For all those concerned about the immigration thing, here is some news for the continuing story of "coming to America".

MEXICO CITY - As President Felipe Calderon marched across the nation unveiling social programs and touting the military-led crackdown against drug lords, a round shadow followed him, darkening his sunny message.

It was the ubiquitous tortilla, rising rapidly in price and reminding Mexicans that all is not well with the once-humming economy.

At public events, angry women intercepted the new president, who faced his first mini-crisis since taking office Dec. 1. Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in the Mexican capital last Wednesday, demanding an emergency wage hike to counter surging prices for sugar, onions and tortillas.


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I can't believe those guys haven't revolted down there. Surely there are people down there with the know-how and character to straighten that country out.
But really, I guess I can't talk too much.

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Considering our current leadership policies, it would be the pot calling the kettle black.

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Mexico is a little different than the US in the "likelyhood of revolt" department. They lack the near patholigical reliance and admiration of authority figures that we see in the US.

I once spent a lot of time in Mexico and you're correct, most Mexicans don't worship the ruling class, they justifiably fear them.

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Isn't this a contradiction? If you are saying that they are unlikely to revolt because of their similarity to the US, and the US relies and admires our so-called "authority figures", then doesn't that mean that Mexico also relies and admires their "authority figures?" Yet you say that they lack such "reliance and admiration."

This comment appears to be mainly striving to make the greatest impact upon the reader, while truth and accuracy do not seem to be a priority for this commentary.

It's not the new wave of immigrants that bothers me too much.
It's the wave of illegal immigrants that bother me.
I don't think everybody that crawls through the fench is just a person looking for a job if ya know what I mean.

Yeah I know, but at least our corrupt government allows us toys to play with and "great" tv programming to keep us distracted. I'm pretty sure if the percentage of us living in a shit hole was around the same percentage of them living in a shit hole, things would get rowdy.

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You misread the comment. I was pointing out that Mexicans do not have the near pathological reliance on and admiration of theri authority figures. Logically this would make them more likely to revolt since all they have to overcome is fear. Fear is not difficult compared to overcome compared to a lifetime of mental "those are our HEROES" conditioning.

Yeah, you're right. My bad. I did misread the comment.

I read it as "the Mexicans are little different" when you said "Mexicans are a little different."