Regime Change for Mexico

[realFedUp]

http://www.newsforreal.com/

March 28, 2006
Stephen Pizzo

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But Mexican politicians make our political bums look like candidates for sainthood. Mexico has institutionalized official corruption, corruption that reaches from the top offices, down through the ranks to the cop on the street. The country is rotten to it's core.

Mexico is rich in both natural resources and labor, a combination which under honest leadership should have long ago made it's people more like Canadians than the near-third world country folk most remain today. I mean how do you screw up a country with lots of oil, good weather, fabulous beaches and a population with work ethic that puts arian nations to shame?

Answer: By putting thieves in charge of the country.

Mexican corruption scandals go on and on....
Study: Mexico's Culture of Corrruption....
Mexico's Corrupt Oil Lifeline....
Graft's Toll on Mexico....

When a nation's treasury is treated like a pinada by successive administrations it leaves the nation with little to spend on infrastructure, job creation, education, health and the other “stuff” governments are supposed to provide. As a native Californian I've made many trips to Mexico. And my last trip five years ago I swore that was it. I would never go again. It was just too upsetting.

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[RufusEarl]

1. Replace Mexico with USA, and the story still fit's

[Nikia]

2. I agree

This has been a problem in Mexico. It is becoming a problem in the United States with the Bush government and his supporters.

[realFedUp]

3. kick

coz who else will?

[raccoon]

4. Good article, I'm in the middle of it right now.

What does he mean by "gray collar?" I never heard that term before.

"The US has already lost millions of blue and gray collar jobs, once the foundation of America's middle class."

[Igel]

8. "Gray collar" ...

never heard it before.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/25/AR2006032500109_2.html
"... gray collar generally referring to service workers, such as waiters and security guards."

I've also run into a reference where 'gray collar' referred to foremen and supervisors: sort of blue-collar, but with a strong white-collar bias.

I have no idea if the site requires registration; if it does, my browser's provided my username/password for the last couple of years.

[cliss]

5. Interesting. Now what's happening with the

election that's going on down there? I know the Old Fox Vicente Fox is in trouble. But who's his challenger?

I'm focused on Central & South America, so I've kinda missed this story.

[Traditional Liberal]

6. The problem with immigration reform

Fox is prohibited by law from running again.

Lopez Obrador, the most left-leaning of the three candidates will probably win.

There are allegations, only allegations so far, that Chavez is funneling cash to student activities on Lopez Obrador's behalf. For everyone's sake let's hope it's not true.

Mexico has corruption on a scale Americans cannot imagine. In no way shape or form is the US in the same league.

The problem of giving citizenship to Mexicans in the US illegally, is that you reward the wrong people. It's a greater reward to the oligarchy of Mexico than it is for the potential citizen. We are doing the filthy rich of Mexico a far greater favor than the guy who has to work for minimum wage in the US. If we did not accept ten percent of Mexico's population, the ten percent most likely to start a REAL revolution, the oligarchs would have serious problems on their hands.

[bemildred]

7. Corruption in Mexico is peanuts compared to the USA.

Peanuts.