Funny, Sad, and Possibly Hopeless

The Old Gringo was munching on his No-doze and drinking his Air-wick for breakfast while watching Squawk Box on CNBC this morning.   He was treated to the usual scene whereby they allow a psuedo-conservative Republican come on and say a few things that sound remotely free-marketish and reasonable.    Then, of course, there is the countering argument which is given by a person who "restates" the previous answer while pointing out the fact that  "this" is not a reasonable position and  "that" of course is "unrealistic" as "all reasonable observers" have agreed.

     The oddity to-day is that the psuedo-conservative, Congressman Ryan from Wisconsin, actually reached down into his inner-caveman and responded.   He had been accused by the "much wiser" liberal ex-governor of Delaware that his and other Republicans plans did not address anything beyond protecting wealthy millionairesandbillionaireswhoflyaroundinprivatejetsanddon'tpaytheirfairshareoftaxesand
paylessthansecretaries.   But! Ryan responded aggressively and made the ex-Governor to appear the fool his is.

     Congressman Ryan pointed out that the ex-governor's point about how the Republicans do not care about re-education of the work-force is false to the point of falsehood.   He advised the panel that there were 40 bills that had been passed out of the House and that were sitting on the Majority Leader Dingy Harry's desk that had never been presented to the Floor of the Senate nor to any Committee.   These bills approved everything from industry inducements to bring on-going education to existing employees and new-hires to consolidating the 55 overlapping, demagogic, union feeding, boiler-plate, afterthought "training programs" established and operated by the Department of Labour, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Health and Human Debris, and the Department of Education(?) etc., none of which have had any effect upon institutional unemployment.

      He also scolded the mentally defective ex-governor who had been oh so condescending in explaining how he was so much more superior to the other guest, a lowly Republican, because he "cared" about things other than helping rich people.    Congressman Ryan pointed out that over 95% of public education activity in the United States is handled by State and local entities.   He also pointed out that every central government initiative that had been forced onto the locales had taken away from the central mission of providing people with a common intellectual foundation to prepare that person for his own self-defense and prosperity.

      It is probably true that kicking Yahweh out the school-house back door and forcing Crips, Bloods, the Mexican Mafia, Marasalvatrucha13, and the Aryian Nations Blastercyclists into the schools is not really a good idea.    Unless, of course, it is the actual objective of the Progressives to destroy the Nation.    Which, after all, is the truth.

     It is well to remember, that save for certain military missions, almost all activities started and supervised or controlled by the central government either are abject failures or suffer astronomical cost overruns or both.    Every business and social intrusion conducted by the central government, and almost all that are conducted by local governments, are money-losers and almost always cause many more problems than they don't cure.

      The least money paid into a morass of despair and hellishness are the one that "help" people.    The home of the brave and the land of the free, in less than 40 years has become the "place where we stays" and "this is our barrio, you diss's us by bein' here, bangbang you dead".   We have quickly developed into a nation of 29 year old grandmothers who somehow are more important than people who are human.

      We are admonished that we are "against children" if we do not vote money to "help" them.  The money goes 70% portion to bureaucrats who preside over this insanity.  The rest goes to feed and house what are increasingly sub-human entities who know only violence and procreation.   The Old Gringo submits that we are "for children" if we do something to stop the production of children born into the welfare dependency industry and the babymother culture.

 Stupid Bird

      Without taxation to support this madness and to subsidize the agriculture, food processing, food marketting, and medicaid industrial complex, our populace would be in a better position immediately to provide true charity, directly and locally controlled by people who can sort out the father who fell of the ladder and broke his leg from Jake the Crackhead who comes around every Tuesday and Saturday and Maggie Ann who comes in once a week because he boyfriend came back, beat her up, and took her "welfare", leaving the babies aged 1,3,5,6,7 unfed.   All need to be attended, but the Salvation Army could handle the job easily, gearing up on its own over a couple or three years.   Government Departments of Human Services are designed to recruit slugs, barnacles, and blobs looking not only for a handout, but a life-style of lethargy.

      The under-paid welfare office workers are making 25 to 50 thousand dollars each by "helping" the "poor".   Each depends upon the existence of the other.   It is a Luciferine symbiosis from Hell.    Throw in the Banks and the Grocery Chains and "voila!" a perfect Hell on Earth.    Before long, Americans will vote in a central government program to punish and flog the few Little Red Hens left.    They are already sawing open the Goose.

Stupid Bird!  Run!  Don't you see
the 666 Bastille Committee coming
over the hill?

Awake finally.   Maybe I can make another round of coffee.  More later, about Mexico.
El Gringo Viejo

San Francisco-Bay Area Wisdom / WARNING - STRONG CONTENT

Lamentably, the Old Gringo simply had to put this in for the sake of OROGs who think that maybe, just maybe one or two cents of the several trillion dollars that the central government has flushed down the toilet just might....might, mind you...have actually done some good.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2011/10/18/bloody-gang-fight-breaks-out-at-richmond-city-hall/

This is the result of government intervention.   If one will review every problem we have in the United States of America at this time, one will quickly discover that the United States Government is involved in its funding, financing, or regulation.

 The section 8, AFDC, Food Stamps,
Medicaid culture, always best when practiced
with the whole family, is endorsed and subsidized
by the central government in Washington.
In this scene a father and mother show their daughter
how to tatoo gang emblems on one another.
Remember to pay your fair share.   These people need
to eat, too.
THIS PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT PAID FOR
BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S 26 YEAR OLD
GRANDMOTHERS AND BABY MOTHERS CLUB

 

Time to Give Up

LOOK!   This proves it.   CBS and The New York Times did a survey....and this proves that we are right and the Tea Party Geezers are full of it

(Credit: CBS News)

Forty-six percent of Americans say "Occupy Wall Street" represents the views of most Americans,  CBS and the New York Times...!

      This proves that the American people are convinced that no one should have the right to his own stuff, money, cats, cans of tomatoe soup, nothin'....It all belongs to _(nancypelosi and pete seeger?).. to "redistribute" fairly in a way that they determine.   From each acorning to his ability and to each acorning to his need.    And Maxine Waters is in charge.   And Jane Fonda.   And Michelle LeVaughn Robinson.   and Hillary.    and Barbra Striesand...I mean it's really awesome, like totally bash....you know?

It was in the New York Times....they did the survey with CBS,,,,,if you can't trust them, then who can you trust?

El Gringo Viejo 

 

Eye Candy

During the 1950s it was great fun to go to Faulkner's Rexall Drug Store and do the fountain thing.   They made up even the Coca Cola's, with the girl shooting one of those pull down levers of carbnated water into a 5cent or a 10cent official Coca Cola glass, mixing up a real, live Coca Cola.  She would put the ice in and slide it down the counter, like in an old cowboy movie saloon scene.

     But Even Better....and the girls would use Real Mugs....was the House Specialty, another super concoction.   It was so good we had to say our General Confession twice at Episcopal Mass.    The beer mug was a standard sized beer mug type beer mug.    They were kept in freezing compartment there in the service area behind the counter.   The girls dressed like nurses, almost...just no little winged cap.   A lot of children were wary of them because they looked like they might be hiding hypodermics somewhere.

      The mug would first be injected with a couple of generous squirts of "real live chocolate syrup" before receiving a huge scoop of really globby gooey vanilla ice cream...Golden Jersey label...something like a Cadillac in terms of quality.    Then the girl would slowly fill the mug with really great root beer, also made up from scratch.   A little carbonated water, then a little base, then a little carbonated water, then a little more base.  The base was sypplied by A&W Root Beer.   The whole thing would become a huge magnificent frothy mess that required an easy-draft straw and an iced-tea spoon in order to enjoy it all.    For that the mean old people wanted 25 cents.   But the reason for this silly post is finally here.   That drink was called a ''Black Cow".  Sometimes these drinks were so good that we left a whole dime as a gratuity.

                                                 A soda jerk passing an ice cream soda between

                                                   the dispensing faucets.  Pull for regular flow

                                                           push for high pressure skinny stream.

                                                              One had base for Coke, the other

                                                                  carbonated water....

It was more fun back then, I guess.   When we did something stupid, Mrs. Tomlin would come and scold us.   Then our parents would find out and we'd catch it at home as well.   I was only called down once.    They had the best hamburgers, BLTs, and Club Sandwiches.  On cold days they always had ground up fresh Mexican chocolate, and the girls would put whipped cream on top and a teeny squirt of the carbonated water. 

Just thinking.   Maybe the Old Gringo is waiting for the Cold Front.    Thanks for your time and patience.

El Gringo Viejo.... 

Carrying a Point Forward

Free Trade agreements do not have anything...or at most, very little...to do with jobs being transferred overseas or beyond our borders.    Those transfers had begun long, long before any free trade agreements had been inked or ratified.   By using lib-think, the media has managed to tie "job losses" to "free trade" in the minds of a somewhat inattentive American public .   Job losses come from two sources:    labour unions collectively bargaining themselves out of the labour market, and business manuevers designed to avoid over-taxation and to defend the company's bottom line.

     The first duty of any business is to its ownership, whether that be a body of stockholders, a family, an oligarchy, a single person, other companies, a reverse, retransgendered, Lesbian Eskimoe space alien, or any combination of such entities.    Employees are not "entitled'' to a position.    Companies are not "entitled" to a profit.    Nobody ain't entitled to nuthin' nohow.

       Sometimes, even when everything is done correctly and there is no avarice, sloth, fraud, or malfeasance, an earthquake comes along, or some cow kicks over a lantern, and there goes the whole thing.    Sometimes, people are so dumboe that they might even like the sound of a term like "Hope and Change" and vote for the Great Wizard who comes out from behind the Magic
Cloud and says he will take everyone to the promised land of free medical services and free access to the money and property of an undefined group referred to as the "Rich".   And horrors or horrors!    The people actually are stupid enough to vote for such a person.
        It's like voting for Dolly Parton and getting Janet Reno.   Its like going to the beach and all the girls look like Helen Thomas.   It's like going on a bird watching expedition to a place where the guide says there are a lot of birds, and you drive up to an place with 30,000,000 hens in a egg factory....rowed out in twenty long coops that look like Army Barracks.

But, going back to drawing a connection between "free trade" and "outsourcing jobs", the "twin plant" concept was drawn in between the United States and Mexico the year was 1968.  It was long before any "free trade" agressments between Mexico, Canada, and the United States.    Right now, with a combined population of 450,000,000  the North American Free Trade Zone has a combined GNP of almost 20,000,000,000,000 dollars (2o trillion) . 
     The Great Numero Uno Saviour of the World, Red China can barely eke out 5,000,000,000,000 dollars (5 trillion) dollars, with a population of 1,300,000,000  (1.3 billion) people.   That is three times the population, producing one-fourth the goods and services......OR, IN OTHER WORDS, AN ECONOMIC DENOMINATOR WHICH PLACES RED CHINA AT A  1/12TH LEVEL OF WEALTH PER CAPITA as North America.     That assumes that the data published by the Red Chinese is accurate.   It almost never is.   It also fails to take into consideration that what they build and show off as examples of the Great Improvement over the "consumer economies" of the degenerate Occidentals.    Those things that they show off to the world to-day have a bad habit of falling apart to-morrow.
      And that is with the Dumboes like us buying the crud the Red Chinese ship over here hand over fist.

B U Y E R' s    A L E R T !!!

   El Gringo Viejo has found a fairly good supply of incandescent light bulbs.   They are Sylvania, and generally can be found at HEB and other normal places.   Sometimes a person will have to look through the displays for just a bit.  These bulbs and made in Thailand, Mexico, and some place called AMERICA.  !!   They work wonderfully.   Of particular importance is that we have one of those bathrooms with a vanity light over the mirror that takes four bulbs.   The Old Gringo found some 40 watt Sylvanias to replace the two pig-tail 100 watt "euivalent" (Ha!...Hahahaha!).   And now we can see in the bathroom.    That is pretty frightening in and of itself.   Anyway...Sylvania has non-Red Chinese lightbulbs...at least for a bit longer. 


Hard and fast facts are inescapable:
     The more impediment there is to the accumulation of wealth or comfort of hearth, the more the citizenry will practice sloth and evasion.
Rules of Life as put down by the Great Guru Gringo Viejo.

Tips, and Toes, and Tulipanes

      Louisiana racist Republicans re-elected the sitting governor of Louisiana.   The funny-looking, smallish, and brownish, foreign-looking governor  has never denied that he has Indian ancestry, but it is known by the New York Times that he is  not like the  real Indians like the ones who ride around in circles in the real movies when they find wagons that have been circled.   He comes from those funny-looking Indians who all play flutes for cobras all the time.    He won re-election while facing 9 opponents, and like Cristina below, avoided a run-off by winning a majority in the first balloting.   The difference is that his majority was 67%, while Cristina's was 54%.   G0vernor Jindal won by using his own campaign funds, Cristina won by using public money to buy favours for the "poor",

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Cristina Kirschner de Fernandez
the New Evita, equally marxist
but mean.   She is the Queen of
the Southern Universe, where
water circulates the wrong
way going down the drain 

   Cristina Fernandez, who is proud of the fact that she is drawn into politics from her bomb throwing marxist days, also attempts to assure the people of Argentina that she will solve all the problems permanently again, like she did during her first term.   The Argentine people love her to death.   They think she is the re-incarnation of Evita who was a saloon girl taken in by an multiple-personality disordered demagog named Juan Peron, President of Argentina who was the most ruthless, kinder and gentler, socialist, conservative, unionizer, pro-Axis, pro-Communist, pro-American, pro-business, anti-capitalist,Nazi-hider,Israel-backing,anti-intellectual, schoolhouse building, enigmatic democratic dictator in Latin American History.

 King George VI

      So that all OROGs will know what kind of a monarchist the Old Gringo is, he ranks Princess Diana fairly high, although she receives a "Golden Dumboe Statue" for never learning that a Princess, even in these days or perhaps especially in these days, never has privacy, never has any duty save to her Queen and to her public.   Being Royalty in these days is a blessed curse, the same as having Royalty.   She was high-bred enough to have understood that and to have understood as well that her husband was going to be much more like his  dumboe great uncle Edward and nothing like his "common hero" grandfather, King George VI .   But like my wife says, she was just a country girl.  Yes, but Elizabeth was also "just a girl" and began well and ends now well, acquitting a glorious, if thankless job.

Evita

      Argentina contradicts the Gringo Viejo's lack of belief in multiple personality disorder.  Argentina stands as a living monument to the stupidity of intelligence.   To the intransigence of change.   To the transitory nature of permanence.    Of course, the Argentines loved  Evita and still love  her.  Conservative Argentines say that "Cristina rides her broom on the winds of Evita's breath" or that Cristina is "Evita Heavy".
       During Cristina's previous term, she forced laws through parliament to "nationalize" private pension funds.   The Argentine Peso has fallen like a shot bird. Please click onto the linkage below to have an idea of O'bama's plans for the greenback Yankee dollar.   Be aware, Obama will do the same expropriation of Americans' private pensions...calling them..."tesoros muertos''....or dead treasures.   He will propose to bring them to life, in order to spread the wealth....    Cristina did not just propose...she actually did it.  Check this graph to see if you can determine when Cristina succeeded in accessing the pension f

http://www.google.com/finance?hl=en&rlz=1T4ADFA_enUS438US438&q=CURRENCY:ARSUSD&ei=APmmTsa7KqTLsQKqktWfDw&sa=X&oi=currency

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     The Argentine exchequer has been buffetted by her first term largesse, "giving to the poor", and menacing of the productive sector a la Hugo Chavez.   She has frightened businesses and even labour unions in Brazil,  which is Argentina's largest trading partner.    She goes out of her way to remind any audience that she is anti-American....although she cannot describe precisely what it is about America that she is so anti about.   In the graph that we have linked to above, let it set up and then look on the top area of the graph background for the time-frame
checking on the 5 year graph.   That will give the OROG an idea of Cristina's past four years, and the four years before of her husband's Presidency.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/argentina-heading-to-polls/2011/10/21/gIQAAyGd3L_gallery.html#photo=1

    There is a picture gallery, published by the venerable Washington Post, which will certainly qualify for the "puke a buzzard off a gut-wagon" Hall of Fame.   There are a few innocuous pictures about the solitude of defeat of Cristina's opponents, some of her and her son, followed by pictures of a woman who for some reason does not look like the official campaign picture of Cristina.  She looks like an old, beat up saloon ......person....who has mastered the art of putting on 372,554 tons of facial makeup.   You all don't think that Cristina would have used a "newer girl in an older picture" trick, do you?   The "older picture" is the one on the left at the top of this submission.   You can be the judge if a woman would stoop so low as to try to look younger than she really is.   Why cna't she just go ahead and look like Helen Thomas?   After all Helen is beautiful....in her own way.
        The OROG can access the photo gallery at the above linkage.   Be aware, please, that this gush is so patently the fluff of a demogogette, that The Queen of the Universe (Sir Edmund) Hillary will be taking notes on how to " Be no ways tired...." while corkscrewing down in her flak jacket to swoop up her daughter from danger inside the burning twin towers,     They are two peas in a pod.  False, self-serving, marxists elitists shovelling government and private bribe money into their own accounts, living in gated preserves, surrounded by armed guards, while condemning the "rich".    Neither Cristina nor (Sir Edmund)Hillary could fit their their little toes into Diana's or Evita's crystal slippers.    Or Sarah Palin's crystal hunting boots.

CONFIDENCE OF THE STUPID AND DEVIOUS IN SPREADING THE WEALTH
as a method of forming a prosperous nation.;

    To think, Fidel Castro and his brother Raul are known to have in the neighbourhood of 5 billion dollars stashed in Spain, Switzerland, France, and other "away from Cuba" places.Can the OROGs imagine?   Cuba, after 50 years of communist revolution, and fending off invasions by the dreaded and horrid Gringos, has an incredible Gross National Product of a little less than 12,000,000,000 dollars with a population of a little less than 11,000,000 people.   Since neither nation allows the other to trade with it....the United States still manages to be Cuba's fourth most important trading partner, after Red China,  Spain, and Venezuela.  Mexico and Canada are far down the list.   Almost all the countries who condemn the "American Blockade"....of course are liars....Cuba's problem is that they have nothing to sell and they cannot buy anything.    Oh!....and by the way....even with the  food stamp slobs that we have to support in such a dufus county as this, Hidalgo County in Texas, with a population of right around 800,000, Hidalgo County produces over 13,000,000,000 dollars in economic activity.    Put in a comparative chart....

            800,000 people - Hidalgo County, Texas         13,000,000,000 gross economic activity

                                                                                                                           16,250 per person

            850,000 people - Municipio de Reynosa            7,000,000,000 gross economic activity

                                                                                                                            8,235 per person

      11,000,000 people - Peoples' DR of Cuba               12,000,000,000 gross economic activity

                                                                                                                            1, 099 per person

     It should be noted that when the Old Gringo was a pre-delinquent, in the early 1950s say, the income per person average throughout Cuba would have been something in the order of 10 times the income average of places like Reynosa in Mexico.    Quite a revolution.   The only difference is that Cuba moved from free enterprise and clunky predictable corruption to communism and total corruption, while Mexico moved from socialism and clunky, predictable corruption  to increasingly free enterprise and free market activity alternatives and less clunky corruption.

     Free trade agreements do not have anything to do with jobs being transferred oversees or beyond our borders.   Those transfers had begun long, long, long before any free trade agreements.   By using lib-think, the media has managed to tie "job losses" to "free trade".   Job losses came from labour unions in the United States bargaining themselves out of the market.
Job losses also came from something as simple as shutting down deep water oil and gas activity after an accident in the Gulf of Mexico.    By the hundreds upon thousands.   With illogical, counter-productive regulations.   MORE OIL SEEPS INTO THE GULF FROM THE SEA-FLOOR IN A DAY THAN EVER HAS BEEN SPILLED BY DRILLING, EXTRACTION, AND TRANSFER.   Beware of the enviro-psychomendacious berserk syndrome....commonly known as the ALGore EastAnglia University- Complex Missing Chromozome Condition.
      Trading with the Red Chinese is not equitable.    The countries with whom we have free trade agreements have increased their economic activity and their imports from the United States.    We do well with Korea, Japan, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, and other  such countries.   We only do poorly with Red China....and they still steal everything they can in terms of intellectual property and industrial espionage.

     Remember that our numbers one, two, and three leading suppliers of foreign oil, depending on the month, are Canada, Venezuela, and Mexico depending on the month.    EXXON, out of Houston, supplies Mexico's PEMEX stations with almost 75% of their high-test 93 octane gasoline sold as Supreme at the Red Pump.   It is essentially EXXON Extra with two variations based on the elevation of the destination.   Mexico City's 7,300 fasl is a bit daunting and much of the rest goes to places below 4,000 feet.

The Old Gringo is late for a meeting with Rosie, Michelle, and (Sir Edmund) to learn the lyrics of the new song, "If I had a hammer, this land would be your land, the trouble I've seen."   Is that how it goes?

El Gringo Viejo....