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Americano
Coffee
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| Baloo wrote: | | If people from Mexicali wouldn’t come to Calexico and drive on these streets to make their purchases, then we probably wouldn’t have the streets built in the first place. These people fuel up in Calexico hence paying their share of taxes used for the maintenance of roads. |
This bullshit, I use to work for the county and I was suprise to hear for myself, but I can tell for sure that their money spending in the Valley has no major influence in our economy. That something people like to believe, mainly, people from Mexicali. So next time someone tries to tell you that Mexicali is a major contributor to our local economy you can tell them it’s bullshit. Besides, gas tax is merely cents, which does not add up to much when you consider how much an American pays in registration and gas. |
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Baloo
Cholo Nako
Joined: 16 Sep 2004
Posts: 34
Location: EAST PORTION OF CALECIA
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| It is without a doubt that the Mexicali and Imperial County Economies are interdependent. Calexico wouldn’t be what it is today without the thriving Maquila Industry. Most of the restaurants, retail stores and casas de cambio exist because of the Mexicali business. Just walk in to any business on Imperial Ave or 1st 2nd, or 3rd St and you will see. These business in turn pay taxes and reinvest their money into our economy. They hire employees that earn wages, which are taxed, and the cycle continues. |
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Americano
Coffee
Joined: 18 May 2003
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Location: fair Verona
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| Baloo wrote: | | It is without a doubt that the Mexicali and Imperial County Economies are interdependent. Calexico wouldn’t be what it is today without the thriving Maquila Industry. Most of the restaurants, retail stores and casas de cambio exist because of the Mexicali business. Just walk in to any business on Imperial Ave or 1st 2nd, or 3rd St and you will see. These business in turn pay taxes and reinvest their money into our economy. They hire employees that earn wages, which are taxed, and the cycle continues. |
Mexicali is not the soul reason that some businesses are here. Those businesses are here because Mexicali is right next-door. Would you find a casa de cambio in Brawley? It's a mission to locate on in El Centro. These businesses are here because they want to make money from the Mexicali population. Yeah, they stay in business because their marketing focus was directed towards the Mexicali consumers.
Most of the stores on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd street are family owned. They don't hire employees to work for them. They hire family who work under the table. I won't even go into how many people work in those businesses without permits. |
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chuco boy
Dishonorable Discharge
Joined: 05 Mar 2005
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| Posted: 03 Nov 2005 03:58 PM Post subject: Mexicali the economic giant |
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Without Mexicali, we would be the size of Holtville and or Heber......
When Mexicali sneeze's Calexico catches the flu along with the rest of Imperial County. The only other business for Calexico is welfare.
Who are the biggest employers in the county and or city of Calexico?
Hint.... Very dependent of personnel from another country
Any private corporations? No..... prisons and a bunch of government agencies with funny initials. |
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spic-ole
Coffee
Joined: 10 Oct 2002
Posts: 1657
Location: UC Calecia
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| Posted: 03 Nov 2005 04:19 PM Post subject: Re: Mexicali the economic giant |
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| chuco boy wrote: | Without Mexicali, we would be the size of Holtville and or Heber......
When Mexicali sneeze's Calexico catches the flu along with the rest of Imperial County. The only other business for Calexico is welfare.
Who are the biggest employers in the county and or city of Calexico?
Hint.... Very dependent of personnel from another country
Any private corporations? No..... prisons and a bunch of government agencies with funny initials. |
Calexico has become this way because of Mexicali. If Calexico were hours away from the border it would have a different "specialty?".
I've often felt that the fact that Calexico is so close to the border has been a plague. It has learned to rely on Mexicali to buy its products instead of becoming self-dependent like so many cities in the rest of the country.
Don't get me wrong, being so close to Mexicali definitely has its perks, however, while many feel that Mexicali has advanced Calexico (or even the rest of the Valley) it has definitely held it back (if not just deterred.)
As far as the welfare comment, I don't think it takes an IQ of higher than 80 to see that a big reason for this is because so many of the jobs in Calexico go to people from Mexicali. Most people that live in Calexico don't work in Calexico. There just aren't any jobs, unless you're talking about minimum wage jobs, or owning a business. If you need proof, just walk around Calexico and see how many of the workers in the business' here actually speak to you in English (barring you're not white.) |
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superplayer
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Joined: 15 May 2004
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Location: Calexico
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| just a quick comment, not to disagree with spic-ole, about what is really preventing major industry to come to the valley or in this case, Calexico, ... is it the availability of cheap labor??? So that would mean that companies detest cheap labor and are looking for picky workers. What about agriculture and its riches... there's plenty of towns in the Central Valley of California that rely on agriculture as its source; they are always dusty unattractive places with high poverty rates. So what would make Calexico better if it's away from the border... I wonder. |
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spic-ole
Coffee
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Location: UC Calecia
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| superplayer wrote: | | just a quick comment, not to disagree with spic-ole, about what is really preventing major industry to come to the valley or in this case, Calexico, ... is it the availability of cheap labor??? |
No, as a matter of fact that's what brings them to this area. Just not the Valley. Instead, they go to Mexicali, Tijuana... |
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ivplayerincax
Cholo Nako
Joined: 15 Jun 2005
Posts: 32
Location: calexico
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| Posted: 08 Nov 2005 09:09 AM Post subject: Chaters |
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Some of you have reponded to this wrong. This link is to report people who LIVE in the USA and are driving vehicles with out of state (foreign country) license plates ........not for driving on OUR streets.
If you live in the USA you must register you vehicle with the DMV. |
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chuco boy
Dishonorable Discharge
Joined: 05 Mar 2005
Posts: 369
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| Posted: 08 Nov 2005 09:45 AM Post subject: Mexicali drivers |
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| I agree with you if they are driving an expensive vehicle parked in front of a nice house and they are avoiding the taxes. However most of the cars are old and they are working as domestics or working for peanuts. My bigger concern is the insurance. Mr. Esquer, auto agent told me that they don't have liability ins. and if they register the plates here they can't afford the insurance. I got hit by a Mexican driver and he was at fault. The CHP officer told me " tough luck, it's my insurance problem". If you don't have collison= forget about it...... |
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TsutchiEsMaximus
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Joined: 15 Apr 2005
Posts: 473
Location: UC Davis
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Question....
how old do you have to be to take your driver's license tests behind the wheel and written? with out behind the wheel driver's training and drivers ED and no permit?......18 or 17 and 1/2? |
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