After President Trump’s many threats against them, Mexico is ready to retaliate. Mexico is one of the top buyers of the U.S.’s corn. Mexican Senator Armando Rios Piter says he will introduce a bill where Mexico will buy corn from Brazil and Argentina instead of the United States. Apparently, this gesture is a “good way to tell them that this hostile relationship has consequences, hope that it changes” (Piter).
America produces more corn than any other country in the world. Corn is a staple of the average American’s diet, as well as the average Mexican’s. However, if Mexico does stop buying America’s corn, there will be extremely bad effects on the rest of the agrarian economy. In 2015, “American farmers sent $2.4 billion USD of corn to Mexico” (CNN). If Mexico’s corn bill ends up happening, the economy will lose over $2.4 billion USD in profit. That’s a lot of money, and without that amount of profit, America’s agriculture will be greatly affected. I think that this is going to have a very bad effect on our agrarian economy, but more importantly is that we started this mess. It was our President who threatened Mexico, and now they are threatening us in return. I hope for the sake of both our countries that the “corn bill” doesn’t happen, and that our relationship with Mexico will improve. Source: http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/13/news/economy/mexico-trump-us-corn/index.html
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Last week, on Wednesday, February 1st, violent riots broke out at UC Berkeley protesting the scheduled on-campus speech of conservative writer, Milo Yiannopoulos. The demonstration led to violence when a small group of protestors started breaking windows, throwing smoke bombs and flares. This caused the school to go into lockdown, and Mr. Yiannopoulos was evacuated from the campus immediately. Coincidentally, his speech was scheduled the same day as his college grant program for white males began taking applications.
After the protest was over, Yiannopoulos lashed out at the protestors, stating that “the Left” was “absolutely terrified of free speech and will do anything to shut it down” (CNBC). However, President Trump also had some choice words for UC Berkeley. In a tweet the day after the protests, the President threatened not to fund the college. “If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view- NO FEDERAL FUNDS?” (Donald Trump). I think that the protestors had the right to protest, because freedom of speech is one of our country’s most important values. However, I don’t think violence was the answer, despite the fact that Mr. Yiannopoulos has some very controversial views concerning race and gender. I also think that it was very wrong of President Trump to criticize the protestors. Yes, violence was not the best option, but you can’t threaten to stop funding a UC college. That’s not possible, and if that did happen, there would be a lot of backlash. Source: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/01/uc-berkeley-on-lockdown-amid-protest-over-milo-yiannopoulos.html |
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