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["Followup-To:" header set to ia.talk.misc.]
On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 19:46:25 GMT, Yosemite Sam <mud@flaps.net> wrote:
>  On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 08:08:05 +0000 (UTC), Steen King
> <steenking@worf.netins.net> wrote:
<snip> 
> >El Presidente, Mr. Fox, is not really eager to stem the flow of illegals 
> >into the US.  Why should he?  It masks years of economic mismanagement and 
> >plunder by multi-nationals and the ruling elite.  It's big business, and 
> >it keeps the social order.  It curbs the burn for social reform as 
> >billions of dollars pour into the Mexican economy from one of its leading 
> >industries. 
> 
>  Wealth is concentrated in far fewer hands in Mexico, always has been.
> 
<snip>

....and millions of people didn't scramble across the border to get away 
from the mariachi bands.



> >If you can mobilize peoples' fear, ignorance, bias, or ethnocentricity the 
> >damn thing will nearly fly by itself is almost self perpetuating.
> 
>  A cynical rant.

Yeah...who would ascribe the base motivations to educated, enlightened 
behavior? 


<snip> 
> >As the rich get richer, and the poor are getting poorer, it will come as a 
> >rude awakening when you find out what side of the line you are on...and 
> >trust me, it ain't rich.
> 
>  It ain't Mexico either...yet....

But there is increased rate of concentration of wealth in the US.  ...and 
when decent people are pitted against other decent people for food, a 
roof, and a little spot in the sun because the cream has been skimmed off 
and the fat cats just don't have enough...it won't be long.


 
> >Illegal is illegal.  We shouldn't have to fight Jaun Valdez for a decent 
> >life just so Paris Hilton can have cheap maid service. 
> 
>  Equally cynical.

...I'm just a cynical sort of guy.

> 
>  Pay scales for maid service vs. medical care have to vary.


Oh, and they should.  The point I was so ineptly making was that work, 
honesty, decency, charitable, civil, neighborly conduct should be valued 
and honored...

...and yet we have a system that is so stuffed up that a spoiled, 
mindless skank can 'party all night-sleep all day' and doesn't have to 
work a day in her life.

-- 
I am Epoxy Man