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Be neighborly, go to Mexico
The Los Angeles Times ^ | June 9, 2009 | Andres Martinez

Posted on 06/09/2009 9:18:53 AM PDT by Deo volente

There are several good reasons Americans should help out the Mexican economy with a trip south of the border.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cartel; drugs; mexico; narcoterror; warnextdoor; wod
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1 posted on 06/09/2009 9:18:53 AM PDT by Deo volente
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To: Deo volente

Nope. Even Arizona is too close for me.


2 posted on 06/09/2009 9:20:05 AM PDT by DejaJude
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To: Deo volente

I wanna keep my head....


3 posted on 06/09/2009 9:20:11 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: Deo volente

Yeah right! Go there with your family and die.


4 posted on 06/09/2009 9:20:35 AM PDT by RC2
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To: Deo volente

Screw mexico.


5 posted on 06/09/2009 9:20:53 AM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: Deo volente

Do not want


6 posted on 06/09/2009 9:21:28 AM PDT by wastedyears (Rock and roll ain't worth the name if it don't make ya strut)
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To: Deo volente

As if we’re not helping the Mexican economy enough right now.


7 posted on 06/09/2009 9:22:25 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: Deo volente

I already HAVE MORE Mexico than I could ever want right here in the USA!


8 posted on 06/09/2009 9:22:33 AM PDT by MarineBrat (The New York Times is a Communist Kamikaze.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; kellynla

I can’t decide if this should get a “Barf Alert”, or filed under “Totally Insane Ideas”.


9 posted on 06/09/2009 9:22:35 AM PDT by Deo volente
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To: Deo volente

The article fails to mention the billions of US dollars sent to Mexico from illegal and legal immigrants. That has surpassed tourism to the number 2 spot, after oil, as the largest source of hard currency for Mexico.


10 posted on 06/09/2009 9:23:20 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: Deo volente

Enjoy the thrill of being kidnapped...


11 posted on 06/09/2009 9:23:32 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Deo volente
From the article by Andres Martinez: "-- many Americans flocking to New York after 9/11 and to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina did so with a sense of public service. Mexico now needs a similar surge."

Seems that Mexico is a state of the USA in this author's mind.

12 posted on 06/09/2009 9:23:59 AM PDT by spald
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To: Deo volente

I think all the Mexicans here should go back to Mehico.

that would help a bunch....


13 posted on 06/09/2009 9:24:16 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: Deo volente

I don’t visit neighbors who invite themselves into my home, take my food, sleep in my bed, take my wallet, and complain that I don’t speak their language.


14 posted on 06/09/2009 9:24:25 AM PDT by thesharkboy (<-- Looking for the silver lining in every cloud, since 1998)
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To: Deo volente
Nope. And I'm not planning to visit Los Angeles either.


15 posted on 06/09/2009 9:24:48 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Chrysler and GM are what Marx meant by the means of production.)
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To: Deo volente

Actually, no thanks, Mexico has come here and is partially responsible for the bankruptcy of my state.


16 posted on 06/09/2009 9:25:03 AM PDT by wac3rd (80 Carter/Obama 08)
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To: Deo volente
This article should have be written in Spanish.

ML/NJ

17 posted on 06/09/2009 9:26:00 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: Army Air Corps

I bet it’s tres cheap - can I rent a palace right now, or would I have to go to Iraq to do that?!


18 posted on 06/09/2009 9:26:35 AM PDT by GnuHere
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To: spald
Another quote (this guy is a TERRIFIC salesman):

"Americans also share some of the responsibility for the mayhem unleashed by the showdown between the Mexican state and its rapacious drug cartels, as both Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Obama were right to point out in recent months. Drug users in this country are underwriting the war in Mexico -- and that war is being waged largely with guns brought in from this country.".

19 posted on 06/09/2009 9:26:41 AM PDT by spald
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To: Deo volente

The article said — There are several good reasons Americans should help out the Mexican economy with a trip south of the border.

No way! LOL...

Besides, it’s all messed up down there. Why would anyone want to go? Perhaps there might be a few special resort areas that one could go to, but I wouldn’t want to go, just on general principles.

Visit Canada instead... :-)


20 posted on 06/09/2009 9:28:44 AM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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