Thread: Under Obama, U.S. unemployment worse than Mexico

Under Obama, U.S. unemployment worse than Mexico
Joe Newby
Spokane Conservative Examiner
August 1, 2011

President Obama promised he would fundamentally transform America - and he has. On Sunday, Kevin McCullough of Townhall reported that Mexico has a lower unemployment rate than the United States.

Sporting a brand new unemployment rate of just under 5%, the current Mexican economy is humming, people are buying homes and people are working. In fact, the small business community of Mexico is creating jobs and a need for workers so fast that from only California nearly 300,000 illegals have repatriated themselves to Mexico, just to do those jobs "that Americans never would."

The news, according to a report at the Monterey County Herald, means that illegal immigrants are now leaving California for greener pastures - in Mexico.

"It's now easier to buy homes on credit, find a job and access higher education in Mexico," said Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez, Mexican consul general in Sacramento, the Herald reports. "We have become a middle-class country."

According to the Herald:

An estimated 300,000 undocumented immigrants have left California since 2008, though the remaining 2.6 million still make up 7 percent of the population and 9 percent of the labor force, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.

The best-paying jobs for those returning to their native Mexico can be found in the construction industry, as that nation is building new homes, factories and production facilities.

"Put that side by side with American construction trends since President Obama came to office," McCullough writes, "and the contrast is stunning."

He then asks readers: "Do you realize that America has the worst economy on our continent?"

Not only does Mexico now have lower unemployment than the United States, its economy is growing at a much faster pace than America's.

According to the consul, Mexico's economy is growing at 4 percent to 5 percent, benefiting from low inflation, exports and a strong banking system, the Herald reports.

By comparison, the U.S. economy grew at a lackluster 0.4 percent in the first quarter and a pathetic 1.3 percent in the second quarter.

Who would have thought that the best way to deal with the issue of illegal immigration would be to destroy the U.S. economy?

The Sacramento Bee reports:

In 2008, at least 836,100 undocumented immigrants filed U.S. tax returns in California using individual tax identification numbers known as ITINS, said Hill, who conducted the tax survey.

Based on those tax returns, the study found there were 65,000 undocumented immigrants in Sacramento County that year, far fewer than in many other big counties.

Not only are jobs more readily available in Mexico than the United States, but government assistance is getting harder to find for illegal immigrants, according to the Bee:

"They're going back home because they can't get medical help or government assistance anymore," Frausto said, "And when it's getting so difficult for them to find a job without proper documentation, it's pushing them away."

Anita Barnes, director of La Familia Counseling Center on Franklin Boulevard in Sacramento, said she recently spoke to a high school graduate who had lost his job in a restaurant and was thinking of going back to Mexico.

"He came over with his mom, who was in the process of losing her restaurant job," Barnes said. "It's frightening, especially for the children. They feel this is their country, they don't know anything else, and they find they can't get driver's licenses or jobs."

The United Nations reports that Mexico's standard of living - including health, education and per capita income - is now higher than Russia, China and India.

Give the President a few more years and Mexico may well outstrip the United States in those areas as well.

McCullough notes:

Mexico has been an infinitely more disorganized, poorly led, poorly secured, and poorly resourced nation for most of its existence in modern times. I mean the words of the Consulate to Sacramento say it all--they're throwing parties that they've become a "middle class nation."

Meanwhile America is on exactly the opposite trend.

How long does this last? About as long as President Obama is left in office, I'm guessing.

González Gutiérrez said that once the U.S. economy recovers, the number of illegal immigrants may go back up, "although most likely they will not reach the peak levels we saw in the first half of the decade."

It's one more exhibit in the case against re-electing Barack Hussein Obama in 2012.

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Originally Posted by Ratbstard

Under Obama, U.S. unemployment worse than Mexico
According to the consul, Mexico's economy is growing at 4 percent to 5 percent, benefiting from low inflation, exports and a strong banking system, the Herald reports.

By comparison, the U.S. economy grew at a lackluster 0.4 percent in the first quarter and a pathetic 1.3 percent in the second quarter.

It's one more exhibit in the case against re-electing Barack Hussein Obama in 2012.

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Imagine for a moment if we were never invaded by 20+ million illegal aliens from Mexico and how much better off this country would be financially for it.

Brackula hasn't done diddly squat to help the jobless rate in this country and it's all by design. Socialism doesn't bring the poor up - it brings the middle class down to poverty level. Socialism makes everyone poor.

2012 can't come fast enough. He stands his pompus arse in front of the camera and asks for bi-partisanship when a year age the devilcrats would have no part of that. Now the majority has swung the knock out punch. Look at the debt ceiling vote and what the wicked witch of the west(Pelosi) has done 95 ya and 95 nay.

Of course their unemployment rate is lower than ours, they're all up here stealing our jobs!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by thedramaofmylife

Of course their unemployment rate is lower than ours, they're all up here stealing our jobs!!!!!!!!!!

I think you are exactly right. If we can fool them into thinking Mexico has a better economy and enough return home it is time to close the barn door (border) with a 50ft cement barracade with a fence on top