[wideawake]

I just love watching libs getting completely pissed off by a statement that is factually correct.

Mexico's literacy rate among the under-45 set is about 95%.

Less than 18% of Mexico's population are peasants.

So his statement wasn't just infelicitously stated, it was also factually incorrect.

5,000 illegal immigrants from Mexico will, on average, yield you 4,100 city dwellers and 4,750 readers.

[buccaneer81]

Thanks for your input, Dane.

[Uri’el-2012]

I hope you don't have any Illegal Aliens driving drunk on your highways.

[mountn man]

5,000 illegal immigrants from Mexico will, on average, yield you 4,100 city dwellers and 4,750 readers.

But how many can read ENGLISH?

[the_devils_advocate_666]

Wow, you must be a statistician or something coming up with those impressive figures. Or you are an idiot.

[BwanaNdege]

“debate on a bill designed to ease a farmworker shortage in Colorado. “

IIRC Mark Twain was the one who spoke of “Lies, Damned lies, and statistics.”

Do you seriously believe that illegal Mexican FARMWORKERS in Colorado are 95% literate (let alone in English) and that 82% are city folks who just got the urge to go a thousand plus miles north to pick lettuce (or whatever they are growing in Colorado)?

[ontap]

5,000 illegal immigrants from Mexico will, on average, yield you 4,100 city dwellers and 4,750 readers.

While your statistics maybe right why would you assume that the ones crossing the border cross in the same percentages as the illiteracy rate?

[geezerwheezer]

Did you add in the estimated 12-20,000,000 illegals from Mexico that are already here to get the percentages, or is it 95% literate on what folks are still in Mexico now? Seems to me figures always lie, and liars always figure. If Mexico is 95% literate, then explain why it is so third world and so damn poor. I do not believe this at all.

[Yaelle]

If illegals aren’t illiterate, then we are pandering FAR too much with everything bilingually labelled. Why else would simple things like SOAP and OPEN have to be put in both languages everywhere?? The bilingual ads for products must mean SOMEONE is a blooming idiot if they can’t figure out that it’s BEER in that ad.

I have traveled in many lands where I don’t speak the language and somehow survived. I always felt it was great that I went home having learned a few words by necessity.

[messierhunter]

Ok genius, are we talking about mexicans in mexico? No, we’re talking about mexicans illegally living in colorado. So they can speak, read and write spanish, great, but can they do the same with english? If not, they’re illiterate. And what jobs are they trying to do here illegally? What jobs do democrats want to create temporary work visas for, genius? Agriculture! What mexicans do in MEXICO does not pertain to the factually correct statement.