So true.
Posted on 07/03/2006 3:29:53 PM PDT by Dane
Well, Reuters can't win them all. However, there's still hope for them, since Jimmy Carter hasn't certified the results.
Apparently macho brown faded to chicken yellow as illegal aliens reportedly avoided going into Mexico just to vote because of fear that they might be unable to re-invade the US.
The financial always reacts negatively when leftists win top government posts in Canada and in the U. S. Let Demos win the White House and Wall Street immediately drops points like rain.
Does that tell us anything?
A good example of this was how the market went up and down based on whether Bush won a court ruling or Gore did during that fiasco in Florida.
. . . which is a great deal like the way that Mussolini got his power. And we saw how that came out!
"The stock market soared 4.77 percent on Monday, its second-biggest one-day gain this year, and the peso strengthened 1.8 percent. "
Are they talking about the Dow Jones? Certainly I would have noticed a 500 point jump. They must mean the mexican market, in any case sloppy reporting.
After about a week of this, it got to be pretty funny, and especially so because the press didn't mention it.
Mexico HAS been relatively stable and freemarket for a long time. The problem has been that Mexico is ALWAYS compared to the U.S. and that is unfair.
Mexico is 10,000 times better today than it was 100 years ago, for everyone. But it will never catch up to the gringos and it is grossly unfair to continue to compare them with us.
Mexico IS considered the "giant" of the north, as their southern neighbors experience coup d'etats with regularity. Mexico's peso is considered far more stable than the garbage money of their southern neighbors.
So, when I bad-mouth Mexico it is with the FULL knowledge of all this. They are INFINITELY better off, more stable and more reliable than almost all of their southern neighbors. They ARE our amigos as much as they can be.
However, PAN and PRI are made, imho, from the same cloth: the corrupt cloth that is the Mexican culture. I don't think Mexico CAN produce much else from the same pool of people. They improve over the decades but their Presidente, no matter who he is, will, for now at least, be the BIGGEST ladron in all of Mexico, PRIista or PANista. [I made up those words just now.:o)]
I did live in Mexico City for 2 years and traveled extensively throughout the Republic....and spend the two years getting to know my extensive family of 40+ relatives. They, and friends I made there, are the ones who helped me form my opinion of Mexican politics. They might be dead wrong, but I kind of doubt it.
So true.
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