The Oil and Natural Gas Aperture: Mexico stumbles into the 21st Century

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     The Great Expropriation put into effect by Lazaro Cardenas del Rio, President of the United States of Mexico  -  1934 . 1940, was heralded as a great leap forward for Mexico.   By the stroke of a pen, three years of formal dispute, millions of words of negotiations, pushing and shoving, harsh threats by both sides, hypocrisy and justifiable self-interest practiced by both sides....Article 27 of the Constitution of 1917 was  finally imposed as would be a death penalty in a criminal trial.   All subsurface natural resources are under the protection of the Central Government, which is obliged to defend those resources for the benefit of all Mexicans, making all Mexicans owners of their national patrimony.

    Such magnificent words.   And all of it is fairly useless mattress stuffing to cover a move to the establishment of one of the largest corruption cash cows in the history of humanity.  Labour union dynasties were establish by 1940 that would make the AFL - CIO leadership look like a group of monks sworn to poverty.

      Some little known facts about the oil industry in Mexico from around 1900 through 1938 would indicate that the Americans were the least abusive of the "exploiters", and that it was the Germans, through their operation of the Royal Dutch - Shell consortium, trademarked Flying Eagle Oil Company who produced 60% of the oil extracted from Mexico during those latter years of foreign involvement.   The American company most involved in Veracruz State and elsewhere in Mexico was the Standard Oil of California, to-day known as Chevron.   That group produced about 30% of Mexico's total oil marketing during the last years of f0reign operations.

     Foreign or domestic mining and, at that time, drilling companies were constitutionally required to pay 30% of the gross value of any ore or other extraction to the Mexican Central Treasury....known as La Secretaria de Hacienda.  This was an amenable issue for the foreigners.  Their engineers enjoyed, in large part, life in Tampico, motoring up and down the Panuco River and its Tarzan Movie-like scenes, the beaches, the finest seafood, and many other amenities.  To this day there are the progeny of those Americans and 0ther foreigners who deigned to remain behind after the foreigners were forced to stand down from their operations.   Their lead workers / supervisors generally got along with the Mexican workers, and hobnobbed with them after hours, became godfathers of babies, ate at their tables, drank beer with them in the saloons and cantinas.   The Germans.....not so much.   In order, the Mexicans preferred the company and companies of the Americans, Brits, and on the bottom of the list.....the Germans.

     Lazaro Cardenas, however, knew to make the issue about foreigners in general and the Americans in particular.   The Obama-style smear machine, backed up by the European press, made great issue of the fact that the American companies were going to drain out the Mexican oilfields before going after their own American resources.    It was a form of subliminal warfare, according to the Cardenistas, with the Americans trying to make Mexico dependent upon American petroleum largess, thereby guaranteeing that Mexico could never challenge the United  States, militarily or even in terms of business and boundary negotiations.

     Cardenas and his negotiators also pointed out that the Americans were making 2 to 10 times more than the common Mexican chain roper and/or roughneck.   The world swooned over such obvious discrimination.   Of course, the Americans wages frequently reflected that they were  experienced drilling supervisors and engineers while the rig workers were untrained and inefficient, although they learned quickly and most had a good work ethic.  The wage matter was brought up primarily to demonstrate that the Americans would bring in people to do semi-skilled work, pay them American level wages, and finally freeze out the Mexican workers.   Even if it weren't true, it might become true.

      There was some solace in the fact that the debts involved in the Expropriation  would be recognised by the Central Government in Mexico City and bonds were issued to the companies that were losing their permits and leases.   Those bonds were finally paid off, on schedule to those who were wise enough to take them seriously, about five years ago, with appropriate interest, etc.

    The pinky, demagogue-fuelled  Mexican expropriation was different, say, from the Boshie-styled, pseudo-communist taking of "illegally" foreign-owned properties in Cuba.  None of that property was ever indemnified.  None of the 200,000 jobs provided by American, British, French, and Spanish investment were replaced.   Well, they were replaced after several years with half as many jobs that paid 1/10th as much.   But there was nothing to buy anyway.....so everything worked out fine.

     The Mexican thing was much more complicated.  The establishment of the company Petroleos Mexicanos, SA de CV (aka: PEMEX), caused to be created a moon circulating around the planet.   The planet was the central government and its republic, and the moon was what was suddenly the sixth largest oil company in the world, almost overnight.

     PEMEX was formed up out of new clay.  It was established as a government chartered, essentially private and free-standing Corporation and also a monopoly.  It had a CEO named by the President and approved by the Senate of the Heroico Congresso de la Republica Mexicana.  But after that....it was a moon, circulating a planet like a good moon, but "out there", just out of reach....but still in the orbit.  Typically Mexican.

      PEMEX became at once a name of honour and patriotic pride.  The oil is ours.  We can make our own gasoline.   We can produce our own gas in canisters, or even pipe it long distances.  We are self-sufficient in hydro-carbon refining.

       PEMEX  also became at once a name associated with massive incompetence and corruption.  Money disappeared, projects were shabbily terminated, only to fall to ruin in weeks, and the notion of training engineers to handle major, medium-sized projects was studied for years....while Mexico's best and brightest went on into civil engineering, went to the United States and worked there, and/or came back and established construction engineering operations.   PEMEX learned far too late about obligatory scholarships that would have been especially symbiotic both for PEMEX and La Patria. 

     PEMEX became the great fountain of employment.  Hundreds of wells needed to be reworked,  scores of new wells around Coatzocoalcos - Minatitlan and Poza Rica needed to be sunk.   There were hundreds of kilometres of pipelines that desperately needed to be repaired, reconstructed, and initiated.   And the off-shore....mein Gott....the offshore in the Bay of Campeche....oil and gas for a thousand years.    But, because the Constitution required that all workers (and business owners actually) had to be members of their appropriate labour union, a new fountain of abuse was created.
     The PEMEX labour union, SINDICATO de TRABAJADORES PETROLEROS al SERVICIO de la REPUBLICA MEXICANA (STPSRM)....was established to assure  that the workers would receive all the benefits ascribed to the workers of all businesses, especially government-related businesses.   It immediately became a den of thieves, with the local "secretary-general" lording over the positions and demanding a "tithe" from each union-local member so as to "remain in good standing" with the local's executive committee.   These monies were funnelled up by the "rule of tithe" until finally the overall head of the Petroleros Union would wind up with what to-day would be about one billion Mexican pesos per month for his own favourite private charity.   And yes, that would be one billion dollars per year in to-day's money.

     A "reform" was initiated in the early 1970s that broke the overall union up into regional unions.  This meant that now, instead of one major cad and his lackeys, there would be several cads and their lackeys.  That is the nature of "reform" in a socialist or governmentally controlled system.  In the late 1980s, the famous corrupt Mexican labour union chief for the very important northeastern division....a fellow by the name of Joaquin Hernandez Galicia, with the nickname of "La Quina",  was brought down by a new President.  (Quina is a Barcelonan contraction of the word 'cinchona', which is a bush that produces tonics and things like quinine.   The derivatives are found in tonic water, quinine anti-malarial, and such bitters. A person nicknamed "La Quina" is a person with whom one should exercise caution due to his hard manner and tendency to take revenge.)  He had challenged and ridiculed the new president during the election campaign of 1988.   Six weeks into the new term, the Army kicked in "La Quina's" bronze doors in the upscale Tampico subdivision, and they stormed his luxurious home.   He was arrested along with some of his thug enforcers and before it was over several score million dollars were recovered, massive amounts of jewelry of the finest order, along with firearms and fine art pieces.    The sale of six frames of Renaissance-era art work, the names of the pieces escape me at these moments, brought 9,000,000 dollars in an auction by Sotheby's on behalf of the Mexican Treasury, several years ago.

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From the Los Angeles Times:   a bit of an obituary for La Quina who died at the age of 91, 11 November 2013.  To wit -

Secretary General Hernandez
(La Quina)
The old man shortly after being released from
 prison having been convicted, correctly,
 for massive fraud and embezzlement.
  At one time he had four Lincoln
 limousines with 16 chauffeurs.

      Mexico has become a more democratic country in the 21st century. Even so, many of the old-school unions remain intact, including Hernandez's union, which represents workers in the crucial, but troubled, state-run oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex. These vestiges of an older, less-transparent time present an ongoing challenge to those who purport to represent the forces of modernization and reform.
     "Pemex was a latrine of corruption before La Quina came in, but he turned it into a sewer of corruption," George W. Grayson, a Mexico expert at the College of William and Mary, said Monday. "And it still is."
      Hernandez was a man of slight build, the son of an oil worker who eschewed flash and who, though trained as a welder, possessed uncanny political skill. After rising to the top of the union in 1958, he maintained control by doling out favors to local politicians and everyday workers, personally receiving underlings who would ask for loans or help with marital problems.
     He also had a reputation for violence. He was publicly accused of the 1977 slaying of a rival, Heriberto Kehoe Vincent, although the accusation was never proven. Two of his bodyguards also allegedly admitted to killing another rival in the 1980s.

 

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     The common worker for PEMEX was almost required to give primary allegiance to  head of the union.  Those seeking work did not have to show how their employment would benefit the company's overall mission, they had to show how they would comply with the structure of keeping the head of the Union in deep shekels.   We disagree with the depiction of the PEMEX union being just as corrupt as it was thirty to fifty years ago.   PEMEX overall is nowhere near the level of corruption of the "good old days".  The unions have steadily been more and more marginalised, although to say that they are not corrupt would also be an over-statement.   In the opinion of El Gringo Viejo,  all public unions are corrupt, and most heavy industrial unions are corrupt, to a lesser or greater degree wherever they are found, Mexico, the United States, Europe, Japan.  It is the nature of the beast.

 

BUT NOW, We finally arrive at the point behind all of this perambulation.  Last week, the Heroic Congress of the Mexican Republic took up the issue, finally, after a score of years of threats and admonishments by the various Presidents since Miquel de la Madrid Hurtado (1982 - 1988) that PEMEX join the ranks of all other Oil Giants in the world and participate in free market exploration, refining, marketing, and petrochemical business adventures.   The Mexican Behemoth is a competent and legitimate player and would be moreso with a bit of competition and formal alliance.  Talk about a joint EXXON-MOBILE and PEMEX collaboration in a 20,000,000,000 USD refinery in or near Matamoros, across from Brownsville, for instance, is not thought to be (is this a pun?) a pipe-dream.  The idea of American riggers actually frakking and perforating in northern Mexican deserts may be a reality now...legally....within months.   Activity subsequent to the purchase of debilitated Mexican rigs in the Bay of Campeche by British Petroleum and Conoco - Phillips is already probably on drawing boards from Tulsa to Mexico City.

 

    The Congressional Action was, in fact, considerably brave.   It is the surmounting of something like voting not to have a Martin Luther King and/or Nelson Mandela national holiday in the United States.  That act spurs howls of "Racism!! Racism!!".  The Mexican Chamber of Deputies and the Senate approved a Constitutional Amendment that will allow foreign development of petroleum and other hydrocarbiferous assets beneath the surface of Mexican territorial soil.   The amendment essentially only brings the petroleum law into focus with the rule of extraction for any foreign firm that is involved with any "minerals of the national patrimony".  Gold, silver, copper, valuable trace metals, barite, etc. have long been mined and processed in Mexico by foreign companies since before, during, and after the Revolution of 1910 and the establishment of the Constitution of 1917.

     The pinkoes and the neo-Bolshies and the Frida-ites howled and threw themselves in front of the doors of the august halls of deliberation.  Almost all were members of the Partido Revolucionario Democratico,  Mexico's variation of the lunatic element of the American Democrat Party, (which is about 85% of the American Democrat Party's membership).    When the doors were blocked by the PRD nutcases, the remaining members of the Diputados (congressmen of the Lower House) simply went to another large conference room, convened with the President of the Lower House, voted and provided an 83% margin (including the dumboes blocking the doors), well beyond the two-thirds required by the Constitution, to amend said Constitution to facilitate the new inclusion of Oil and Gas into the mining provisions.    The upper house, the Senado de la Republica, had already voted earlier in the week, 98 to 23, to authorise said action.

     We now have only to wait and see if a majority of the States of the Mexican Union will approve of the measure.  The odds are overwhelming that two things will happen:   (1)   There will be insane demonstration, State congressional members taking their clothes off at the podium, graffiti spraying leftist scum painting public buildings inside and out with crude, crass, and coarse profanity and pseudo-religious commentators talking about the sacrifice of national sovereignty to the altar of materialism, and (2)  The overwhelming approval by the various State Congresses of the measure coming out from the Mexican Congress.

     The final State actions should be done on or before the 1st of April, 2014.

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   Now.....one might ask reasonably.....and so what?

   The introduction of American, and to a degree Canadian, technology  mixed
into the existing Mexican technology, along with the infusion of investment by sources in all three of those North American nations, will result in the establishment of an petroleum energy force that will provide "energy self-sufficiency" for all three countries for several hundred years, and perhaps more.

     Next, there will be a demand for semi-skilled and skilled workers in Mexico that will provide wages and benefits at about two - thirds the American level of remuneration.   In some cases, there will be American employment either directly in Mexico or in companies supplying certain things to the Mexican exploration and production issues as demand for such things intensifies.

 

     Although some may not believe it, there is a shortage of semi-skilled and skilled blue-collar workers in Mexico at this time.   And, although many may not believe it, I know it is true because I see it on a daily basis, almost all the men legally working in the United States and sending money home would prefer to be back near home and making money at such a rate that it would complement his lower cost of living.   The lower cost of living is not so much that things are a lot cheaper in Mexico.   The trick is that one knows where the bunny holes are in terms of buying and eating and moving around in the least expensive and highest quality combination possible.   It also means living in what had been a hovel that over the five or seven years that just went by has become a half-way decent home  with all the nice things like gas, water, electricity, functioning sewer, a fire department and/or ambulance within the next few kilometres.....and no house payment....and real-estate taxes of 10 dollars per year.

     El Gringo Viejo did not put a place in Mexico so much to save money so much, as for the purpose of just enjoying the life that he enjoyed.   It was quite a daunting effort to build a "cheap" adobe home.  But, because his tastes were corkscrewed by too many years of eating really excellent Mexican preparations on various economic levels, highest to the lowest, he shops for those things that please his palate and he finds them at very, very reasonable costs.    When he serves beer to the clients, he charges less than what a beer costs at retail in WalMart in the United States.   And it's better beer.   These are all "for instance" examples.

   El Gringo Viejo also knows quite personally, in that they are essentially neighbours, many people who have come back from working in the United States.   There are many others who go and come, legally, to places in North Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan, with working papers and round trip air or bus transportation provided by the American company.   And they do not work for slave wages...they are well paid....and they fill positions, especially in urban areas (so to speak) where no one will respond to vigorous efforts at recruitment of local workers.

    So, it is certain that this value-added industry will have a substantial, non-inflationary positive economic impact, on Mexico and on the United States and Canada.

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    We should also point out that the father-in-law of my daughter, my (choose one or all terms:  consuegro - fellow father-in-law, compere - fellow father - compadre - also fellow father) worked for many years in Mexico in the sale and fitting and advice concerning valve issues....extremely elaborate control valves for PEMEX.   Another thing, both in his experience and El Gringo Viejo's experience, is that there never was a PEMEX check that bounced.   They bought literally hundreds of parts and wholly rebuilt  valves from my consuergo's company for many years....and I believe that they continue to do so.  These were not 49.95 USD parts, by the way.

 

     S0, there is the news.  There is a little history.  The history is interminable, for there are tales and tales that can, and could, and perhaps should be told in a hundred saloons and a thousand parlours in the coming years.   One good place to start would be in the Humphrey Bogart and Spencer Tracy movie with the name, "Treasure of the Sierra Madre".   The opening third of the movie is actually set in Tampico during the period just before the expropriation, while the filming was done during the period just after WWII and post-expropriation.   While the film is fictional, some of it is based on a true life story and the rest is a fairly good representation of how things were during those days in Tampico, Tamaulipas and Poza Rica, Vera Cruz and the Sierra Madres to the west....not far from El Gringo Viejo's little adobe hut.

 

More on these matters later.   Thanks for your patience.

El Gringo Viejo

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I Am Texan - IN CHRIST ALONE - required listening of all OROGs - sent in by EL ZORRO

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A Message from the Frozen Northcountry

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     We find El Zorro much restored, with a good prognosis.  There remains work to be done on that front, but at least the Rx is being done.   There will be some more testing and adjustments, and OROGs need to remember that El Zorro's boss is an RN among other things.  El Gringo Viejo urged him to cut back  on nibbling the NoDoze and drinking the AirWick a little, so perhaps that has helped as well.   We both need that in our regular diet so we can stay mean and grumpy.   His comments are spawned from the ridiculous sentencing of the boy whose attorney explained to the judge that his client had killed four people and injured about twice that number because his parents had never domesticated him and taught him responsibility.   As a 16 year old, he should have been bound over for trial as an adult. after having killed four people and injured various others.   But the judgette gave him probation.  To me, it looks like the fix was in from the beginning.    His parents should have been driven to the nearest prison and dumped there, after being shaken out of every shekel they currently have.
     It speaks to other issues, however, and El Zorro is grinding his teeth like the rest of us.   He says what I feel and what all the people around me are thinking about this issue.

 

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     Affluencia?

    Our liberty comes with a steep price.  Every one of us is subject to affluencia.  It is how we are affected by it that determines whether we deserve the liberty that spawns it.  The proverbial struggle between good and evil is an archetype.  Even the poorest among us is fat…  the degenerates among us have no sense of self-worth and therefore do not care about real destitution of which they do not know.   Too much time, too much wealth, too much oblivion.  No value system, no appreciation for subsistence not worked for, no virtuous family influence, no humility.

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How to get back to basics?  The answer is pretty simple.  The Application?  Not so much.

 

I would recommend:

1.)   Training in the fact that there is a power greater than self from inception.

2.)   Indoctrination in the 10 commandments, in style, if not by religion.

3.)   Enforcement of the golden rule through example.

4.)   Education in civics, emphasis on the Constitution.  (*Educating for Democracy)

5.)   Boot camp for everybody as an extension to public education.

6.)   Mandatory military or equivalent service after boot camp.

7.)   Emphasise State and individual as supreme and superior to the

      National Government at all levels of education.

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     *I am not endorsing “Educating for Democracy”, however, it is impractical if not impossible to implement without individual value systems, strict enforcement of the Constitution, and strengthening of the Constitution through amendments to make it true to the original intent.

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     The above are responsibilities of a family structure.  Parents are responsible for creating the value systems in their children.  Families are the nucleus of society, not the national government.  The role of government is to facilitate family’s ability to produce and prepare children to function in society.  Its role is to clear impediments to child development, not create them.  The Federal Government exists to defend national borders and maintain a common currency… nothing more!  The State Government provides all other services to the family and individuals to enable independent liberty.  That includes enabling religion and supporting education.

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     The only seeable way to get to those basic propositions is to reinstate the Constitution.  The Founders did all the hard work.  All we have to do is follow it as the “law of the land” above all others.  If that is not possible, then I guess we do not need the Federal Government.  (!)

 

 

El Zorro



The Insidiousness of National Socialism

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    Should one wish to perfectly understand the nature of National Socialism, we are all sitting on front-row seats at this time, so let us sit back and enjoy.  The meaning of "hope and change" when said words are spoken by a Marxist or national socialist always....always....means something far different from what is envisioned by those hearing those words.

 

     Bolshevik socialism is a bit different.  Shoot the Royal Family.  They are guilty of much of what the communist / socialist mentality deigns to be sin in their secular humanist religion.  And, true enough, they could be and were irrationally brutal when in came to the notion that the maintenance of social order led to the better condition for all.   Shoot and / or strip the aristocracy of most if not all their prestige, property, and personal wealth.  Shoot any attorneys at once if they show any deference in their earlier writings or opinions in favour of common law or open legal processes.   Shoot all journalists if they reveal the least inclination to question anything about the new government by the proletariat.

 

 

    The national socialist is a first cousin by blood.  The Czar and the Kaiser disliked Jews and homosexuals and gypsies, but....you know...to each his own.    The Communists and the National Socialists enjoyed tormenting and destroying them.  There are a lot of similarities.  And there are fundamental differences.

 

 

    Barack Hussein Obama....a human oddity....part Luo tribesman, part Arabic,  part Angloid and Heinz 57 American, he has managed to cobble together the sloganeering of the Bolsheviks and the policies of the national socialists.   That is probably a result of shoddy thinking, jumbled reasoning, and intellectual laziness more than anything.   His posse, when they begin to assemble a "final solution" however have chosen mainly a national socialist vehicle for the destruction of the United States of America.

     One of the main tenets of national socialist policy is to allow the private sector to remain more or less in place.  The main difference over the status quo would be to compromise the heavy industry, banks, bonding and surety agencies, transportation, warehousing, and large retail operators.   It is also necessary to c0-opt the information disseminating agencies, the universities as well as basic juvenile education institutions.  Theatre, arts, and music should be controlled carefully.  In short, the titles, names, and locations of institutions remain more or less the same, and ownership changes little if any, but control still rests in a small group of somewhat elected officials, along with a supergroup and/or individual with total, absolute unquestioned authority over the afflicted national territory.

     Fascism is sometimes equated with national socialism, but that is an error.  Fascism, originally, was nothing more than a philosophy that elevated the traditional, the Orthodox, the customs, the specific historic arts, foods, and social order of a cultural group.   Believers in the fascist philosophy are mired in the moment, and consider that there is enough social change provided simply by the processes of life....birth, maturation, marriage, child-bearing, dodderage, and demise. It is a substantially rural and small town philosophy, full of peasants scything their way through the wheat and barley fields singing duets with the peasants on the next property where the barefooted women are trampling grapes in the ancient oaken  juice vats, preparing to produce another fine vintage.   This Rip Van Winkle notion of how society should be might even be considered to be a brick in the wall of the conservative mentality in the Western World to-day.   

 

     The Ruhr Valley Industrialists were not socialists or fascists.  They hated the communists and the havoc that had been wrought just to the east.  They were generally conservative philosophically and politically.   They believed that they had Adolf Hitler under control, along with his comic opera gaggle of jokers, losers, and perverts.   That impression lasted about two months after Hitler became Chancellor of the Bundestag and all Germany.  Within a year they had been totally co-opted and were making things based on command economics instead of demand-side economics.

 

    Shovel-ready projects?  Infra-structural investments?   Let them eat the Autobahn.  Environmental improvements?  Give them a Volkswagen.  Unemployment?   How about a nice new military uniform, just your size.   The girls will love it.  The Messerschmitt and Daimler families have some ideas.  Ballistic missiles? There's a fellow named Von Braun from a good family who has some ideas.  Let's take all this power, intelligence, and work-ethic and keep an eye on it with a few Brown Shirts (national volunteer group - ACORN etc.) and do something really constructive with it.   And, blame the Jews, the British, blame the French and the Americans, and the Communists for all the ills in the Universe.  Now, we are ready to fundamentally change Germany and the German people and lead them a new land of hope and change.  No Hebes, queers, or vagabonds, or mongoloids, or mentally defective.  With our our Fuhrer's UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE - operated by the Ministry of Health....free medical care for all!





Kowtow - to whimper
 and grovel 



      It is because of this previous example of the industrialists and the intellectual German classes that El Gringo Viejo really does not have a lot of respect for, or much willingness to come to the defence of the insurance companies in the United States.   This truly was a self-inflicted wound caused by sneaky greed.  Many of the major insurance carriers consulted closely with  the White House about the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative  (OSMI).   They all wanted to be sure that they could participate in the "guaranteed" payment system.  They were elated to see that there would be 20,000 New IRS agents swaggering around trying to interpret and enforce the  Byzantine and labyrinthine health insurance law of 3,000 pages of text and 40,000 pages of rules, regulations, and conditions.

    

    Now the insurance companies are being told when to do this and how to do that.  They are being treated like the grovelling beggars  they chose to be.  Still, with all this chaos and damage to the national psyche one turns his interests to the people who are being dumped.   And El Gringo Viejo remembers that they are being dumped because the insurance companies, instead of standing up and defending their right to a legitimate profit, sold their clients who paid them in silver....for a few copper coins.   Their clients were, in their overwhelming majority, desirous of keeping their relatively expensive but excellent policies.   But they were sold out like mangy dogs and cats with ringworm.

 

A very brief summary comes from the periodical The Freeman:

          Under the Weimar Republic these reforms resulted in clearly improved public health. However, the creativity, energy, and fundamental reforms found in social medicine during the Weimar Republic seem in retrospect a short and deceptive illusion. Medical reformers had wanted to counter the misery inherited from the first World War and the Second Empire on the basis of comprehensive disease prevention programs. In the few years available to the social reformers, they had remarkable success. But in connection with these reforms the doctor’s role changed from that of advocate, adviser, and partner of the patient to a partner of the state.
      Where traditional individual ethics and Christian charity had once stood, the reformers posited a collective ethic for the benefit of the general population. Private charity and welfare were nationalized. The mentally ill, for example, having been literally released from their chains in the nineteenth century and placed in local communities and boarding houses in regular contact with others (the so-called “moral therapy”), were returned to state institutions to become the ultimate victims of state “solutions.”
      With the world economic crisis of 1929, welfare state expenditures had to be reduced for housing, nutrition, support payments, recreation and rehabilitation, and maternal and child health. What remained of the humanistic goals of reform were state mechanisms for inspection and regulation of public health and medical practice. Economic efficiency became the major concern, and health care became primarily a question of cost-benefit analysis. Under the socialist policies of the period, this analysis was necessarily applied to the selection of strong persons, deemed worthy of support, and the elimination of weak and “unproductive” people. The scientific underpinning of cost-benefit analyses to political medical care was provided by the new fields of genetics and eugenics.


Read more: http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/national-health-care-medicine-in-germany-1918-1945#ixzz2nUIb6DOQ   El Gringo Viejo recommends reading the entire article when there is time.

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     Now, in short, we have demonstrated that the evolution of, and the decline of a great people was brought on by the debasement of their currency (Weimar Republic economic policy as described in other postings).  It is referenced indirectly in the above selection from the article in The Freeman.   As the economic problems deepened and became international in scope, a demagogue came along and promised the people hope and change and a restoration of respect for the Nation.   He also made the medical system much more "efficient" and caused it to be "free", so long as he could define what the meaning of "free" was.  

 

     As our schools were worrying about "safe sex" and politically correct posturing, they were also teaching anti-history, non-history, and un-history.  As the "students" became more and more aware that everybody is equal and white males are evil, they were also being taught that "everybody 'gots' rights."    Some of the rights peoples "gots" is free food, free medical, free housing, free electricity, and a free attorney.

 

     One thing they did not "gots" is that in the recent past one of the world's most important nations set up a pathway exactly like Barack Hussein Obama would have things to be....and it wound up in disaster.  Millions upon millions of dead people.  Trillions and trillions of dollars in lost values, estates, holdings, family patrimonies, etc.    The policies of Weimar and post-Weimar Germany are almost identical to those of Barack Hussein Obama.   If the nation chooses to believe that Benghazi was caused by a video, and that Obama inherited "Fast and Furious" from George W. Bush, and that we can keep our doctor and our insurance.....all will not be lost.   It already has been lost.

 

 

Evermore convinced of the necessity to facilitate the pacific withdrawal of the Republic of Texas from our sister Union.

El Gringo Viejo

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We Fail Ourselves

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     The Texas Nationalist Movement is careful about drifting away from their overall mission, but this issue tugs too much at a huge...overwhelming....majority of Texans.   Something stinks here, because this 16 year old thug....imagine Treyvon Martin on steroids with a couple of million-dollar limit credit cards and this is what Judge Jean Boyd was called to consider.  He killed 4 people, while 3X - DWI, injured a large number of other folks, one of whom is now paralysed, while another is traumatically intellectually diminished.

     Unless there was some kabuki going on, the prosecutors wanted the maximum allowable, 20 years, and that the boy be made eligible for treatment as an adult.   He has a lengthy juvenile record.  Very lengthy, very violent, and very self-indulgent.

 

     We have gone through this case and the synopsis included in the email-out by the Texas Nationalist Movement is, frankly, mercifully brief.   The death and destruction of lives that this punk thug committed upon the consciousness of all Texians serves as a warning.   El Gringo Viejo went through an issue over a half-century ago that left him with a labyrinthine dysfunction that never went away, and that comes and goes (weather, sneezing hard) at various times.  Vertigo and El Gringo Viejo are old, old friends.

     The guilty parties, there were three...a three against one deal...included the son of the president of the bank that was controlled by the Lloyd Bentsen political establishment.   We learned during the criminal processes of that case that the 20 year old high school sophomore had been booted out of four public school systems, and had been arrested over 50 times, had had in excess of 20 felony criminal charges, almost all involving violence, but he had never been sent to juvenile prison in Gatesville, Texas.  At the age of 20, he was still being carried in the courts as a juvenile case, with 6 different probationary actions being carried in his criminal file simultaneously.   He had a team of Bentsen establishment attorneys who kept the District Judges well advised that "Mr. Lloyd" was interested in keeping the boy "on the right track".  That was the first time we heard of "affluenza".

 

     That was a half-century ago, and apparently we have either back-slidden or we have remained in a muck thick enough to suck the dinosaurs in again. 

 

 

    

 

THE  ARTICLE BELOW  IS REPRINTED FROM THE TEXAS NATIONALIST MOVEMENT'S GENERAL EMAIL TO TEXAS NATIONALISTS:
 

The Texas Nationalist Movement is publicly calling for the resignation of Tarrant County area Judge Jean Boyd, the presiding judge of the 323rd Family District Court.

Judge Boyd might not be a household name yet, but her ruling in recent days where she handed out a "slap on the wrist" sentence to a defendent whose core defense was that he suffered from "affluenza", is making her the topic of conversations all over Texas.

Before Judge Boyd was the case of 16-year-old Ethan Couch who, while over 3 times the legal limit of alcohol intoxication and under the influence of Valium, caused the deaths of 24-year-old Breanna Mitchell, Hollie Boyles and her 21-year-old daughter Shelby, and youth pastor Brian Jennings.

Couch's sole defense? He was the "victim" of his parents wealth and overindulgence.

Couch's sentence? Probation.

Daniel Miller, President of the Texas Nationalist Movement, issued the call for Judge Boyd's resignation.

"We are calling for the immediate resignation of Judge Boyd and demand that she make a public apology, not only to the families of those killed by Couch, but also to all of Texas for the embarassment that her ruling has caused."

Miller adds:

"Through this decision, Boyd's disgraceful decision has shown a tremendous lack of judgment. While a harsh sentence will not bring back those that were lost, nor will it take away the pain felt by the families that are left behind, it will show that Texans believe in justice."

Judge Jean Boyd is a Republican judge who has presided over the 323rd Family District Court since 1995. Her office can be reached at 817-838-4600.

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    The episode a half-century ago was the first time we had ever heard of "affluencia" as a causative disorder in the make-up of a sociopath and/or a psychopath.  Our thought was always that if "affluencia" caused the crimes, and it could be considered a mitigation of the charges, then the parents (guardians) of the malcreant / miscreant should be thrown in prison for terms that be equal to their worthless whelp's sentence.

Thanks for your time.  We are still fighting the bugs, but things are clearing up about 70% so far.
El Gringo Viejo

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The Zombyism of Socialism - defined

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   (a gentle suggestion....if you all see radioactive words with a strange little emblem, within the blog text and/or in the guidance and general information panel to the right,, do not click upon their countenances.  Leave them to suffer unto the devices and desires of their own evil wilfulness.  If natural law exists, perhaps the hour will soon come, and find that those evil and uninvited visitors have no lamb's blood is upon the sill, and those Words and their First Born will be cast into that bottomless place of darkness and nothingness)

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     We were treated to Lanny Davis's mea culpa just a bit ago.   He actually did say that he and the Democrats were wrong in their dogged pursuit of a programme and the defence of said programme.  He still tried to leave Obama a bit of any way out, by suggesting that Obama might have thought that, since his staff told Obama that the old insurance policies were grandfathered in, then it was okay to say, "If you like you plan you can keep your plan....and if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor".

 

     The fact is, Lanny, that if HRH Barry is so far out of the loop, or so lazy, or so incapable of comprehending, or incapable of reading a piece of legislation, or leading by drawing in the subordinates and ordering them to do specifically this or that.....then Obama is a dolt. He is exactly like Karl Marx, when Uncle Karl told some firebrand younger anarchists and proto-commies, "Don't ask me how to implement the insurrection of the proletariat.  I do not deal in kitchen recipes."

     Of course, Karl was like other great commies like Ernesto Guevara, who had to abandon his wife and children so that he could go out and kill Indians in the northern parts of South America.  That is, of course, after murdering in cold blood over 30 of his fellow revolucionarios in Cuba, and untold numbers of "reaccionarios" and "fascistas".   He is the one who taught the tormentors of Rigoberta's Manchu' village how to take 'revenge' on the Indians who would not give their support to "Revolucion Popular".  Rigoberta of course is famous for riding a lie into fame and glory by parroting the communist line that it was the government troops that had tormented her village and other nearby villages in Guatemala.    The Left still treats her as an icon even after her story was found to be false by another lefty reporter from the United States.

 

     Ah! Lefties and Bolshies, Nazis and Progressives.  They have all done so much good.   And when they do not have us to torment, they can maim and kill each other.

 

 

     The fact remains that whenever the word "socialist" or the term "socialist democratic" is seen anywhere, it always means mediocrity, oppression, massive pollution, drabness, shortages, and a sociological stew composed of resignation and unrest.   Socialist and socialism also mean, without fail, corruption of the highest and most refined sort.   In a place where the property and fixtures belong to everyone, the fact is that they belong to no one.    Therefore the property, fixtures, and money that can be carried off, is carried off.  The meanest animals in the jungle carry off the big pieces and the most valuable pieces, leaving the leftovers and crumbs to "los de abajo" (the ones below).

 

     And when the meanest animals become ill, they import doctors from other countries to attend to their illnesses and conditions, or they go to the United States for attention...or perhaps to some place in Europe.

 

More later.   I just need to see if this can finally be posted up on line.  If each could light at least a small candle for El Zorro, it will be appreciated.   We have news that he is doing well, and that in the coming days there might be some fine-tuning to get him back to 100%.  This is not some gastro-intestinal or cancer thing....it is reparable, but it is a serious common condition that generally responds to a bit of vigorous, applied measures.   Please forgive the oblique references but it is a private thing, yet I feel the need to keep people informed.   Prayers and candles....the situation is not critical, but it must be fixed. 

El Gringo Viejo`

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