Calderon Shows Backbone

The New York Times, January 22, 2008, ran an article, "Mexico Hits Drug Gangs with Full Fury of War," by James C. McKinley, Jr.

President Felipe Calderon tackles the drug lords at the American border. Vincente Fox did something significant just by winning the Presidential election from an opposition party. But that's about all President Fox did. He didn't create jobs for Mexicans, he just gave them directions on how to steal their way into America.

I hope President Calderon succeeds in establishing the rule of law in Northern Mexico. I hope he improves education and job opportunities.

I worry that Mexican politicians want the Mexican people to remain poor and ignorant so they are easier to control.

Robert

Vikram Pandit, Why not an Hispanic?

Now that Citigroup finally got rid of Charles Prince, they replace him with Vikram Pandit, who is from India. Have you noticed that there are many Indians on Wall Street? And a lot of Chinese are very successful, but you do not see Hispanics being so successful. You can drive from Mexico to Wall Street. You cannot say that about India, but they make it here, and make it here legally. We have hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens, but America is not getting highly educated Mexicans. Why? Are there no highly educated Mexicans? Or are there no educated Mexicans with the drive of the uneducated? What's the problem?

This failure of Mexicans to compete for the top jobs in America is what Mexican-Americans should worry about, not helping illegal aliens stay here. There are problems in Mexico, but that is not talked about. There are only complaints against America. It's not right.

Robert

The Four Horsemen of the Modern Apocalypse

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse rode a white horse, a red horse, a black horse, and a pale horse. I was thinking recently that Hurricane Katrina only visited physical destruction upon New Orleans. I was in New Orleans the week before the hurricane hit and I felt the city was destroyed before the hurricane by the Four Horsemen of the Modern Apocalypse: Crime, Corruption, Ignorance, and Incompetence.

Why should Hispanics care about the Four Horsemen of the Modern Apocalypse? They should care because Hispanics will be taking over the government of some American cities and they need to be careful not to repeat the mistakes made in New Orleans.

What is the solution to crime, corruption, ignorance, and incompetence? Money is not the solution. Money breeds corruption. The answer is a work ethic, morality, a love of learning, and good leadership. Confucianism is a good way to develop these attributes. The Hispanic community will benefit greatly from Confucianism.

Robert

A Hispanic Vision of Wealth

The New York Times Magazine ran a fabulous article on Sunday 10/14/07: The Capital of Capital No More? by Daniel Gross. Here Mr. Gross describes how much of the financial work that was done in New York City has followed American wealth out of the country. The largest IPO (initial public offering) to date, $19.1 billion, was staged in Hong Kong in 2006: Industrial and Commercial Bank of China.

All these geniuses who thought to make a quick buck by sending America's wealth to foreign countries are only now beginning to see that their strategy is strengthening other countries while it weakens our own country.

Yet, as New York dwindles in importance, Dallas has an opportunity to grab some of the business that New York is losing. Dallas, Texas, could become a financial center for Latin America.

Hispanics in America need to focus on a positive future with wealth and power. We must not be misled by Hispanic mis-leaders who want us to focus on causing strife and division over illegal immigration. Mis-leaders want Hispanics to think of themselves as victims. We need to think of ourselves as achievers and focus on success, not on complaining.

People in high finance stand in the middle of a river of money and help themselves to all they can get away with. You do deal for $10 billion and keep $50 million for yourself and you have only ripped off one half of one percent of the deal. Four of these deals and you have $200 million in your pocket for being a middle-man. This is what we should be focusing on, not parading in the street and waving Mexican flags.

Robert

Vincente Fox is a Humbug

Read the Dallas Morning News, "Great Divide: Vincente Fox Defends Mexican Immigrants' Pursuit of the American Dream," page 1 of the Points section, Oct. 14, 2007. Fox is so full of baloney. He calls the authorities of Irving, Texas xenophobes.

Americans have a right to dislike illegal aliens slipping across the border and flouting American laws.

In the same section is a related article, "Bush was So Deeply, Deeply Wrong, says Fox," where Fox says, "Immigration, say the xenophobes to the north, will destroy our American way of life."

Vincente Fox is a racist and a humbug. He is calling Americans xenophobes. He says we are against immigrants. Look at how Louisiana just elected the son of Indian immigrants, Bobby Jindal, their Governor. The Governor of California is an immigrant with an accent. Senator Barack Obama is running for President and he is the son of an immigrant. Contrary to Fox's insults, America does not hate immigrants. We vote them and their children into responsible positions of power.

Vincente Fox is a humbug. He is a disgrace to Mexico. The same way Fidel Castro emptied the prisons and insane asylums and sent them to Florida, Fox is sending the poor of Mexico into America to get rid of them. What he should do is reduce poverty in Mexico, but he won't do that. That would improve Mexico, and he doesn't want to do that.

I had a friend from India who came to America on an H1-B visa from Mexico. Why did that H1-B visa go to an Indian instead of a Mexican? Maybe Fox's government was too busy giving away comic books instructing Mexicans how to sneak into America to help Mexicans get in legally.

I am disgusted with Fox's double-talk.

Robert

Economics, Not Immigration, is the Issue

The Monday, October 8, 2007 issue of the Wall Street Journal had an Op-Ed piece (page A18) by Mary Anastasia O'Grady, "No Room for Entrepreneurs." She pointed out the importance of entrepreneurship for growing economies and highlighted the poor record many Latin American countries have in supporting entrepreneurship.

Latin America is an ocean of poverty and the illegal immigration problem we have is the overflow of poverty from south of the border. Hispanic leaders who wring their hands with worry over the plight of illegal aliens in America, while doing nothing to give Mexicans better lives within their own country, are frauds.

The Mexican government sends their people North instead of giving them better lives in Mexico. Hispanic leaders in America should worry less about helping illegal aliens avoid deportation and worry more about reducing corruption and improving opportunities in Mexico.

It is shameful how the poor of Mexico are used as political footballs by the Hispanic politicians.

Robert

The Wealth of Carlos Slim and the Poverty of Mexico

The Wall Street Journal ran an Op-Ed piece, "Slim Pickings" by Burton W. Folsom, in the Wednesday August 29, 2007 issue. Mr. Folsom's point was that American billionaires offered products to Americans at good prices, while Carlos Slim ran monopolies that gouged his customers while providing poor service.

Carlos Slim recently became news by becoming richer than Bill Gates. Many people are amazed that such a poor country, Mexico, could make one of their citizens the richest man on earth while the rest of the country groans in abject poverty.

The article also said that government laws and regulations have a huge influence on the economy. The flawed regulations choke growth for the nation, although not for the wealthiest few.

Hispanic Americans should care more about flaws in Mexican politics and economic policy than in the false concern of promoting illegal immigration into America.

If Mexicans had good economic opportunities, they would not have to sneak across the border.

Robert
Note: Carlos Slim was mentioned here earlier.