Posted on 10/07/2008 10:04:21 AM PDT by AJKauf
God help me. I’m beginning to sound like Joe Biden. I hope there is a cure. If not, the next thing you know, I’ll be confusing Herbert Hoover with Franklin Roosevelt, insulting Indian-Americans who don’t work at 7-11, calling Barack Obama “clean” and “articulate,” and vowing he’ll will never take away my gun. For now, I’ll have to accept the fact that my views on Mexico are similar to those espoused by the Democratic vice presidential candidate.
A few weeks ago, while addressing about 20 Latin American professionals in San Diego on the subject of immigration and the 2008 election, I blurted out that Mexico was “broken.”...
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YES, and very very CORRUPT
I think it’s really, REALLY dysfunctional.
that’s the essential problem and no wall can fix it. The US simply has to get tough and smart with mexico. We may be seeing some improvement with Calderon but we have to do a lot more. Bush is just too chummy and weak.
Yes Ruben. Mexico is dysfunctional. That’s why Mexicans leave Mexico to come to the United States. But in time, the Democrats will make the Unites States so dysfunctional Mexicans will leave the United States and go to Canada.
He saved the best part until the last: it’s all our fault.
Navarette is a pro-illegal racist. Gist of the Navarette spin- “Mexico is dysfunctional and will go under if the US sends all the illegals home.”
Red Dog’s next campaign commercial idea. Show Biden’s clean and articulate clip, then announcer says “well, Joe Biden is half right again, Obama is articulate”. Closing image of newspaper headlines about all of his crocked friends and shady deals.
¡SÍ!
Mexico's per capita GDP is five figures... well above the global average.
Mexico's total GDP is over a Trillion dollars... and yet...
THIRTY percent of the entire Mexican population has left for their nearest neighbor.
Mexico guards it southern border with military units that have permission to fire upon illegal crossers from their south (the 4 nations to their south have a per capita GDP that is one-third of Mexico's).
Mexico's president actively lobbies for Mexico's northern neighbor to allow illegal crossings, and urges rights and benefits be conferred upon such crossers.
Mexico's history of racism againt their indigenous populations far surpasses any such hostories to their north, and continues unabated today.
That seems to be absolute proof of dysfunction.
Darn, a typo in his name. It is Montesquieu.
“Is Mexico Really ‘Dysfunctional’?”
Is a frog waterproof?
On the other hand, they have been experts at bleeding the USA and keeping our politicians beholding to them.
Did anyone notice by its absence the drug trade? Hundreds of millions of dollars flow south and dozens of murders over a weekend as gangs fight for a slice of the pie.
No wonder people want out.
Mexico? No se puede.
Having lived in Mexico for years, and repeatedly suffered from their chronic tardiness and general lax attitudes toward time (that is, other people’s), except in the case of the mid-day meal, which is sacred, I believe it. I don’t know if Montesquieu ever travelled to Russia. I seriously doubt he ever put a pata in Mexico. We have the luxury of international travel and communications. But I think it holds true. Think about Africa, versus, say, Holland. Of course this thinking led, a hundred years later, to Max Weber and Richard Tawney’s theories on the link between protestantism and capitalism.
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