Mexico may be one of the up and
coming countries in the world for manufacturing as stated on CNN. One
of the first things that (Pena Nieto) Mexico’s new President did when he took
over office was to work with his congress for Bipartison cooperation. He is taking on the problem spots with the cooperation
of liberals and conservatives. His first
three things on his agenda is to raise taxes, increase competion and take on the
teachers unions.
Their GDP is expected to grow at
4%, twice as fast as Brazil and the United States. It is the 4th largest producer of
Cars and and with the new trade agreements in place, Nafta, it’s shipping and
delivery costs a lot less than any Asian Country. It exports more products that all the rest of
the south American countries combined. One
of the key factors is that they have a younger work force than most countries,
averaging 34. Russia and China are 44 and
Japan is 56. Surprising the median age of the US work force is 39.
One of the major problems they are
addressing is that Teachers Unions.
Unions were a great thing when working conditions were terrible and
people were mistreated, but unions has long out grown their usefulness and now only
hold hostage things we all need so they can get what they want. Don’t they understand that when one persons
salary goes up everyone elses salary needs to go up or the prices need to go up
so we are all on the same footing. The
benefits are a mute point. You can’t
always have some one win because someone else has to lose. When the loser gets to far down, they start
to rebel.
What I find interesting is that
they are having the same problems as our country, but they are doing something
about it and both parties are working together.
Instead of bullying congress, it
is surprising that he is working with them and they are actually all working together. I suspect that he does not have a lot of
favors out there who financed him and he is not trying to pay them back with
forcing issues. Of course mexico still
has other major problems like drug wars and violence, but they are working
around other areas to get everything back on track.
Why can’t the United States use
this as an example. People there try to
work for a living, the government does not hand out free money, pay peoples
rent to live and if they have big screen TVs they had to work for them. If they don’t want to work they stave. Good motivator. (446)
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