Are the Poor Really Poor?

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Originally Posted by Jeanfromfillmore

Don, you nailed it. Hopefully people will wake up to the fact that these so called "poor" are far from it. Mexico is NOT A POOR COUNTRY; I've said this for years. These people come here to get what they can, but the fact is that most are far from poor. They pay thousands to get smuggled here and have been buying homes here while buying or building another home in Mexico. Most have late model cars and trucks, cell phones and most modern conveniences. They come here for "better" jobs, but in the process take those "better" jobs from our own citizens and then suppress the wages to the point where they are today.

All those who did nothing to try to stop this in the past, you have nothing but yourself to blame. All those excuses of being too busy to participate in fighting back, well if you're out of a job now, maybe fighting back was a lot more important than you realized.

Just go to a heavily Hispanic area between 5:45am and 8:00am; watch them leave for work, leaving the streets empty of cars and trucks. It is just amazing how many are still working. Then between 4:30 and 6:00pm you'll watch them return and there's no place left to park because of the packed houses/apts. I watch is every weekday.

It's not just those from Latin America.

It seems there are quite a number of Iraqi Chaldeans in El Cajon who pack plenty of Benjamins behind the food stamps.