Mexico’s Coming Collapse

The National Anxiety Center ^ | June 2005 | By Alan Caruba

[smith288]

Mexico is THE most parasitic country in the world.

[manic4organic]

We're gonna need a bigger wall.

[evad]

:) You think he sent the email by hiting a wireless router with his laptop while holding a "Will Work For Food" sign at the street corner?

LOL..
I'm trying to picture this 55 year old loser touring the countryside looking for honest work in his Mercedes with a "Will Work for 100 Grand" sign on the top.

Guess I'm just too cynical...I just don't find it believable.

[starbase]

It is because he demands wages higher than the market is paying for the services he is able to provide. If Mexicans are being hired for these jobs, it is because they will work for less, not because they are Mexicans.

These are statements of fact, however, the presence of the illegal labor is what drives down what "the market is paying for the services he is able to provide". Saying someone refuses to take a low paying job AFTER illegal labor has lowered its value artificially is rather blaming the victim, isn't it?

[snap54]

It would be 31 new provinces like Puerto Rico. We need to take over all the way to the Panama Canal. No voting rights in congress or national elections, but required to implement minumum wage protection. We get their oil and create an alternative to dealing with OPEC. With this aim, it is a war that I would support. American empirialism has a place, when it promotes the ultimate safety and security of its citizens.

[kindred]

[Pure BS our government is taking steps to INCREASE the Globalization (nafta, cafta) the plan is plain to anyone who looks at the facts: Our Government means to internationalize our laws and form a EU type government with Canada and Mexico..we have lost the right to property (KELO) and have no borders with our mexican and canandian partners..the fall of the Nation called America is very very near..the rule of un elected elites looms larger and larger.]

I believe this also. We are seeing the one world order preceeding the coming of the 'wicked one' and his 7 year rule before the 2nd coming of the anointed one, Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.

[dljordan]

" B.S. - With 5% unemployment, those that want to work, can work!"

You are aware that the government no longer counts people whose unemployment insurance has run out? That way the unemployment figures look much better for whatever administration is in office.

[TXBSAFH]

Build the wall and station troops. Let it collapse.

[norton]

The only problem with your logic:
"It irritates me when people say they cannot find work, when what they really mean is they cannot find work they would like to do at a wage they would like to get."

Is that the abundancy of illegals working in many skilled and unskilled trades holds the wage down for anyone else.
It's often possible only because of pooled resources (and overcrowded apartments) which are not a part of typical American social organization.

Holding down those wages, by the way, also leaves a huge gap between entry level and that first step up the wage scale.
It has also cut off things like basic construction, many types of repair, and clerking, which were mainstays of the non-college educated wage earner.

It's interesting to see that the same unions that once drove wages upward to create a semi-skilled middle class are now embracing illegals to increase their numbers.

[norton]

That said, I also find the idea of an email from someone tramping 'round the nation looking for work a bit of a stretch.

[meadsjn]

I also find the idea of an email from someone tramping 'round the nation looking for work a bit of a stretch.

It's not a stretch. Jobseekers access their email and the internet from Job Service Centers, libraries, internet cafes, Kinko's, and a multitude of other access points.

[deport]

I received an email recently from a 55-year-old, unemployed American who had been to 14 States looking for work. He couldn’t find any, he said, because "I am not a Mexican."

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I'd have to guess the 'non Mexican' hasn't been to any of the states along the Gulf Coast from Houston to Florida... especially in the area 100 miles or so inland. If the 'non Mexican' has then there is something else wrong with him other than being 'non Mexican'.

[Lazamataz]

Mexico’s Coming Collapse

That's because everyone in Mexico will have finally moved to America.

[Lazamataz]

Half the population of Mexico is already there and we can drill in Mexico.

I sure did. It was in Tijuana and her name was Carlita.

*sigh* (smile)

[son of caesar]

if you want a real war, just keep talking about annexing mexico as a new set of states to the usa. anyone with an iq above 3 knows that mexicans love their mexico ten times as much as americans love america in general.

[hinckley buzzard]

Notwithstanding the author's attitude, it does make sense to look at the macroeconomics of Mexico in the current environment. Somewhere back about twenty years ago we had to bail out the peso to prevent the collapse of Mexico, and it seems nothing much has changed down there except for a growth in exports to the US. If the US economy cools and even hits a downturn this year, Mexico could well go into a crisis situation. Their population growth has been horrific, and despite oil wealth, their abortion of a government has done little or nothing to develop the country. If Mexico has an economic meltdown we may need more than a border wall to protect ourselves.

[ßuddaßudd]

Prophetic words.

[TheOracleAtLilac]

Is that a DUNG BEETLE ?

[Red Badger]

I first made that prediction in 1991 to some friends at work. I predicted that the Mexican economy would collapse and their only recourse would be to apply for admission to the United States as a new state or states. When the bailout of the mid 90's came I thought it would happen then, but didn't. It will repeat itself...............

[TheOracleAtLilac]

I heard she was monikered the homophone of Consuelo !