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2006-03-30 Home Front Economy

Does the money immigrants send home do any good?

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Posted by 3dc 2006-03-30 01:53|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well, Fox thinks it does good. It is the only thing holding up his corrupt government.

Posted by DarthVader 2006-03-30 08:17|| 2006-03-30 08:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Mexico City 2013?
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Posted by Glailing Clomble9233 2006-03-30 08:59|| 2006-03-30 08:59|| Front Page Top

#3 The money sent back home also doesn't go into the local consumer-based economy in the local communities. Small local businesses in agricultural areas do not benefit, as they establish their own groceries imported from home and don't spend it here. The immigrants rent, not paying property taxes to support the local public schools. They also use the emergency room for primary medical care, at taxpayers expense. It has the opposite effect of the economic boost that tax breaks give by putting money into circulation. Sending money home encourages the illegals even more. Immigrants that come here should want to become Americans,learn English and good citizenship, like paying taxes, and not for the free ride at taxpayers expense it has become. I don't want my children to be Islamomexican.

Posted by Danielle 2006-03-30 11:43|| 2006-03-30 11:43|| Front Page Top

#4 You've got to wonder what it says about a nation, like Mexico or the Philippines, when self-exiled individuals who remit earnings to support their stranded families are the country's largest economic sector. In other words, aren't these shells merely a house of cards with some major parasites hooked in at the top? The flipside of the coin is just how much more successful would the host countries be without all of that cash flight?

Posted by Zenster 2006-03-30 13:13|| 2006-03-30 13:13|| Front Page Top

#5 And after having rreceived all this free money for years from America (and other western countries), they fund their own illegal arrival on the shores - entititled to their entitlements. Heck, they are already citizens in their own minds.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-03-30 19:39|| 2006-03-30 19:39|| Front Page Top

#6 IMHO, the host countries won't be any better until their way of doing things are cleaned up. That is business, government, law enforcement, etc. The home countries are not evolving and developing positively when they depend up a huge labor force working somewhere else and sending back money. Take a look at Mexico. Great oil potential, manufacturing, tourism. But it is a mess. The oligarcy likes the status quo, so nothing happens and in the case of Mexico, the US is the safety valve.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-03-30 20:59|| 2006-03-30 20:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Zenster--Shells merely a house of cards? A house of cards with parasites hooked in at the top? Block that metaphor!

Danielle, renters DO pay property tax. Surely you don't think the landlord pays it cheerfully, without passing on the costs to the tenants?

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