Puerto Peñasco Helicopter Gunship Action
This post is NOT intended to spark a bunch of nonsense drivel from people who never go to Mexico. It IS intended to encourage comments from RV'ers who were or are in Puerto Peñasco (Rocky Point) who w...
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sonora wrote:soren wrote:qtla9111 wrote:
This is what happens when our neighbors to the north have free rein over drug use. $40 billion worth of drugs is being consumed by a population of 360 million. Somebody has to pay the price for their vices. Unfortunately, it us who live, work and play in Mexico. The tables are turning now and the cartels are well-embedded in the U.S. and Canada. This will soon be common practice on your side of the fence too.
Don't know where you might find this alledged "free rein" with regard to drug use. I do know you will find a government addicted to the fraudulent, and failed, "war on drugs" and a society that incarcerates more of it's citizens that any other country on the planet, in many cases at a rate 5X greater that other first world nations. As for paying the price for these vices, when the fraudulent war is abandoned, these drugs will be worth a fraction of that $40billion, and the rate of abuse and addiction won't change a bit. It is what it is, a big government game, doesn't matter if the game is happening in Des Moines or Mexico City, it's all B.S. and it will only change when our citizens get tired of seeing their future wasted on mass incarceration, and hundreds of billions wasted while the government chases it's own tail. Channeling your bitterness toward the citizens of a foreign nation is a bit like cursing the sky when it rains......
Chris is not "channeling any bitterness toward another country". He is just stating the truth. Apparently you can't handle the truth.
Our "War" on drugs is a joke. Until the end user gets hammered with draconian penalties like in other countries you will always have a demand.
I doubt this country will ever have the stomach for a serious solution to this problem.
It's just like immigration reform, on the table for 28 years and no resolution. Why not? It isn't convenient for the country. 12 million illegals in the U.S.? Is that Mexico's fault? No, how silly to think that. Thousands of border patrol agents, national guard, cameras, drones and the U.S. "borders" all still porous. Bring home the troops and have them do what they were meant to do, PROTECT THE U.S., not some middle eastern country where people don't give a rat's behind about us. There is a market for illegals in the poultry industry, home services industry, construction, and factory workers. Americans love cheap, lets face it, who doesn't?
Mexico imports illegals in the coffee plantations from Guatemala. All countries do it to keep prices down. Imagine the U.S. with minimum wage of 7.25 an hour to pay people to pick produce. People will start crying about food prices and the one's on the bottom wrung would go hungry. Fact not fiction.
