See #1413 and #1433.
Talk about silence!
Posted on 03/08/2002 1:24:33 PM PST by sarcasm
"I have typed, "coming to a neighborhood near you soon" probably two hundred times. The last thing America needs is millions more uneducated, unskilled, illegal aliens. Unfortunately, thats what we are getting, thousands more every month, to the tune of approximately a million more a year.
Its time to lock the doors for our own survival.
Our classrooms are over crowded, our land fills full, our highways are jammed, our social services are being choked off, standing room only in many big city ERs, our energy resources are being strained etc.
Enough is enough. Its time to stop the titanic invasion of million upon millions. Its time to reform our immigration policies. We cannot continue this massive "immigration free for all".
The individuals who have spent the last five days obsessing on Free Republic about Bush's proposed amnesty plan are stupid and racist. Period.
Last Thursday, I thought they may have been uninformed.
The same pantloads, thread after thread, mewling about their siege tonight are stupid racists.
"Let's march on Washington!!" "Oh, that's out of my income ability, can you march behind by computer?" LMAO!
Loudmouth losers.
Wouldn't that be "Tommie the Commie?" Just has more of a ring to it.
Why do you support the breaking of our laws and the loss of American Sovereignty?
I'm actually thinking about having you charged with a crime.
You do understand that your post #1433 was a criminal act.
And don't worry about the moderator deleating the post, I already saved it.
See #1413 and #1433.
Talk about silence!
Again, this guy has nothing but slander and false accusations to try to work with. He definitely doesn't have the law, common sense, nor facts to work with. Thus, he uses the only medium allowed that he thinks will have any success. People aren't afraid anymore. Plus, I don't mind him being seen for the type of person who displays nothing but illogical profanities. It shows him to be on par with that of a seventeen year old gutter-mouth.
OK take care every one!
You boasted to the ridiculous crowd here that you sent some Mexican back home! Kudos officer! What a brave, brave servant of justice you are.
What a piece of arrogant cyberswill.
Gov't indifferent as assembly jobs flee Mexico
Some 10 to 15 years ago, when the assembly-plant (maquiladora) industry began to grow in earnest, many Mexicans used to say this was not what the country really needed.
The nation needed well-paid jobs, not badly-paid ones. However, as population and unemployment bulged, most observers came to view the assembly-plant industry as a blessing. Better to have badly-paid jobs for millions of Mexicans, than none at all, people would say.
Today, opinions, at least in government, are turning against assembly plants once more. Suddenly, after almost two decades of steady growth, the nation's assembly-plant industry is suffering a severe slump.
Official figures show employment at assembly plants was down 17.3 percent in Dec. 2001 and the figure is, in fact, over 40 percent in key assembly-plant cities, such as Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez.
The reason for the slump is, partly, the recession in the U.S. economy, which translates into lower demand for Mexican goods, given that the United States buys about 85 percent of all Mexican exports. However, domestic economic distortions are also a key factor in the decisions of many assembly plants to leave the country.
The Mexican peso has become overvalued against the dollar, while wages have risen fast. Average wages had risen 8.5 percent in real terms in Dec. 2001 from a year earlier, according to official figures.
The assembly plants, therefore, are losing their competitive edge and are deciding to relocate in Central America or Asia. Is the government concerned about this? Apparently, not very much.
Officials seem to think the peso has only just found a sustainable market value and should stay at that level as part of "convergence" with the U.S. economy. The convergence theory also implies the nation cannot run a low-wage economy forever, authorities say.
President Vicente Fox recently said the nation's export model, supported until now by major investments in assembly plants, is "to some degree, is worn out" and he proposed the nation should now seek a new era of economic growth emphasizing technology and products Mexicans themselves have developed, in order to compete in international markets.
"Mexico should offer products based on its own research and design, in order to be competitive," Fox said.
Fox's ideas are little short of astounding. Mexican industry has never invested in its own research and development, nor have its products ever been world leaders. Why should they be now? How can things suddenly be so different?
It would seem the government is being complacent about the apparent demise of the assembly industries, rather than showing concern and taking action to stop them from leaving the country.
The government's message seems to be that the collapse of the assembly-type manufacturers may be inevitable and is no big problem anyway, as long as the rest of the economy is stable and foreign direct investment keeps flowing into telecoms, banking and service industries. Market analysts, who continue to give thumbs up to Fox, say the peso's current level can be maintained and put Mexico's country risk at its lowest level in recent history.
It is hoped that, in line with convergence theory, Mexico's economy will now turn around and follow the U.S. economy upwards. However, after so many years in which Mexico fought so hard to attract assembly plants and compete with Asian companies in textiles and electronics to be exported to the U.S. market, it is hard to understand that the Fox government can be so indifferent as these industries flee the nation, leaving many cities with fast-growing unemployment. Could it just be it does not want to acknowledge its failure on this issue?
Can you see millions of more illegals flooding across the border?
Badjoe sends me back the $120 I sent in on the fund raiser last week, you'll never hear from me - by my volunteer promise - again.
Period. FR is a bastion of John Birch wanna be's right now.
Knock yourselves out, I don't really like you people anymopre.
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