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Posted on 04/30/2006 5:53:30 PM PDT by TechJunkYard
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... and other stuff...
I am your substitute host this week, as lainie is vacationing "somewhere on the east coast"... and has chosen to leave her laptop at home!
Who else is listening tonight?
"It's almost nine o-clock" ping!
Please, Drudge... be on point and on fire tonight... I need inspiration
....plus maybe just maybe a phone call from Ann Coulter!!!!
Thanks for the ping!
It' almost 6:00 p.m. where I am.
Here in Atlanta they will be doing highway work near downtown shutting down lanes. This should make traffic tomorrow fantasical awlful.
(While we're comtemplating the upcoming May Day Protests, here's something I got from a friend, via e-mail)
Subject: Citizens working in Mexico
The following is from a director with SW BELL in Mexico City:
I spent five years working in Mexico.
I worked under a tourist visa for three months and could legally
renew it for three more months. After that you were working
illegally. I was technically illegal for three weeks waiting on the
FM3 approval.
During that six months our Mexican and US Attorneys were working to
secure a permanent work visa called a FM3. It was in addition to my
US passport that I had to show each time I entered and left the
country. Barbara's was the same except hers did not permit her to
work.
To apply for the FM3 I needed to submit the following notarized
originals (not copies) of my:
1. Birth certificates for Barbara and me.
2. Marriage certificate.
3. High school transcripts and proof of graduation.
4. College transcripts for every college I attended and proof of
graduation.
5. Two letters of recommendation from supervisors I had worked
for at least one year.
6. A letter from The ST. Louis Chief of Police indicating I had
no arrest record in the US and no outstanding warrants and was
"a citizen in good standing."
7. Finally; I had to write a letter about myself that clearly
stated why there was no Mexican citizen with my skills and why
my skills were important to Mexico. We called it our "I am the
greatest person on earth" letter. It was fun to write.
All of the above were in English that had to be translated into
Spanish and be certified as legal translations and our signatures
notarized. It produced a folder about 1.5 inches thick with English
on the left side and Spanish on the right.
Once they were completed Barbara and I spent about five hours
accompanied by a Mexican attorney touring Mexican government office
locations and being photographed and fingerprinted at least three
times. At each location (and we remember at least four locations) we
were instructed on Mexican tax, labor, housing, and criminal law and
that we were required to obey their laws or face the consequences.
We could not protest any of the government's actions or we would be
committing a felony. We paid out four thousand dollars in fees and
bribes to complete the process. When this was done we could legally
bring in our household goods that were held by US customs in Loredo
Texas. This meant we rented furniture in Mexico while awaiting our
goods. There were extensive fees involved here that the company
paid.
We could not buy a home and were required to rent at very high rates
and under contract and compliance with Mexican law.
We were required to get a Mexican drivers license. This was an
amazing process. The company arranged for the licensing agency to
come to our headquarters location with their photography and finger
print equipment and the laminating machine. We showed our US
license, were photographed and fingerprinted again and issued the
license instantly after paying out a six dollar fee. We did not take
a written or driving test and never received instructions on the
rules of the road. Our only instruction was never give a policeman
your license if stopped and asked. We were instructed to hold it
against the inside window away from his grasp. If he got his hands
on it you would have to pay ransom to get it back.
We then had to pay and file Mexican income tax annually using the
number of our FM3 as our ID number. The companies Mexican
accountants did this for us and we just signed what they prepared. I
was about twenty legal size pages annually.
The FM 3 was good for three years and renewable for two more after
paying more fees.
Leaving the country meant turning in the FM# and certifying we were
leaving no debts behind and no outstanding legal affairs (warrants,
tickets or liens) before our household goods were released to
customs.
It was a real adventure and If any of our senators or congressmen
went through it once they would have a different attitude toward
Mexico.
The Mexican Government uses its vast military and police forces to
keep its citizens intimidated and compliant. They never protest at
their White House or government offices but do protest daily in
front of the United States Embassy. The US embassy looks like a
strongly reinforced fortress and during most protests the Mexican
Military surround the block with their men standing shoulder to
shoulder in full riot gear to protect the Embassy. These protests
are never shown on US or Mexican TV. There is a large public park
across the street where they do their protesting. Anything can cause
a protest such as proposed law changes in California or Texas.
Please feel free to share this with everyone who thinks we are being
hard on illegal immigrants.
Did you see Colbert bombing for about the last 15-20 minutes of his speech last night? It was SOOO painful to watch...
Nah. Lucky ;)
Evenin everybody!
A complete list of Drudge streams
http://radio.findanisp.com/radio-show.php?showid=311
A list of talk show streams
http://radio.findanisp.com/radio-shows-on-air.php
Feathering Their Casas--How much do Mexico's corrupt officials get paid?
Show me a politician who is poor and I will show you a poor politician"
— Carlos Hank González
Executive Summary
Mexican politicians continuously demand more visas for their citizens, an expanded guest-worker program, and "regularization" of illegal aliens living north of the Rio Grande. While neglecting to mention that the United States admits nearly one million legal newcomers each year, they also fail to publicize: (1) the extremely high salaries they receive, often—in the case of federal and state legislators—more than their counterparts in developed nations that have substantially longer annual sessions, (2) the generous stipends that they grant themselves, including year-end aguinaldos and end-of-term bonuses of tens of thousands of dollars known as bonos de marcha, and (3) the generous sums that party leaders in legislative bodies have to spend with few or any strings attached.
For example,
President Vicente Fox ($236,693) makes more than the leaders of France ($95,658), the U.K. ($211,434), and Canada ($75,582).
Although they are in session only a few months a year, Mexican deputies take home at least $148,000—substantially more than their counterparts in France ($78,000), Germany ($105,000), and congressmen throughout Latin America.
At the end of the three-year term, Mexican deputies voted themselves a $28,000 "leaving-office bonus."
Members of the 32 state legislatures ($60,632) earn on average twice the amount earned by U.S. state legislators ($28,261). The salaries and bonuses of the lawmakers in Baja California ($158,149), Guerrero ($129,630), and Guanajuato ($111,358) exceed the salaries of legislators in California ($110,880), the District of Columbia ($92,500), Michigan ($79,650), and New York ($79,500).
Members of the city council of Saltillo, San Luis Potosí, not only received a salary of $52,778 in 2005, but they awarded themselves a $20,556 end-of-year bonus.
Average salaries (plus Christmas stipends known as aguinaldos) place the average compensation of Mexican state executives at $125,759, which exceeds by almost $10,000 the mean earnings of their U.S. counterparts ($115,778). On average, governors received aguinaldos of $14,346 in 2005—a year when 60 percent of Mexicans received no year-end bonuses.
That's a FAR cry from how they handle things at their borders
Just who the hell do these clowns think they are anyway????
Our crooked pols could learn a lot from them.
Howdy Techy
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