It may be my fault for my not following along well enough what you and L98Fiero were talking about from posts 41 and 57 --whether Bush is abolishing the Constitution and creating a continent wide union. .
Let's get together on this. What I got with posts 66, 70, and 108 pretty much hung on the notion that we got a bad situation getting worse and you invited info to the contrary: "...show evidence that sending money will produce jobs and economic stability in Mexico... ...the country is corrupt and sending more money to a corrupt regime only produces more corruption, not less. Please show evidence to the contrary..."
The situation that Investor's Business Daily's editorial was pointing out was that decades of Americans and Mexicans buying and selling things from each other has ended up with both us and them gaining more jobs, higher pay, and a strengthening of the rule of law.
This is good news --very good news. We don't hear it much because idiot news vendors; they think that the public wants only bad news. I don't care about some popular distorted reality, I just need to know what is, even when it's good.
Ah, therein lies the rub.
What Bush has done, in the form of the Partnership for Prosperity, New Alliance Task Force, Social Security Totalization Agreement with Mexico has nothing to do with commerce and everything to do with giving Mexican illegal aliens a foothold in the US by changing the banking laws to allow them to obtain US bank accounts and US banking goods and services and US Govt. retirement benefits while being here illegally.
Mexican illegal aliens do not increase pay to Americans. They lower wages because if Americans want to compete for the same American jobs, they must accept Mexican illegal alien wages.
The rule of law is weakened because Bush has looked the other way at violations of our immigration laws, thus allowing millions more Mexican illegal aliens to flood across our borders to obtain the services he set up to specifically benefit them.