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Litter choking streets throughout Mexico
Houston Chronicle Mexico City Bureau ^ | June 24, 2007 | DUDLEY ALTHAUS

Posted on 06/25/2007 8:27:31 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch

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To: SwinneySwitch
Only a smattering of Mexican towns and cities have municipal garbage dumps.

This may have something to do with the problem.

21 posted on 06/25/2007 8:53:29 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: SwinneySwitch
People tuck diapers, pop bottles into hedges, trees and lampposts. Schoolchildren drop snack packages wherever they please. Drivers of intercity buses instruct passengers to toss refuse out the windows rather than leave it aboard.

Welcome to my front yard.

Many Mexicans consider trash, including litter, to be somebody else's problem...

Mine, for instance.

Still, there are some hopeful signs in Mexico.

Yeah, millions of these trash loving fools have left Mexico and are residing here.

22 posted on 06/25/2007 8:53:37 AM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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To: Fairview
It’s infuriating and disgusting. They bring their filthy habits with them when they come to this country.

Bingo !

23 posted on 06/25/2007 8:54:53 AM PDT by jimt
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To: SwinneySwitch

Get used to it in this country. Also, pigs roasting over a pit in the front yards of houses containing 20+ little brown people, with low-riders parked in the front yard.


24 posted on 06/25/2007 9:00:50 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220
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To: RC2

“Mexico has always been like that. Not new news.”

Before the era of prepackaged food, no place was like that. As recently as 20 years ago, Mexico had no littering problem because most people still ate fresh foods purchased at farmers markets rather than packaged food from supermarkets.


25 posted on 06/25/2007 9:01:12 AM PDT by monday
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To: Publius6961

I say we just declare a new “Mexican-US” War and take back what Mexico owes us though their invasions by looting Mexico City, and their oil-rich reserves!! What do you say..Anyone with me..or am I out of touch..

Should there be a new Mexican-US War?


26 posted on 06/25/2007 9:01:30 AM PDT by JSDude1 (Republicans if the don't beware ARE the new WHIGS! (all empty hairpieces..) :).)
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To: sam_paine
They change the baby in the zoo parking lot and leave the diaper on the ground.

I was going to say, "Hey, I've seen that too!", then saw who had posted it, and realized I saw it with you. LOL!

27 posted on 06/25/2007 9:01:32 AM PDT by AnnaZ (I keep 2 magnums in my desk.One's a gun and I keep it loaded.Other's a bottle and it keeps me loaded)
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To: Alberta's Child
"Nothing does more to turn a place into a sh!t-hole than litter and graffiti -- the two most basic indicators of a sub-human population in a modern society.

And both indicators are ingrained in Mexican culture!

28 posted on 06/25/2007 9:11:29 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: Alberta's Child
"Nothing does more to turn a place into a sh!t-hole than litter and graffiti -- the two most basic indicators of a sub-human population in a modern society.

And both indicators are ingrained in Mexican culture!

29 posted on 06/25/2007 9:11:46 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: SwinneySwitch
According to the article, 25 percent of Texans litter. What percentage of the litter bugs are Hispanic, other minority or Anglo?
30 posted on 06/25/2007 9:13:59 AM PDT by Mark was here (Hard work never killed anyone, but why take the chance?)
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To: SwinneySwitch
Have found dirty diapers on food shelves and parking lots at South Texas stores!

When I was a kid that was considered on one of the sights to see on a drive through San Fernando -- diapers dropped along the street curbs. I suspect (having been gone 12 years now) that all of Los Angeles looks that way.

31 posted on 06/25/2007 9:15:08 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Thinkj of what would occur if just one of the do-gooder eco foundations bought trash by the pound.

It is a rare day when I don’t see someone beer can fishing along side a road.


32 posted on 06/25/2007 9:20:35 AM PDT by razorback-bert (Posted by Time's Man of the Year)
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To: SwinneySwitch

It’s not just a Mexican culture thing. When we visited Israel, it was easy to tell the Jewish areas vs. the Arab ones. The Arabs had mountians of trash piled around


33 posted on 06/25/2007 9:20:52 AM PDT by AZHSer
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To: SwinneySwitch

They don’t give a crap about their own country but they want to take over ours.


34 posted on 06/25/2007 9:22:12 AM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

You outta go into a high rise condo under construction here in Florida sometime. They all have around an 80% mexican construction workers. The buildings smell unbelievably bad.

You won’t find a single cabinet, kitchen or bath that won’t have an old soda or water bottle full of piss and the bathtubs get crapped in.

Also add to the fact that thier excrement is inherently nasty due to the foods they eat.

Never been to a third world country? Stick around, it’s coming here soon enough.


35 posted on 06/25/2007 9:26:21 AM PDT by diverteach
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To: beethovenfan
They don’t give a crap about their own country but they want to take over ours.

The money's here, not there. As long as corrupt American businesses continue to aid the invasion by giving illegals jobs, we will never get a handle on the problem.
36 posted on 06/25/2007 9:28:08 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (..and the horse you rode in on!)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Well, you know, I really do hate to say it ‘cause it sounds like I’m being a racist and a nativist, but...

...these folks are mighty sloppy.

At a recent Hispanic celebration in Alexandria, Virginia, the streets were literally(and I mean “literally”) awash in litter. The whole thing was disgusting.


37 posted on 06/25/2007 9:28:35 AM PDT by RexBeach (Americans never quit. -Douglas MacArthur)
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To: SwinneySwitch
As a FReeper once said, "To See America's Future, Look South To Mexico"
38 posted on 06/25/2007 9:29:27 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona....)
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To: monday
I went for a New Years weekend in San Felipe in 1975. It was the first time I had been in Mexico since I was a little kid.

I was amazed at the trash! In the little town of San Felipe the little houses (shacks) all had neat little ocatillo fences and tidy swept yards. Many had fresh laundry drying on said ocatillo fence.

But outside of town. And I mean right on the first empty lots were piles of garbage. The constant wind blew it farther and farther into the surrounding desert. It was everywhere. Hanging on bushes, blowing across the roads and in piles and piles. Evidently the idea of a municiple dump or a place where everyone dumped was incomprehensable to the townsfolk.

I noticed the dried and scavaged corpse of some large animal. I was told that it was a very pretty little colt that had been wandering in the desert. People would do that is they coundn’t afford to feed an animal. Just turn it out to fend for its self. Well this little guy couldn’t make and became weaker and weaker. No one would do anything for it because when it grew up the original owner could come and take it back. So it was left to die by the side of the road. Disgusting.

One day 10 years later people were complaining bitterly about the poor fishing on the beaches. Why I asked. A local told me it was because of all the “greengos” who come down to fish on the beach. I guess that that was a much greater threat to the local fishery than the gill netters trolling up and down the coast 24/7 or the dynamite fishing. The dynamite fishing was illegal by then, but people still did it we were told because all the old greengoes and their fishing polls had caught all the fish (from the shore).

And Bush wants us to turn our country over to these people.

39 posted on 06/25/2007 9:30:08 AM PDT by silver charm (Duncan Hunter '08)
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To: Holicheese
Somehow this is the fault of the United Staes and George Bush, just trying to work out the details... Wait for it, its coming!

Do Mexican illegal aliens leave their littering ways behind once they (illegally) cross the US border?

Why would you want them to bring that nasty habit into the USA?

Why do you defend someone (Jorge W. Arbusto) who does?

40 posted on 06/25/2007 9:31:13 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (After six years of George W. Bush I long for the honesty and sincerity of the Clinton Administration)
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