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[Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

Gene GeRue wrote:

> > But can someone explain to me why having them send money they have 
> > earned back to Mexico is a bad thing?  I just don't get it.

tvoivozhd---a great benefit for Mexico, practically none for the  
U.S.---the peasant recipients don't buy U.S. products or services.

> As I understand it, it is a good thing to have money pass through many 
> local hands. Somehow this magically improves the local economy. Money 
> is surreal, of course, but it represents energy expended and potential 
> purchasing power. If the money leaves, so does the energy and the 
> purchasing power.

tvoivozhd---money has a large economic impact  in the country and region 
where it is spent---circulates five times on average before it wanders 
off somewhere else..  In the hands of those who don't spend it on 
products and services, it has almost no effect 

If production profit AND employee payroll  AND product sales ALL occur 
in the same country and  region, the economic impact is maximized within 
its borders---doesn't happen it its totality nowadays where production 
and payroll is transferred to Chiha, profit to foreign tax shelters, and 
no taxes paid to sustain necessary U.S.government infrastructure and 
services.  That is a formula to create a declining economy, declining 
middle class---poorer and poorer transportation and most of the other 
rapidly accumulating economic ills of our society.