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By Global Public Square staff
A few weeks ago, the president told a newspaper the solution to partisanship is politics and more politics. That’s how you work toward the building of agreements.
Unfortunately, it wasn't Barack Obama. It was Mexico’s Enrique Pena Nieto. As Washington has been mired in gridlock this year, consider what’s happening just across the border. One of the first things Pena Nieto did after assuming office just weeks ago was to announce a pact for Mexico, an ambitious set of reforms to raise taxes, increase competition and take on the teachers’ unions.
Now, it is one thing to announce a plan, quite another to get support for it and President Pena Nieto's pact comes with endorsements from across the spectrum, the conservatives he ousted from office as well as the leftist Democrats.
While the world has gotten used to a torrent of images and news of drug-related violence from Mexico, another side of this country has been quietly developing.
Consider the facts: Mexico’s GDP is expected to grow by nearly 4 percent this year, twice as fast as Brazil or, for that matter, the United States. It is riding a manufacturing boom. Mexico is now the world’s fourth biggest producer of cars, according to the World Trade Atlas. Starting next year, new taxis in New York City will carry a “made in Mexico' label.” Mexico is also the world's top exporter of flat screen TVs. In fact, Mexico exports more manufactured products than all the other countries in Latin America combined.
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Three main factors are in play: For one, geography. Sharing a border with the United States means heavy products are cheaper to transport across than if they were manufactured in, say, Asia.
A second factor is NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement. Mexican products are subject to lower duties than those from other countries. In fact, The Economist points out that Mexico has trade deals with 44 countries, the most of any nation in the world.
The third factor is wages. As other manufacturing hubs become more expensive, Mexico has become more competitive. According to HSBC, in 2000 Mexican workers earned nearly five times the salary of their Chinese peers. But, by 2011, Mexican workers were only about a third more expensive than Chinese workers.
When you project all these advantages into the next few years, Mexico’s economic future looks robust. The National Intelligence Council released an important report called Global Trends 2030. One of the trends it looks at is how demographic changes will shape the world. Countries with younger, more dynamic populations will grow faster.
While the median age in Mexico will be 34 in 2030, the median Chinese or Russian age will be about ten years older. Japan’s median age will hit 52. America actually has an advantage here, at 39 our median age will only be five years older than that of Mexico's. Trends don't ensure particular outcomes, but it's clear that contrary to its global image, Mexico's economy has momentum. It will be among the world's top ten economies by the end of this decade.
Smart reforms can build it further. The irony is that one possible impediment to Mexico’s growth could be the very country that is its biggest asset – the United States. If we slow down, so will Mexico. But perhaps that can be avoided if Washington's polarized factions could agree on a way forward. Maybe we need to take some lessons from south of the border.
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Consider the facts: Mexico’s GDP is expected to grow by nearly 4 percent this year, twice as fast as the United States. It is riding a manufacturing boom. <~~~Oh well, we are having a waitress and bartender boom. In my opinion NAFTA was the first of many mistakes. Kinda makes me wonder why they are coming here. I guess Mexico doesn't have as many freebies.
Can you be any more racist with your remarks? I just came back from 5 1/2 weeks in Mexico and no one I know wants to come here. NAFTA is working to reduce illegal immigration. Get your facts straight before spouting off with insensitive and incorrect information.
I HAVE family in Mexico and some want to come here. Stop calling people racist because you disagree with them Andrew. Mexico is doing better but most affluent people would still leave especially for the security of less corruption and kidnappings.
Who are you kidding? You aren't the only person to know people in Mexico.
Indeed, the US can learn from Mexico. Or rather the GOP could learn from Pena Nieto. The new president wants to show that he recognises the dark past of his party, that he is eager to change the image of the PRI both domestically and globally, and that he represents a more progressive, inclusive party. The PRI is the biggest party in both houses of Congress, but failed to win a majority in either. So Nieto moves closer to others and forms ally with the Green Party (PVEM).
racist? How do you get racist from his words?
So the 2 million people who cross the border illegally (still) this year, are phantoms? You're right. None of them want to come here. Let us send our border patrol to Canada. Gotta keep them from just walking over. YOU didn't see them cross when you were there, so they must not be crossing at all. Maybe YOU could replace the border patrol and fences, since apparently your vision is what causes them to not cross– THANK YOU!!.... Or maybe your perspective is irrelevant and "short sighted."
When did Mexican become a race?
More Mexicans left the US than came to the US last year. Pretty cool when your mind us blown huh? Mexico is on the rise. Everyone is saying to learn Chinese for the future but Spanish will be much more important. The Latin American economy is about the same size as China's and it is right next door! Bienvenidos amigos!
I am not exactly sure where in Mexico you were, but I am pretty sure it was a nice resort off the caribbean. I was in Mexico last year and almost everyone you talk to in Mexico between the ages of 14 and 21 main goal is to leave Mexico for the US. What this article fails to mention is that half of the population of Mexico lives well below the poverty level. That means about 60 million people. It's not racist, that is the mexican reality.
It is not racism, it is reality. Just because you don't like the facts about your own people being called out, does not make it racist or untrue. Shut the ^&*% up.
I agree!
White people now that's a Joke XD
@ Jose Rivera... so Mexicans which you know are looking to leave their country where the economy is prospering faster than China's to come here where they would have to face folks like Arizona';s sheriff . "Joe" Arpaio because what? You know what Jose? I think your name is more likely to be Josh Jones than Jose Rivera. You are likely to be a troll pretending to be from Mexico than anything else. No Mexican with any brains would move their family here nowadays... in fact, if you were smarter, you should consider moving to Mexico... they do not have many sheriff Joes down there.
Something you disagree with is racist because you disagree? After all, color has no involvement in the issue whatsoever, until you wish it to be so. Who might the racist be then? I think the one who forces the card into the deck.
Actually a BIG problem with NAFTA is that it put the factories along the US-Mex border, so it attracts people from the interior of Mexico to the border region. If we had insisted that they had been placed in the interior, we wouldn't be in the mess we're in. Yeah, attracting more people to our porous border. The wages in the maquiliadoras are nothing compare to those people can earn in the US, even illegals. Also, their children are automatically Americans. We are doomed. Slandrew this has nothing to do with racism, but reality. Yes, Mexicans are lovely people, but their least educated are pushed into the US by their own government and their exploitation by their fellow wealthier Mexicans.
How is what he said racist? Before YOU even start up with defending those that you think are the victims of racism, you should learn more or live amongst them to know that Mexicans are worse racists than any bible belt American anglo.
But most English only Americans are ignorant or are never given insight by Mexicans as to just how racist they are. Its done behind your backs, insidiously and its not only IN the USA but also IN Mexico. What are Mexicans human rights violation record on immigrants from Central and South America making their way through Mexico, IF they are not hurt or deported, to the USA?
Aside from that, what are122 said is accurate. NAFTA is allowing junk products, sub-standard produced cars and other things to reach the USA. From cheap bad detergent to badly made falling apart cars. Please, its the truth.
This is for the guy who said there are no Sheriff Joes down there. there are indeed. Even worse. some work in conjunction with the cartells to shake down money from and even kidnap guats, el sals, equadorians, etc, ect. while coming north.Mexico's immigration laws are far more draconian than in the U.S.. Except maybe Joe would be much harder to bribe. Also, let us not forget about our Marine here who declared his shotgun while on vacation to both the U.S. and Mexican authorities upon exiting and entering and was chained to bed in a cell for like 5months.
Hey SIanderer (aka SIandrew), Now that you've taught us all about the four major races here on Earth (Caucasoid, MongoIoid, Neg roid, and Mexisoid), why don't you move to Borneo and teach them about how IiberaIism is a severe mentaI disorder.
Look - I know EVERYONE in Mexico, and they all love tamales.
Sorry but according to CNN there are more people going back to Mexico because it sucks here just like it does over there.
They made their money during the real estate bubble prior to 2008, sent it home, and are returning to live a comfortable middle class lifestyle, all tax free from both countries, while their now 18 year old American citizen children attend university. That's where the American middle class went, sold to the lowest bidder, and subsidized by the rest of us. Sort of like the Wal-Mart of countries. Gracias.
TEXAS could u be any dumber, you're saying that a bunch of migrant workers who cut lawns, pick fruit and clean houses made a bunch of money from the housing boom? Thats pretty stupid...They are going back because our economy is not as good as it was 6-7 years ago and Mexico's is improving.
So says CNN. How about demanding the federal government publish what the actual dollar cost is to the taxpayers for the support of illegal aliens families – food stamps, medicaid, welfare, section 8 housing, education, obama phone, utilitiy assistance and so forth. The federal government doesn't want "We the People" to know the actual cost or to know there's a constant increase in illegal aliens – you just have to live in a border state to come face to face with the influx.
Texas is 100% correct. Anyone saying otherwise is a fool, and a traitor to America and Americans everywhere. To condone subhuman races destroying America's White way of life is treason. We created this country , and everything in it. We will not stand for subhumans attempting to take what is rightfully ours, whether the government allows it or not. It is high time for a revolution of this country, and to dispel all of the subhuman hispanics, blacks, and muslims out for good.
TRUTH just made me vomit. You do not deserve to be called an American. Go back to Europe with your own kind.
Hey, TRUTH, don't you have a Klan meeting to go to or something?
Good ole Texas is just full of Mexicans but it's the Mexicans that have lived there for generations and have mixed with the whites that the most racist lol.
Interesting to point out that what racist sentiment Truth shared can be applied to Mexicans. They say the SAME THING about Central Americans, American Caucasians, African Americans, Asians... Russians... Armenians... shall I go on?
Hypocrites. And those of you that attack one racist while defending another. What fools.
TRUTH Not only lacks historical knowledge of the state he lives on, but also denotes low decency, Truth is no different from the Taliban when it comes to intolerance..
Mexicans are very racists more than any race in the world. They come here illegally and enjoy the fruits of the economy and they produce kids to become US Citizens (They dont use condoms, say it is against their catholic religion, what a joke) and at the same time they hate America and they be loyal to Mexican flag and they carry it everywhere. What a hypocracy it is? We, the Americans are also responsible for their illegal boom, because in the beginning we are very sorry for them and we thought they are just coming because they dont have a good living there, so we acted as humanly with passion, so Mexicans took advantage of they and started jumping the border. They are so racist that when they meet another Mexican, they only talk in Spanish, forgetting that there are other American folks there who doesn't understand Spanish, why should they, because they forced America to learn Spanish and waste tax payers money, by forcing us to print every communication in both English and Spanish. Bravo Mexicano!!! Nice game.
its funny because in 10 years time your going to be jumoing the boarder to mexico XD
Yea and I wonder how pleasant and welcoming they will be about it.
It doesn't matter whether they like it or not, they will allow it graciously, lest they follow the path of Native American Indians.
If we start migrating to Mexico, we won't be asking nicely if it is okay. We will be taking over.
We could learn a lot from Mexico, they sure knows how to handle illegals crossing their southern border.
Then they will relate to the saying "Same thing that made you laugh, is making you cry"
Truth is a m0r0n, many American farmers are buying land and developing new farmland in Mexico, the trend started in the early 80s, you should also take note of the hundreds of thousands of retires make Mexico their retirement homes in the winter time..
Never that
Another useless CNN article/opinion. What exactly should America do like Mexico? produce more cars? Increase wages ? Raise taxes ? move the country next to a more affluent country to increase cross border trade? What a bunch of TOOLS at CNN. I'm liberal but CNN staff is full of morons .
Beechwood1:
I agree with you. This article should be shown in journalism courses as an example of how not to write. There is a complete disconnect between the headline and the article. Maybe the CNN editors are on Christmas break.
It was merely an attention-grabbing headline, you're correct in that it had virtually no bearing on the article itself. The US and Mexico are two very different countries at different stages in their economic development, there is very little in common in my opinion. One still has growth possibilities in all directions (Mexico), the other is now rather tightly bound by high wages and regulations. It's all a catch-up process – the lesser developed countries are are now growing at a rate the most developed countries may never see again.
You really need to take a basis 1st or 2nd university course in Economics. Free trade is the most efficient way for 2 countries to maximize their share of the economy. Look up the Law of Comparative Advantage.
With respect your comments on free trade are based on ignorance of economics.
If country A can produce widgets cheaper than country B then country B should make something they are better at than country A , and quit making widgets.
This will not work because the subhuman hispanics are willing to work for a far lower wage and far lower living standard than Whites do. So, all of the business greed will go to Mexico, leaving us high and dry, as has been occurring already for years now.
Wake the hell up. This isn't economics 101, this is not a textbook, this is the real world.
It's this kind of short sighted thinking that helps lead to many of our problems. Everyone wants instant gratification. If a plan doesn't come to fruition in a year or two, people call it a failure. NAFTA is not a mistake, but it will take years to see the benefits. The more Mexico, and Canada for that matter, increase their GDP the more NAFTA will make sense. Paitence! Not every problem can be solved instantly and somethings are long term goals. This is one of them.
By the way, as Mexico's economy and lifestyle improves, the less people from Mexico will want to come to America.If things keep going the way they are, it will be americans trying to get into Mexico!
I agree. And NAFTA is a step in the right direction. I feel sorry for all the people on here that are leaving such hateful comments, too bad we have to weed through to find intelligent, on topic remarks. Anger is its own punishment. Happy New Year Dave.
Yup. Additionally, the tighter U.S./Canadian/Mexican relations are, the better the economic outlook for all, with less reliance upon overseas (say China) manufacturing in countries (say China) with political systems at odds with that of the U.S.
The one and only thing we can learn from Mexico as well as other developing countries is that government corruption – in particular pervasive bribes to public officials, police, etc. is the single greatest impediment to growth and development.
The GDP grown at 4% due to American factories relocating down there and hiring Guatemalans and Hondurans who are willing to work for less than Mexicans. Sound familiar?
Is that what Mexicans told you when they dropped their guard?
If so, which its very, very likely it is the case, NO WONDER Mexicans spew racism, discriminate Central Americans in their country. No wonder they deport Central Americans worse so than the USA does of Mexicans!
The hypocrites.
And its not only racism and anger, hate, discrimination and WORSE that goes on in Mexico towards Central Americans as they complain they are taking their jobs, it also goes on HERE! IN THE USA!
Sound familiar?
If anything we can learn is that hypocrite Mexico does the same to others while complaining about Arizona laws and racism.
Here's more Mexican hypocrisy – you know what's going on the rest of Latin America? Mexicans are also emigrating to other parts of Latin America – South America, and undermining wages in other countries like Ecuador, etc. etc.
Its a culture of cheat and utter hypocrisy. Viva Mehicoh!
The reason they come here is because they can make better money at a crap job in the USA than they can at a decent job in Mexico. The reason for this is the total Oligarchy in Mexico made up of some of the richest families in the world. I don't understand why tea types and Ayn Rand worshipers can't get their heads around the obvious... The poor are not responsible for the problems of the world, it's the wealthy you should be looking at. People like you seem to have trouble with any thought deeper than surface.
You are correct. Indeed, when you look at the history of American "free trade" agreements, within six years of signing, in every instance, the US has gone from a current accounts surplus with the "partner" nation to a current accounts deficit. You can look up the foreign trade deficit for any nation vis a vis the USA at a census web site, and then just look up the date of the "trade liberalization" event (whether it's a free trade agreement, or PNT status for commie states or whatever) and watch the American jobs vanish. See: census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/
Only the poor are coming to the United States. Most are now staying in Mexico along with thousands of Americans who now claim their home as Mexico.
They're not coming here anymore. We've made it so toxic to be an immigrant in the USA that they've stopped coming. The USA is becoming an afterthought.
Gosh, maybe their GDP is going up because their population is going down...as they all scurry across the border to take advantage of Emperor Obamas New Clothes legislation.
Gee, who'da thunk it?
Actually Mexican immigration has halted since 2010, illegal crossings now are mostly from Central and South Americans.
True. NAFTA doesn't help our economy. Besides, he should be concentrating on getting rid of the cartels.
Mexican hunger salaries do not produce stability. To the contrary, mini wages throw thousands into the hands of drug traffickers.
Only problem is that he has to work in the political system. No one wants you to take what they think they deserve and give to others.
So if we lower our wages......abandon our benefits.....we can have more manufacturing return to America. That is some half-baked lesson we should learn. Wages. Mexico has three minimum wages based on the costs of living in various places. In January 1998, each was raised less than the inflation rate; Mexican wages remain about one-tenth of US wages. In 1996, according to the US Department of Labor, the hourly compensation of Mexican production workers was $1.50 an hour compared to $17.74 for US workers. For many Mexicans, wages in early 1998 are 15 to 25 percent less in real terms than in early 1994, before the peso devaluation. So Fareed you want to try living in America anywhere besides a card board box over a steam grate for $1.50 an hour
Yet, the stores charge around the same prices as the USA in product costs. Comparing Guadalajara prices with Dallas prices.
The US would have to lower wages everywhere for it to make any sense not just for those who work at manufatures and would also need to reduce the cost of living by regulating price of almost everything. The rich will not allow that. Therefore, the US will continue to lose jobs to other countries- any job that can be exported. Instead of increasing minimum wages they should be regulating prices–
Regulate prices? Communism, anyone?
Lowering wages is not the answer. The answer is a better educated/skilled working force that can compete for jobs that CAN'T be outsourced for .50c an hour. America needs to start thinking outside the box, instead of trying to move things back to some historic point.
@ Donald H you all re-elected Obama again, hope you enjoy your incoming communism. You don't get to whine in 2016 when America is long gone, you and people just like you are the specific cause of it.
LOL
1996 statistics? Yeah, nothing changed in 16 years. Our economy did not decline in that time, nor theirs raise. 16 years. That's a mighty long "blink" you have there. Try opening your eyes again, you might find things have changed since 1996. There's this new thingy called the internet, and cell phones have become ubiquitous (yeah the brick looking thingies), gas is still $1.10 per gallon, video games at the arcade are as popular as ever (but the arcade is in your house!), compact disks are still cutting edge... 1996? Really?
Fareed will say anything to make Mexico appear better than the United States. Funny.. nobody i know would vacation in Mexico...less live there. what is min wage in Mex? and what does an entry level "trabajador" earn for say..working for the Mexican Gov...? $10 a day ? 8 hour shift ?
Really CNN? What America can learn from Mexico, a nation that allows thugs to run whole towns and provinces with impunity, often to the result of mass graves.
Are you kidding, the US lets thugs and criminal run amock here. The end result are homeless people. Instead of thugs we call them BANKERS.
lol! how true it is.
true statement i owe you a beer or something good sir
Where are the beheadings in the u.s.? Oh, so maybe your analogy is not quite on point.
Just another fool trying to place the blame of America's problems on White people. You can factually thank the blacks, hispanics, and muslims for all of our problems.
Producers at GPS are a joke.
Each week they fail to upload the show to Itunes and it is not available.
Getting paid for incompetence.
ted, no one allows the drug cartel to harm the people of mexico, just like us , we can not control what the insurgent do in irak or afganistan or in america, they hit and run, so dont say that its wrong.
imagine if we still made cars, TVs and anything else here? Thank you Nafta !
100% positive this is a repost of the exact same story as a week or two ago (despite the 12/31/12 date in the byline)
Lazy, lazy, lazy...
What can the US learn??? That gun control laws don't work because criminals by their nature break the law?
really folks – do you want TV's and cars or do you want lower wages and fewer benefits? Without global imperialism we pretty much get dragged down to world averages. Without an abundance of natural resources we pretty much compete with the rest of the globe. We need to wake up and take control of our future beefore the next US oil boom goes bust.
Obviously someone has been listening to the hispanics POV in economics. ….yeah, the one that always fails……
CN, USA has plenty natural resources, just not all the natural resource. USA in the past benefit from away two World war conflicts. Therefore, the living standard was better than rest of the world.
Unfortunately, started two wars wihout funding in 21st century. Hence, USA living standard will lack behind the rest of the world until we pay out the war debt.
We have oil, natural gas, coal, timber, fresh water, fertile farmland, every one of the climate types/biomes found on earth, and every mineral/ore, except for some rare earth elements. And most importantly, we have a stable legal system, and an entrepreneurial/creative spirit. Only a few other countries come close, but lack several of these. You can't be serious? We could close our borders and have 100% isolationism, and subsist entirely on what we have. Take a plane ride 3000 miles across the country from NYC to LAX or MIA to SEA (not including Alaska and Hawaii), then re-think your statement. What next, we're running out of room? 95% of our population lives with a few miles of the coast. We have plenty, it's just not distributed in the most efficient manner, as a result of our economic and political system. I would argue that Mexico has more to learn from US. They have similar resources, and look where they are. A failed narco-state. Yet, the world's richest man (Carlos Slim) is Mexican. Their main exports are people and drugs, and their import are foreign remittances and guns. Most products aren't "Made in Mexico", the parts are shipped there for final assembly- that is the point of NAFTA, to avoid import taxes by using carefully worded language. Those LCD flatscreens aren't being designed in Mexico, the components aren't coming from a chip fab plant in Mexico. It is similar to "just in time" logistics, except they are stockpiling the components in Mexico, and performing final assembly there, then shipping them into the US. Otherwise, they have to do all that overseas, ship the final product over- weeks in advance (barring any port strikes), pay the full import costs on the declared value, and hope that it makes the delivery on time to stock the shelves. I bought a new Tyota "built" in some southern state, but I doubt the foundaries in the upper midwest produced the steel, the subsystems were made in Detroit, and the other parts were made in the USA. It came in a container or roll on/roll/off 95% complete, and they shipped it by rail through Laredo and put it together like a piece of Ikea furniture and put a made in USA sticker on it. Same for the Toyota Tundras made in San Antonio.
LOL @ "Their main exports are drugs and people".
there are ZERO reasons to take lessons on ANYTHING coming from Mexico......that country is and always has been a complete failure........its the armpit of North merica.
they are doing a nice job of colonizing the USA....and we are paying for it......they are not as begin as they look..
True, this.
There will come a time, eventually, when the legal White citizens of this country dispel all of the non-Whites out for good, and that time is coming a lot sooner than most people would believe. It's already in progress in some states. You'll start hearing about it soon enough.
are you sure your not talking about america or about your family you welfare lech take a good look out your window
By welfare leeches, I assume you are referring to the hispanics, blacks, muslims, and other assorted subhuman races, right?
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We can learn that strict gun control laws will lead to the drug lords taking over and committing mass murder.
True!
mexico gun problem was due to USA gun overflow to mexico. when USA can turn off the flow of guns to mexico, mexico gun problem will go away.
No, it won't. Guns are the tools of their trade. They would get them from China, if the don't already. If they are using full-auto AK-47's then they already are. Please don't speak of firearms, nor the laws affecting them, unless you are in the loop and know what you're talking about.
Fast and Furious. It was intentional, led by Obama and Eric "my people" Holder.
Why does the U.S. have to turn off the flow of guns? Can't Mexico secure its own border? Perhaps if Mexico stopped sending so many tons of drugs to the U.S., there wouldn't be so many guns heading South.
So Mexico is where the Republican job makers are at?
Yes!
Ever since NAFTA and China's MFN trade status was passed by Congress in 1999.
Big Business is correct in saying they are the job makers. Made in Mexico, Made in China and Made in India.
Steve Jobs next big venture for Apple was moving Chinese(formerly American) jobs to the North Korean slave labor camps.
Lessons from Mexico?? What a joke.....Most corrupt gov't. Drug lords running amok. Just look what they did to that poor guy who did the right thing by declaring his weapon adn was thrown in jail and left to rot for so long. I've to Mexico and both times was hasseled by the "Police" or more like shaken down til I paid them off and theonly reason I did was so I could get my wife and children out that cess pool of a country. We were just visiting for the day and eating at a local restaurant when they dragged me out and threatend me with jail and detaining my family for what reason I still don't know brcause I didn't speak spanish. So theonly lesson i think we can learn is to close the borders and cut off all communication until they clean up their own back yard.
most corupt government look at our government they can retire after a year with full benifits they havent been able to agree on anything in years the only thing they ever agree on is a pay raise for them selves maybe you should pull your head out of you behind and sell the fresh.......well polluter air where do you thing the mexican government gets there lessons from????? from no other then the united states since your probaly one of those people that dont work and still live with your perants how about you get a job and go to college ignorant people are discusting
How do you expect to be taken seriously if you do not even know what capital letters and periods are? Also, anyone who puts "pull your head out of your . . . " amidst their first grade grammar is not someone to ready to play in the big leagues. Your pull-ups are showing.
And the lesson I learn from your story is to not visit that f**en country.
Clean up their? The U.S. supplies the guns....the greenbacks....most importantly the demand. We should be ashamed at what is happening in Mexico. American drug users are co-responsible for the drug war. These are american's drugs, guns and money.
What can we learn from Mexico? Drugs don't kill people, drug wars do.
The drug problem is here buddy
Can you/ any of you honestly sit there and tell me that you want all drugs legalized? Cocaine, meth, Crack and whatever else. With all the crime and human hopelessness that comes with it...
Those drugs are available now, you fuggin ignorant ba@stard. Maybe if they all became legal, the criminals would be out of a job, and the drug-related killings would decrease.
Or . . . "Decapitations don't kill people, their cut necks do".
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Thought-provoking article by CNN's Jason Miks heralding Mexico as the potential gold standard for political and economic endeavors in the U.S.
One thing we can certainly learn from Mexico is to enact and enforce strict laws against illegal immigration. Mexico's elites don't want us to do this, so they can dump their unwanted poor and darker-skinned citizens here. But when it comes to protecting their borders and sovereignty, the Mexican rulers are as firm as can be.
Firm? We don't protect our borders. In jail, we are known as the "bottom boys". The whole world knows that we are just a barking chihuahua . . .
We have ended entire civilizations, entire groups of people off the face of the planet. Whites are anything but bottom of the barrel. To everyone else on our planet, we might as well be Gods.
yea.....how to find a dumping ground.....how to get someone to take care of you....and how to colonize a giving nation....looks like its working...
We can learn that strict gun control doesn't work in Mexico... not one iota – unless you count the disarming of their helpless citizenry "working." And it won't work here.
Something tells me that his plan to take on the teachers unions can be put on the back burner. With drug cartels and bodies littering his country when the sun comes up, corrupt cops and politicians and a populace that seems interested in living somewhere else.
He's going after teachers unions? (shrug?)
you don't here poor innocents kids got shot by an idiot here in mexcio! we do here people got shot (but drug realated) not kids or innocent people...americans shoudl learn how to feel compasion for kids!!!
Jenny, honey, finish grade school before you try to speak out loud in public!
"Starting next year, new taxis in New York City will carry a “made in Mexico' label.” Mexico is also the world's top exporter of flat screen TVs. In fact, Mexico exports more manufactured products than all the other countries in Latin America combined."
Not exactly what people starving and supporting the largest amount of illegal immigrants in history wants to see. Mexico is garbage, racist, communism in support of a violation of the Guadalupe hidalgo treaty article 5 paragraph 4. why would we be assisting these hateful communist in any way possible?
...uuhhh, steal from the people next door?
I cant compare US to mexico a bit or even say US should follow mexico to solve its problems US is a century ahead of mex
why has mexico not done better, Canada has done well
But part of the justification for the US Open Border policy with Mexico is to help the poor Mexicans survive. Since they are economic refugees. Fleeing a starving country while anchoring themselves in the bounty of the US. Doing the jobs Americans don't want to do. Like cut grass, drive taxis and trucks, do carpentry and brick work, paint houses and other jobs that native Americans are too proud, too self-absorbed and too lazy to do.
Underbidding licensed, bonded contractors is how they "took the jobs". The person above joked about my comment on them benefitting from the real estate bubble. Look at any construction site during that time period, and they'll understand. Homeowners (still do) pull up to Home Depot and a flock of people come up offering to do work for the lowest price. Just saw it today on Beltway 8 and Bellaire Blvd in Houston. Every town has these sites, whether used by shady contractors or homeowners looking to save a buck. Try getting a contract, or a job, on a construction crew during this time – i did, and the first qualification was "must speak spanish". That $8-10/hr tax free they were getting for 8 years while living 12 to a house and using taxpayer resources is exactly how they saved up enough money to return as the new middle class to Mexico, not from cutting lawns. I'm talking entire subdivisions being built, not a kitchen re-model or painting a homeowner's fence. Wait till the cartels and authorities seekingbribes start shaking them down for money when they retire to Mexico with their newfound wealth. Then they'll wish they stayed. Karma.
... successful illegal immigration ?
Again, Mexico is only one portion at fault for growing and manufacturing drugs that the US consumes. When we know that just about every family in the US, including mom, father, daughters and sons consume the drugs...we just have forever ignored the biggest problem of all...D.E.M.A.N.D...and self-preservation like they say...
I don't understand what this writer thinks we can learn?
He points out Mexico is growing due to proximity to the US, favorable tariffs and lower wages.
So is he suggested that we move the US next to a more prosperous country that we can leach of off, force other countries to lower their tariffs on only our imports and force everyone to take a mandatory pay cut?
What we can learn from Mexico is all you need is a wealthy neighbor to the north to leech off of, send illegal drugs to, send illegal immigrants to who in turn don't pay taxes and send their paychecks back home, and we could raise our standard of living.
Canada, we're looking in your direction.
Yokobi, the drugs are coming in because there is a BIG Demand, the workers keep coming in because there is a demand as well, I'm sure you benefit in many ways in your every day life from having cheap labor and accepted gladly.. Soon you have anything to say on a lot of things, Did you noticed what happened in this past Elections? You should come to terms that Latinos will be a majority in a near future, meanwhile .. What you can lean from this illegal workers are how they raise their families you don't hear of their sons or daughter becoming mass murders!
I better refine my swimming skills so I can go back home in 10 years.
Oh boy, do I like this. The US can learn several things from Mexico, beginning with: allowing only citizens to own property and strict laws on deportation of people present in the country illegally. We can move on from there.
The fact that you would point out some realities of how Mexico treats those in their country who are not
citizens clearly makes you a racist.
With a 4% growth in their GDP ....how would Americans who want to participate in the new jobs and after sneaking into Mexico....what benefits can they expect to receive?
freedom!
Another lesson we can learn from Mexico: how to let your country become hostage to drug lords??
What a cute "article" blowing sunshine up the rear end of the most corrupt country of latin america.
I live in Mexico. I have been in this wonderful country for nearly 25 years. I have seen no violence or drug related activity in our town. From my perspective it would seem that all these stories are about a Mexico that I have never seen. There is so much opportunity here for anyone who would like to improve himself. If and when the education improves here, Mexicans everywhere will begin to take advantage of this country's bounty. I would advise any American to move here as soon as possible if he is looking for affordable housing and wonderful living conditions. Mexico is the only surviving free country in this hemisphere.
Perhaps if they better paid their police, they wouldn't resort to robbing travelers. I've traveled half the Mexican states, and in each I've been detained on made up offenses and forced to pay bribes. I'm not interested in returning any time soon, which is a shame because I love the land, people, and history so much.
Ever been to Nuevo Laredo?
I understand what you're trying to say, but maybe I'm not as naive to think that Mexico is not a place where drug wars and corruption reing. I, too live in Mexico and I know what it's like to be a victim of corruption and lies, but that doesn't mean that I will move to the US the first chance I get. ( Actually, I've had plenty)
What really does bother me is that people in the US think we're desperatly trying to cross over to their country because it's better and we get more "opportunities". I can honestly tell you that I love my country and I know that I'm on the minority here, but I've had a great education and a good job, thing is I worked for it.
Mexico's problem is not the politics or economy, it's the culture and if we don't improve that, there's no way we're going to make other people/countries believe that we're not as screwed up as they believe us to be.
Certainly we can learn gun bans don't work.
since this is happening right now, it's something to be considered: SanBernardino CA just went bankrupt, the crime, killings, looting has skyrocketed. the city officials asked it's citizens to lock their doors and arm themselves – the city could not be counted on to respond. Many many cities of CA are bankrupt. illegals make up more then half of the population – illegals have set up corrupt network to drain the system (or citizens) – and bring their cartel crime to US. right now our President warns on a daily basis America is on a fiscal cliff. And of course the US has trillions of debt. AND illegals are overtaking OR, WA, MI, IL, on on on. I would not count on any government protecting your family if what is happening in CA happens in your home town. they won't.
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WHAT AMERICANS CAN LEARN FROM mEXICO??? EASY QUESTION. Learn how to make good Mexican food. our cuisine is one of the best one in the world. thank you for your comments. LOL this question should be asked in Miss Universe contest
So I can braise, boil, cook the ingredients in your sewered e-coli lov'n water ? ?
So, with Mexiico doing so well that we should learn from it, why isn't our border with Mexico being flooded with illegal immigrants returning to Mexico? This article completely fails to acknowledge the significant economic benefit to Mexico of illegal immigration into the USA, which is not only encouraged, but aided, by the Mexican government. What is the US to learn from that? Further, the article fails to note the significant impact of the drug cartels, whose drug operations bring huge sums of money into Mexico. What is the US to learn from that? And, this article fails to note that a major factor in the economic advances of Mexico is due to their labor costs, which are cheap in comparison to the US. What is the US to learn from that? The fact is that Mexico is a beautiful country, rich in natural resources, but smothered by crime and corruption, with a population that has suffered as a result. If the US emulates Mexico, as this article suggests, the US will become a third world country. Neither Mexico nor the US will benefit from that.
Our growth on the last decade could be attributed because we´re neighbours with the U.S..... YES.
Because the wages here are cheap...YES
Because we practically assamble the cars and TV´S....YES
Because it´s cheaper to ship the final product to the U.S. and Canada....YES
We play our cards and I still found in this forum the American arrogance to admit someone or some other country could be doing things better. It´s true less Mexican´s are going to the U.S. to seek a better life, the risks are higher and the opportunities are few now. It all depends on what prespective you´re perceving things, let me give it a try from my perspective:
- My year income tops 30K USD, combined with the income of my wife tops around 41K USD.
- Recently I travel to Paris, Rome and London for vacation.
- I´m a middle high class rated if you by annual income here in México.
How come?
The cost of living here in Mexico is still really low vs cost of living in the U.S. The cost of food, housing, utilities, etc. is still low and that gives me an edge over and American worker with similar condition. I got a new car and I go out every weekend to restaurants and clubs so I guess we´re on that curve where middle class is growing and the lower classes are getting better.
Mexico does nothing better. The Mexican government and police is riddled with corruption, bribes and double standards. I would even go as far to say that some of Mexico's politicians are in the pocket of drug lords. We know from the news that police are. Mexico's largest export has been and still is Mexicans and that is true because the Mexican government wants it that way. Mexico ends up with less citizens to worry about, but enjoys the revenue sent back to Mexico by the expatriot citizens. There are US companies and pockets of prosperity in Mexico because the US has tried to stem the flow of illegal imigration by building up the Mexican economy with higher wages. Period. The problem is that the Mexican government is so corrupt, it wastes and consumes the tax revenue of the citizens and keeps them poor. Get a clue that this is true, by Mexico sending it's citizens to the US for medical treatment instead. Most of Mexico's roads, utilities and infrastructure is third world at best. The Mexican government works against it's blue collar and working class citizens not for them. The Mexican government would rather see it's people leave the country. The Mexican government and police's years of bribes, corruption and double standards and disregard for it's working class, it is now engrained in generations of Mexicans as a way of life and thinking and has become business as usual for Mexicans.
OK, take the non-partisan politics lesson (and I guess leave out the massive corruption element). As for its growth? We need to cut our salaries is the only discernible lesson that I could derive from the article above. Though Mexico actually has one of the largest in the world (just behind Spain), it has a huge income gap between the wealthy and poor. I cannot see how this is a valid lesson for the United States. What a goofy article.
Goofy, yes. I would be more inclined to believe that Mexican cartel drug money has to do more with Mexico's increased GDP.
How about we take their approach to immigration?
Nice spin but let us look at the facts.Two million Mexican farmers put out of business by NAFTA. America EXPORTED out jobs to Mexico ( your comment about taxis in NYC). The drug lords are getting rich as Willie Nelson can tell you-one of the few who dares to speak the truth. The only thing that stands between oligarchs and the people are the unions which this leader wants to destroy. In addition, Mexico has been exporting their poverty to the US for generations with our open borders which Mexico is not anxious to close. It is not much to boast about. What can we learn from Mexico ? The war on drugs just gets the drug dealers rich, we can not export poverty, NAFTA is bad for the U.S.,immigration is good for the oligarchs not the people and Mexico's immigration policy is very strict.
The reason for our problems was well presented long ago by Lou Dobbs of CNN in "Exporting America". I would like to add that manipulation of comments by our media gave most people a false picture of reality and got us to the Fiscal Abyss .Even now they try to use Facebook and Twitter Trojan Horses , paid trolls to discredit good comments and to eliminate truth. Only truth can set us free.
Anyone citing illegal alien, immigrant and happens to be non white. You should look in the mirror for you are the definition of a sellout suffering from the worst case of Stockholm syndrome. And to anyone of European descent, continue to cling to the insane delusion that white is right. As Asian countries emerge, African and south American. Many will fret at how quickly the U.S. decline will come for those who don't remember the past will repeat it. For over 2000 years Europeans have treated all other races as inferior, I don't think other nations amnesia will last with the continuing U.S. supremacy banter.
Legalize drugs, and let drug addicts enter drug clinics . This will decriminalize addiction, and tax revenues will increase while prison populations decrease. Gangs that make money from drug sales will lose their cash flow .
Finally get rid of the peso and currency transactions and have all Mexican citizens only use credit or debit cards, and place a 155 tax on all individuals that turn up with to much cash to turn into debit and credit cards. overnight the government will have a huge surplus for the black economy is huge in Mexico.
Place a 15% tax to correct 155.
the usa have to cut in military america is so paranoic
I was laughing while reading this article. The car manufacturing going on in Mexico is Ford and GM, Vokswagon and a few others. They manufacture there because our unions forced them to go there. Mexico is very socialist. Why don't Democrats want to go live down there? Bye bye!
I just wonder how much the Mexican government paid for this publicity?
There is nothing to learn from Mexico, the corruption is worst today than 12 years ago, the right wing (PAN) transformed all the high paid jobs (> 3,000 USD per/month into 300 USD per month) is that an example?.
Why the manufacturing is growing? This is because from NAFTA Mexico is the country with the cheapest labor. The price was paid by all mexicans by lowering the standard of living. Is what the US needs? Don't think so, Americans wants their manufacturing back, with american salaries, not Chinese salaries.
Mexico had a program called "Solidaridad" in times of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, which helped the country to survive the recurrent crisis due to the galopant corruption in mexico and the lack of financial discipline. Today Mexico's central bank is independent from the mexican federal government, which helps to control the inflation, however the last president put as much debt as he could, which makes the new president to be not much in control of the finances anymore... In other hand due to the new climate and foreign countries investments in Mexico, the new plan has HUGE challenges. The "Salinas de Gortari Solidarity program" was followed with a wave of fiscal repression from the government to all the population... I don't believe, Pena Nieto has enough support to be successful with his plan. And in any case, I don't think is what the Americans would like to follow as example.
If America wants to create jobs and growth, America needs to start with re-starting the innovation machine, and keep the control of that innovation in America. The Greed of a few had given away for free a lot of technology to old enemies, just because the labor is cheap and wall street can make a higher profit....
Don't count yourself rich with the median age of 39, because your current educational system will prevent the younger half of the population to run the country properly.
Mexico learned under Vicinte Fox that you can send your medical issues out of the country to solve your own medical crisis. He printed up millions of brochures laying out ES LA LEY. That's the federal law in the US that requires all public hospitals to render medical treatment without regard to ability to pay and national origin. Fox laid out ES LA LAY as a way to solve Mexico's budget problem for medical care for the nation. It worked. Mexico exported more than 30-million cases to US border hospitals in San Diego, Phoenix, Austin, Houston, and Albuquerque. His plan nearly bankrupted California hospitals especially in birthing services. The U.S. has provided more than 100 Billion dollars in birthing services to Mexican citizens. That number is climbing and will soon be passed again. ES LA LAY stands to be the one thing that bankrupts the US budget in coming years. Free medical care for foreign nationals will do us in if something else doesnt.
There are two questions:
1.) Will people of Mexico earn enough money to buy American goods in order for America to allow “cheap” goods from Mexico to be imported for sale within the United States of America?
2.) Will people of Mexico be able to compete with manufactured items from Asia when for sale in America?
These are realistic and sound inquires but if met would have potential for success. Good luck Mexico!
Actually, it's more along the lines of:
1. How do we round up and ship back all of these worthless subhumans back to where they belong, and;
2. What need to be done to ensure they never return.
It can learn how to migrate illegally to other countries when the time comes this country falls apart from racial civil war thanks to Obama and his deadly policies.
It is necessary to replace Chinese and indoes projects, jobs etc in the States because it is not a good and fair commercial interchange. We have to look for countries like Mexico that can give new opportunities in energy, no just oil. But we have to give them the project, jobs and others that China and India are having today without giving us a fair commercial interchange. We are losing employments, American way of doing business, increasing corruption because they are paying bribes to white CIA agents among others. Mexico and USA have follow same economical direction for many year but China and India affect the commerce between both countries using Chinese boot legs and supporting illegal businesses with money and top of the edge technology against US interest. We need to develop our zone in a better treaty with Mexico and Canada, and include Centro and South American in the short term, bigger market that China and more stable with much less slavery and other anti-US business practices.
We have all the big IT Companies and technological companies in Mexico, but we want to work like the indoes and Chinese people. They were worse than us when they started, but we have better infrastructure, also we have much better universities like UNAM and IPN, highly technical guys who can compete with the indoes and Chinese in USA easily. Indoes and Chinese are some kind of a fraud there, they have only like High School. We have more Universities in higher ranking than Indoes and Chinese Universities. Besides that when I am talking about Mexican, I am considering Mexican Americans, we have degrees for First world and more related with American and Latin American projects. We can check that all businesses are like the American way.
Until America bans the subhuman blacks and hispanics from our lands forever, America will continue circling the drain. A New Civil War is coming soon, and it is crucial to America's future.
Sign me up! As a patriotic American, I am ready to fight the civil war....... wait... who do we fight? Hey truth.... here in Minnesota we have many many Mexicans,,,,,,, can they be on your team?? Love
Nothing good comes out of Mexico. Absolutely nothing.
Tequila and frijoles saltarines are pretty cool.
When will you people learn...when you start placing negr0es, hispanics, muslims in positions of power, i.e. local, state and federal government, they most certainly do NOT have American's best interests at heart. They fully intend to destroy America and Americans, and do whatever they can to allow the ones that aren't supposed to be here, the hispanics, muslims, and the negr0es, r@pe, pillage, and plunder everything Whites have created over the past few centuries.
This is White genocide, and some of you Whites are actually the cause of it, along with the subhuman races. You are traitors, liberals, deserving of punishment by death for treason.
Dey took our jerbs!!!!!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha!
A smart@$$ comment to me like that in real life, I'd take your life. Especially if you aren't White. Learn your place in our world, before you become just another statistic.
Totally in agreement here with you.Every place in America with minorities has incredible amounts of violence and thievery imaginable.
I agree with Truth. Obama does not have America's best interests at heart, he'd rather see America collapse, which is why he signed the Dream Act. I don't want to pay for stupid kids of Illegals to come to my country and mooch off of my tax dollars. If you're illegal, you deserve to go to jail and rot there, or be sent back to your country. Not my problem if it's bad over there.
Mexico doing better than America? I sure hope Obama is proud, this was exactly what he wanted after all. The complete collapse of White America. All hail our new subhuman leaders.
"Truth" is very sub-human himself, as a punishment we shall send him to .......MEXICO... one way ticket for you to enjoy the culture!!!
another thing we should learn from Mexico is that strict gun control laws DO NOT WORK! Mexico has very strict gun control laws yet there exists a huge black market for high powered rifles carried by criminals, drug cartel members and even politicians who do get to own the very same rifles that they prohibit the common citizenry from owning. and we are talking about real assault weapons not semi automatic weapons like the new media here misleadingly calls those rifles that look like military rifles but are only semi automatic.
"Consider the facts: Mexico’s GDP is expected to grow by nearly 4 percent this year, twice as fast as Brazil or, for that matter, the United States. It is riding a manufacturing boom. Mexico is now the world’s fourth biggest producer of cars, according to the World Trade Atlas. Starting next year, new taxis in New York City will carry a “made in Mexico' label.” Mexico is also the world's top exporter of flat screen TVs. In fact, Mexico exports more manufactured products than all the other countries in Latin America combined."
IF THIS IS REALLY TRUE, WHY DON'T THEY TAKE CARE OF THEIR POOR PEOPLE? Answer: because we allow their poor to come here and get free education, lunch, health care, food stamps, section 8 housing, SSI and more.
@Truth: I am a middle class, middle aged educated White American (basically I am the definition of what at one time would have been labeled "typical American") and your comments not only disgust me, but make me ashamed to even be white. How such vitriol or beliefs can even still exist anymore in this day and age will never cease to amaze me. The "white" America as you so hatefully proclaim hasn't existed in a long time, and even then it was solely an image potrayed by ad campaigns. Do some research and history; aside from the slaves brought to this country unwillingly, many of those that arrived in this country early on and built it up were Italian, Irish, and Chinese. Most of the internal network of this country heading out west (from the heartland to the western coast) were laid by the Irish and Chinese migrant workers by way of the railways. If it wasn't for their hard labor, this country wouldn't exist in it's present form.
Which not to go back to this age old statement, but hard to say America is home to the white man when technically the Native Americans inhabited it first.
But yeah, America is definitely going "back to it's roots" for whatever that means (note sarcasm you ignorant redneck)
Why don't you go round up the rest of your skinhead neo-nazi brethren, do the world a favor, and jump in the deepest part of the ocean and drown. After that, then I agree, America truely will be a better place
another one of those politically correct liars,disgusted you have no opi nion of anything that is valid
Mexico's prosperity is a result of U.S.businessmen cheating fellow Americans out of good paying jobs here in America !!!The only thing WE need to learn is that our business leaders are abusing not only illegal aliens in America but they are now exploiting the Mexican people with low wages and no protective EPA laws in effect,if Americans knew how much cancer has been introduced down there they'd be furious.
Politically correct liars? Pretty sure nothing I stated above was a lie, nor is my opinion based on a need to be politically correct. We're talking about other people here...The idea that certain "races" are lesser humans or sub-species incapable of higher thought was pretty much proven invalid a long time ago when all testing showed skin color and race had absolutely zero impact to brain functionality, size, etc
As for having an opinion on anything valid....What the hell does that even mean? No opinion is valid, it's an opinion...As in one person's view, it's neither valid nor invalid. If you mean why am I not taking a stance on immigration, illegal immigration, conditions in Mexico vs US etc, I didn't really feel a need to say anything about it. My opinion is I don't care who I am working besides, their background, education, race, etc as long as they can perform the tasks at hand. I am however not in favor of affirmative action as I feel it is reverse racism if that's a stronger stance for you
You are obviously very young not to remember the testing results from a few years back.The tests proved,yes proved that the darker the skin,the less the intelligence.When these results were released,the minority leacders almost rioted ,so the results were quashed and the govt refused to acknowledge the test results in favor of poltical correctness,and votes.
So happy Mexico is getting their economy growing and in a very positive momentum. I do believe Mexico can be one of the greatest countries in the world; it has incredible resources. I live on the border, across from Nuevo Laredo – I hope that this growing economy will end the drug violence providing better jobs for Mexicans. They won't have to risk their lives/homes/families trying to cross to the US, working for nothing, and getting treated like illegal trash. If it wasn't for the Mexicans behind the kitchens in the US, who knows how the food would taste, or how much it would cost! I hate being scared to go to Mexico, it's such a beautiful place. Que buena onda Mexico!!! Felicidades!
Oooh my gosh... People people people... This article is about ONE SIMPLE POINT made how Mexico is doing good and your nationalism gets hurt? USA is doing better in overall so don't get butthurt. And move on.. this is not about illegal immigration little ignorants.
Very "weak" article and no much the USA can learn from Mexico, the politically correct patrol can attack me if they want but Mexico has little to offer beyond lazyness and corruption.
"Truth" posted the most entertaining comments ever! He is so far out of touch that I believe he "secretly" wants to be welcomed into Hispanic and Black social groups, he is so disturbed that he can't even form a coherent argument. The "truth" is nothing but a pretender.
I would like to "invite" Truth to an all you can eat feast at Taco Bell, later in the evening after we warm up to each other, we can find a nice "southern food place" where we can cozy up and have some pork and collared greens, and some grits of course. Soul Brother!
One thing US can learn from Mexico is that "gun control" does not work. Look at them – they have had that control for years and people can not go there because gangsters all have guns and can kill anyone, anywhere, anytime. If residents had our freedom to keep gun in their homes no gang member will walk in and kill the family
Mexico could learn a hell of a lot more from the US. How about controlling human trafficking in your own country for starters
What we can really learn from Mexico?
Don't take care of your poor, druggies, and nonworkers and let them flee north to another country that will pay out the nose for the worthless sacks of life they are.
The main difference in the two political systems is that in America, the Republican party only will do what is best for a small amount of individual Americans. If they do not, they willl not get the money needed to get reelected. They do not care about America as a whole, just a minority of rich individuals. Pretty basic
Five times as the worker form China? Wow! That is about...6 to 8 dollars a day. What are they going to do with so much money? Truth is Peña Nieto is as inept as they come and the mexican government is as corrupt as ever. For as long as I have memory, the PRI shared in the profits from the drug trafficking giving way to this shadowy structure of power namely the cartels. How to put the genie back into the bottle?. México is in it's way to be a failed State.
US Learn from Mexico??? Please. Mexico is known for three things – Cartels, Drugs, and Loose women. We don't need Mexico's problems in the US. Mexico, keep your people in your country and stop sending them here!
Some m o ro n thinks we need to learn lessons from those wetbacks...are you kidding! stupid libs never know when to shutup.
Mexico even has funding to defend illegal immigrants in the USA.
Mexico is a mess and has been so since the founding of our Nation: A third world country right on our border. It is insane that we have not bent over backwords to throw every ounce of our international power to abvance that country. (Mexico is almost as bad as Texas)
Time-Warner; Thank You. Fareed is a rare jewel.
I can't take this article seriously when it makes no mention of Mexico's Homicidal Drug War. Those growth figures are from a small sample, and if the political situation implodes, will mean nothing.
Truth is a hate monger who is delusional and won't even use his real name. Very brave behavior for a tiny, ignorant troll.
What the US needs to learn from Mexico is how to deal with illegal aliens
Mexico is so corrupt.....We should be exposing their corruption every chance we have!
Homegrown are better than import.
This forums became a dog eat dog cr-ap.
Huh?
Learn what? LOL
Mexico has nothing for us to learn from except an explosive population.
If their future is so bright…………………do you think maybe their folks will STAY put in their own country? Yes? Please say , yes?
Mexico has three things we don't, a high fertility rate, prominent faith, and a larger amount of traditional European structured families(two/three kids and two parents with an elder living in the house.) those are all we can learn from them. Sure, in fifty years Latin and South America will rise to places china could only dream of, nothing we can do but form relationships and strong bonds while the rest of the Americas out grow their stature
In 2013 we will need to focus on India and its irrelevance as a nation. With a population of over 1.5 billion people there is no value that this nation brings to the table and has become a burden on world conscience and resources. India has lost its bearing and its soul. From brutal gang r*pes, genocide in Kashmir, ethnic cleansing of minotiyies to financing and sponsoring terrorists it is far too big to succeed. It is too huge to govern. It is too bloated to be fixed and is on life support systems in Singapore. Some may sense it now and some may have to look in the rear view mirror to figure it out. India needs to be taken out of its pain and there is only one way.....subdivide it into independent nations that are economically viable and along ethnic lines. In the words of Mies Van Der Rohe, “LESS IS MORE”. How so true!!
This development is coming at a cost to the environment. Mexico does not have the strict EPA regulations which US manufacturers must abide by. This is why their productive capacity is growing at such a rapid clip. Enact the same regulations there and see how quickly jobs leave Mexico for a third world country.
At some point they will have to deal with cleaning up the messes they are currently creating.
I'm no fanboy of the EPA because I believe overzealous regulators have enacted pet laws to keep US manufacturing on the decline. But some of those laws have been sensible and truly helped to clean up air, water and land.
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maybe its time for Americans to cross the boarder!
Why would you cross your boarder? Better cross the border...
A military Major friend asked what he should be on the look out for as he is gonna be stationed close to the Mexico border, a city where lots of Mexican Americans live.
He asked "I gotta be careful, they chop heads off over there".
First I looked at him like, "They made you a Major"
Second; "That only happens in Mexico, plus military are prohibited from entering Mexico".
Third, "It would help if you learned a little Spanish"
Fourth, "You will be in a region where Mexican food is Top Notch with countless of restaurants competing for you dollar".
And last, "Open your mind a little" he didn't appreciate that, figures coming from an American who only knows one culture.
Your friend is probably being stationed at Ft. Bliss, Texas. I grew up there and it is 85% Mexican American. One of the safest towns in America with great quality of life and friendly people. Across the border is Juarez, but you don't want to go there.
If I run a tube from my butt to my car`s engine, how many black bean burritos will I need to ingest in order to get from Amarillo to Cabo San Lucas?
It's NOT their clean water system ! !
One of the best things we can learn from Mexico is to examine their illegal immigration laws and adopt them here
There is much we can learn from Mexico. Its southern borders are secure and those who come in illegally are jailed and deported. Voter ID is required. The ID has a picture protected by a holograph and a thumb print, they successfully send there excess unemployed across the northern border to work, collect benefits and send cash back to Mexico. They do not have a freeloader welfare system. Foreigners are not given free benefits, any state benefit will only be given to a person with an official ID. So let's follow Mexico's shining example.
Building an EV kit car in my parents' garage sounds appealing, but A) It's probably very expensive and not safe enough, and B) nobody is going to pay me unless I sell the vehicle, and I want to build one that I can use. So where does that situation leave people like me in the US as a less than wealthy American? Eh?
Lets see what can America learn:
1. Encourage those that are dependent on welfare, food stamps and just refuse to take a job to move north to Canada.
2. Help those that qualify for number 1 to get closer to the border.
that rats have 2 legs.....
What can the US learn from Mexico? To punish lawbreakers harshly enough that future lawbreakers will think twice before breaking the law in the first place.
We could also have a robust economy. Military spending has been a drag on our economy. Take about half of what we spend on the military and put it to work building roads and bridges, replacing dams and replacing our electrical grid system so that we can use our largest energy resource, the wind. By doing all of these things, we would create more jobs than has been created over the last decade combined.
mexican, please. we can learn how to flavor guacamole from them. thats all.
It is good to see Mexico doing well; the people deserve a lot better than they have been getting. That is good for the US. Their corruption and gross income inequality will keep them from getting to where they could.
Our median US age will be almost as young as Mexico because so much of our population will be Mexican.
Mexico teaches us that the best export is unwanted people and our most valuable import is unregistered Democrats. Eric Holder distributes assault weapons to Mexican criminals while Sheriff and pistol-packing hypocrite Feinstein seeks to criminalize US citizens for a semi-auto .22 squirrel gun. Yep, there's a whole lot that Mexico can teach us.
One big advantge that Mexico has over the US, is that is has the PRI. Please don't get me wrong here. I know the PRI has a history of intense corruption, but what I am trying to say is that Mexico has a centrist party represented by the PRI, the PAN would be the equivalent to the Republicans and the PRD the equivalent to the Democrats. Having a 3rd centrist party allows to break the polarizing politics we have seen in the US for decades and to find majority support in many issues that would otherwise be frozen in gridlock. We the people of the US could take a lesson from that. Imagine if in the US we had a strong 3rd party that would tend to be moderatelly socially conservative and moderatelly economically liberal.
Learn to spell, and properly construct a sentence.
If Mexico is doing so well, then feed your people. Maybe they'll stop invading our country. Deport them.
Mexicans are very racists more than any race in the world. They come here illegally and enjoy the fruits of the economy and they produce kids to become US Citizens (They dont use condoms, say it is against their catholic religion, what a joke) and at the same time they hate America and they be loyal to Mexican flag and they carry it everywhere. What a hypocracy it is? We, the Americans are also responsible for their illegal boom, because in the beginning we are very sorry for them and we thought they are just coming because they dont have a good living there, so we acted as humanly with passion, so Mexicans took advantage of they and started jumping the border. They are so racist that when they meet another Mexican, they only talk in Spanish, forgetting that there are other American folks there who doesn't understand Spanish, why should they, because they forced America to learn Spanish and waste tax payers money, by forcing us to print every communication in both English and Spanish. Bravo Mexicano!!! Nice game.
This writer must be talking about the diplomacy of the Mexican President. Does he mean that their President has more tact and diplomacy and is able to actually lead the policy makers of his country? If that is what he means then I totally agree.
What the U.S. can learn from mexico? dont p!ss and s&*t in your own drinking water for starters
What we can learn from Mexico. Allowing most of the resources of an entire nation to be controlled by a very small porton of its residence leaves millions of people in absolute poverty. Almost sounds like where America is going
Hey man,,,, go to tijuana.. and see what its happening... go to Chiapas...Oaxaca.. as a reporter or as a camera man... live there for 3 days..;.. and then give me an opinion ok??? you see tooo much soap operas my friend
Hey SIanderer (aka SIandrew), Now that you've taught us all about the four major races here on Earth (Caucasoid, MongoIoid, Neg roid, and Mexisoid), why don't you move to Borneo and teach them about how IiberaIism is a severe mentaI disorder.
Mexico's one term presidencies are a nice start.
Mexican hunger salaries do not produce stability. To the contrary, mini wages throw thousands into the hands of drug traffickers.
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what we can learn, send all your poor into a richer country, then steal
President Obama can learn that disarming the people leaves only the lawless armed, and the citizens like sheep to the slaughter.
Americans go by instincts not by rational thinking. Introduce a new thing to them they will react by their instincts. Had they been using brains they would have changed many of their indefensible laws. America has abundant natural resources an advantage over other countries. Things are changing but, the national debt is pulling America under and if nothing rational is done about it soon, some nations which Americans despise will soon pull ahead of her!