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To: energyplay who wrote (68126)8/26/2005 1:56:39 PM
From: Slagle  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Energyplay Re: "Mexico" Right you are, that is Mexico in a nutshell. Or Philippines or whole bunches of other similar places.

Mexico is really the perfect example, though. A big beautiful country with vast wide open spaces, just like the USA. And an oil exporter! And very minimal expense for a military, heck I don't even think they have an air force. But on the other hand, life there is pretty good, even for the poor folks in most places. Lower stress, tropical climate and surrounded by your own family and clan.

Being married to a Filipina we know bunches of her people here in this country and over the years many of them have gone back home, saying life here is too hard. Nobody there works really all that hard and the 12 hour factory shifts here they don't have over there. I know several who worked in these carpet mills, usually creeling. Creeling is hard work, 12 hours at a shift loading these 12 pound yarn packages on a triple layer creel. These North Georgia gals who have been doing it since high school can handle the work, but for the Filipinas they just don't have the endurance to handle the job.

Now the lefties will blame it on the USA. But it hasn't been that long ago when there was almost no commercial contact across the border and it was screwed up then too. In those days, say back in the 1950's or 1960's whose fault was it?
Slagle
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