[Grampa Dave]

I find this very interesting that the Mexican farmers say they can compete against our farmers.

After Nafta was signed I heard/read a lot of bitching and moaning from farmers, ranchers, orchard growers and rice farmers that they couldn't compete against the Mexican Farmers.

Now the Mexican Farmers are complaining!

[THEUPMAN]

they couldn't compete against the Mexican Farmers.
Now the Mexican Farmers are complaining!
maybe there having trouble finding cheap labor ......
why pick tomatoes when you can cross the boarder and get it all ...
a job picking tomatoes, free education for the kiddies, free health care for the whole clan .... and .... if you work it out just right ... gov. subsidies out the yang.

ya , I bet those mexican farmers WILL have a hard time competing.

[wita]

Precisely what I remember, the great Florida tomato waste.
They threw them away rather than get next to nothing for them because nafta opened the mexican tomato floodgates.

[concerned about politics]

After Nafta was signed I heard/read a lot of bitching and moaning from farmers, ranchers, orchard growers and rice farmers that they couldn't compete against the Mexican Farmers.

Yep. The "sucking sound" works both ways.

[Carry_Okie]

I find this very interesting that the Mexican farmers say they can compete against our farmers.

As individuals, no. Once they get bought out by corporate agribusiness, the food will come from over the border, Mexicans will work as slaves on what was their own land, and the remnant will head north.

Per plan.

[Fiddlstix]

After Nafta was signed I heard/read a lot of bitching and moaning from farmers, ranchers, orchard growers and rice farmers that they couldn't compete against the Mexican Farmers.

Now the Mexican Farmers are complaining!

What didya expect?