Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Free(er) Market Economics

There are ways in which free market economics really can work for the benefit of Americans.
Cartels Face an Economic Battle - washingtonpost.com

Stiff competition from thousands of mom-and-pop marijuana farmers in the United States threatens the bottom line for powerful Mexican drug organizations in a way that decades of arrests and seizures have not, according to law enforcement officials and pot growers in the United States and Mexico.
If they ever fully legalize in the United States those mom-and-pop operations will be forced out of business by big American cartels conglomerates. Most likely due to vaguely stated regulations passed by the US government at the behest of the corporations under the guise of 'consumer protection'.

* Image at right, world's happiest marine destroying Mexican crop.

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