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| Caribbean-Latin America |
| One new Mexican president. Dozens of new reasons to build the wall. |
| 2018-07-04 |
| [American Thinker] In Mexico, it is often impolite to tell someone ’No.’ If you want to spare someone’s feelings, many people say ’Maybe.’ Everyone knows that means ’No.’ Mexico stopped worrying about American feelings long ago. Among the fashionable public officials and academics, scorn has been the ruling emotion for decades. And we see that more recently in the last week’s elections. Pretending otherwise is just too much work in Mexico today. The new President declares he is a socialist, but he will be hard pressed to show how his new socialist policies are any different than the old socialist policies that govern so many parts of Mexican life. That’s what we said about Venezuela, come to think of it. And those who predict their ’Fill in Blank’ Latin American country has finally bottomed out and is now turning around are often, even invariably, wrong. But at least admitting they are socialists has the added benefit of sticking a finger in the eye of their terrible neighbors to the North -- whom everyone knows ruined Mexico by stealing a good chunk of the country in 1848. Anyone who reads the daily papers in Mexico is reminded of that 157-year old treaty every day: for most of the country, the national slogan/curse remains "Mexico, so far from God, so close to the United States." We can even hear it today from Mexican nationals and their descendants in the U.S. who glorify La Raza at the expense of their adopted country. Oh, and by the way, Americans are still waiting for any kind of public display of support for those who died on 9/11. Mexicans largely ignored it, when they were not supporting it behind closed doors at their local universities. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 What were they doing with this part of the country? Trying to survive Comanche raids, among other things. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2018-07-04 22:21 |
| #3 whom everyone knows ruined Mexico by stealing a good chunk of the country in 1848. What were they doing with this part of the country? Nothing. |
| Posted by: Clem Kadiddlehopper9000 2018-07-04 19:46 |
| #2 WikiHow To.... Send money to Mexico, illustrated. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-07-04 11:22 |
| #1 Because at last count illegals send over $35 Billion in hard cash south every year, the Mexican government (?) needs the hard US dollars to prop up their Peso and keep the country afloat. Much of the cartel money goes to US banks, those thugs may be brutal but they are not stupid enough to trust Mexican banks. So the US currency that keeps Mexico alive comes from moneygrams and mailgrams from the US. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-07-04 11:19 |