[John Valentine]

I think what our government may be doing is using what's left of our social security system to try to buy off the revolution which is likely to happen in Mexico. We give the peasants our retirement, maybe they won't get too mad.

Why, that's plumb loco! If Mexicans are self-destructive enough to make a revolution, who are we to deny them?

Our job is to secure our borders and to make certain that people don't come over illegally. Some say that we need the Mexicans to do farm labor. I say we only need to Mexicans to do farm labor labor CHEAP. I say let individual bargainers set farm wages, and we'll have all the farm workers we need from right here in the US of A.

[FITZ]

I have a feeling it cuts some kind of profits some wealthy types are getting from their connections in Mexico. What happens to the maquilas if Mexico has another revolution --- there are a few people who could lose some money and some very dirt cheap labor.

Mexico's pension plan going bankrupt is probably a serious enough problem that Bush feels they should be given ours and we can see the retirement age for Americans jump up by 10-15 years. Mexico has very strong unions and an over 70% unionization rate of it's labor force --- they aren't going to take being told they have no retirement left.