the space program people live. There's parts of Alabama where the defense plants are, and people are well educated and affluent. But my kid went to Georgia Tech, and I gotta tell you, there are parts of Georgia...well, let me put it this way, if they deported a lot of those White, Christian Georgia folks to Mexico, those folks would be taking a step up in life."
American business people are apt to travel nowadays. The rapists on the other side of the wall on our Southern border are not just an applause line to them. They know something about the world Donald Trump and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh and Louie Gohmert do not know.
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| Mexican rapists at work |
I am so parochial I cannot know about the rest of the world. But at least I know I'm ignorant.
But I can see from what I've seen in America, wealth and poverty have an osmotic relationship. When you have poor people living in squalid and unsafe conditions, they tend to want to leave those places and they move toward places where there is more wealth, where the streets are cleaner and safer, just as if you put a highly concentrated space in any organism next to a more dilute space, water travels from more concentrated to less concentrated; it moves along what is called an "osmotic gradient" ineluctably. Eventually both spaces have equal concentration of solute and you have what's called "osmotic equilibrium."
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| Factory in Ann's shithole country: Mexico |
Likely the same happens with respect to wealth. There's always movement.
Of course, you have membranes along the border, separating the inside from the outside, but all membranes have to be porous to some extent, or what lives inside would eventually perish. Things have to move back and forth across that membranous border, or the cell dies.
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