At 10:52 AM 2/16/00 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote:
>The peasantry of Latin America has been driven into the
>cities by the "anti-guerilla" actions of the local military (which wouldn't
>be possible without US support), have had their ancestral lands stolen by the
>large corporate agri-business, timber companies, etc., and turned into
>wage-slaves for corporate profit. We see the exact same pattern occurring in
>the US, and this pattern is escalating as our local industry moves their
>operations to the Third World, leaving US factory folk, who were making a
>living, sometimes a "good" living, scrambling; and US farmers being kicked
>off the farm in droves by the machinations of corporate agri-business and
>banks/Federal Reserve. They just have a bigger cliff to fall off of, but
>they'll soon be in the same boat as the peasants of Latin America.
Harmon, you might want to do some checking. The biggest migrations in the
US now, are away from the cities, not into them. This tends to invalidate
the model you present above. Also, being driven into the city |= moving to
the city to find a better paying job.
I'll let Tim respond to your other trolls, ;)
Reese
