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08-02-2011, 10:26 AM #1
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."
"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.
"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.
"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."
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.
It's one more exhibit in the case against re-electing Barack Hussein Obama in 2012.
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