Posted on 12/29/2005 5:42:21 AM PST by Nasty McPhilthy
"They'll drop their rifles and run faster than the French!"
And then a dozen Zapatas would arise and give us Hell for a hundred years.
Even someone 'lucky' enough to out-compete illegals and receive the honor of working two minimum wage jobs full-time, or as close to full time as a company will allow in order to avoid paying benefits like basic healthcare, would be wholly unable to support a family.
I grant you that it would take a while to assimilate former Mexicans deep in-country to the new way of life, but it would happen. In fact, I'd predict a massive flow of people, material, and money to the southwest if this were to happen.
-PJ
"Do you think we should invade Mexico, force a regime change, and install a democratic government down there? "
It's been tried. That's why they celebrate the 5th of May.
Besides, the Spanish brought their culture of corruption with them when they colonized, and it's so entrenched now that I doubt you could find two honest men to run against each other for president.
That's been further exacerbated by a hundred years of commie agitation.
Everybody you put in every government position is going to start demanding bribes, first thing day one.
It's part of the culture, just as much as wearing clothes, and there's no way to get rid of it short of killing every Mexican over the age of six and raising the children as Americans. Which, of course, is not going to happen.
"wealthy retirees, businesses, celebrities looking for new exclusive coastal properties, etc., would no longer put up with such behavior."
We pampered Americans tend not to understand that, in a culture like Mexico's, the only -- THE ONLY -- alternative to putting up with such behavior is killing the offenders.
Not fining them, not jailing them, not reasoning with them...killing them.
Maybe they'll want to join the Army! They can learn a trade, see exotic sights, meet interesting people, do interesting things...
-PJ
Americans of Hispanic ancestry have been some of our finest soldiers. However, the people we are talking about are cut from different cloth.
Appeals to concern for The American Middle Class are the hallmark of phony, anti-conservative populists everywhere.
All the better!!!
Think of it as Liberaland. Let the Left move southwest into a new laboratory to practice what they preach to reform the people. If they're successful, more power to them!
-PJ
Me thinks this fellow is a real looser, or the statement is bunk!
If you can not find employment in 14 States, then you DO have major problems(not Mexican problems).
If one can not rise above Mexican level, in my HO, he has a biiig problem. Not that I am a Mexican lover(far from it), but this story is far fetched and not quite credible.
My Dealership is in the hiring mode, THE LEGAL WAY and nobody shows up!You go figure...
Never thought of that, but I get the feeling you're right.
"...I believe it will be easier to change Iraq than it is to change Mexico."
What's worse, if something is not done... really fast, it's the US that will become more like Mexico... agghhhh!
"...We need to take over all the way to the Panama Canal..."
Naaah, you don't want the 31 Mexican states plus the Central American countries with their vast and profound social and political problems, corruption, etc.
Better fix here what we can.
Just remember, these are jobs that were beneath Americans!
Just remember, these are jobs that were beneath Americans!
"...It's interesting to see that the same unions that once drove wages upward to create a semi-skilled middle class are now embracing illegals to increase their numbers..."
I can vouch for that... I once had to take a job at a union (don't hang me for it, I had to put food on the table and shoes on my family's feet!) and witnessed quite a few things that wanted to make me puke.
... don't if you want to keep your teeth!!!!!
And apparently our leaders have seen to it to support the few communist elites.
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