Didn’t you see it? The story was lead article on the front page of the Journal Star today! More well-paying Illinois jobs were outsourced across the border to Mexico last year.
What? You didn’t see that article? It talked about well-paying chemical engineering jobs …
Ohhhhh …
Wait …
That was methamphetamine production being outsourced to Mexico.
The article seems quite congratulatory toward local law enforcement regarding the decrease in meth labs in Central Illinois from 2005 to 2006. Of course the article does acknowledge that local production losses have been largely offset by foreign imports from Mexico. The article also labels local producers as “village idiots” while describing the foreign operatives as well-organized and difficult to contain.
Great … we’ve shut down the local idiots while honing the large-scale Mexican meth producers into well-oiled and efficient criminal machines. Meanwhile, the availability of meth in this country remains pretty much the same.
What a victory.
2 responses so far ↓
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Brian A. Graham
// Nov 13, 2007 at 10:25 pm
Meth is making a comeback. It will be interesting to see how the council approaches the problem in the budget the year before the next election since a majority favors balancing the budget year after next with attrition.
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Cory
// Nov 16, 2007 at 3:42 pm
THEY TOOK OUR JOBS!!! Everybody back in the pile!
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