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alp227

(31,962 posts)
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 02:11 AM Sep 2012

Middle-class Mexicans snap up more products ‘Made in USA’

MEXICO CITY — When the governor of Colorado came to Mexico on a trade mission this year to see the sights, “one of the most amazing” was a Costco.

“It was as big, clean and modern as any in America,” recalled Gov. John Hickenlooper (D), who found the aisles filled with shoppers bearing “nothing but positive feelings toward the United States.”

Especially toward U.S. stuff.

The Costco was stocked with products stamped “Made in U.S.A.,” including some of the $755 million in goods that Colorado exports to Mexico each year: marbled slabs of steak from Greeley, cans of pinto beans from Holyoke and sacks of russet potatoes out of Monte Vista.

Trade between the United States and Mexico is surging, up 17 percent in 2011 to a record $461 billion, as Mexico vies with China to become America’s second-largest trading partner after Canada. China and the United States did $502 billion in trade last year.

The growing middle class that is fast becoming Mexico’s majority is buying more U.S. goods than ever, while turning Mexico into a more democratic, dynamic and prosperous American ally.

full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/middle-class-mexicans-snap-up-more-products-made-in-usa/2012/09/09/27c9d1b4-f212-11e1-892d-bc92fee603a7_singlePage.html

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Middle-class Mexicans snap up more products ‘Made in USA’ (Original Post) alp227 Sep 2012 OP
China will be doing this too. In the end I think it's a positive thing. dkf Sep 2012 #1
Good to hear :) n/t Tx4obama Sep 2012 #2
You're from TX, so I wonder what you'd think about Ross Perot's 'giant sucking sound' quote. alp227 Sep 2012 #3
Hmmm. Tx4obama Sep 2012 #4
“It was as big, clean and modern as any in America,” Scootaloo Sep 2012 #5
That rubbed me the wrong way, too. Odin2005 Sep 2012 #6

alp227

(31,962 posts)
3. You're from TX, so I wonder what you'd think about Ross Perot's 'giant sucking sound' quote.
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 02:24 AM
Sep 2012

That was during a debate in 1992 when third-partier from Texas, Ross Perot, ran on an anti-NAFTA platform and got near 20% of the vote. Was he right?

Tx4obama

(36,974 posts)
4. Hmmm.
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 02:50 AM
Sep 2012




All I am going to say is that back in 1992 I was fairly young and I didn't know very much at all about politics - and I was one of the Texans that voted for Perot.

Economics, trade agreements, and such are not my strong point. I haven't really studied the issues surrounding them therefore I do cannot have an educated opinion regarding those.

I'm going to say that having a level trading policy with other countries sounds like it makes sense.
One thing that I do know is that we need to do something that will stop American companies from shipping our jobs overseas.
And we need to do something to stop American companies from putting their money in off shore accounts to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
Giving companies tax breaks for creating jobs here in The USA is something that I can support.

Okay, now I am totally embarrassed but at least I've told the truth

p.s. I don't think that the shipping of jobs over seas is the whole problem for the job loss in The USA - one of the biggest loss of jobs, in my opinion is due to modern technology. In the old days there used to be more bank tellers, telephone operators, folks that worked at gas stations pumping gas, factory workers, etc. Nowadays many of the jobs that people used to do are done by computers/automation.

And there are other types of jobs that have been just eliminated for no reason other than companies wanting to save money: the folks that would to take your groceries out to your car, nurses aides in hospitals (haven't seen one of those in at least the past two decades), etc.



 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
5. “It was as big, clean and modern as any in America,”
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 02:54 AM
Sep 2012

...And why would you expect otherwise, mr. Hickenlooper?

What, were you expecting dirt floors and live chickens strung up by their feet?

Odin2005

(53,521 posts)
6. That rubbed me the wrong way, too.
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 01:40 PM
Sep 2012

The middle class looks similar pretty much anywhere you go, it is the middle class' most distinctive feature.

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