With all these conflicting demands, there is a risk that the lower house will neither approve the government's proposed budget, nor come up with a coherent one of its own a deadlock that would damage foreign investors' confidence, and also Mexicans' fragile faith in their democracy.

ECONOMIST: Mexico

Since no one in their right mind expects either this president or any other let alone any foreseeable U.S. Congress, to provide these vast amounts in notoriously ill-spent foreign aid, the U.N. types have come up with an alternative means of making Americans pay their huge "debt" to the undeveloped world: international taxation (hereafter known as "globotaxes").

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: House votes to oppose ��globotaxes��!

Since no one in their right mind expects either this president or any other -- let alone any foreseeable U.S. Congress, to provide these vast amounts in notoriously ill-spent foreign aid, the U.N. types have come up with an alternative means of making Americans pay their huge "debt" to the undeveloped world: international taxation (hereafter known as "globotaxes").

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: House votes to oppose 'globotaxes'!

The possibility that a foreign investor might come in and set up its HQ, and bring along with it several hundred jobs, must be tantalizing.

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