Thought For The Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Also, California had been part of Mexico for a total of 27 years. Prior to this it was part of Spain for almost 280 years. So we should give it back to Spain?
If anything we should give it back to the Indians. As a late conservative professor, who was a Comanche, noted, if Texas was to go to anyone it should go to the Comanches, and not the Mexicans who the Comanches regularly beat like a drum.
My great grandmother was 100% Yaqui. She fled to California due to the oppression of her people by, wait for it, the Mexican government. You’re right, it would make more sense to give to the Indians rather than Spain. But I think my great grandmother would be content to leave it to the U.S.
Remember visiting Tijuana in the 90’s for work, witnessing there the poverty and corruption. Then traveling back to San Diego. A distance approximately half that of Providence to Boston, and thinking this is going to be a big problem.
Oh good – she can hand over her LA mansion to the Mexicans.
She’s due for another orbit around the earth.
Differences in wage rates are a motor of migration, but you do not usually have much of a migration stream unless an economic or political shock induces pioneer migration. After that you have chain migration; Mexicans who arrive here are generally attracted by the presence of relatives at the other end.
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Countries are poor because of a deficit of technological acumen and organizational habits. They can be poorer than they should be due to bad policy. Mexico could do with better policy.
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Should note that on any historical or global scale, Mexico is not a notably poor country, just less affluent than the United States. What distinguishes Latin America is not poverty but disorder. Homicide rates 2.5x to 5x those in the United States are the mode.
Considering that California was once owned by Mexico, and Mexico was once owned by Spain, and Spain was once owned by Rome, maybe it should all go back to Rome? Heck, since the Pope is now the Pontifex Maximus and not Caesar, let Pope Leo XIV decide! He can’t possibly make any decision worse than the ones that Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass have been making!
Well, if the contents of the tar pits are any indication, California was once ruled by mastodons and very large cats … So, I’m thinking, in the interest of anti-colonialism, maybe opening the zoos and letting elephants, lions and tigers roam downtown LA for a few days might solve the problem.
Katy Perry….another dictionary example of ignorant.
California was evangelized by St
Junipero Serra, who established the missions.
California’s history is Catholic. It should be Catholic holy ground to all Catholics of the Western Hemisphere.
San Diego, Santa Cruz, Nuestra Senora de los Angeles, Santa Monica, San Francisco, San Juan Capistrano and so many others…may it one day be Catholic again.
For the record, I like CAG’s recommendation, and Penguins Fan is correct as well.
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