Time to Make Mexico the 51st State!

[TSawyer2112]

Why not? If the Government and citizens of Mexico have no respect for sovereign borders, why the hell should we? As long as we're going to have to enroll them in our welfare and soon to be bankrupt social security programs, and pay for their education and health care, why not just go ahead make all Mexicans U.S citizens. If democrats want to bring the troops home, let's bring them home and stage them on the southern border ready to move into our new state. The invaders like to wave the Mexican flag on our soil, I wonder how they would like it if the "Big Red One" were to wave the Red White and Blue in down town Mexico City. Think of it: More cheap Mexican labor to do those jobs us fat lazy-assed Americans don't want to do (hell, maybe even more of us could join the welfare rolls and thus further increase the dimocrat base), we would have all those oil fields including the newly discovered offshore oil field that Fox has been bragging about. We would also have a much smaller southern border to defend. Lets make it easy on the poor Mexicans. No more crossing the Rio Grande, no more crossing parched deserts, no more dead Mexicans stuffed in tractor trailors. The Mexicans won't have to come to the U.S. We'll bring the U.S. to the Mexicans!
IT'S A DAMN GOOD THING I AM NOT IN CHARGE.:soap:

[routerider]

Does this mean that I'll be able to watch reruns of Menudo?

[Infinity^0=1]

Mexico would jump from a third world state to a first world province of the US by 2030.LOL!

[UnkHiram]

IT'S A DAMN GOOD THING I AM NOT IN CHARGE.:soap:

The only comment in that rant I can agree with

[Beowulf]

I actually thought of this the other day. Make Mexico state number 51. So what if they live in poverty, they can still work menial jobs and pay taxes like everyone else.
But then I thought, we trade one border problem for another. Then we would have to deal with the influx of refugees from Guatamala, Nicaragua, El Salvador and places like that. I also figured that all these Mexicans would start drawing a welfare check.
So I decided, "let's not make it the 51st state." Let's wall it off, deny those entry who don't have paperwork to come here FIRST, send back all undocumented aliens and if they persist on coming, start shooting.

[routerider]

The only comment in that rant I can agree with

:hahaha:

[Riverboat]

Mexico could become prosperous overnight if the oil industry were allowed to go back to private ownership, along with the rest of the country's business.

Because Pemex is the Mexican government's cash cow. The state-run company pays out over 60% of its revenue in royalties and taxes, and those funds pay for a third of the federal government's budget. If oil prices drop or there are no major new discoveries of crude, that could spell big trouble for Pemex -- and Mexico's finances.<SCRIPT language=JavaScript type=text/javascript><!--if (!window.OAS_sitepage) { var BW_site; // use for new ad site var BW_page = "/magazine"; var OAS_listpos; // use to restrict the number of available page positions document.write('<scr' + 'ipt language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.businessweek.com/common_scripts/oas_logic.js"><\/scr' + 'ipt>'); } //--></SCRIPT> . . Mexico, which nationalized its oil industry in 1938, is the only major Latin American country that doesn't allow foreign oil majors to participate in oil exploration and production.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_50/b3912084_mz058.htm

[EdmundDantes]

Why not? If the Government and citizens of Mexico have no respect for sovereign borders, why the hell should we? As long as we're going to have to enroll them in our welfare and soon to be bankrupt social security programs, and pay for their education and health care, why not just go ahead make all Mexicans U.S citizens. If democrats want to bring the troops home, let's bring them home and stage them on the southern border ready to move into our new state. The invaders like to wave the Mexican flag on our soil, I wonder how they would like it if the "Big Red One" were to wave the Red White and Blue in down town Mexico City. Think of it: More cheap Mexican labor to do those jobs us fat lazy-assed Americans don't want to do (hell, maybe even more of us could join the welfare rolls and thus further increase the dimocrat base), we would have all those oil fields including the newly discovered offshore oil field that Fox has been bragging about. We would also have a much smaller southern border to defend. Lets make it easy on the poor Mexicans. No more crossing the Rio Grande, no more crossing parched deserts, no more dead Mexicans stuffed in tractor trailors. The Mexicans won't have to come to the U.S. We'll bring the U.S. to the Mexicans!
IT'S A DAMN GOOD THING I AM NOT IN CHARGE.:soap:

Not the 51st state but a merger of Mexico into America!

Think of it!!

We get the mexical oil.
We eliminate job flight to mexico by bringing them into our economic model.

We clean out the Narco Guerillas as it is now America.

A lot of plusses

[DeclinetoState]

I actually thought of this the other day. Make Mexico state number 51. So what if they live in poverty, they can still work menial jobs and pay taxes like everyone else.
But then I thought, we trade one border problem for another. Then we would have to deal with the influx of refugees from Guatamala, Nicaragua, El Salvador and places like that. I also figured that all these Mexicans would start drawing a welfare check.

I heard tonight that the Mexicans are pretty ruthless about controlling their southern borders. If you are in Mexico illegally from Central America, they don't waste any time putting you on a bus and hauling your a** back to the border. If we did to the Mexicans what they do their illegals . . .

[Beowulf]

Remember, DS, we are a country of Double standards thanks to Liberals and GOP compromising. How DARE we send em' back w/o giving them their say!!! :rolleyes: