[Red Badger]

Mexico: Our 51st State..........

[Wiz]

I thought Mexico's economy was crashed in the first place.

[B4Ranch]

>>When your main export is your citizens, your nation is in big trouble.<<

We will be expected to be the compassionate nation who will feed, cloth, educate and medicate our neighbor to the South.

[TexasCajun]

...from a 55-year-old, unemployed American who had been to 14 States looking for work.

B.S. - With 5% unemployment, those that want to work, can work!

Which Black Spokesperson proclaimed blacks wouldn't take or want menial jobs like those the 'immigrants' are taking?

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Some competent leadership in Mexico is needed.

A Mexican version of Ronald Reagan.

[evad]

I received an email recently from a 55-year-old, unemployed American who had been to 14 States looking for work.

Well at least he's had a tour of a great country.

He couldn’t find any, he said, because "I am not a Mexican." Despite a desire to work, he could not compete with the cheap wages Mexican illegals will take.

I guess that's because as Vincentee would say, Mexicans will take jobs that "even blacks" won't take.

Usually you can tell very early in an article if it's bogus or not and I would say that this one only took two sentences to ring the bell on the Bogus Meter.

[nuke rocketeer]

Their economy collapsed 40+ years ago and illegal immigration is the only thing that has prevented a violent revolution from occurring. The PRI is just another corrupt quasi-communist political party that stripped their nation's wealth to line their own pockets. They allowed the election of Fox as President just to keep the rightists from defecting from the ruling class. PRI still controls everything.

[hershey]

The alternative to the wholesale exodus from Mexico is the US simiply taking it over. Naturally, Mexican bureaucrats prefer calling this 'the US integrating with Mexico'. No wonder they're screaming in terror at the notion of a seven hundred mile fence. Somebody in the admin. had better tell US citizens exactly what's going on and the alternatives to a fence or no fence. It's a shame when we have to find out we're being invaded from Lou Dobbs, Fox or the newspaper. What the heck. The rest of the southern hemisphere's headed north.

[MamaTexan]

Here again, the US government is taking no steps to address this looming crisis.

"address" it???

Hell!

They CAUSED it!

[greedo]

The National Anxiety Center

That's what we call my mother-in-law's kitchen.

[Restorer]

Utterly incoherent. Assuming his correspondent's claim of being unable to get work is accurate, it is not because he is not Mexican.

It is because he demands wages higher than the market is paying for the services he is able to provide. If Mexicans are being hired for these jobs, it is because they will work for less, not because they are Mexicans.

It irritates me when people say they cannot find work, when what they really mean is they cannot find work they would like to do at a wage they would like to get. Two very different things. I've done some very unpleasant work for poor pay when necessary, but I've never been unemployed.

[SR 50]

ping

[satchmodog9]

Trade California for Mexico and you got a deal. Half the population of Mexico is already there and we can drill in Mexico.

[B.O. Plenty]

We buy 84% of all Mexican exports........no "we" don't. The criminal illegal mexicans buy the mexican exports. They want to feel real comfortable, don't you know, so they buy the junk that they are used to.

[Recon Dad]

Looking at the Latin countries with few exceptions none have changed a bit since the 60's. They've tried Socialism, Communism, Democracy and anything else you might think of, but what never changes is the demographics. Most of the countries were colonies of Spain so they were left with a class system unable to compete in the world market.

I believe it will be easier to change Iraq than it is to change Mexico.

[bmwcyle]

They won't notice.

[cynicom]

The Bush wannabe capitalists will be here to poo poo all of this.

These are the very same people that would be content to see the lower working class of Americans descend into abject poverty, to match the millions south of the border.

Slowly but surely this descent will destroy the American middle class.

[tcostell]

First of all, I'd like to see the name of the person who went through 14 states and couldn't find work. Not a single Walmart was hiring in 14 states?? (It may not be a good job ...but it IS a job).

Second, I really don't think people coming here from Mexico is the problem. People have always come from other places to be here, we just need to make sure they are the 'right' people from Mexico. In order to do that we need to start to provide the right kind of incentives...the following would be a start:

1. Deport all illegals...no amnesty, no grace period.... bye...see ya.

2. No birthright citizenship for children of illegals.

3. No social services of any kind (even medical) for any illegals.

4. Eliminate the minimum wage, and eliminate the 'excuse' for hiring illegals.

5. Prosecute and convict anyone who hires an illegal alien.

6. Make 'basic English' a requirement for anyone here for three years. If you don't pass the test.....bye...see ya.

7. You pay taxes to work in the US from the moment you get here, but don't get a single dime in social services until you have become a citizen of the US. No unemployment, no social security, no medical, no nothing.

People who have been willing to obey the laws, take care of themselves and their families, and assimilate into society have always been welcome here and that shouldn't change because they are from Mexico. We just need to bring Mexicans here who meet those criteria. If they do, throw open the borders and multiply the quota by 100 if you like. We'll only be getting the people we want here in the first place.

[seastay]

"Mexican illegals will take. They do so because wages in Mexico continue to leave a vast portion of that nation’s population in poverty, forced to live on $3 to $4 dollars per person a day"…. while “a handful of Mexican elites own most of everything.”

Here the author says Mexican culture as it exists today is nothing more than slaves and elites, becuase the vast population is being "forced" to live at poverty levels. In the meantime freemen, US citizen workers, have more and more problems finding work in the US, because no business is going to survive if they have to “pay” for their labor when their competitors can get it free.

Capitalism has a limit, and stops at slavery. Also, capitalism cannot exist without law and order. Our politicians are selling out capitalism and democracy by allowing this modern day slavery to creep back into our society against the will of the majority of the populace, by taking support from special interest modern day plantation owners, thus refusing to enforce existing labor laws and visa laws which have been established for the protection of capitalism.

So while this author seems to paint a dooms day picture that we need to allow the invasion to continue or else face a collapse of a country (which is already collapsed) , the other extreme is we turn our noses to this type of corruption and we return to a pre- civil war nation where human rights and the dignity of souls do not exist.

On the contrary, if we open our boarders and annex the slave peasant way of life of Mexico, and do not enforce law and order, as the status quo is heading today, we open ourselves to the collapse of our capitalistic democracy, and as a result there are plenty of enemy forms of governments just lurking to fill the void.

This country lost more of its citizens fighting the civil war than any other, and the 14th amendment was supposed to end slavery. How quickly we forget history and turn our backs on our own fallen solders who gave their life’s for this great capitalistic democracy.

[smith288]

Mexico is THE most parasitic country in the world.