Why Don't We Just Make Mexico the 51st State?.......nt

[global1]

[NJ Democrats]

1. It would be several states

as Mexico is already divided into states. We could have to- it's called the Mexican War.

[Opusnone]

2. Plenty of oil.

Great vacation spots especially if they loosen drug laws.
While we're at it, let's give NJ or NY to Israel and solve the rest of the world's problems, too.

[coalition_unwilling]

5. Si se puede. Seriously, although it's fashionable to bash the

Saudi Arabian royal family, one of their kings (Prince Fahd?) told FDR back during WWII that turning Palestine into a Jewish state was going to be a big mistake and that if a Jewish homeland was the goal, it would be far better to carve it out of a conquered Germany rather than displace indigenous peoples. Too bad FDR didn't survive his fourth term

[Adelante]

18. "let's give NJ or NY to Israel"

What does that mean to you?

[CrispyQ]

3. Imagine

Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

[joemurphy]

4. Actually, that is a long term solution...

Only not statehood, just common union organization laws, wage and hour rules, environmental safeguards, elimination of tariffs, freer movement of capital and labor -- something that would pull the Mexican economy upwards. Won't happen in my lifetime. Americans, Republican and Democratic, are both too xenophobic. Blowhards like Lou Dobbs don't help.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Head this language before

NAFTA... not that yuo are for NAFTA, but this was the language used

[Dudley_DUright]

6. 52nd

Iraq is already the 51st.

[wakeme2008]

7. Poor Puerto Rico.... No OIL nt

[azurnoir]

8. Yeah we could bring the

troops home and invade and annex Mexico, they probably would greet us with flowers.

[sandnsea]

9. They should declare war on us

Then we'd send in billions of dollars of aid and do major reconstruction and maybe get an economy going. Under some other administration at least.

[kenny blankenship]

10. Massive liabilities

and there's a small matter that Mexico is a sovereign nation. The Mexican elites who have an extremely sweet deal going for themselves there would not want for us to interfere, nor probably, would other classes and regional groups who aren't able to rig the state system to line their pockets like the elites, but nevertheless have deep emotional investment in their national identity.

[zbdent]

11. Then they'd have to be paid minimum wage or better . . .

and you just can't have the businesses agree to that . . .

[radio4progressives]

12. maybe we should just round 'em all up and put 'em in detention camps

id them by tatoo and then.. well when KBR's detention centers are filled, we'll just icinerate them. you know all those poor brown people who are such a drain on our fragile economy.

[IndianaGreen]

13. Who would want Bush as President?

Mexicans are not stupid, unlike some of our compatriots.

[Bushknew]

14. Doesn’t Israel already have that tile? nt

[AGiordino]

15. Yeah, Rayguns effed up when he invaded Panama

and didn't turn north and finish the job

[rman]

16. why would we? we don't even have the right to do that.

nt

[El Fuego]

19. Because they've got this "sovereign nation" thing going on.

You know, they've got their own constitution, their own president, their own congress, their own court system, their own military etc.

You may have forgotten that Mexico is a sovereign nation, but I don't think they have. :eyes:

[Doctor_J]

20. I think Iraq already is

and I think Smirk should be made governor-for-life of his huge "success"