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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.
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Mexico is a corrupt third world sh$thole. I will not travel to or spend one dime there EVER!
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I have known that Mexico is rich. Mexico has plenty of petroleum and minerals. It has plenty of arable land. It even makes the top 20. Problem is, most of the wealth is in the hands of a few wealthy elites. They've been like this since the first Spaniard set foot in the 16th century. Mexico is stuck in the 16th century. There is lot of racial discrimination. The wealthy don't care for the poor and want to use America as a dumping ground. They want to keep the status quo, which they have done for centuries. Mexican social structure is just as rigid as India's caste system. At least in India, they are addressing the problem.
I'm going to make fairly broad analogy here..but think of Mexico as the USA about 100 years ago...the establishement of an income tax here was designed to break up the mega-rich regional control of the country, acquire federal and local resources with which to build infrastructure in rural areas, and accelerate and facilitate the transition from an agricultural economy to a manufacturing economy. When we deal with the present Mexican leadership,who have read history north of the border, their gamble is to keep their oil assets and not be forced to invest in their countrymen , as ultimately many of the American "robber barons" families and corporations were 100 years ago. If George W. Bush is serious about bringing the benefits of the American Republic to Iraq, I expect to see him and his leadership doubly serious about the septic mess south of the border...not to prop up the status quo there on the backs of the American middle-class. Likwise, if he is intellectually and politically honest about homeland security, I expect to see real, functioning, constructive border solutions at the North and South that ultimateley enhance our relations with our neighbors. ("Good fences make good neighbors"). This is the only American approach to these issues.
Good post. Is it just a coindidence that the Senators and Congressman about to sell us out are rich too?
proving that if we simply stop paying federal benefits, the numbers will decrease.
Then, before you can say "hasta la vista, baby," working class born-American taxpayers are footing the bills for immigrants' medical needs, welfare, food stamps, housing, all levels of schooling including college, child care, maternity benefits, and so on.
Taxpayers are subsidizing immigrants' daily food intake, housing, reduced mortgages, free medical, education, reduced in-state tuition and out of state tuition fees. We also foot the legal bills when they start suing if we don't provide these goodies pronto.
Lastly, and more ominous, is that they become hyphenated voting blocs, demanding representation in the US Congress, state legislatures, and beyond, so that they can get even more government benefits. They bring with them their utter contempt for our efforts to maintain a civilied society under our Constitution.
OK, did I hear you say "underdeveloped countries?"
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Mexico has more "Forbes" billionaires, 11, than all but eight other nations. It has more billionaires than Saudi Arabia, Switzerland or Taiwan. It also has more than 85,000 millionaires.
According to a CNN report, Mexico sits on oil reserves worth about $400 billion, but Mexico's state-owned oil company, Pemex, doesn't have the investment funds to tap those reserves, and Mexico's Congress refuses to allow foreign investment in Pemex. However, some observers say this is due to Mexican gov't corruption, and the obsession to line their own pockets.
Adding insult to injury American taxpayers are subsidizing foreign aid transfers to Mexico. According to Visa International--which is now clamoring for a share of the transfer fees--American money sent South of the Border by illegals constitutes $38 BILLION this year alone constituting Mexico's second largest most profitable industry.
America should mandate proof for all cash transfers out of the US and/or force all transferring agencies -- banks, credit unions, Amex, Western Union to collect a substantial withholding tax -- 50%, say -- on every unexplained foreign remittance.
Mexico is a wealthy oil-producing neighbor of the US forces its poor people to flee to the US to work and then send money back home. Mexico has no welfare safety nets, health insurance for its people and no Social Security System.
The US even provides the defense umbrella to protect Mexico, so they have no real defense expenses.
America needs to seal our borders and let Vicente Fox know that we will cut off every penny in aid he gets from the United States.
The government of Mexico---with all of its oil revenue----needs to be taking care of its own people, not "outsourcing' them as wards of American taxpayers. Mexico can well-afford it.
Ths unmitigated contempt for America, and working-class, tax-paying Americans, cannot go unchallenged. The sense of entitlement these people have is outrageous-----that the rest of us owe them a living. And that US citizens, and the US government, exist for their convenience while they break our laws, at will.
The only thing between us and camouflage-clad federales patrolling our streets with shoulder holsters is the sacrosanct US rule of law.
Cool! Let all the poor people move up here, and let's all us rich people move to Mehico. No more taxes, that sounds great to me!
"South of the border, officials consider Uncle Sam responsible for nurturing Mexico's poor. Thus, they demand, America must welcome illegal Mexican immigrants. Far be it for Mexico's leaders to improve conditions below the Rio Grande so that their constituents might stay home... Registering a Mexican business takes 58 days, versus 48 in China, 27 in Chile, 22 in South Korea, and five here. During nearly two months of procedures, Mexican officials have numerous opportunities to encourage 'tips' to speed things. Mexico's Private Sector Center for Economic Studies calculates that, in 2004, 34% of businesses paid 'extra-official' sums to functionaries and parliamentarians totaling $11.2 billion... Among 159 nations Transparency International surveyed last year, Mexico is the 65th most honest place to do business, tied with Ghana. While America is 17th (a pathetic showing, incidentally, for Earth's leading economy), Chile and Japan tie for 21st, while South Korea and Italy tie for 40th. Businessmen in this poll perceive even Cuba, No. 59, as less corrupt than Mexico... While arguments rage over erecting a wall on the border, perhaps Americans can agree on this: Every few miles, Washington should install huge mirrors. They should face south, so Mexican officials can reflect on the root causes of Mexico's misfortune." —Deroy Murdock, "Patriot Post".