Posted on 02/25/2007 3:13:21 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
"P.S. I love Hershey bars with almond."
Yuuuummmmmmm, that's my fav too. Although lately, I've been addicted to Cadbury dairy milk chocolate bars, don't know why. They are very suckable (take that nicely). They melt slowly and linger on your tongue and leave a great aftertaste. What country makes Cadbury's. Is it British? Anyone know?
More American companies exploiting Mexican slave labor. Why am I not surprised?
"...before the European Spanish killed them all..."
Not all the Incas or Mayas were killed. They are still around. Desimation doesn't mean extinction. It is only the governments that state that there has to be a certain number of any group operating in a tribal system in order to be counted. We have Indian groups and individuals here that aren't recognized.
I won't be buying Hershey's chocolate if it's made in Mexico.
You think those rats running rampant in the Greenwich Village Taco Bell were bad? Can you just picture a Mexican chocolate factory?
After Hershey moves to Mexico:
"Ummm...hey...I got six extra almonds in my Hershey bar."
"Er...are you sure those are almonds?"
"I don't like this. Maytag. Fannie May. "
Phew. For a second there I thought you were talking about FNMA, but that's Fannie Mae. (It would explain a lot IMHO though...)
*iterate procedure until everything is taxed more to prop up artificially high wages in more sectors (we are all gunna me rich)*
Daayam, where did that inflation come from? Basic economics? Impossible, must be Jewish bankers or chicoms or maybe the fed needs to fiddle some more. Maybe we can chop some zeros off the standing currency and everything will be cheap again (ala Chavez). I guess we can go back to the "good ol' days" when a refrigerator cost 25% of the average yearly salary. But hey, at least the wage disparity between the guy who staples fabric onto cardboard and a medical doctor will be lower.
/sarcasm
No kidding moron.
You forgot Lifesavers. They went to Canada, even though they were offered alot of discounts. I found out that Jeerzee, the sweatshirt maker is operating out of Mexico.
Here's a question. If alot of the jobs are going south, then why are the illegals coming north...
"Er...are you sure those are almonds?"
LOL! Good point. I'll be watching the labeling, too!
Here's a question. If alot of the jobs are going south, then why are the illegals coming north...
Again, because they lost jobs to China.
> Here's a question. If alot of the jobs are going south,
> then why are the illegals coming north...
Because in the factories that have gone south, they would be lucky to make $10 per day, and in the US they can make $10/hour.
I know my wife and kids like Cadbury eggs. Hey Easter's coming up!
I'm not sure, never been there. Corruption, no money for many in spite of jobs moving there. If you HAVE a job in Mexico, the cost of living is less, they're used to the heat and don't have high utility bills, medical care in the outposts, forget it. Maybe you have the answers. I don't see how life here is that much better for illegals, at least initially. The ones here legally have/have had pretty decent jobs, and are moving up the economic ladder to become part of the vanishing middle class.
"They can come over here and take our jobs, OR they can stay in Mexico and still take our jobs.'
We're supposedly fighting terrorists in the ME so we won't have to fight them over here. So we should, by the same logic, welcome outsourcing to Latin America. Every job we send there keeps one jobholder from coming here.
LOL
It was a rhetorical question. I live in Los Angeles or as the illegal activists call is Mexifornia. Ten dollars can buy alot in Mexico, but there is a better standard of life here. This is very perplexing for me, since if Mexico were as great as all those that left say it is, then whey aren't they back there? Next to soccer, waxing poetic about the homeland is the national sport in Mexico.
> Ten dollars can buy alot in Mexico, but there is a better
> standard of life here.
I think you'll find the vast majority of illegal aliens are in the US alone, not as families, and sending quite a bit of dinero "back home".
If somebody offered you 8-10X your current salary for breaking some country's laws you didn't give a damn about (let's say India or Turkey), would you take it?
Let's not pretend their decisions aren't rational. That just makes solving the problem harder.
" I don't see how life here is that much better for illegals, at least initially. The ones here legally have/have had pretty decent jobs, and are moving up the economic ladder to become part of the vanishing middle class."
You have to be kidding. Life here is far better than anything they had back home. Plumbing just across the border can be hit and miss. Some don't have running water. And the water is polluted. Corruption and crime are rampant. You have to pay for medical care, so it is much easier to go to America and get the freebies. I would encourage you to take a trip to El Paso, TX for instance. Drive along the US interstate, and look across into Mexico. The differences are really evident.
Do you mean Fannie Farmer?
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