General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMexican Senator to Introduce a Bill to Stop Buying US Corn.
Mexico is ready to hit the U.S. where it hurts: Corn.It's one of the first signs of potential concrete action from Mexico in response to President Trump's threats against the country.
"I'm going to send a bill for the corn that we are buying in the Midwest and...change to Brazil or Argentina," Rios Piter, 43, told told CNN's Leyla Santiago on Sunday at an anti-Trump protest in Mexico City.
They loved Trump to death in Iowa.
Mexico is one of the world's largest importers of US corn. Corn purchases by Mexico are about $2.4 billion dollars.
"As you sow, so shall you reap." - Galatians, 6 .
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Zoonart
(11,855 posts)so shall ye reap."
malaise
(268,956 posts)You were saying Groper Don the Con?
msongs
(67,395 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)In other countries.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)It was my understanding that NAFTA caused Mexican corn farmers and their workers to go broke, because they couldn't compete with our US government subsidized corn.
Maybe we can save money on the subsidies, and we'll just turn the rest of it to ethanol.
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)The biggest 3 corn producing states selling to Mexico. I think Illinois might be 4th.
OK so have fun with those discussions Trump. Those GOP Reps, Governors, and Senators will be thrilled.
anarch
(6,535 posts)And I doubt people are too keen to fuck up beautiful Texas park lands with a stupid, pointless wall.
And yet somehow the state votes Republican. I don't get it.
I'm convinced that, especially with the changing demographics, Texas will turn blue if we get out the vote--look at how the results came in for Central and Southern Texas...I think if all the non-white/non-Southern Baptist/fundamentalist Xtian voters actually got out and voted, it would have happened already. I think getting a strong enough voter turnout would overcome even the ridiculous gerrymandering...
We turn TX blue, that's pretty much it for Republicans as far as national elections are concerned.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)NNadir
(33,515 posts)Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)HAB911
(8,890 posts)PdxSean
(574 posts)The Republican controlled congress will simply increase the corporate welfare, i.e. corn "subsidies," to the affected red states. No muss, no fuss.
Yes, I've become cynical in my old age.
NickB79
(19,233 posts)As are my RW farmer uncles?
Couldn't happen to better people. My sick dream is to see another farm crisis crash land prices and buy up the 30 acres of farmland behind my house to plant my own prairie/oak savanna restoration and permaculture refuge.
NNadir
(33,515 posts)...deserves.