Mexico Fights War On Drugs With Xbox
March 28, 2007
I was getting my daily dose of Gizmodo when I stumbled on a post about a truly bizarre political development if ever there was one.
The Mexican government is giving away computers and Xbox game consoles in exchange for guns. Hoping to combat rampant drug wars, they are hoping that their guns for gadgets plan will solve the problem.
Good move. Now the cartels can turn in excess surplus and build a network. And instead of laying around flophouses high, people will lay around in flophouses playing games. Just what every country that complains about a lack of jobs needs, eh?
Wait a minute. Why on earth did they legalize small amounts of drugs for personal possession and use recently? I guess they want people to be able to lay around in flophouses and get stoned and play video games…just without all the shooting.
Now it makes sense.
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Frank F. | March 28, 2007 at 9:21 pm
I live in So. Calf., and most people i come in contact with are not aware of what is going on with the invasion we are going through. I tell anybody who is interested to listen to KFMB.com AM radio station. Rick Roberts (5:00 to 10:00 am m-f ), and Mike Savage (3:00 to 7:00 pm m-f) PST.
It’s amazing how many laws and benefits are getting squeezed through for illegals while people here are sleeping right through it. When they wake up, it will be too late for change. The middle class will be stamped out all together. Almost all construction in Ca. is done by Mexicans who work cheap.
It’s also amazing how easy it is to get a contractors license in Ca. When i got mine in 1989, you had to study and take an 8hr. test. Not any more! If you have $1,000.00, you can buy one off the street in Temecula, ca. without speaking one word of English. Most of the Mexican workers now are licensed contractors who cannot read or write ( or estimate ) in any language. It really helps to have your own corrupted people working for the state contractors board who will sell to anyone.
It’s just amazing isn’t it? I guess thats why i no longer have work, and am loosing my house. It’s all part of our governments
plan for us. They really know whats best for us. Don’t they?
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Sean Wilson | March 30, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Frank, thanks for dropping by to read and comment. I have been following the change in contractor licensing somewhat loosely. I spent some time last year helping a guy work on his addition and occasionally read woodworking and carpentry related stuff. I came across an article in one of the handyman magazines about that very thing back last Fall.
It is sad, but that is exactly the sort of thing when economics drives policy rather than preserving national integrity on various levels. So many construction companies drive around and pick up illegal aliens gathered at some spot on a daily basis because the cheap bastards want to save a buck rather than support their country. They could care less so long as they ‘get theirs’ as they see it.
Nobody wants to enforce laws or standards anymore. It is part of the new American attitude. Include everyone in everything. Any criteria, standards, ethics, values, licensing is excluding someone and racist or bigoted or some other form of cruelty.
It is beyond ridiculous. America is no long what it used to be. Which is good in some ways, but bad in others. A nation should learn from past mistakes and not use them as an excuse to justify new ones, however.
All I can suggest to you is to move somewhere where the attitudes are a bit different. I mean, at some point, we’re all going to be doing that or else have to fight for what is ours.
Thanks again for dropping by and sharing your insight. I can’t help but wonder what the value of houses in California will be a generation from now when everyone discovers all the poor construction?