Riding a Greyhound a few weeks back, I met a guy who runs all around South America and Mexico buying up groceries for American distributors. Meanwhile, folks down there often can't match our level of demand, so they can't afford to buy their own products once they start getting sold at the prices our economy drives them up to. It's only going to get worse too: once we start relying on corn for fuel, tortilla prices in Mexico will shoot through the roof, and the average Mexican family will have trouble affording many food staples. Hopefully they can hop over our shiny new fence before they starve.
:-(

My mother has an unbelievable take on all this: "why don't we just buy Mexico? Then we won't have to take their crap anymore, and we can make money off of all of their tourist spots!" Unbelievable.