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Warpy

(111,267 posts)
8. Well, they went a lot farther south than Tijuana, they're Gringos,
Thu Feb 21, 2013, 01:04 AM
Feb 2013

and they're on Social Security, not welfare or food stamps, and it runs to scores of thousands, not hundreds. Otherwise, it has a grain of truth in it, if you have a powerful enough microscope to find it.

Mexico has been a magnet for retirees of modest means for a very long time. Goods cost almost what they do here but labor is so much cheaper that the Yanqui buck goes a lot farther.

But yeah, those liars will say anything to whip up hate. It's not selling nearly as well as it did before the bankers fucked us over, though. It's hard to blame a struggling single mother when the bank is the one illegally foreclosing on your house.

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