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Litter choking streets throughout Mexico
Houston Chronicle Mexico City Bureau ^ | June 24, 2007 | DUDLEY ALTHAUS

Posted on 06/25/2007 8:27:31 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch

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To: SwinneySwitch

We need to send the Native American on the Horse with tear rolling down his cheek to Mexico.


61 posted on 06/25/2007 10:27:08 AM PDT by zeaal (SPREAD TRUTH!)
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To: JSDude1

Yes, I have thought about that a lot. We could appoint someone to be Judge Advocate or something to that effect like they did in Japan after the war.

We take over their oil reserves and then set the oil royalties up like they are in Alaska, where the citizens get some of the revenue.

We might be surprised how many of them would return to their homeland.

From South Texas Lady who resides close to Laredo Texas


62 posted on 06/25/2007 10:27:15 AM PDT by South Texas Lady
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To: SwinneySwitch

This appears to be a cultural issue. The trouble with our neighbors coming in to live in our neighborhood (the U.S.)is that they bring their ‘traditions’ with them. That is okay for the most part but as stated in the article this attitude of ... “They throw trash in the street because that’s why they pay taxes,” Castillo said. “Somebody else picks it up,” seems to be taking hold here in the U.S. too.
[sigh]


63 posted on 06/25/2007 10:32:12 AM PDT by zeaal (SPREAD TRUTH!)
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To: Holicheese
Where is the crying indian chief when we need him!

Iron Eyes Cody is as big a phony as Jorge W. Arbusto.

64 posted on 06/25/2007 10:32:56 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (After six years of George W. Bush I long for the honesty and sincerity of the Clinton Administration)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Another job Mexicans won’t do.

As for the disgusting habits; they let their kids just do their thing naturally in the asles of Walmart and just leave it there. They also open packages of diapers and use them without paying for them.


65 posted on 06/25/2007 10:33:56 AM PDT by freekitty
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To: SwinneySwitch
Like many of its social problems, Mexico's litter epidemic may be anchored in a deeply entrenched political system in which citizen input has been discouraged.

What a polite way to say that they're pigs.

66 posted on 06/25/2007 10:34:28 AM PDT by OldPossum
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To: Holicheese
Where is the crying indian chief when we need him!

The real question is why do you support someone (Jorge W. Arbusto) who cares more about Mexican illegal aliens than he does about American citizens?

67 posted on 06/25/2007 10:36:07 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (After six years of George W. Bush I long for the honesty and sincerity of the Clinton Administration)
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To: SwinneySwitch
"It's a war without end,"

Here in GA the trash on the highways has increased several fold along with the Mexican "guest workers" of Jorje Bush. Though to give them there due, there are probably about 100 times as many Mexicans here as there were 20 years ago, and the trash levels are up less than 10 fold.

68 posted on 06/25/2007 10:37:03 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government, Benito Guilinni a short man in search of a balcony)
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To: wideminded
Um ... That was 77 percent of Texans under 25. (and 55 percent of all Texans)

Darn Dollar Store reading glasses.

I thought the 25 was unbelievably bad, the 55 is just wild.

Thanks for the polite update.

69 posted on 06/25/2007 10:39:44 AM PDT by Mark was here (Hard work never killed anyone, but why take the chance?)
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To: SwinneySwitch
The Don't Mess With Texas campaign, run by the state's Department of Transportation, is considered one of the more successful in the United States. Texas officials say the amount of litter has been reduced by as much as a third since the start of this decade.

They replaced the "Drive Friendly" signs with "Don't mess with Texas" signs. Texas is now a little cleaner and has a lot more unfriendly drivers.

70 posted on 06/25/2007 10:47:49 AM PDT by Between the Lines (I am very cognizant of my fallibility, sinfulness, and other limitations.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

America, 2050. Thanks, George.


71 posted on 06/25/2007 10:50:52 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I never consented to live in the Camp of the Saints.)
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To: silver charm

Thanks for your post.

It gives me no pleasure to post what I did, but DAMN! Why is President Bush caving into all these stupid liberals? I hope he wakes up and straightens out!!!


72 posted on 06/25/2007 10:57:21 AM PDT by Levante
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To: freekitty

Or the way some people pull their car up in front of your well maintained home and empty out the trash, including dirty diapers


73 posted on 06/25/2007 11:00:01 AM PDT by 1000 silverlings (Matthew 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

Mexico, Jamaica, Haiti....corruption run amok.


74 posted on 06/25/2007 11:02:46 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SwinneySwitch

“Litter choking streets throughout Mexico’

The same would be true of East St Louis, but how can you tell?


75 posted on 06/25/2007 11:05:40 AM PDT by gcruse
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To: 1000 silverlings

I have never heard of that one.


76 posted on 06/25/2007 11:12:23 AM PDT by freekitty
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To: freekitty

Yes, the other favorite spot to dump dirty diapers is the grocery store parking lot. My experience in LA anyway. One night while waiting in line to pay for groceries, I noticed a smell and looking down, there was a growing puddle. The woman in front of us was urinating while paying for groceries. Looking at my wife and I , she says, “When I’m in a tight, I’m in a tight”.


77 posted on 06/25/2007 11:16:18 AM PDT by 1000 silverlings (Matthew 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.)
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To: SwinneySwitch

“They throw trash in the street because that’s why they pay taxes,” Castillo said. “Somebody else picks it up.”

Next time you’re in, say, a Burger King, try this little experiment in ethnography.

Pay attention to which minority cleans up their table before they leave. Who leaves their trash behind for others to deal with? Hint: it won’t be the Latinos.

Now ask yourself how failing to be responsible for one’s own detritus manifests in other ways, and where the fault lies.


78 posted on 06/25/2007 11:18:00 AM PDT by gcruse
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To: SwinneySwitch

At the beach, you find them in toilets and urinals.


79 posted on 06/25/2007 11:19:12 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: 3AngelaD

Same situation in Sacramento. If you ride Amtrak east, you go through miles of trash left by “the homeless”. Actually the RR will clean it up and in months, thanks to the liberal policies of CA, it’s as bad as ever. Then they spend millions on a bike trail and allow the “homeless” (aka America’s Most Wanted) to camp out on it.


80 posted on 06/25/2007 11:23:09 AM PDT by 1000 silverlings (Matthew 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.)
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