Why is Mexico Poor

Answer: They are a struggling democracy. Vicente Fox is the first President that was not part of the PRI, their ruling autocratic party for the last century. Losing half their country to their war-like neighbor might also have some historical bearing.

And the reason we don’t want to help this struggling democracy?
Answer: There is not much in it for us, unless you think:

• It is important to have a strong healthy neighbor to our south.
• Unless you really believe in democracy and what’s left of our principles in the U.S.
• Unless you really want to make a dent in the drug war instead of playing patty-cake.
• Unless you want to have a labor pool to compete against the Chinese.

Do you think building the wall for Jehovah Bush and the kindred simple minds in Congress will help Mexico’s democracy, or us, for that matter? Good, then go support the simpletons that are proposing this solution. If you want to make money on these simpletons, find someone in Mexico that makes lightweight wood or aluminum ladders. If you need an engineer to design a ladder to get over a fence, please give me a call.

The average Mexican family living close to the U.S. border makes about $15K per year. Near Mexico’s southern boarder, the average family income is $5K. Which family poses a greater threat to America and is more likely to come across the border. Hint, only 50% of the million that cross the Mexican/U.S. border each year are Mexicans.

Why do they make more in the North. Duu. NAFTA + transportation costs. The difference in the standard of living and the social stability of the north and south comes down to one simple fact. It costs money to move goods from Southern Mexico through their old roads, through the Mexico City bottleneck, to the market (that would be us). Couple this with even cheaper labor of China and we can begin to grasp the challenge in helping this new democracy. But, the solution is conceptually simple.

Take the money earmarked for building a worthless fence between our country and build instead a four lane highway to southern Mexico. Texas should be smart enough to do this …. Or any other state who could control where the northern part of this highway ended. But, Texas has the Bush deity so there are ineligible.

Politically, of course, it is much too difficult for Jehovah Bush and gang. So, we have to wait and hope for a miracle next election day. And, we have to find a few people who care about a struggling democracy that only has a little bit of oil.

How do you sell this superhighway to Mexico. It can’t be perceived as charity, and it isn’t. It is an investment in mankind, in our brothers to the south. Make it part of an electronic system to get goods and services into the U.S. A truck on this super freeway will have an electronic pass and will be bonded. Put electronic surveillance along this road, whatever it takes to make the paranoid whole. We sell it on the grounds that we build the road, with their laborers, and then we get to set up factories in the south to get low cost laborers … a Maquilidora district similar to that near Ciudad Juarez.