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The downfall of American industry and manufacturing didn't start with "the widespread accessibility of Oxycontin". It started with the Globalization movement, w
by stephengillie 11y ago
The downfall of American industry and manufacturing didn't start with "the widespread accessibility of Oxycontin". It started with the Globalization movement, where poorly-paid foreign labor was combined with then-decreasing costs of global shipping.
Since when is Chicago a major hub for importing drugs? What's your source? From where are they imported and how - air? Why do you tangent to border security?
- wahsd 11y agoWhat the upper class would never say and the middle class never realized is that "globalization" was nothing more than relaunching and outsourcing slavery and improving on it by making it far more efficient than having take care of slaves.
- lmg643 11y agoEl Chapo is the head of the sinaloa cartel: "Chicago, home of the Mercantile Exchange, has always been a hub from which legitimate goods fan out across the country, and it’s no different for black-market commodities. Chapo has used the city as a clearinghouse since the early 1990s; he once described it as his “home port.”" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/how-a-mexican-drug-cartel-makes-its-billions.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/how-a-mexican-dru... "Chicago is a major trafficking route for Mexican cartels and has become a hub for the distribution of heroin across the Midwest. The dangerous result has been an increase in heroin overdose deaths in Illinois." http://www.wbez.org/news/heroin-its-cheap-its-available-and-its-dangerous-business-109304 http://www.wbez.org/news/heroin-its-cheap-its-available-and-... It's a border security issue because the drugs are coming from the south, by gangs that can operate across the border almost unchallenged.