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Posted on 04/03/2006 12:16:03 PM PDT by Rockitz
Well maybe this will. You live in a country that has an infrastructure ... schools ... roads ... cops ... airports ... seaports ... courts. Mexico, which can easily afford an infrastructure, simply does not have one worthy of the name.
Nothing is really functional in Mexico. It already is a socialist country on paper. In fact, to judge from the Constitution of 1910, it's fair to say that Mexico was the first communist country. That's on paper.
In real life, they don't take enough money from their economy to keep services up to a reasonable standard. The place is a home-less, road-less, hospital-less, law-less, hope-less hellhole.
Worst mistake we ever made was helping them dump Emperor Maximilian. He was probably Mexico's last chance to become a for-real country. Even he ran into heavy opposition from the elites, who simply do not want to allow "commoners" a chance to succeed. We put 30% of our GNP into taxes to keep the ship going. The Mexicans put in 5%. Hello?
Waddaya say we tax the hell out of those remittances? Maybe we can force the Mexican elites to start running the place like a country. The post says "Mexico is richer than Chile." Well, dude, Chile is one hell of a nice running, good-looking operation. Problems? Sure. But it's a for-real country. Mexico ain't.
Hear me well. I would not wish a punitive tax structure for these wealthy Mexicans, maybe even a fairer one than we have. But they should have to hold up their end of the continent a lot better. They are living off our taxes, not their own.
"There is no reason, other than corruption, for that nation to have so many poor. It's all so unnecessary"
It's not "corruption" as we understand the word, Mexico is a Communist country (Mao variety) in all but name.
Anyone with any indian blood is garbage and not allowed to have anything of consequence.
The Catholic church is used by the government to control the people, Until a Catholic was elected Governor of Northern Baja a few years ago there hadn't been one Catholic attain a position that high in over 70 years, they were all Masons and pure Spanish. I've know a number of them over the years and they have nothing but contempt for Mexicans and are not about to let them have anything.
Bingo
I remember the old Gallagher routine:
Mexico just discovered oil. They've had it for years, but they just discovered it.
"Mañana we will go looking for oil."
I have known for a long time that the super wealthy elite in Mexico blow ours away in terms of wealth and opulence.
I have also been saying for a while that one of the big reasons why we have so many illegals is because of the white Mexican elite wanting to ship their problems north, and forcing us to deal with them.
want to help the Mexican people out of poverty? We need to quit enabling the people who keep them impoverished.
Oh, and Mexico is the perfect example of a country in which the rule of law has broken down. Without law enforcement, a civilized society quickly breaks down into social and economic Darwinism. It's beneficial to a few, but quite detrimental to the society as a whole, and the majority of individuals that make it up. Without jurisdiction, enforcement is impossible. Without borders, jurisdiction does not exist. It's either strong borders, the UN, or total chaos (chaos inevitably leads to 'might makes right' vs. 'mob rules').
As sad as it seems....I think you might be right about Maximilian. Look at what kind of "leadership" Mexico has actually had over the last 140 years. Tragic.
No one's against infrastructure.
Spending trillions on Medicaid, welfare, entitlements and a huge inefficient bureacracy isn't spending on infrastructure.
Fox & Friends are just exporting the revolución that Americans won't do.
LOL
I just heard for the first time on the news over the weekend that Mexico is for the first time facing a severe labor shortage in the ag sector.
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They have one in the wings. Name is Manuel Lopez-Obrador (M-Lo), and he's up to his hips in bed with Chavez, Castro, all the playas. I frankly like the idea because then maybe we won't have the President out lips-to-glutes of the mexican strongman, and we can have a clear policy. (Why cant WE be the ones who have the strongman?)
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Every thugocracy in the world tries to buy off their discontented by blaming the US. I wonder if Rome was in reality as nice as we try to be and everybody just trashed them.
So we KEPT THEM????? Sheeeze.
"I believe it was more like 69,000 they refused to take back."
How about filling the empty containers going back to China with them?
So, let me conjecture. The money that the campesinos send back is probably hit with a 10-15% moneychanging fee when the relative picks it up. If not more. Then they effectively have to spend it at the "company store" where the prices are all jacked up out of whack, and/or pay rent on the kinds of dumps you see in TJ. Anything left is probably taxed away.
Same damn thing as Africa. But closer to home and a lot closer to the bone.
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