Posted on 07/01/2006 11:52:27 AM PDT by Mount Athos
he meant "Punch-o Villain" i think...
The United States did enforce a boycott of Mexican oil for thirty years.
Slightly off-topic, but no, despite some hotheaded calls for a boycott by some in the U.S., and a short diplomatic break with the British, and a few months when the Mexicans played hardball, sending a few tankerloads to the Germans (real hardball, given Mexico's officially anti-fascist stance), and threatening to hire Soviet engineers, everything went relatively smoothly. For one thing, the U.S. -- and the British needed the oil. Even before Mexico entered the war (after tankers were sunk by U-boats in May 1942), it was supplying oil to the allies. After entering the war, much of the nationalization debt was written off in exchange for selling the oil below market prices.
Paying compensation was made a matter of national pride. A propaganda photo at the time shows the first lady contributing her wedding ring to a collection raised to pay the bills.
International arbitration set the final bill and terms of repayment. The U.S. and Dutch owners were paid off ahead of schedule, the British (being jerks about the whole thing) had to wait -- but still a year ahead of schedule.
It's scary how much Mexico's future effects America's two most important issues: Immigration and energy. Why, oh why, did the most retarded philosophies head towards Mexico?...Had Britain been their first, we'd probably see a better country out of Mexico.
10 to 15 years ago! Wow, you love to watch ice melt.
I'm just going back to when we started building fences and increasing spending and resources devoted to border control. It was a slow steady increase, but it HAS had an effect. We know have far fewer illegal border crossings. Problem is we have more illegals because we have fewer return crossings.
The vast majority of illegals from the South used to come here to work seasonally. Most had no intention to stay. Now more stay because it's too difficult and expensive to cross two or three times a year.
With all the wisdom of hindsight, I've watched the crisis in Mexico blossom over the last 30 years-- yes,longer than that, but that's the limit of my personal observation.
How we could sit on our hands while this incredibly corrupt poverty-ridden wreck of a country needed a big push toward putting its own economy on the road to effective capitalism was a huge mystery to me. Clearly they were going to pour over our borders if their own country didn't provide them a means of support. But no, the wealthy autocrats in Mexico who run everything have kept their foot on the neck of the people without ceasing, turning them toward the USA, communism, anything that offers the PEOPLE some hope, no matter how misguided.
Mexico better get busy cleaning up its own carcass of a country and creating a middle class. And I'm afraid we're going to get stuck helping them one way or another.....a thousand ways would be more accurate.
And steal thousands of dollars in jewelry out of my home. Cleaned me out. They're here in this very private island community because builders hire them for less than they'd have to pay American construction workers.
No difference to the buyer, of course, on the exorbitant price of new homes. Everybody's economic system is going to hell in a hand basket, capitalism right along with Marxism.
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