Posted on 03/20/2002 5:35:23 AM PST by areafiftyone
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:08 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
President Bush plans to direct $30 million to poor areas of Mexico over the next year in an effort to discourage illegal immigration by strengthening businesses there, administration officials said yesterday.
Bush will announce the plan in Mexico as part of a four-day Latin America trip that will begin Thursday. He had resisted earlier requests from Mexican President Vicente Fox for massive assistance to parts of his country that have struggled even as the border region boomed after the 1993 signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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FREEPERS: Think long and hard on this one, as you seal the envelope for your 2002 Federal Taxes and put it in the mail slot.
I guess they've never heard of capitalism.
I wouldn't want to build down there. There is too much corruption. Every 5 minutes someone would be knocking on your door with their hand out looking for a "piece off". The police and the military are the biggest offenders.
Nothing is going to get done until they clean up the corruption there - and that won't happen until the 12th of never.
"The surest way to bust this economy is to increase the role and the size of the federal government."
George W. Bush - Source: Presidential debate, Boston MA Oct 3, 2000.
Ok, thanks for voting for me.
Nonsense! This money will go into the hands of corrupt Mexican government officials our president foolishly HOPES will distribute that money to poor areas. It will never get there. It will end up in the private bank accounts of those Mexican government officials.
The Mexican government is not going to allow the U.S. government to make direct investment in poor areas of Mexico. Those senior Mexican officials are going to get their greedy, thieving hands on it and that will be the end of it.
Yes, you're right, it will.
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