Originally Posted By: dave1251
Maybe the "government" is not the problem. I look at it is as the individual is the problem. Because despite as you claim the "government" and "corruption" holding people down, my my father in-law has been very successful in Mexico thru hard work and saving what little money he earned. It took him 20 years from working for a land owner and farmer to become a land owner and farmer. Now does he not only own his ranch and fields, several homes, stores, he even gifted me land. He instilled the believe in his children the only way that they could better their life's was thru hard-work and education. Now all my sister-in-laws are engineers or Doctors. Even my brother-in-law and my wife who did not have the desire to earn a advanced degree still earned technical certificates and higher level education in their desired fields of study. So all it took was a generation of where my Father-in-law who's family had next to nothing he was able to completely turn around his family's fortunes for at least 2 generations. IMO the "man" is holding me down is a excuse improving your fortunes even it Mexico can be done with honesty and integrity. Just most people do not want to take the steady grind to do it. But I can not speak for everyone in Mexico I can only tell you about my immediate family and my friends that still live there on how they either bettered themselves.
Your father-in-law is the exception in Mexico (I applaud that). For the majority, government and it's institutionalism has corrupted the means of of the people to prosper. With 49 million of it's citizens BELOW the poverty line, this can't be blamed on the individual not wanting or trying to achieve. It's pretty darn difficult to climb the ladder economically when the very basic services and infrastructure are not in place. Clean, drinkable water....proper availability of nutritional foods, a decent education system FOR ALL, rail and roads to transport goods is somewhat lacking....especially in the southern regions. Decades of neglect.
Yes, you speak of success. It's encouraging to hear. But when corruption and mismanagement of money does little to serve the basic needs of it's people....it's time for a big change.