Posted on 05/27/2006 10:00:16 AM PDT by Keflavik76
Mexican President Vicente Fox is hailing the Senate's passage of immigration reform legislation that contains sweeping new rights for illegal aliens as a reward for Mexicans.
"They fought for it," Fox said Friday at a breakfast meeting with California business leaders. "They earned what they got yesterday," he added.
In a speech to the California legislature after the bill's passage on Thursday, Mr. Fox sounded downright ecstatic.
"Today's historic vote is a monumental step forward," he declared. "This is a moment that millions of [Mexican] families have been hoping for. This is the moment that millions of people have been working for."
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We should have started while Paul Martin was Prime Minister of Canada. I don't think George Bush is capable of outsmarting Stephen Harper.
"They fought for it," Fox said Friday at a breakfast meeting with California business leaders. "They earned what they got yesterday," he added.
I never knew I was a one issue voter. The passage of the Senate bill has changed my views considerably. I was always willing to explore compromise in the Senate. Now I am so disgusted with them that they can all go urinate up a rope. This bill is a betrayal..
I hope you are wrong, if that does come to pass I would even go so far as to say there may be armed conflict in the American Southwest by that point.
Not to mention that 10% is wiring US currency to Mexico, adding to the boon..
"And allowing the ruling elite in Mexico to stay in power and keep the permanent underclass in Mexico at bay. Americans should be proud..."
Think of it as one set of ruling elites helping out their friends south of the used-to-be border. It's time for pitchforks and torchs.
Yup, the US is and has done more for Mexicans than Mexico has.
I wish the house would stall the vote on this at least until october, just before the elections... when a lot of these morons would really feel the heat.
""This is a moment that millions of [Mexican] families have been hoping for."....Vicente Fox
Translation.... OK my people....green light to make massive runs to the US borders...and send the dineros $$ back to Ole' Mexico.
US Senate is a body of worthless clumps of puke. BARF.....
Fox doesn't have very good strategery if his thinks that what he is saying will sit well with the American people.
Write....Call your legislators!! Put a stop to this madness!!
Fox doesn't have very good strategery if his thinks that what he is saying will sit well with the American people.
Write....Call your legislators!! Put a stop to this madness!!
It's Vicente's world and Bush only plays in it.
The sissy Senators justs following the pied piper.
These are our hallowed leaders?
Are you in the House listening to this? Keep standing strong. Don't compromise.
It helps the Mexican mega-rich greatly that American taxpayers have been forced to support Mexicans living in the United States.....read on.
Mexico is Rich- Mexican wealthy play American taxpayers for suckers
SOURCE http://www.limitstogrowth.org/ | 2005 | Brenda Walker
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Certainly there are many poor people in Mexico, since perhaps half the country lives in poverty. However, the nation as a whole is quite rich — see the documented facts listed below — and could well finance the sort of improvements in education and infrastructure that would better the living standards of all Mexicans. But the Mexican ultra-rich, like telecommunications magnate Carlos Slim, don't like to tax themselves for investment the country badly needs for infrastructure and education, and it helps them greatly that the American taxpayer has been forced to support Mexicans living in the United States.
Interestingly, the Forbes list of billionaires published in 2006 showed Carlos Slim moving up to the number three spot among the world's richest men. Every dollar spent in U.S. taxes for social services for illegal aliens frees up additional cash to be sent south as part of the annual remittances which provided $20 billion in 2005.
According to the CNN news show Lou Dobbs Tonight (3/21/05), "Remittances, as they're called, are expected to become Mexico's primary source of income this year, surpassing the amount of money that Mexico makes on oil exports for the first time ever." So when el Presidente Vicente Fox complains that the "dignity" of Mexicans living illegally in America requires that they receive free healthcare on the U.S. taxpayer's dime, he is really talking about increased remittances to keep their whole corrupt system afloat.
Consider these relevent facts:
• Mexico has the second-highest highest Gross Domestic Product in Latin America, after being #1 for several years over second-place Brazil.
• When measured in GDP per capita, Mexico ranks #1 as of 2005, ahead of Chile and Venezuela.
• According to Forbes magazine, a substantial proportion of Latin American billionaires, 10 out of 26, were Mexican as of 2005.
• Mexico raises less revenue through taxation than nearly any other Latin American country, just 12 percent which is one reason why the nation's wealth is not better utilized. By comparison, the United States takes in 25-28 percent of its gross domestic profit in taxes. Even Brazil taxes itself at twice the Mexican rate.
• Economist Gary Hufbauer of the Institute for International Economics has remarked, "It's up to Mexico to solve its problem, and basically the wealthy classes do not want to tax themselves, period. While I'm not usually an advocate for larger government, Mexico is a country where public investment, done wisely, could pay huge dividends."
• Mexico expert Prof. George Grayson of William and Mary College calls Mexico an "immensely wealthy nation."
• Mexico's economy is the world's tenth largest.
• When the ruling party needed a hefty sum for the 1994 election, Presidente Salinas leaned on a group of rich businessmen to write $25 million checks each at an infamous dinner party, where contributions totaled a staggering $750 million by evening's end. Compare that with the measly $150 million campaign chest in spring 2004 that President Bush had accumulated after three years in office.
• Freedom House notes the cost of corruption: "According a recent study by the Mexico chapter of Transparency International, some $2.3 billion-approximately 1 percent-of the country's economic production goes to officials in bribes, with the poorest families paying nearly 14 percent of their income in bribes."
• Ricas y Famosas — Rich and Famous is a book of photos that takes a peek at the hidden world of the Mexican ultra-rich. Photographer Daniela Rossell used her membership in the exclusive club to reveal the decadent lifestyles of blonde women in gold lamé. It is a shocking view of the most extreme ostentatious wealth among great poverty.
• Sure Things in Mexico: Death, Taxes and Evasion According the recent rankings released from the IMD International, the Switzerland-based International Institute for Management Development placed Mexico at 56 out of 60 economies examined, largely because of a dearth of investment in everything from infrastructure to education. Due to its pathetic tax collection, Mexico cannot even buy schoolbooks or pay its police enough to live on, much less invest in its future.
• Lou Dobbs Tonight Transcript (12/16/04) The CNN news show shines a light on Mexican wealth. Particularly noteworthy is Prof. Grayson's remark: "There is a small economic elite who live like maharajas, and there's a political elite that protects them. Our border provides an escape valve which really lets the Mexican political and economic elite off the hook in terms of providing opportunities for their own people."
• While US Focuses on Iraq, Mexico is Collapsing June, 2005, and the symptoms of Mexico's failure as a state are accumulating. The recent takeover of border city Nuevo Laredo by the Mexican army because of the breakdown in law and order was so obvious.
Interestingly, Defense chief Donald Rumsfeld is guided by a secret Pentagon report which identifies Mexico as a potential failed state in the making.
For more, read "Mexico's Rich Don't Like To Pay Taxes — They Think You Should."
They would think the house and senate have became a day care center.
My zip code is well represented. I already thanked my Senators for voting no. Senator Talent even gave a speech on the floor in opposition that you can link to in my comments or on the MO board. I phoned my Congressman and told his staff the they are our only hope. Last week we sent him 100 bucks for re-election because he is campaigning on the House's stance on this issue.
Time for Superman Sensensbrenner and fellow patriots to right the wrongs.
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