Posted on 04/03/2006 8:06:35 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
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Well, about all we can do now is wait, watch and fume!
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Maybe the Mexicans can teach us something?
Mexico is Rich- Mexican wealthy play American taxpayers for suckers
Good thread for any that missed it. It should really make you mad.
Every dollar spent in U.S. taxes for social services for illegal aliens frees up additional cash to be sent south as part of the annual remittances which provided $20 billion in 2005. According to the CNN news show Lou Dobbs Tonight (3/21/05), "Remittances, as they're called, are expected to become Mexico's primary source of income this year, surpassing the amount of money that Mexico makes on oil exports for the first time ever."
True. However he did make one interesting statement. Last year Mexico deported 250,000 illegal aliens (mostly from Central America). Too bad that we don't do the same.
That one on the clergy is the most significant, and should be a major focus of US attention... as well as the Vatican's
The Mexican regime (totalitarian/communist before Lenin!) murdered all the priests and nuns who defied the regime by preaching true Catholicism. Then it banned foreigners from serving as clergy. It was an atheist state's hostile takeover a religion, and is why Mexican Catholicism is often little more than perverse superstitions. The only difference between Marx and Mexico's founders was that Marx believed religion should be abolished because it was an "opiate for the people." Mexico found that people were easily controlled by controlling their medication.
Here's a real poison pill:
Sen. Coburn will offer an amendment to the immigration bill making English the official language.
Sorry, but if the economy of any nation with 100,000,000 residents is so affected by a $20,000,000,000 source of money, that nation is not rich.
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Well gee, you didn't think tolerance was a two-way street did you?
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>> The Vatican cares nothing about the nationality rules on catholic priests. It only cares about loyalty of the ones there to Rome. <<
The point is that the nationality rules prevent sending priests to Mexico. There is fantastic shortage of priests in Mexico, a shortage which makes the US and Europe seem as if they are having a fire sale on priests. The most populous province in Mexico has TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND Catholics per priest!
And those priests that are there lack any authentic Catholic formation because the only ones who can develop their formation are the ones who survived the elimination of the authentic Catholic priests.
Mexico is a nation in which most of the population professes to be Catholic, very many sincerely, and yet there is essentially no Catholic Church.
And THAT should be a GRAVE problem to Rome.
I think you misunderstood who the article is saying is rich. It is not the country as a whole it is its elite ruling class. The abundance of natural resources in Mexico combined with an abundance of labor give it a potential for wealth that is astronomical. But the rich sit on their wealth and the government, which is essentially controlled by them, is too corrupt and bassackwards to make use of those resources.
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Waller is on (Cavuto) Fox now talking about this
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