While doing our weekly grocery shopping I always notice a line at Western Union. I began to wonder just how much money is being sent to Mexico each year. The amount shocked me. $21.59 billion dollars was sent to Mexico in 2013. That amount is down from $22.44 in 2012. That is $22 billion that is being earned in this country by emigrants and sent to Mexico. This is Mexico's second-largest source of foreign exchange, after oil. The total of remittances for Latin America for 2014 is expected to be $75 billion and $84 billion in 2015.
I have to wonder. How many of those who are sending money to family in Latin America, are also receiving some type of assistance from the American government.
Of course Mexico is not going to stop people from crossing from Mexico to the USA. Their own country depends on that money.
While researching these figures I came across another story published last week. It stated Mexico and Guatemala have come to an agreement to make it easier and safer for Central Americans, including children to enter the United States illegally.
Meanwhile we have a marine sitting in jail in Mexico for crossing a border. We have veterans that can not get the care that they need and we have seniors that are not able to afford medication.
How can we seem to always find money to fund certain things but never enough money for our military and seniors. Why when they talk about cutting the budget seniors and veterans are the first that have to take the cut. Why don't they ever cut the amount of welfare they give people. Why not start cutting money to able body people that don't want to work. I am not talking about the person that is working and needs help making ends meet. I'm talking about the ones that seem to think it is not their responsibility to feed, clothe and provide for their own children.
Maybe someone can answer some of these questions. I'm fed up!
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10 comments:
Just think if work for freebies was required, then this money would be earned by the welfare rats!
I've been fed up for a long time but there is no stopping it now. America will soon collapse and cease to exist because of the actions of our "officials" who have been elected by our useful idiots. The government has been infiltrated, corrupted, perverted and criminalized past the point of no return.
Spot on! I am so fed up....Spans and those who were born and educated(??) here living off the trough. That is a big chunk of money we are talking about, billions is nine zeros, right?
See you haves people like Jonathan Taylor that live in gov't housing and get food stamps and welfare checks. And what do he do but peck at a keyboard making a blog all day.
This is because politicians are bought and paid for by special interest groups that support this.
I'm also fed up and we, as Americans, are letting this happen to us on a daily basis. Enough is enough. Obama is nothing more than the devil in disguise. Hillary will be more of the same if she decides to run for President. Please vote responsibly, nothing will ever change and it will get worse if you don't.
Many individuals systematically abuse government subsidies... College Grants.. Tax exemptions.. Hybrids..Derivative... unemployment.. disability.. Food stamps.. Housing.. etc the list goes on forever.. The problem is accessibility.. people know how to work the system.. When you make these programs less accessibility to the abuser.. The individuals that actually need the programs suffer..
Billions are sent overseas daily by multinational corporations. They don't stand in lines at the Food Lion Western Union. It is the rich and powerful who threaten the economic well being of this nation; not the poor and powerless landscapers, drywall techs and house painters that you rant against.
IBM... Google... Apple.. Microsoft.. Some of the top ten most traded stocks.. All house offshore accounts to reduce taxes.. In turn Robbing the country and American investors from billions in lost tax revenue and billions in unpaid dividends.. The 2 bird one stone trick
And nothing will change!
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