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Old 03-10-2010, 04:25 PM
 
Location: Metropolis
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Bill Gates drops in Forbes list of world's richest - MSN Money


If this nation has the raw economic substance to spawn the richest man in the world, you tell me, should we feel sorry for Mexico?

The oligarches of Mexico are disgusting.

At least the wealthy in the United States give out 5 crumbs, as apposed to Mexico's elites giving out 0 crumbs....

 
Old 03-10-2010, 04:46 PM
 
Location: South Bay Native
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This doesn't really tie into illegal immigration - maybe could go in the "World" category, or "Mexico"?
 
Old 03-10-2010, 04:59 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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Well, when we think about how the US redistributes wealth based on taxes and how 1/6 of Mexico has fled to the US, 20-35 million or more illegally over the years there is a point to that article. Especially when we take into consideration how much of our tax money goes to these Mexican Nationals and their children. The majority of Illegal Aliens have and will continue to come from Mexico.
 
Old 03-10-2010, 05:08 PM
 
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Mexico ranks high on the List of countries by GDP in 2008.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...y_GDP_(nominal)
 
Old 03-10-2010, 05:08 PM
 
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Bill Gates drops in Forbes list of world's richest - MSN Money


If this nation has the raw economic substance to spawn the richest man in the world, you tell me, should we feel sorry for Mexico?

The oligarches of Mexico are disgusting.

At least the wealthy in the United States give out 5 crumbs, as apposed to Mexico's elites giving out 0 crumbs....
Actually he's providing cheap health care to Americans. Which begs the question: where are all the American capitalists providing cheap health care?

The business of hospital beds
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In addition to making calls on Carlos Slim’s phone lines, lunching in his restaurants, and driving on his roads, Mexicans can now be born in his hospitals.

The billionaire businessman has staked a claim to the private healthcare sector after his infrastructure firm IDEAL (Impulsora del Desarollo y el Empleo en America Latina) took a large stake in privately-held hospital chain Grupo Star Médica. The group, which began operations in 2002, currently owns hospitals in Acapulco, Morelia, Aguascalientes, Mérida, San Luis Potosí, Puebla, and Mexico City.

Star Médica also opened a 53-bed facility in Ciudad Juárez in September, and plans others in Tijuana and Mexicali, according to the Bloomberg news agency. The chain will target American patients for elective surgery such as arthroscopy and laparoscopy.
 
Old 03-10-2010, 05:10 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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I wonder if a poor Mexican can walk into his Hospital and demand help? Then turn around again the next day with a different child and demand. Then again the next day, and the next?

Just like we allow it.
 
Old 03-10-2010, 05:11 PM
 
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This doesn't really tie into illegal immigration - maybe could go in the "World" category, or "Mexico"?
Although it's very revealing about the underlying xenophobic nature of the anti immigration threads...
 
Old 03-10-2010, 05:12 PM
 
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I wonder if a poor Mexican can walk into his Hospital and demand help? Then turn around again the next day with a different child and demand. Then again the next day, and the next?

Just like we allow it.
From my understanding health care for Mexican nationals is free in public hospitals.
 
Old 03-10-2010, 05:44 PM
 
Location: San Diego
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From my understanding health care for Mexican nationals is free in public hospitals.
If they have health care and school free why the draw for the same in the US? There are no jobs here.
 
Old 03-10-2010, 05:49 PM
 
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Although it's very revealing about the underlying xenophobic nature of the anti immigration threads...
There are no revealing xenophobic posts in here. Xenophobic along with racist, bigot, hater and anti-Hispanic are just words used by the pro-illegals to demonize the other side. They have no viable arguments so all they have are insults to hurl.

You do realize that xenophobia is a fear of strangers, don't you? Who is afraid of strangers in this country? We have been a racially diverse country since it's founding. Who would be a stranger since every imaginable racial/ethnic group is already living in this country? Did martians suddenly arrive here? Yeah, they would be strangers.
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