TR>> She is eligible for welfare, food stamps, medical services
TR>> and housing for her baby, *supposedly* a U.S. citizen. But
TR>> she's deported back to Mexico. So her welfare check and
TR>> food stamps are mailed to her in Mexico.

bk>>They do? Now that one I never heard of.

 tr> It happens. Or at least it did. There was a big brohaha
 tr> over it some time back. It was a large part of what
 tr> proposition 187 was all about.

 Ok, some welfare is state run, so that may have been a
 California thing.

 tr> Another thing they were doing was sending county school
 tr> buses to the border to pick up Mexican kids, bus them to US
 tr> schools, and take them back in the afternoon. *We* were
 tr> paying for all this, and the Mexican parents were paying
 tr> nothing! And the goddamn school district was participating
 tr> in this blatant defiance of the taxpayer because of
 tr> *federal funds*. The more `heads' they had in classrooms,
 tr> the more *federal funds* they got! *Federal funds* were
 tr> tied to attendance rolls!

 That is true of state funds here also.

 tr> We don't *owe* Mexico anything. *We* created this country,
 tr> and if Mexicans want what we have here, let them have the
 tr> guts to stand up and fight for it in their own nation.

 And they will say, it's the US drug trade fueling the violence
 there, and US gun sellers providing the guns the drug gangs are
 using.

 tr> Mexico is still mainly in the hands of the big land owners,
 tr> the money-movers, and the drug lords.

 And near the border it's more and more drug lords.

 tr> There are places in Mexico where people live in such
 tr> poverty as to make our worst ghetto look like paradise by
 tr> comparision.

 Yep.

 tr> But if they don't have the guts to take their country away
 tr> from the crooks and overlords who have control of it, and
 tr> make it better for themselves and their children, that
 tr> isn't America's problem. And we shouldn't be  punished for
 tr> their lack of courage.

 Again, Americans are providing the money the drug lords use to
 buy the guns Americans provide. They have the guns, the others
 can't do much about it.

 Just like the ordinary people can't stop the terror in Iraq,
 even though they are the victims many times more than Americans.
 Same with Afghanistan and Sudan and so many other countries.

 The golden rule should be the gun rule. He who has the guns
 makes the rules.



BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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