Posted on 03/13/2007 7:39:08 AM PDT by TheKidster
(AP) MEXICO CITY, Mexico Mexican President Felipe Calderon has a tough message for U.S. President George W. Bush: The United States must do more - "much more" - to solve thorny issues of drug-trafficking and immigration.
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I think he's saying that we also need to reduce demand here in the States, which is true.
Bush should say, "it's time to fix up Mexico. What can be done??? Don't blame others for your self created problems."
I agree, up with the fence already.
I agree with Calderon on that point. However, I doubt that we would agree on what the solution is.
Hmmm, thorny issue. How about a two thousand mile long hedge with big pointy thorns and poison ivy running through it.
Sure, it's our fault his citizens are drug runners.
Yo, Felipe! Quit dumping your trash in my backyard.
"We can't help ourselves unless the US helps us."
"We love terrorists and wish the President of the USA would stop killing them."
"We can't stop our people, or drug trafficers, from crossing our border into the US but we don't want the US to stop them either."
BS
I agree; we can all stand at the border and shoot south.
"Gerardo Fernandez, a spokesman for Mexico's leftist Democratic Revolution Party, arrived Monday in Merida with a bag of toy soldiers he wanted to leave at Bush's hotel so he could "play war and leave the world alone." When he could not get through security, he climbed a rusty metal barrier and threw the plastic troops into the secured area."
At least the PDR didn't win. I can't imagine Bush meeting with their nutcase presidential candidate.
And I have a tough message for El Presidente - piss off.
Just wish Bush had a tough message for the Mexican presidente.
"Aye, aye aye--I cut my hand on jer weendow pane, gringo. Stop latching jer weendows!
I would come in the front door, but the back puerta is unlocked. Ju have too many nice theengs . . .!" (And so forth and so on)
We've been trying to reduce demand for controlled narcotics for at least 30 years and haven't yet. I don't see it happening outside of creating a police state. We are doing everything to encourage demand of slave, i mean cheap, immigrant labor so I believe he's pushing Bush to drop the fasad and open the floodgates for illegal aliens to come in and be taken advantage of.
What gets me is that he has the audacity to demand we do anything when much of the problem could be solved with a Mexican police force that doesn't work for "tips" and a Mexican government that can use the country's natural resource wealth to improve infrastructure and front line human services. Having the local governments funded by drug cartels doesn't help either.
And president Bush will just take the drivel from this Mexican.
Mr. Bush will allow millions more uneducated low skill workers to inundate our country. No border control, no deporting the 20 million here illegally already.
I'm so proud of you Mr. Bush.
Yep....we should have been shooting EVERYONE attempting to illegally cross our border..
Semper Fi
Hmmmm ... You won't shoot nor stop them and you want us to shoot or stop them?
OK ... sign an agreement, with great ... no very great global fanfare, that we have the right to kill your people that are coming over our borders.
Make it so we don't have to overload our court sytem with trying to figure out who is a drug runner and who is a kid trying to make a better life for himself ...
Use words that tell the world you are 100% behind the United States in whatever means we take to "do much more to solve the(se) thorny issues".
Well, technically, yes. Eliminate demand, and you eliminate the profit motive, and thus supply problems cease.
(And it's not like there's a dearth of American dealers.)
The problem is easy to solve...if you ignore the pansies; the hand-wringers; the bed-wetters; and get a little "Starch" in the backbone. Nowadays, politicians are far too concerned with political correctness, who doesn't like them, who will/will not vote for them, what the polls say, that they have lost all perspective on what is really good for the country. From the absolute moment most of these people are elected to office, their main concern and effort is on how to get re-elected by not pissing anybody off...NOT the public good. Sad.
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