State Dept, Monsanto, Bully El Salvador

Why are we giving El Salvador $300 million anyway? We can't take care of all their illegal children here much less help them there too. Maybe our evil plan is to send them GM foods so they can't reproduce so we can take over their weakened country!
 
El Salvador is nothing more than the conduit to transfer taxpayer dollars to big business; in this instance Monsanto. The money that actually is spent by the El Salvadorian money is basically a bribe. The rest of the funds go to powerful US interests (Monsanto).

As a side "benefit" the small farmers that lose their livelihood choose to migrate to the US in search of employment. This helps drive down wages which is good for businesses (yea Republicans) and good for left leaning politicians (yea Democrats).
 
I'm pretty sure you have your republican, cheap illegal labor stance all wrong. Why is it you suppose many Republicans want to increase border security, build a fence and send them all back?

I personally want to do all the above and cut off entitlements to force the unemployed Americans to work.
 
I think you are confusing Republican voters with Republican politicians. How many Republican politicians are willing to punish employers for hiring illegals? Very few. Most campaign one way, but govern another.
 
You may be right there. I hear a lot of chatter, but don't see a lot of action. That lack of action I believe comes down to seeming "unfriendly" to hispanics which the Dems would latch on to costing votes. Their lack of any type of a spine and not standing for much of anything these days is costing them everything. At least the Dems are living up to their goal of giving the farm away and not expecting anything except votes in return.
 
Last night's Virginia election illustrates my point. Here you have Cantor, an establishment politician referred to as a "crony capitalist" defeated by the conservative tea party candidate. Candor was elected as a conservative but voted as his corporate donors dictated. Now he's gone and the big money interests will have to work hard in order to swing over the new Representative from the electorate to them. Hopefully he won't be purchased.
 
The next republican candidate for president will have to hew to the business line in order to raise the money to run against the dem candidate. That is all Cantor was doing. If the gop runs a candidate who is not in the pocket of the interests, as Obama is, then he/she will have no stake to play in the game.

Republicans think they can skirt the need for millions to run by using their media leviathan to give them free publicity, which is what happened in Virginia. Wont work on a national basis because, unlike southern virginia, the country as a whole is not that conservative and the millions from the hedge funders and hotel industry and construction companies and restaurants who hire the cheap, pliable labor will take their money elsewhere.

My own congressman is in a terrible dilemna: he wants to vote with the tea party on immigration but all his donors are telling him they need the cheaper labor and that they can't afford to pay a living wage to Americans. I weep for his predicament.
 
I'd say this is more akin to economic imperialism rather than facism, but who cares, it's still the big guy screwing the little guy. I'm guessing El Salvador is supposed to commit to buying tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in seeds in exchange for the U.S. "aid". If so, both the USA and El Salvador would be better off not doing the deal/aid. It's basically Monsanto getting richer at the expense of U.S. taxpayers (not to mention the health and livelihood of Salvadorean farmers).
 
Today its Egypt.
Link.

So, now we give over half a billion dollars of aid to Egypt to buy Apache helicopters. Last month, your tax dollars subsidized Monsanto in El Salvador and this month the military-industrial complex.

Giving El Salvador GMO seeds courtesy of US tax dollars does nothing to help the typical US citizen. Giving Egypt weaponry (just after they executed 183 people and sentenced journalists to 10 years) with our tax dollars doesn't help any Americans either.

But nothing ever changes.
 
Name them (if you can), I'll bet the majority are democrats. But be sure not to leave anyone out just because of their political leanings.....
 
There's no doubt foreign aid (US taxpayer dollars) provides jobs; especially with respect to arms sales. Lockheed, Northrup, and down the line to the smaller suppliers contracted out to them. But it is corporate welfare.

What we are seeing is that both the government and the mega corporations continue to take a larger and larger percentage of the economy (along with finance), and the competition gets squeezed out. Oligarchies and monopolies are one bi-product. And with added size comes added leverage (money=free speech) which influences policy decisions and legislation.

As a result, real wages for workers get smaller over time and the CEOs and share holders get wealthier over time. Inequality grows as does the national debt, since what tax dollars don't generate, public debt does. Any economic growth is nothing more than borrowing (stealing) from the future.
 
^^^
It's heart-warming (or at least cute) to see the [El Salvadorean] Rebel Alliance successfully repelling the [Monsanto] Death Star, but how long can they hold out? Are they doomed? Will they become enslaved to American mega-biotech IP and lose control of their own food supply and fate? Stay tuned to 'As the Third World Turns'.
 
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