tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14072474.post114547300923708931..comments2023-11-03T06:36:27.305-04:00Comments on Phronesisaical: The Mexican Miraclehelmuthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09069600766378586919noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14072474.post-1145564433588737482006-04-20T16:20:00.000-04:002006-04-20T16:20:00.000-04:00Thanks for this, Gordo. Educational. WaPo is weird...Thanks for this, Gordo. Educational. WaPo is weird. They get some things quite right, but when they screw up it's like a bad college newspaper.helmuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09069600766378586919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14072474.post-1145505857950571102006-04-20T00:04:00.000-04:002006-04-20T00:04:00.000-04:00There's so much wrong with that article, it's hard...There's so much wrong with that article, it's hard to know where to begin.<BR/><BR/>The man profiled was said to have come here at a time that a booming Mexican population was producing a labor shortage. The man was born in 1979, during a time of declining Mexican birthrates.<BR/><BR/>The article gives a frightening figure for the increase in illegal immigration during the early 1990's: 66%. And the article asserts that Mexican immigration has only gone up since then.<BR/><BR/>What the article fails to mention is that most of that 66% is accounted for by the fact that the U.S. cut legal immigration from Mexico during the 1994 currency crisis, which doubled the Mexican poverty rate. And since then, the rate of increase has declined.<BR/><BR/>So now we have poorly written articles like this one, the hiring of Domenech, and an eager acceptance of the White House position on the handling of classified material. I think the Post needs a complete overhaul of its editorial staff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14072474.post-1145505611111428062006-04-20T00:00:00.000-04:002006-04-20T00:00:00.000-04:00Ay caramba.Ay caramba.helmuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09069600766378586919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14072474.post-1145496525067631152006-04-19T21:28:00.000-04:002006-04-19T21:28:00.000-04:00Yikes.Yikes.MThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02341704109256270557noreply@blogger.com