Population of mexico: 112,322,757.
Population of United States: 308,745,538
Unlikely that you will be outnumbered really. And for the love of God this ludicrous paranoia is as bad as all the people in Britain who went mental about "Oh god too many polish people", its just sad.
edited 28th Jan '11 4:20:46 AM by JosefBugman
How about we stop trying to use 'Take it over' as the default solution to every problem, seeing as how we can't even run the country we've already got that well to begin with? I think you'll find that if marijuana were legalized, the drug cartels in Mexico would be a great deal less problematic.
edited 28th Jan '11 10:42:21 AM by Karkadinn
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.Jeez, can't make some jokes around here...
I'm actually open to that suggestion. We tax alcohol and tobacco a bunch, we could get a good sum of money on Marijuana and regulate it so it's not laced with bad crap, too. The problem is this - if we legalize it, does Mexico consider it to be legal as well?
Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.Mexico matters? Canada wouldn't mind and USA is the only roadblock to us legalising it because of the constant threats of trade sanctions. We'll throw marijuana under the NAFTA agreement too, free trade ftw.
I think as far as conservative economic policy goes, Texas is hardly the worst. They're pretty middle of the pack as far as I can see, but I never looked that closely at Texas. Florida though, man do they suck.
I think it's everywhere. The recession didn't help at all. Even Hawaii is projecting to run close to a billion in the hole. Abercrombie is fixing to piss off organized labor by saying that they need to make concessions to help balance the budget - the same peopel who voted him into office. I guess he loooked at the budget and went "Oh, Crap!."
Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.Population of United States: 308, 745, 538
Unlikely that you will be outnumbered really. And for the love of God this ludicrous paranoia is as bad as all the people in Britain who went mental about "Oh god too many polish people", its just sad.
And how would you feel if all the signs in your neighborhood started being written in Polish, and all the radio stations were now playing polish music?
And yet if you were born here into a primarily Spanish-speaking family, you'd get even worse crap than the occasional inability to read a sign. Not only would everyone be speaking your second language, you'd also be accused of being illegal and 'stealing American jobs' and told to 'go home'.
BTW, I'm a chick.^^
All the kids in families like that that I knew growing up in So Cal learned fluent english very quickly from a young age via things like public school, they usually ended up translators for their parents.
Are you a minority in your country? No? Well oh no you are actually just part of a different neighbourhood. I lived for 3 years in a primarily Islamic part of Leeds, there was a mosque about 2 streets away and enough arabic posters to technically count as idolatry.
Its all just ephemeral stuff dude, why does it matter all that much?
No, not once in a while, it's commonplace where I live. It seriously does feel like an invasion here, especially since I remember what it was like a decade ago.
It makes me uncomfortable, and I don't like it. I'm not in the "Deport Everyone!!11!!" camp of things, but it doesn't mean I have to like it.
edited 28th Jan '11 4:03:55 PM by Barkey

As for Texas, while I do applaud the home defense laws, and wish that more states had laws like it *, I would have too many other problems to live there myself, starting with their education system that seems to want public schools run like Evangelical pep rallies.
That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw