My heart is broken. A friend of mine has just called me racist for my 'tough love' policy towards Mexico. It hurt me so bad to argue with her, but for her to call me racist was like a knife into my chest. You may recall that I stood one to a few hundred thousand last year and she was right there by my side, that was when we first meet and she has been a good friend ever since.

The argument began because I told her I refused to drink Miller Chill, a new beer by Miller Brewing company with a twist of lime and advertised in Spanglish on billboards, tv and radio.

I explained that SAB Miller, a foreign company, openly sponsored a rally for illegal aliens and has openly supported their legalization. I told her I really don't drink miller anyways, but this was the end for me. I believe that all of their sponsoring etc... was to help this new beer do better when it was released in Spanglish (look at the time they began funding these groups and rallies would be about the advertising testing phases of a new beverage about to be released .. appx 1.25 years).

Due to the fact that Miller Light gives me the runs and Miller's past and current support of open borders and amnesty I refused to drink their beverage products.

Some how the conversation turned to Corona, another beer I dislike and have long before this debacle grew so large. I told her that I dont like Corona, Tecate or any other Mexican beer and that right now I would rather not buy stuff from Mexico.

She got very argumentitive and even brough up travel to Mexico, Cancun and the like. Again I told her that responsible Americans would start cutting off Mexico, Mexican Imports and Travel until the nation began to clean up a bit. I used 'Slim' the 3rd richest billionaire in the world and Mexican National as a great example of how the rich in Mexico are very rich, but the poor are very poor.

I explained that until Mexico institutes social services such as electricty, quality construction codes, clean running water that I refused to give any of them money (btw no shopping at Comp USA as Slim owns it too).

I also explained that the current climate in Mexico is favorable for terrorist groups and drug cartels and that the corrupt government does little to change this. Look at the growing Zappatistas movement, the border crossers who tried to bomb Ft. Dix and the nearly constant flow of beheadings of journalist screaming for change and government intervention.

Add on top of that a nation's whose number one export is people when it should be oil and you have a massive mess on your hands.

At the age of 10 I stayed in Nueva Rosita Mexico with a family. I remember the tin roofs, the lack of windows and insulation, the dirt roads and the spirit of the people. I remember watching as Suzy boiled pots of water, not for making pasta but to drink. I remember watching Felipe read by candle light because their the electricity was out and probably wouldn't be on again anytime soon. I remember watching the poor flood the bridge over the Rio Grande to beg for change from the Americans as my parents made sure the doors were locked and the windows were up.

It was this experience that led me to support President Clinton's NAFTA and that now leads me to be against it. It seems to me that any improvements made to Mexico in the past 17 years are highly minimal and that all of the profits made from this agreement has gone to the already rich like 'Slim', the bureacrats and the drug cartels.

Did you know that Mexico has massive fields that would put the USA's wheat, barley, corn and soybean production to shame? There are a few problems though. Crops, as I understand, are not subsidized in Mexico and the farmers can pay very little for harvesters, so in Harvest season the good labor heads north to take American jobs and either their crops rot of Mexican farmers hire..... illegal aliens.

This policy needs to change, but Mexico won't make any of the drastic changes necessary to improve this, why should they. Those skilled harvesters send back $20 billion a year from the USA and that out weighs what food production would bring in domestically.

All I am saying is that it's time to stop giving and giving and time to start taking a little and playing Hardball. Build a fence, and make it clear that corruption is no way to run democracy. The Mexican people deserve better and we Americans dont need to aid their demise and their crappy living conditions nor do we need to give them an excuse to abandon their homeland and families to try to do better. Mexico needs to improve PERIOD!

Finally I have on question which will magically determine if you are racist:

Have you ever thought "I wish that Mexican/Black/White/Asian/Indian/Arab/Hispanic/Chinese/Russian would Go Away/Die/Shut Up etc....."?

If you answered yes then you are a racist and need to wake up and realize that race is not a factor in how good a person is as human.

And just to make one final point, there are white and black people who are native born in Mexico therefore saying I do not like a country does not make me a racist because A: it's a country not it's people and B: I am white too.

Mexico has not changed, and it's time that we as Americans picked up that big stick and started swinging it again.