Pelosi, Hillary, and Obama

The Three Stooges Of Big Labor.

Columbia wants a free trade agreement. I look it at like this. Unless they control their drug problem, it would be foolish to increase shipping routes to them with the prospects of nose white increasing its distribution prospects.

The free trade agreement WOULD IN ITSELF help control the drug problem. It would happen in not one, but at least two ways:

1. When people have opportunities for legitimate trade at a decent living wage, they always choose it over illicit trade. Shut Colombia out of free trade and prepare for more drug trafficking, which requires NO free trade pact.

2. When an economy expands and grows, as Colombia’s will do under free trade, an expanded tax base provides more cash for infrastructure. Roads in particular, in Colombia’s jungly territory, are the bane of dopers. Dopers practice curbside service to coca farmers, which cuts their costs. A corn farmer has to find some way to get his crop to the river where he can load it on a barge and then sell it, if anyone wants it. A coca farmer waits for the traffickers to pay him a visit, so it’s a cheaper industry. The fact that more roads will be built under free trade will give legitimate farmers more options and cut their costs. Dopers meanwhile hate roads because they bring traffic and cops which means less secrecy and more risk to their secret jungle trafficking routes. They prefer that their routes be left secret to maximize their profit and keep the cops way.

And another thing: The drug trade would be sharply diminished in Colombia if it didn’t have such putrid neighbors running Ecuador and Venezuela. Both shelter dopers and allow their countries to be used as transshipment points, a vital service to the drug trade. Ecuador isn’t as bad as Venezuela but its men can be easily bought and plenty of dopers like to launder money there too. Free trade would immediately put them at a disadvantage as Colombia prospers and grows rich while they shrivel.

Do you see how free trade would burn out the drug trade like nobody’s business? Peru got rid of its drug trade. Colombia too can get rid of its. But it needs free trade and of course a better neighbor than Hugo Chavez.