How can a cheap American buy a HOUSE in the 1st. World ?

Another of Americas obvious problems!!!, its irrational embrace of old dinosaur policies written or spoken hundreds of years ago yet it is thought to be of some importance to the point of living by is archaic constitution.

Like a dog driven from home tries to return to the time it felt happiest and most secure even though it no longer exist.

If America tried,-- I feel sure it could discard its old traditional government ideas and move into the 21st century-

Annie Oakley and buffalo Bill died a long time ago.

 

We tried Tasmanian Devils, but they went "postal", just like in Bugs Bunny cartoons.

 

Tasmanian devils are doing well in Mexico. Taz Pizza chain. Cute lil devils printed on box.

 

Mexico has to do it. We can't do it for them. Mexico is a grown up country. Stop treating Mexico like a child.

 

We call them sheeple because they let the Judas goats lead them on the road to ruin.

 

I think Mexico invented bikini wax, they also invented ---errr

Oh hanging people off motorway foot bridges,--nice. I had never seen that before,--thats some serious advertising;

Oh and they also put worms in alcohol. Apart from that I know very little but enough really.

 

They operate out of Australia, but delivery costs are very high.

 

And, for some Americans, half of Mexico was not enough. President Polk himself was disappointed in the final terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. He wanted to partition Mexico along the 26th parallel due west from the mouth of Rio Grande all the way to the Pacific Ocean, an annexation plan that would have included almost all of the current Mexican states of Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora (with its important seaport of Guaymas), and most of Baja California. Additionally, he wanted that area of Mexico lying east of the Sierra Madre Oriental down to, and including, the port of Tampico (the present Mexican states of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas). Polk considered the coastal plains of Tamaulipas to be fertile ground for slave plantations. All in all, the U.S President coveted, and almost secured, another 886,000 square kilometers (336,000 square miles) of Mexico as spoils of war.

There were many North Americans who wanted even more than that. A powerful faction of U.S. politicians and other elites called for the annexation and enslavement of all Mexico. On November 10, 1847 the Whig Party in the U.S. published its program for the defeated republic:

It is, therefore, declared, for the peace and quiet of this land, [Mexico] for the happiness of these people, and to end the effusion of human blood, that the United States, from this day forward, ends the war -- assumes the entire conquest of Mexico -- annexes it to the United States, and the people are required to repair to their respective homes, and there await the call of the proper authorities of their different States to organize their several State Constitutions, which, if Republican, will be accepted into the Union.... All in default, acting contrary to this manifesto, be traitors, whose lives and property will be confiscated.

quoted from
http://www.houstonculture.org/hispanic/conquest4.html

 

That's a great show. Can't wait for the next new episode.

 

There is a saying, "plata o plumba" that is used to threaten law officers. Basically it means "Shall we pay you in silver or lead?" Very intimidating stuff.

 

We also have the largest GDP of any of the worlds countries- from the scant revenues we draw down from this we extent some 4% and change of gdp towards the military infrastructure.
30 other countries are in the ball park & extend similar proportions.

Do we spent too much?
I believe so.
Is it totally disproportionate to how much wealth is in our country?: a obscene precedent?- I don't think it is.

 

The last three episodes were terrific, as good as I have ever seen. (The Wire was very impressive too, but not to everyone's taste.)

 

85% of lawyers here are democrats.

 

Anyone But 0bama!!!

 

Alfred the Great died too but England isn't part of Denmark.