More Texas Latinos Lean Toward GOP - Who'd a thunk it?

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     The pratice of putting whole articles from other sources  in the blog is, perhaps,  a lazy man's way of proving a point.   But when the Obsolete Media and their close combat support groups (polling agencies, prestigious and major university leftists and "social democrats") publish the results of polls, surveys, and investigations that seem to contradict their own positions and reinforce the position of El Gringo Viejo, it is well and good to share such news with the OROG Community.

    While Gallup is certainly within the orbit of the "progressive" movement institutions, there seems to have been an attempt recently to try to be more "down the middle" and straightforward than many of the other left-oriented polling companies and institutions.   If anything, to this writer, it seems as if Gallup has been trying to survey and interpret in a more academic, less biased manner during the past five or six years.

 

     In our previous post, we were opining about the fact that the Republican brand can only increase as we pick up people one by one who suddenly see the light and become convinced of the correctness of common law, natural law, due process, and the notion that the only equality we can strive for is to be equal in treatment before the law. Outcomes in style and quality of life are going to be, of necessity, as diverse as the fingerprints carried by all and each man and woman.

 

Diana Ross and the Supremes

     This is the thing that Gilberto Hinojosa (executive director of the Democrat Party of Texas) and his ilk cannot stand.   They will howl to the moon, each time a Latino, blue collar and white, male and female, professional and proprietor, recognise that their place is within the ranks of their moral and political brethren....the conservative constitutionalist.    Gilbert and the San Antonio Castro twins (One is the mayor, the is other is the mayor sometimes, too.)   are the people whose argument and logic is so weak that they have to count on people being required to vote according to some amorphous ethnic or class or racial bouquet or lose their ethnic or racial identity.   In other words, they have to invoke the ethnic or race card.  They have no guiding political philosophy beyond the buying votes with other peoples' money.   As we point out on our side panel;  "Communism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery" , Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill.
     El Gringo Viejo wonders sometimes if there is an actual ceremony where the hapless sell-out is led into a ceremonial room with a huge Dechromosomatiser....with wires, transformers, sparks, loud humming noises and a gaggle of ethnically and racially correct and pure people running about with test-tubes and hypodermics with vials of drugs.

Laboratory where marxists perform ethnectomies,
hidden on the banks of the Chappaquiddick Sound 

     "You have been found out, Garcia!   You are done, Jackson!"   Mad laughter is accentuated with glaring, beaming, laser-like eyes locked in a seemingly hypnotic rage against the hapless victim.   Before he was a Wise Latino, but this nightfall he shall be thrown into the darkness, converted from being a victim, needing and desirous of being helped by his betters...people who know more than he does....people who see him as a source for votes....people who saw him as a vessel to fill with hatred for anyone different in any way or who stood in the way of receiving free benefits from the All-Provident Government.   Alas, Garcia and Jackson will become just another gabacho....just another honkey dog.   They are thrown out like the garbage they have become...pasty, sicky-pale conservative Republicans.   EEEuuuuuu!




 

     But, the facts are....and I urge my vehement anti-immigration people to take note....that we should only oppose any action on immigration on the basis that the present law is not fully enforced.   Further intensity and over-statement on our part can only slow this gradual and steady change from, as late as 1998,  95% Democrat in Texas by Latins of all sorts to now 46%.

     One can assume that a sizeable number of that 46% is involved in public assistance.  Others are just habitual, Republicans are rich, Democrats are for the poor voters...and then there is the hard-core "social democracy" advocates who will never rest until Texas and/or the United States are organic law, socialist, one-party dictatorships governed by the elites.

     The fact that there are 27% of the Latin element within the Texas population that would self-identify as Republicans is something we would never have anticipated 10 years ago.   When Latins were self-identifying at the level of 10% as Republicans, they were voting as high as 40% Republican in the general elections in November.     We have to remember that Texas is a strange and pleasant place.  We have Black folks who represent "us" from East Texas districts that are essentially Confederate strongholds to this date.  We have Latins who represent substantially "Anglo" districts, and we do these things without second thought.   It is only the Democrat and the pro-socialists who demand that "ethnic districts and areas" be developed so that "ethnic interests can be represented by people of that same ethnicity".   Such dogma is an insult and an assault upon the principles of common law and the equality before the law of one man/women to another man/woman.

     And. going back to the point about enforcement of any "comprehensive immigration" or "comprehensive anything" with this usurper in office as president, such a trust cannot be made.   Just yesterday, from out of the blue,  mmmmmm, mmmmmm,  mmmmmm,  Great Obamaham, donor of all  to the poor, the magician of the stash for the masses, declared that more major elements of  a bill he pushed for and signed into law, will not be enforced until it is more convenient for Democrat candidates to adapt to it.   The delay?   Three years. 

     We gotta luv' it!

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More Texan Latinos lean toward GOP

• By Chris Tomlinson Associated Press
• Posted February 7, 2014 at 9:57 p.m.

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AUSTIN — Hispanic and Anglo residents in Texas identify with the Republican Party far more than the national average, according to new polling data released Friday that calls into question how soon demographic changes in Texas could benefit Democrats seeking statewide office.

Gallup tracking polls show that 27 percent of Hispanics in Texas identify with the GOP, the highest percentage since 2008 and 6 percent higher than elsewhere in the country. Democrats nationally rely on Hispanic voters, but their level of conservatism in Texas could damper the party’s hope to soon end its 20-year losing streak for statewide office.

“Hispanics in Texas are more likely to identify as Republican than are Hispanics elsewhere, and the Republican Party in Texas has seen more growth in Hispanic support over the past five years than the Democratic Party,” Gallup’s Andrew Dugan said in his analysis of the results.

“While this has not changed the overall equation — Democrats still lead big among Texas Hispanics — it does suggest the GOP may be more competitive with this bloc than many assume,” he said.

Steve Munisteri, chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, said the party’s leadership has long recognized the importance of the Hispanic community.

“It continues to be a top priority of the Republican Party that we continue our engagement with the Hispanic community,” he said. “As a result, today we have seven full-time employees committed to engaging Hispanic voters in Texas.”

The percentage of Hispanics who lean or identify themselves as Democrats dropped from 53 percent in 2008 to 46 percent in 2013, which is 5 percent below Hispanics nationally.

Democrats insisted, though, that Republican policies hurt the Hispanic community.

“They have diluted the power of the Latino vote through discriminatory legislative and congressional maps, obstructed access to affordable health care, halted comprehensive immigration reform, continued to call for English-only laws, and sought repeals of birthright citizenship, the Voting Rights Act, and prekindergarten funding,” said Gilberto Hinojosa, the Texas Democratic Party chairman. “Texas Democrats have long stood with the Latino community and when it comes to Election Day, I have no doubt Latinos will stand with us.”

Among the Anglo residents polled, 61 percent identified as Republicans. Nationally, Republicans make up 48 percent of the population.

The poll was based on 1,000 phone interviews conducted daily in all 50 states throughout 2013.

Democrats have stepped up efforts in Texas after 20 years of crushing defeats in statewide and presidential elections. Many note that Anglos, or non-Hispanic whites, make up 46 percent of the Texas population and that Hispanics are expected to become the majority by 2020, according to U.S. Census Bureau projections.

Texas Democrats joined Jeremy Bird, President Barack Obama’s national field organizer, in creating a political action committee called Battleground Texas to take advantage of the demographic shift. Gilberto Hinojosa, the party chairman in Texas, has said that if Democrats can build a coalition of liberal Anglos, Hispanics and black voters, they could win elections.

But Gallup noted that voter registration and turnout continue to present the biggest challenges for Democrats.

Only 43 percent of Texas Hispanics said they were registered to vote, while 82 percent of Anglos and 77 percent of blacks said they were eligible to vote. That gives Republicans a distinct advantage: 64 percent of Texas residents who say they are eligible to vote are Anglo, 19 percent are Hispanic and 13 percent are black.

“Texas remains a Republican-leaning state because its white residents are becoming increasingly Republican and its large Hispanic population, though solidly Democratic, is less so than Hispanics nationally,” Dugan said.

 

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     This issue is not as complicated as the shamans and poobahs like Karl Rove and his posse try to make it.  While we read and believe many of the same pages from the same books, Karl and all the Karls still try to violate the fundmental right-wing rule.  That rule is the fair and reasonable notion that we must present in the same exact way with each "group".   The engine of prosperity that is Texas will drag all who grasp the rope up and ahead.   Those who chose and/or choose to be peons and beholden to some governmental bureaucrat or politician for his/her lifeline...Anglo, Latin, or Black African in ancestry....is lost.   Those who hold on to the rope and continue to work 30 to 90 hours per week....and are generous and wise with their correctly gained bounty....will become in the great majority as we are....Conservative Constitutionalists.

El Gringo Viejo

Boehner - finish your thought, speak the truth, or take a seat in the back pew

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     Our esteemed Speaker of the House, 2nd in line of ascension to the Presidency, declared yesterday that it would probably be useless  to  submit any kind of comprehensive immigration bill to this president because he will not abide by the law.  Even if this president sponsors and essentially hand walks the bill through Congress, as he did the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative (OSMI), it is very probable that he will opt to enforce this provision and not that provision, and the provision over there, perhaps by half-measure.

 

     So, Mr. Speaker, you were on a roll, but you threw only the one dice.  The trick is, then, to say, "And, furthermore, the Tea Party people obviously stuck the ball right in the wicket with this one. The president has just announced that Valerie Jerrod told him to order a delay of the implementation concerning the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative (OSMI)  of pages 234 through 312, inclusive, pages 394 through 406 inclusive, and depending on the power ball number in the Virginia Lottery to-night, as many as 90 other pages on the very next Friday when people are caught in traffic caused by highway closures designed to accommodate the president's fund raising event at the Gran Hootsie 10 star hotel.

     And, Mr. Speaker, you could go on to say that Senators Cruz, Lee, and Paul are great and brave.  Had we all joined together, who knows what kind of weasel-type Democrats might have finally decided that they did not have the nearest idea why they voted for a bill they had to vote for in order to find out its contents.   A few of them might have...just might have....changed their vote because sometimes people follow the valiant. 

    At least, Mr. Speaker you had enough sense to know that any action on any new and improved immigration issue was the classic scene of the principal at the primary asking the boys, "....and if everybody was going to stick his head in the oven, would you do the same thing?"
    By the way, it has just been released to the Texian public that the results of the analysis of the Electorate of the Republic of Texas shows that during the past six (6) years the Latinos have reduced their allegiance to the Democrat Party from 53% to 46%.   At the same time Latinos identifying themselves as Republicans has increased from 23%  to 27% .   That is the highest percentage of Latin people ever to self-identify as Republicans.  Based on reasoned formulas and past performance this could indicate a 50% Latin vote for the Republican ticket's in the various races in Texas, certain, and elsewhere as well.   Cruz and the true, sincere open-door, big-tent policy of the Tea Party, Hard Right, and Libertarian Right members are open to joyously receive anyone, even people who are French, into our Party so long as they share the philosophy we hold to be best for Texas and our grandchildren.

That's all for now.   It is bitterly cold for an old man from the tropics.  El Zorro is almost laughing at us, because he is in the teens and low 20s, while I am moaning about 30 - 35.   We had snow, freezing fog, and a bit of sleet again to-day.
El Gringo Viejo
 

Reprint from Wednesday

Wednesday, 5 February 2014 -We Are a Nation of Immigrants?

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This note:   This entry has been brushed up a bit.  But it is our sincerest feeling about the issue.  We take nothing away from those who have come after the establishment of the Republic.  But, as in the case of the Mexicans, those who are coming here now as immigrants are far, far outnumbered by those who are coming here because a person can live for free.   In the early days of my life the Mexicans who came here primarily went back to poorer but very, very pleasant life circumstances after working hard for a while and making enough to stabilise the family's patrimony.  Criminality was rare...very rare...and sloth was non-existent.   Those who determined to marry and/or stay became positive elements in the Texas fabric perhaps 96% of the time.  Now, because we have essentially compulsory comprehensive welfare (essentially) we attract perhaps 30% who intend to be contributors to, and not consumers of the Bounty found in Texas.   Lamentably, the general population of the American Republic has chosen that route in increasing numbers.   Disability for people who are entirely whole, free food paid for by unknown third parties who are stupid enough to pay their taxes, free rent, free school, free whatever they want, plus medical for their hordes of "special needs" miracle/anchor babies, free medical for everyone actually....it is just a wondrous thing.  And always the resounding echo of what the woman said in my Laundromat some years back..."Yes, it is true, things are better here.  The government has to take care of you when you are nervous or tired.  They provide much better than over there (Mexico).   The only problem here is the damned Gringos.''

 

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To all the Karl Roves out there:
      We have a certain 33% of the Latino vote.  It is the bulk of the productive group. We have nothing to offer the un-productive group.  If Mexican American issues are to be food stamps, AFDC, free lunch, Head Start, WIC, and Section 8 issues and we play to that group's idea of what the issues are, then the 33%  we have in hand will not vote for us.  That 33% is actually larger than we think because many, many Latinos and Latinas are intermarried and not statistically identifiable in most surveys.  
      My wife, as a white woman, always checks the box that says "white"...as do all or almost all of her biological and political (in-laws) relatives.  In reality, while they are very proud of their Latin and colonial Ancestry, they are totally dedicated to the flag of their nativity.  They check "white" because they are white, and beyond that it is nobody's business.
 

     We can work on the other 67% as the American engine snags one by one out of the morass of dependency.   Each one of those will be as the recovered alcoholic, and he/she will become a prophet of conservatism.  This I know.   Nothing else will work.

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     We appreciate that there is good in having a sense of acceptance toward the foreigner.  He/she ought  to be at home among us.  We also know that gradually those of us who come before, die and go away, and things gradually change from how they were to how they will be.



The six chiefs of the Civilised Tribes of the Iroquois address

the Philadelphia Convention on secession in June of 1776. El

Gringo Viejo had a distant grandfather who apparently
married a girl from the Oneida Tribe of that Nation in the
earlier part of the 1700s.

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     We who were not immigrant are descended from the colonial times. By direct continuum we are connected to places in Europe from whence our forefathers escaped or left in search of a different un-proscribed life.  Rush and El Gringo Viejo share a great-great-great-grandfather, for instance, a German fellow by the name of Frederick Johann Limbaugh who left his Hessian and Prussian ancestors and relatives behind and journeyed to some strange planet or parallel universe called Pennsylvania.   He arrived, after departing Antwerp two months before, and made to a place full of his similar fellows and certain cousins in the German areas of eastern Pennsylvania  during the early 1750s.



     He began to learn English quickly.  He bought good land and established a farming operation of some considerable value.  He threw himself into the business of being a communitarian, a contributor, a pillar of his community.  He became active in the Lutheran Church, in the public theatre, and in the military, rising to the rank of major and executive officer of a brigade of 3,000 well-trained militia.

 



 A famous Ibero statue from eastern Spain.
Predates the Celtic and the Gothic, and the
 Visigoth and the Greek, and the Roman,
 and the Arabic penetrations of the
 "Iberian Peninsula"

                   People he would not know in life, but who lived just a short distance to the north, in the Hudson River Valley, who were also German and Dutch along with English,  whose descendants would cross paths and have matrimonial involvement in such a way as to finally produce El Gringo Viejo.   The Hudson River people had already been in the Hudson Valley for over 100 years, by the time the Limbaugh gentleman had arrived. The Hudson Valley people all spoke English after 100 years in New Amsterdam, as did most of the Pennsylvania folks, albeit with an identifiable brogue in the case of the Teutonic peoples.

The wife's people came, pretty much directly,

from the southeastern Iberian Peninsula, leaving

Huelva and arriving to the lower left of this map

at a point based at Monclova.   This was in the

1560s.  The social and economic orbit extended

to Texas with properties on both sides of Laredo.

They also had considerable land interests in that

area between Laredo and Monclova.  Another

wave came in the mid-1700s and settled in and

around what is now the McAllen area.  





     Another batch of English moved into the Boston area....later into a place to be named Newton, Massachusetts...and spread the name from there to Maine, Vermont, New York, and Pennsylvania.  Some went to a place called Canuckia and were never seen again.



    The better three-quarters of El Gringo Viejo had people on the American Continent just after the mid-1500s....in a place that was conjoined with Texas for most of the period up to and including 1836.   Like Texas, it was originally named for the first known aboriginal peoples encountered by the Spanish explorers.  Those peoples were the Coahuilteca, or "people of the Flying Serpent".  Coahuila and Texas both have stood far apart and away from their governing centres from the beginning.   The wife's people were "pure"  Celto-Hebraic-Phoenician-Ibero-Latins, real-live, pure-bred Spaniards.   They quickly outnumbered the local aboriginals....who also conveniently croaked from the common cold.  Then the Spanish colonists set about drawing an existence from what was essentially a moonscape.    And, they set about trying to fight off the Kickapoo, Comanche, Apache and other disparate groups of aboriginal ruffians.  Another group of Spaniards on her side came in a bit later in the Spanish Colonial period into the Tamaulipeca and that strange place called Texas.

Just below the middle "E" in Tennessee, where

that State meets Alabama and Georgia, more

or less, is where El Gringo Viejo's mother's

people settled, after coming out of Virginia

and North Carolina.   There are scores and

hundreds of them still to this day, in Franklin

County, Tennessee.  They began their trek

through the American wilderness, mostly

arriving from Portsmouth to Virginia in

the 1650s.

     El Gringo Viejo's people....mainly Britannic, with some considerable Teutonic overlay....are conjoined with more almost entirely English folks, with a bit or a tad of Cherokee.   They wind up in another Indian named place called Tennessee...and a few in Alabama.   The Cherokee nation, related somewhat to the Creek and the Choctaw, and Chickasaw, these in a greater ethnic and linguistic sense to the Iroquois Confederation formed a great body of humanity with a complex culture and considerable talent.  These groups fought against and then were absorbed by,  and  absorbed with the white arrivals, chiefly through matrimony.

     The northern branch of El Gringo Viejo's grouping winds up moving into the  Minnesota and North Dakota region.   There was tree-steading hundreds of acres in the case of his paternal grandfather, and setting up very modern milling and financial operations in Minneapolis (Saint Anthony) Minnesota, the case of his paternal grandmother.  Flour, flour, flour was their cry.
     The long and the short and the wide of it, after all is said and done, is that  America has tended to drift off into the "Aura of Ellis Island" and the huddled masses and somehow tying that to some kind of grand national policy.   In these times, there is greater honour allowed to those who came here after the arrival of the liberty statue  as refugees or simply as people moving to the United States.
    Most came not because the United States is or was so great, but primarily because the place they were leaving was a hopeless dump.   They left someplace drab, someplace decayed, someplace blown to bits over nothing beyond an argument between royal cousins or groups of madmen such as Robespierre, Hitler, or Lenin and Stalin.   These places were abandoned without regret.   And it amazes this observer that many of those who have arrived, and who are still arriving, line up to vote for candidates and causes that they were trying to escape "back home".
    Strange people have arrived, like atheist Jews who hate Jews and Judaism and prefer marxist solutions to problems that do not exist.  They  have flooded in by the millions.  People come in hating everything about America and hating Americans.  Arrivals take up residence and expect to be cared for and given something....perhaps as a reward for not knowing how to play baseball, or that Gettysburg is not some kind of a maritime ice formation.

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     We have investment and property in Mexico, and we would never urge or suggest that anything be changed there to adapt to our comfort.  We speak the language of the guest nation and we abide by the laws of that nation and the States and locales that compose it.   We might complain about things that are disagreeable, such as litter that spoils beautiful settings, but even those matters are conducted discreetly and in sotto voce.  But in the main, Mexico is a wondrous place with a million delights at every corner.  So we adapt.  The place has always been a refuge, a retreat, and perhaps even a "just-in-case" type of investment.
    And, judging by the fact that we are being governed, in the present time in America, by a body politic that can be swayed by convincing arguments such as "hope and change" and "....we'll have to vote for the bill to find out what's inside of it"....I would rather have a few distant alternatives.   Perhaps where  people are comfortable with the government buildings  having manger scenes during the time of Advent up to Epiphany.....there are some small, difficult to quantify, benefits.  It is difficult to explain.

     What is known is that many of the foreigners who have come into the United States recently do not want to continue the United States as it was intended to be.  They care nothing about common law, or the sovereignty of each man and woman.   The best of them are industrious and disposed to work 100 hours per week to make money and have things or to send some money back home.   But, Almost all the Chinese who have entered since 1990 are moles, plants, spies, and/or saboteurs.  All the workers in the Chinese restaurants are either slaves from Latin America or members of the Red Chinese Peoples' Liberation Army on furlough, learning where the vulnerable places are in Pittsburgh and Birmingham for when the time comes.   The Germans did the same things during the 1930s.

     And then there are the not so industrious.  The worst of the new arrivals whelp out anchor babies and to barnacle onto a welfare system, encouraged by the America-hating marxist Americans in our midst and by people who say such stupid strings of words as, "....of course we have to provide a safety net.  The government has to make sure that ....".

      And of course we still have Auntie Zietuni and Uncle Omar Onyango Obama who are just kinda...like...you know....there....having collected well over 2,000,000 USD during their Grand Tour of America that they won on the Kenyan Wheel of Fortune show, or something.

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     We leave it with these simple questions.

    Is there any room for colonials in America?   Is there any room left for people who speak English as a native language?

    Is there any place left for people who would die before  taking public assistance?

   Is there any thought ever given to the idea that FEMA and the Bureau of Indian Affairs really, really are Rosemary's Baby, and Sesame Street is a back alley in a town named Secular Humanist Egalitarianism?  Liberte'?, Egalite'?,   Fraternite', anyone?

El Gringo Viejo   

Fabulous Fallacious Falsities

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     We are humoured, in a bitter way, by the blithe insertions into the popular understanding of facts that "everybody knows".    Lincoln freed the slaves.  Teddy Roosevelt charged San Juan Hill, FDR saved us from the Great Depression, discrimination causes crime and poverty; all commonly known, accepted, and understood parts of the American quilt of patches of understood history.

 

     And all are false.   Each patch is made from feeble or invented fabric.

 

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     Almost daily, now, we are treated to someone pointing out that William Jefferson Blythe brought us "welfare reform".   Frequently this information is put forward as an example of how everyone started off each day singing "Hi ho! hi ho! It's off to work we go",  in the 1990s when everything was perfect on the Hill and in the White House.

 

 

 

 

     The fact is that William Jefferson Blythe vetoed two separate "welfare reform" bills that passed with significant majorities and were sent to his desk for signature.  He was surly and dismissive when he scoffed them into the round file.  It was only when the bill was strengthened a bit and sent one more time that he seemed to sense that his own party was going to join in the override of his veto that third time.  He signed the bill, but then arrogantly left the issue with the threat that "we will have to revisit some of these provisions and fix them in the next Congress",  The "fix", of course, was the need to water down the legislation and provide more alternatives to the "we breed them, you feed them" community.   In short....or in long, if one wishes....Billy Jeff Blythe had little or nothing to do with the very little "welfare reform" that took place in the wonderful, prosperous 1990s.

 

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     Next, we shall be treated during the next two years to the murderous, mendacious, marxist hag (Sir Edmund) Hillary Diane Rodham Corkscrew, of the Immaculate Concussion, declaring, ''....and believe me, as you noticed in the 1990s, we know how to get this budget under control....We brought the hardworking American people balanced budgets and surpluses until they were squandered by the Republicans."

New Lady Gruoche of Scotland,
she hides her hands so discreetly.
 Oot! Oot! Damned spots!
Oh! Why do you
so  torment me?

     Once again false.  The intention of the Clintons and their cabal of tax, spend, elect jackals was to continue deficit spending to the greatest extent possible.  Billy Jeff himself was heard many times saying that the only way to ensure high employment was by maintaining public spending as a means to 'stimulate the economy", a shibboleth that has been disproved over and over again.   Billy Jeff also said, many times, many ways....''....we might be able to balance the budget by 2005, or maybe ten years out.  A lot depends on economic conditions".     Sometimes he would say seven years, sometimes he would hedge and tack on two or three years more.   But he really had no true or real interest in balancing the budget or reducing even the rate of increase of that budget.

 

     What caused the balancing of the United States fiscal budget was the slight application of the brake, forced by the United States Congress over the budget process and upon the Ministry of the Exchequer.   Because of those measures  the budget came into balance, even with the slowdown and recession of the last two years of the Clintons' co-presidency....a recession brought on by the "irrational exuberance" of the leftist, hi-techie investing classes in New York and Simi Valley.   All lefties, selling stock in companies that had marvellous inventions but no one ever really bought any of the products the companies perfected.   One wonders, does anyone have need for a computer chip that can facilitate the fish in your aquarium in their efforts to shine your shoes precisely at 04:00 hours on Tuesday morning?   Neet-0, but stupid. And then, one day, the bubble did burst.

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      Next, the notion that the schools are generally good, the great political class is being instructed up into a good general understanding of the nature of citizenship, natural forces, economic reality, and how to read and understand at a third grade level upon leaving Harvard.

     Uncle Joe Biden, the labour union thug cabal, and many other ''regular people'' declare with certainty that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) ushered in the wholesale exit of "jobs" to Mexico where the people have no labour union protection and work for a few pennies per day.   El Gringo Viejo hopes and desires that the OROG will leave the presence of anyone stating such things as though they are factual.

The four-cylinder John Deere Engine Factory
in Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico.  It is one of
four factories presently in operation in
Mexico, producing primarily for the
Mexican and Central American
market.

    The establishment of factories and integrating fabrication facilities in Mexico by American, Spanish, Canadian, German, Britannic, Italian, French, and Japanese companies has been something that has gone on since the 1870s, and even earlier in some cases.   John Deere tractors and implements established a factory in the Monterrey - Santa Catarina industrial sector in 1966.  General Electric, Westinghouse, Maytag, Zenith, and we could go on for several hundred major and well-known companies had permanent, with the Company emblem hoisted high facilities throughout Mexico long before the establishment of the free trade agreement.

     Some of these companies were established in Mexico to address the Mexican local market.  Some were established to address Mexico and the remainder of Latin America.  Most OROGs know this.  Perhaps some do not.  In these times, interestingly, there is not so much the necessity to establish a company factory in Mexico in order to establish sales there, because the duties on American exports going into Mexico are essentially non-existent (and vica versa). 

     To the extent that companies have moved their production into Mexico and other countries in search of labour is due to the general uselessness, cost, and poor quality of American union labour.  Proof of this is in the fact that companies can move to places within the United States of America to place their plant in Right-to-Work States, and immediately enjoy better results.   The better results are not totally tied to cheaper labour, but in the overall better outcome.   Workers in Texas and other Southern States tend to be satisfied with the 30 per cent lower wages  they earn when compared to the unionised labour in the North.   One reason is because there are no union bullies and thugs who parasite and barnacle off of the union membership.  Another is the lack of need to pay "union dues" that almost always would have gone to support causes and candidates not preferred by the worker.

Erin Brockovich, following her
arrest, 2013

    There are union robots in the South to be sure, but they are most frequently people who are drawn from the ranks of white-trash, well trained in the art of schilling and jiving.   Erin Brockovich. whether or not a union member, comes to mind as the kind of personality  that makes up facts and causes and feels entitled to be  an authority without the need to establish that she knows anything about anything.

TAKEN FROM THE DAILY BEAST:

12 JUNE 2013

     The last time most of us heard about legal crusader Erin Brockovich, she was being glamorously portrayed by Julia Roberts in an Academy Award–winning film. Thirteen years later, she’s a household name again—for drunkenly driving a boat around a Nevada lake, an act that earned her a DUI citation and a very unflattering mug shot. Brockovich was booked at the Clark County Detention Centre and released after posting $1,000 bond.
     “At no time was the boat away from the dock and there was no public safety risk,” Brockovich wrote in a public apology released on Sunday. “That being said, I take drunk driving very seriously, this was clearly a big mistake. I know better and I am very sorry.” (That "at no time was the boat away from the dock" is totally refuted by many witnesses who were endangered by Brockovich's disregard for the safety of children and vacationers who were nearby.   They were the ones who called the Cops.= comment added by El Gringo Viejo after reading other accounts from the locale.)
     Not a good look for a woman whose reputation is built on moral rectitude. But even before the boating incident, Brockovich’s post-Brockovich life hasn’t been without controversy. In the years since the 2000 movie was released, much of her litigation—including the landmark class-action suit that inspired the film, have been the subject of intense scrutiny.

     It is to be noted that Brockovich's "stands" on behalf of the oppressed and exploited masses are frequently based in junk science and outright mendacity.  She learnt that it is very easy to throw big words at a jury and make them feel sorry for the aggrieved.   However, such leftist stalwart publications as the New Republic and Mother Jones have, in their research, found her to be an unreliable water carrier for the True Cause.   They dispute several of her recent cases as being fully fallacious.

     Moving towards "closure" on this topic, my compadre will probably back me up on this, but labour unions in Mexico for many, many post-Revolutionary years, it was joked in a macabre way, kept one hand on the throat of a business and the other hand in its cash register.   The Mexican labour law....some 30,000 pages in the Diario Oficial del Congresso....was tilted decidedly in favour of the worker.   Of course, the worker did not really win the benefits of this bias so much as did the Secretario General del Sindacato Local no. 233 de los Trabajadores etc. etc.   But he did gain some relief and protection that did result in lower quality production standards and malingering as part of the accepted job description.  Triple-time for holidays, one meal per day, retirement at 55 years of age or after 25 years of labour at full pension, etc. etc.

     One of the small but significant changes that brought Mexico at at least into the realm of partial reality in terms of economic production and activity was the opening up of the labour pool to competition between unions and the permission of companies to establish independent "employee associations" or company unions (known as 'white unions' in Mexico).   When the votes are taken, the "white union" alternative is chosen over 80 per cent of the time.

A normal day at any of several commercial
bridges in Texas that handle international
transhipments between the Republics of
 Texas and Mexico 

     As far as jobs lost or gained, it should be pointed out that processing and transporting things to and from Mexico involves over 500,000 people now, not counting federal and state regulatory and immigration personnel. That number in 1990 was probably less than 5,000 individuals involved in the international transfer of goods and services.  The same is the case on the other side of the Rio Grande.   At this juncture, Mexico and Canada and Texas with 180,000,000 people out-produce and consume the entire production of Red China with 1,300,000,000. 

     The legitimate industrial, touristic, and agricultural trade dwarfs the illegal drug  trade many times over.   Presently, legitimate cross border trade exceeds one billion USD per day between the USA and Mexico.  And that is just the inconvenient truth....sorry, AFL-CIO and UAW.  

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We are ready to fight.   We are dedicated to protecting the Constitution of the United States of America.  We are voting.

     The Tea Party people err when they speak in specious platitudes and use terms such as "....the hard working American people."   They err when they do not speak and write concisely and identify specific causes of action and specific objectives.

 

For Instance:

 

    We believe in the outright, total, and complete rescission and total cancellation of the Obama Socialised Medicine Initiative (aka: Affordable Care Act).

     We shall not vote for, approve, or entertain any notion of a budget of any kind that includes an anticipated deficit.

     We shall work to abolish the Internal Revenue Service, and replace the levy with a national sales tax not to exceed 10 percent.

     We shall not vote to authorise any change in the immigration and naturalisation format presently in force.   Nothing will be approved until the international borders and airports are sealed and secure against illegal entry.

 

Speak in that manner.  Speak in those words.  If you do not, we shall lose.  And that will make my task much easier.  I shall then dedicate not 10% of my time to the Texas Republic....but rather 100% of any time left to me.  And 100,000 other Texans will do the same.

 

El Gringo Viejo

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Republic of Texas - A Positive Action Suggestion

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THE de ZAVALA FLAG
 made at the very point that Texas withdrew
 from the Mexican union.   Lorenzo de Zavala
was the first Vice-President of the Republic.
He delivered 3,000,000 reales in silver, and
other negotiable securities to the
Texas Revolution.

  

 

We are in. A small suggestion. Let us propose this small measure.

     Texas Independence is not a wafting scent of incense and wistfulness. It is not the humming of Dixie, and wondering how the Yankees could have gotten us down for the count so quickly. It is a matter of necessity....of life and death....of liberty and bondage. Any nation that can tax the income of it citizens has converted its citizens to serfs. They are born to serve the central government.

      My humble proposition is to put our silver where our souls are. Charge the Texas Nationalist Movement with the responsibility to take, keep, and husband all the scrap silver we can forward to their keep. Old and broken Mexican tourist silver with a 925 stamp, for instance. It is very good silver. Broken silver services, especially forks and spoons (the knives have steel blades). In short, any scrap silver. We are at least one million adults who have the proclivity and disposition to "withdraw amicably" from what has become a useless, increasingly totalitarian Union. Silver can serve as a CERTAIN BELIEVABLE FOUNDATION that will allow us to build our house upon a stone.

     If CARY WISE will appoint a board of governors, publicly named and identified by credentials and accomplishments, to receive, melt to bullion, and conserve such silver, I am certain that we could have many millions of American dollars worth of bullion on hand quickly. This procedure could be extended to scrap gold as well, once the programme is rolling. Then other numismatic valuables, such as coins, could be granted or invested with the Texas Nationalist Movement, thereby bestowing a sense of provisional government-in-waiting status to our cause.

 

     I have a pound of scrap to send, now.

It is just a thought, a suggestion, and part of a  battle plan.

El Gringo Viejo, Citizen

Republic of Texas

 

Will The People Of Texas "Get It?"

texnat.org -  Review this article, please.

Finally, Back to the Anglican Curmudgeon

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We are finally putting ducks in a row a bit better.   This after herding cats for the past several days.   The chickens have come home to roost and the pigs have flown.   We do something now that we meant to do back last Thursday.

 

     We were celebrating having finished our tax statement to Caesar, as if he should have anything to say about what shekels we draw into the house and what we talents we spend.   This taxing procedure is a further insanity brought on by the notion that the central government has any business in the affairs of a family's economy.   We have been assured that Caesar will send us some Barrynotes that they owe us from having taken more than they needed at the moment.   Only the Great Zeus knows how much Barrynotes will be worth as the days go by.

 

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Tennessee Scopes Monkey Trial

In reality, ladies were not permitted
either on the jury or in the court's
audience.  Certain indelicacies
concerning procreation were
thought to be too "earthy"
for proper ladies.  They
remained outside on
the Courthouse
grounds.

    More importantly is the issue, perhaps a couple of entries back, that is found in the Anglican Curmudgeon's recent posting.  Sometimes El Gringo Viejo will say, "This is a quick read, perhaps 3 minutes."   Othertimes he might say, "This is a bit of a thick intellectual soup. You might want to set aside 17 minutes to read through it a couple of times."

     In this case, we offer up required reading for anyone who wants to increase his bibliography of reference concerning things Anglican, historical touchstones of importance, and reasoned matter concerning the interface of science and religion....especially the Abrahamic Religions...and the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve, the notions of evolution, and such matters.   This is not an instant replay of the Scopes Monkey Trial (my mother was there, but she was not a monkey). 

     The warning is that this is heavy stuff presented by a deeply and well studied scholar in the classical sense about matters that are very profound and expressed in "non-layman's terms".    All OROGs with whom I have any acquaintance will have no real problem grasping and understanding what is written.  El Gringo Viejo, due to age and general slowness of wit, must read the Anglican Curmudgeon's  missives three times...sometimes...in order to wrap all of his 'little grey cells' around the issue under consideration.

     This particular article, Mere Anglicanism Conference: a Report , is long.   It is complex.  There are many speakers who are cited.  It will take two or three nights, depending upon the OROG's schedule, involving at least 20 minutes each, including the necessary "re-reading".    It is also worth every second and every minute of the OROG's time investment.   It will deepen and widen the entire Anglican, Orthodox, and Catholic notion and consist of our understanding of Western and human culture.  It is excellent for Jew and Protestant, for agnostic and inquirer.

 

     The OROG will feel better for having done this exercise.   It is like not going to the dentist. 

 

El Gringo Viejo....

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