[Rick_Michael]

I'm not promoting this guy, but I found this interesting list, even though I 'm sure most of us find some of it at odds with us.

http://www.banderasnews.com/0502/nr-doinggood.htm

Mexico City — Statistics show that under the Vicente Fox Quezada administration the Mexican people are enjoying a life of peace, prosperity, democracy and freedom in the Republic of Mexico.

Statistics for changes in Mexico during the Fox administration:

1. The peso has remained solid, maintaining an exchange rate of between 10-$11 pesos per $1 USD over the last 4 years.

2. A sum total of 4% annual inflation.

3. The Mexican Bolsa [Stock Market] is strong and profitable, with some of the best quality investment opportunities in history.

5. Mexico has $52 billion USD in reserve.

6. Mexican citizens enjoy freedom of press, T.V. and thought.

7. Strengthened the equality of the three powers of the Union.

8. Mexico has paid off all of it's debt to the International Monetary Fund.

9. The IFAI was established, and for the first time ever, the Mexican people know what their tax dollars are being spent on - and how much.

10. Under Fox's management nationals that work in the US can now send money to their relatives in Mexico for half the cost.

11. The majority of 2003 annual income taxes were paid in the first month and a half of 2004.

12. Cigarrette and alcohol have been banned from advertising on public television stations.

13. Through the "Seguro Popular" program, Mexico's federal government is offering low-cost and efficient medical services to poor families. Children with cancer are automatically covered without additional cost or bureaucratic red tape.

14. In February 2005, Mexico had its first US-style public trial, replacing a slow and secretive judicial process conducted on paper, and moving Mexico a step closer toward reforms President Vicente Fox is seeking nationwide.

15. President Vicente Fox has set a goal of boosting the number of mortgages provided in Mexico to 750,000 during his last year in office to help meet the country's need for an estimated 4 million to 5 million more homes - a goal that many now view as achievable.

[garbageseeker]

Here is an opposite viewpoint:

Feathering Their Casas
By George W. Grayson
CIS.org | April 28, 2006
"Show me a politician who is poor and I will show you a poor politician" — Carlos Hank González
Executive Summary
Mexican politicians continuously demand more visas for their citizens, an expanded guest-worker program, and "regularization" of illegal aliens living north of the Rio Grande. While neglecting to mention that the United States admits nearly one million legal newcomers each year, they also fail to publicize: (1) the extremely high salaries they receive, often—in the case of federal and state legislators—more than their counterparts in developed nations that have substantially longer annual sessions, (2) the generous stipends that they grant themselves, including year-end aguinaldos and end-of-term bonuses of tens of thousands of dollars known as bonos de marcha, and (3) the generous sums that party leaders in legislative bodies have to spend with few or any strings attached.
For example,
President Vicente Fox ($236,693) makes more than the leaders of France ($95,658), the U.K. ($211,434), and Canada ($75,582).
Although they are in session only a few months a year, Mexican deputies take home at least $148,000—substantially more than their counterparts in France ($78,000), Germany ($105,000), and congressmen throughout Latin America.
At the end of the three-year term, Mexican deputies voted themselves a $28,000 "leaving-office bonus."
Members of the 32 state legislatures ($60,632) earn on average twice the amount earned by U.S. state legislators ($28,261). The salaries and bonuses of the lawmakers in Baja California ($158,149), Guerrero ($129,630), and Guanajuato ($111,358) exceed the salaries of legislators in California ($110,880), the District of Columbia ($92,500), Michigan ($79,650), and New York ($79,500).
Members of the city council of Saltillo, San Luis Potosí, not only received a salary of $52,778 in 2005, but they awarded themselves a $20,556 end-of-year bonus.
Average salaries (plus Christmas stipends known as aguinaldos) place the average compensation of Mexican state executives at $125,759, which exceeds by almost $10,000 the mean earnings of their U.S. counterparts ($115,778). On average, governors received aguinaldos of $14,346 in 2005—a year when 60 percent of Mexicans received no year-end bonuses.
These same politicians turn a blind eye to the fact that, when petroleum earnings are excluded, Mexico collects taxes equivalent to 9.7 percent of GDP—a figure on par with Haiti. In addition, the policy makers (1) spend painfully little on education and health-care programs crucial to spurring social mobility and job opportunities, (2) acquiesce in barriers to opening businesses in their country, and (3) profit from a level of corruption that would have made a Tammany Hall precinct captain blush — with $11.2 billion flowing to lawmakers in 2004 alone.
Many Mexican officials enjoy princely lifestyles, while expecting the United States to solve their social problems by allowing the border to serve as a safety-valve for job seekers

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22225

[A CA Guy]

Mexico City — Statistics show that under the Vicente Fox Quezada administration the Mexican people are enjoying a life of peace, prosperity, democracy and freedom in the Republic of Mexico.

Statistics for changes in Mexico during the Fox administration:

That is a really fine load of cr@p.
First thing Fox did when he was elected was do do a 180 and put the same exact bad guys in government that he was sent there to get rid of.

Heard on KFI640 the fellow who was on his campaign to get him elected and he said Fox was the worst Presidente they ever had. He spent his whole administration touring and only the last few months has been pushing the rights of Mexicans in the United States in an attempt to have any legacy of accomplishment at all.

He was dirty as they ever were and the country itself is a cesspool and more dangerous to visitors than ever.
You have to be nuts to vacation in Mexico these days.