[FITZ]

Still the wealthiest by a wide margin.

And Mexico is one of the world's wealthiest countries also but that doesn't mean it's not third world. Third world countries have the very rich ---and they can have a sizeable number of very rich, but in third world countries, the majority of people are barely making it. In this part of the US, only a third of the people now have private insurance and welfare rates are about 40%, one third the salaries are exactly minimum wage and only one out of three makes over $10 an hour ---it seems pretty close to being a third world country.

[Poohbah]

And Mexico is one of the world's wealthiest countries also but that doesn't mean it's not third world.

Ahem. Mexico ain't even in the same damn ballpark as the USA on wealth, son.