USA vs. Mexico

[Tristan]

@pinguin

Indeed. The smugging of American guns into Mexico is producing a social problem even more tragical then the smuggling of drugs from Mexico into the U.S.A.
And the Americans don’t care! What a hypocrital attitude of the U.S. government so ask Mexico to enforce the war against drugs, while they don’t enforce gun control back home!:dubious:

Nobody is saying that the guns that end up in Mexico being used by cartels isn’t a problem. It certainly is.

However, it would behoove the government of Mexico to look into where the other roughtly 70% of seized guns are actually coming from before suing the US over aroud 30%. That would make some sense, wouldn’t it?

Plus such things as grenades, rocket launchers, and fully automatic machine guns, which are not coming from the US, as they are not available to the public (as a general rule, there are exceptions for machine guns).

If I have a rusting falling apart car in my front yard, it wouldn’t make much sense for me to sue you for your dog pooping in my yard, claiming that it is doing massive damage to my property values, would it?

[The_Flying_Dutchman]

Do they still sleep for a couple of hours around noon in Mexico ?

[Capitaine_Zombie]

@The_Flying_Dutchman

Do they still sleep for a couple of hours around noon in Mexico ?

You know, they still do that in southern Spain. And if you ever had to work in southern Spain during the summer, you’d understand why.

[Asympotically_fat]

@TexasDriver

I am sure there will be some flippant answers,

I don’t think USA stands much chance in the Gold Cup this year, most of it’s strikers are barely up to the standards of the English Championship whereas Chicarito is scoring nearly every game for Manchester Utd.

[SecretaryofEvil]

@pinguin

No wonder that Mexican workers in the U.S. building industry have a prestige.

Unfortunately the exact opposite is true. American employers like Mexican laborers because they can pay them less than American workers and because they can just generally treat them worse than workers who are American citizens. A huge problem in the American construction industry is employers having immigrants work in unsafe conditions. Mexican workers don’t have prestige in the United States. In fact, they are often stereotyped (undeservedly, of course) as lazy.

[Omar_Little]

It’s my understanding that the per capital income in Mexico has risen at a faster rate than the per capita income in the US over the last 15 years. Can’t find a link to support, but if so, wouldn’t that fly in the face of the OP?

I do know that labor rates in Mexico have increased significantly over that time period, based upon purely anecdotal evidence from businesses my company has owned over the last 20 years.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

Well, presumably that’s due at least in small part to the fact that unskilled laborers leave Mexico for the US in relatively large numbers.

[pinguin]

@SecretaryofEvil

American employers like Mexican laborers because they can pay them less than American workers and because they can just generally treat them worse than workers who are American citizens. A huge problem in the American construction industry is employers having immigrants work in unsafe conditions.

Yes, Latin Americans know how U.S. people treat Mexican workers. Don’t worry. We have news all days long showing those situations.:rolleyes: