| Each tourist season we collect these little anecdotes | | | | backpacker: Walks into a crowded restaurant and |
| that American tourist seem so willing to provide. All we | | | | announces, "All Mexican women are b**ches".Another |
| have to do is sit in the main plaza with pen and | | | | American Redneck Hick: What kind of speech do y'all |
| notebook in hand. Enjoy!Old American Male: What's | | | | talk down here?American Woman in English |
| there to do in this town?Sweet Mexican woman: Have | | | | bookstore: She points to something she finds |
| you tried visiting our city's churches?Old American | | | | inappropriate and tells the owner it is a sacrilege that |
| Male: I've been all over the world and have seen more | | | | she has such an item.Another chubby bald American: I |
| churches than I care to remember. I don't need to see | | | | am worried about all the graft in Mexico (I guess he |
| any more God d***ed churches.High School American | | | | doesn't keep up on graft in America![1]I have to make |
| girls: Oh my God, can you believe the toilet paper | | | | a comment here: Americans act as though America is |
| dispenser was OUTSIDE the stall?American | | | | the paragon of all that is good in the world. Where |
| Restaurant Patron: I asked for a "real" taco.American | | | | does this self-delusion come from? They are so quick |
| cab rider: I want "real" money in change and not | | | | to point out corruption in another country while |
| pesos.American Student: Are all the Mexican women | | | | wickedness of all sorts is going on right under their |
| this fat?American (Texan) Housewife: Do you realize | | | | noses! Perhaps the Minuteman Project fanatics who |
| just how corrupt your government is here?American | | | | blame the Mexican migrant workers for exploiting |
| Freak-a-Zoid Hippie: I can't believe you Americans | | | | services should do a little self-examination at their own |
| (expats) who want to live in such a poor | | | | fraud...see footnoted quote!Can someone please |
| country.American woman in tour-group: You shouldn't | | | | explain this to me?So ends my story on Americans |
| feed your child something like that for breakfast! (She | | | | say and do the craziest things![1] Billions Misspent by |
| says this to a Mexican mother.)American man fat and | | | | Medicaid in New York State, Tuesday,HealthIssues |
| balding: They have no booze in this grocery store for | | | | Daily Briefing, July 19, 2005Billions Misspent by Medicaid |
| Christ's sake.American Country Club Snobs: What do | | | | in New York State A year-long investigation by the |
| you mean there's no golf course here?American | | | | New York Times found that the New York state |
| teenaged male: Where's the mall so I can cruise for | | | | Medicaid program has been misspending billions of |
| Mexican chicks?American 10-year old: But I wanted a | | | | dollars annually because of "fraud, waste and |
| Happy-Meal!American Redneck Hick: Donch y'all have | | | | profiteering." According to the Times, the program has |
| no cafeterias down to where you're from?American | | | | become so huge, so complex and so lightly policed |
| Old Crow (female): Walks into a bank and begins | | | | that it is easily exploited. NewYork's Medicaid program |
| screaming, "I know some mother-f***er employee here | | | | spends about $44.5 billion annually, which is more than |
| speaks English and I want to talk to them right | | | | any other state, including California, whose Medicaid |
| now!"American Senior Citizen: But I demand a Senior | | | | program covers about 55 percent more |
| citizen's discount on this roasted ear of corn.American | | | | people.Freelance writer, Syndicated Columnist, and |
| Hotel Patron: Why don't you get ESPN?San Miguel de | | | | book author, Doug Bower, has written a compelling |
| Allende American Expat: Stands in front of a Mexican | | | | new book titled, AMERICA'S ANTI-MEXICAN |
| young person's rock band and gives them "the finger" | | | | XENOPHOBIA. Have you wondered if the Minuteman |
| until the concert is disrupted.Middle-aged American | | | | Project is really on the "up and up"? |