Posted on 01/06/2013 8:41:26 AM PST by Kaslin
...”cartels can control 1.3 million square miles assumes facts not in evidence.”
Only if you’re unconcious!
Do you for a minute believe they’re not controlled today?
Why don’t the cartels just take over the shoe making business and inflate it at the source? Because shoes are legal? Why not take over orange groves or banana plantations? Oh, those are legal as well, no exorbitant profit to be made there either.
I see, Blackwater can control 1.3 Million square miles, but the cartels who live there can’t......
The reason the cartels have leverage is that they don’t play fair.
They only have to kill a few family members and they gain wide spread compliance.
You are truly hopeless.
With all of the money to be made from finding alternate sources for cocaine, don’t you think that would have happened already, if it were possible?
And after all of the discussion about limited supply sources, insist on comparing it to competition with shoes or bannanas?
The legality or illegality is NOT the controlling factor in this market!!!
Why do you pretend otherwise?
Oh...because you “want” it to be legal....so there must be some supporting fairytale....
Blackwater wouldn't need to control 1.3 million square miles but only defend their employer's turf.
The reason the cartels have leverage is that they don’t play fair.
They only have to kill a few family members and they gain wide spread compliance.
Fair point. But the legal competitor(s) could look into establishing an onsite 'company town' that was easier to defend - and in any case the cartels would need to know who was working which coca field lest they scare away their own suppliers.
With all of the money to be made from finding alternate sources for cocaine, don’t you think that would have happened already, if it were possible?
(I suspect you meant this statement to respond to mine, above, rather than Sawdring; if not, my bad.)
The cartels don't have the intellectual or material resources for research - only legal actors in a free market could manage it.
We are just going to have to disagree on this one Larry.
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