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It would be far easier to reform Mexico if they didn't have a virtual oligarchy where a few families control the vast majority of the nation's wealth.

This is a repeat of one of my previous posts, but...

If we were to start to cozy up with Mexico, what would be the result? I mean, what, in the end, would ACTUALLY take place? As you said, Mexico is a corrupt oligarchy. Mexico also has abundant natural resources; oil, minerals, thousands of mile of beaches which could become resorts, and a hard working, reasonably well education population. Why is it not a paradise already? Answer: the oligarchy. And if we cozy up to Mexico and start dumping money into it, is this going to change things? Simply adding our resources to their resources? NO. The only thing that is going to happen is that all that money is going to go to the oligarchy. What's going to stop them? The same thing that has stopped them so far? (rhetorical, sarcastic question)

If we were to just make Mexico a 51st state, and take over the administration of the country, then okay, I could almost buy that idea. But would that happen? No. Why not? Why should it? Question: would this new arrangement be more or less beneficial to the oligarchy? Answer: less beneficial. Why ruin a corrupt, pliable, good-thing? Or, another question, what would be the most beneficial arrangement to the oligarchy? Answer: an arrangement where they would retain their "sovereignty", yet still get "assistance" from the United States. And so, this is what they will push for. Our oligarchy will be glad to give them this, because in return, they get a flood of cheap labor, essentially destroying labor unions forever. Both countries would have a ruling oligarchy with a permanent underclass (complete with cheap narcotics from Mexico to help keep them in line).

Okay, maybe that last line was a little over the top, but honest-to-God, I just don't see this thing playing out any other way, particularly in light of the current socialist-oligarchy alliance (that would be Kennedy and Bush). I'm sorry, but until the government of Mexico gets reformed, it's just going to remain a third world pit. And any assistance that we give them is just going to go down some rat-hole, just like it did in Russia, and just like it is doing in Africa. Build the fence, enforce the law, cut the PC crap, start being proud to be an American again. (/rant)