Charlie Rose

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/13/2011 03:52 AM Report

By the way, there would be no Rick Perry without illegals from Mexico. They are the ones in Texas who build the houses, mow the lawns, take care of the kids and cook the restaurant food.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/13/2011 03:49 AM Report

Remember in May? The death toll was 36K according to the President: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11664

President Calderon says the drug cartels have gone "retail" in Mexico. This is because the per capita income has increased to $10K per year. So then if Mexico legalizes drugs doesn't this kill the "retail" sales of the cartels and they go underground again?

Perhaps the 36,000+ deceased Mexicans (now it is 50K!!!) would then thank him from the grave?

robdverity  08/12/2011 05:09 PM Report

As I have cited before, the big US banks launder the drug money for the cartels. We are indeed duplicit.

mando074  08/12/2011 12:58 PM Report

@SharkswithfrikingLazers:

If the U.S. gets into international conflicts in order to protect its own financial assets and interests throughout the world and believes it’s ok to sacrifice the lives of its own citizens to achieve this goal it’s completely ok.

What is not ok is for the U.S. to ask other countries to do the same sacrifices I mentioned above to protect U.S. financial interests at home and abroad. In other words its not ok for the U.S to ask other countries to do the U.S.’s dirty work.

The U.S. wants Mexico to continue its “war on drugs” at the financial expense and citizen sacrifice of the Mexican people. The drug “problem” is a U.S. problem. The citizens in the U.S. who fund the drug cartels by purchasing their drug products are the problem. Simple supply and demand, the demand needs to be dealt with so the supply is cut off. The problem with U.S. policy is it always tries to blame someone else for its problems for political reasons. Typical “never take responsibility” and live without consequences attitude.

If people here in the U.S. do not like the drug problem, if they don’t like how destructive it is, then they should do more to the American citizens who use, buy and sell drugs here in the U.S.

The drug “problem” is an American problem because it is funded by U.S. citizens. Do you think the drug cartels would survive without the funding of American citizens? Be honest and quit blaming others for your (U.S.’s) problems.

JESUSKIN  08/11/2011 09:39 PM Report

JORGE CASTANEDA UNDOUBTEDLY THE DOCTOR IS ONE OF THE MEXICAN THAT COMMON help integrate AGREEMENTS BETWEEN BOTH COUNTRIES DUE TO THE GREAT PREPARATION AND CORRECT UNDERSTANDING OF BOTH COUNTRIES WITH GOOD COMMUNICATION FLUENT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/11/2011 06:34 PM Report

Fifty thousand dead! 50,000! 50,000!!!!

America lost:

58K in Vietnam

37K in Korea

13K in the Mexican-American war

5K in our War on Terror

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_casualties_of_war

Mexico--what in the hell are you doing?

tonacio  08/11/2011 04:33 PM Report

Drugs From South America not just a US problem It is world crisis .And the Methamphetamine that is produced in Mexico is also a matter of concern. Extortion of it's tourists in that country has caused many to go elsewhere.So sad when you blame others for it's mismanagement .

REMant  08/11/2011 11:00 AM Report

I would wonder about the substantiality of middle-class gains in Mexico. I'm sure a real increase Latin American well-being would have a considerable effect on drug production (as it would no doubt on American demand as well). It sounds, however, like others of his party, he believes Mexico ought to be the 51st state. It is incidentally a common mistake, I think, to believe that traditional societies, both Indian and Latin, are less individualistic than our own. A more realistic view is found commonly enough in literature, but social scientists tend to be primitivists.