Posted on 11/26/2011 9:22:52 AM PST by pinochet
The rich and corrupt elite that runs Mexico, regards the American people as the biggest suckers in the world. They are not the only ones. The whole world views America as a nation of stupid suckers.
Americans are suffering with a 9 percent unemployment rate, yet, Mexico is grinning happily with a much lower unemployment of 4.8 percent. That is almost half of the American unemployment rate. You can view the Mexican unemployment rate statistics here: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/mexico/unemployment-rate
In 2002, the Mexican unemployment rate was 2.22 percent, which is lower than that of Japan and Switzerland today. Mexico is a parasitic economy. The Mexican government solves its unemployment problems by exporting its poor and jobless people to America. The rich in Mexico pay low taxes, or avoid taxes all together, and they spend very little of their government budget on the poor. The Mexican government puts the responsibility of educating its illiterate people on American taxpayers. Public schools in many American schools belong to Mexican students.
American taxpayers also provide health care to Mexican citizens in American hospitals. Hungry Mexicans are fed by American taxpayers, through food stamps. But worst of all, America denies jobs to its own jobless citizens, and gives them to illegal Mexicans. Yet, Mexico has a much lower unemployment rate than America! Hello????
If jobless Americans want to find jobs, they have a much better chance at finding employment in the much healthier economy of Mexico. But the Mexicans are not stupid suckers like the Gringos up North. They strictly enforce their immigration laws, against illegal immigrants from poor Central American countries like Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Honduras. Mexico's southern border is one of the best guarded in the world, and America could learn a lot about border security, from how Mexico patrols its southern border.
What more evidence do you need, to convince you that Americans are suckers in their dealings with Mexico? The Pakistanis think that Americans are suckers, too, but that is another story.
Every state in America must enforce immigration laws, just like Arizona and Alabama are doing. That is the bare minimum that America should do, if it considers itself a self-respecting nation. Contact your state legislatures, for action on this issue.
Also, Republican primary voters should not allow Newt Gingrich to get away with his amnesty proposal. All illegal Mexicans must be sent home. Period.
In making the case against illegals, you must note that Mexico has the low unemployment rate associated with First World nations, while America has the high unemployment rate associated with third world nations. The Mexican government, and America's traitors in both parties, have turned America into a third world hell hole. Wake up, Mr. and Mrs. America!
Do they count the thousands that are working for the CARTELS?
How do you measure “unemployment” when you don’t have any jobs?
At the same time, FWIW, Mexico has successfully shipped much of its poverty northward across our border (illegally of course).
America has a high unemployment rate because it pays people NOT to work. In fact, since non working people have access to free food, housing, healthcare etc. it might be the best deal going!
Did they count the Mexicans who live illegally in the US and hold jobs that would otherwise be held by Americans? Thanks pinochet.
Mexico’s corrupt elite have outsourced social-welfare and education spending for its lowest classes to the United States. Their policy is to simply send them North.
>>>Did they count the Mexicans who live illegally in the US and hold jobs that would otherwise be held by Americans?
No. If they include those people, the Mexican unemployment rate would be even much lower, than the current low unemployment rate.
LOL. Now the border will be closed- by the Mexicans!
Guess where Honda, which has non-union plants in the U.S. and no labor problems, is building its next “U.S. plant?”
The United States has a high unemployment rate because of Mexico? Really? Not because of too much taxes and too many regulations? Not because America’s corrupt elite (especially the last TWO administrations) went on a massive Federal spending spree? Not because America’s corrupt elite created a massive real estate bubble? Not because America’s corrupt elite devalued the dollar? It’s all Mexico’s fault?
Exactly. I wouldn’t be too envious of the “wisdom” of the Mexican elite as they only control about half the country. The other half is in the clutches of the Cartels.
I think that using GDP per capita figures can be bit misleading for developing nations like Mexico - just because their economy is large, doesn’t mean that the average citizen has a decent standard of living. Wealth in Mexico often varies greatly by geography as well - the southern parts of Mexico, for instance, have living conditions little better then in Guatemala.
That said, it it true, for the most part, that by a world standard, Mexico is a fairly well off nation, and it is only in comparison to, say, the US, that they are poor. This is a reason why Mexico has itself suffered from an illegal immigration problem with other parts of Latin America.
No, it hasn’t. NAFTA put many small Mexican farms out of business. It’s the rural farmer that is typically fleeing Mexico.
Mexico's minimum wage is about the equivalent of $3.50 per day.
I don’t believe the US’s or Mexico’s bull___t unemployment numbers.
All we get are lies, damned lies and government statistics.
The truth is far worse than what they are reporting.
Obama’s scribes in the media are working overtime cooking the books in a effort to save their bastard boy-king.
But you forget that their housing costs, and other costs of living, are much lower than in America.
I don’t understand why we taxpayers pay people not to work. There is lots of stuff that needs done in the USA that isn’t getting done while we shovel billions of dollars for doing nothing; and that includes subsidies and bailouts to banksters, Hollywood, NFL, farmers and oil companies too. The government needs to get out of the business of redistributing wealth at both ends of the economic spectrum.
Thanks.
Either manufactured products that are sold here need to be made here, or there should be some ability to trade production credits that there are incentives that guarantee that our production sells abroad.
Free trade is far from free. These other countries have restricted our products. We need balanced trade.
The current “free trade” boondoggle where global business can produce anywhere in the world where they can sidestep our laws, and then bring the finished or partially finished product back into that nation free of tariffs will eventually turn the 1st world into 3rd world.
These same global companies use those profits to own our politicians, thus guaranteeing that trade policy works in their interest.
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