Returned....burned out....but....

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     We returned on Tuesday, mid-day.   Uneventful drive, made good time and good fuel mileage.  Pretty full of woe and disdain, etc.   A fairly rotten political scene for El Gringo Viejo.

     But, at least (Sir Edmund) Hillary has been spared the fate of Scooter Libby, Martha Stewart, and Charles Colson who were readily thrown into the central government pokey for holding FBI raw data personnel files, making misleading statement to the FBI, and that horrible thing Scooter Libby did....you know....that horrible thing.....all those horrible things....(?).

     The FBI has a perfect record of covering for (Sir Edmund) Hillary, something like 0 - 18 by this point.   It is because of that fact we went out on a limb before departing for our little adobe hut in the Mexican outback a couple of weeks ago.   To wit:

(2 July 2016)   "As the OROG nation watches, and millions of other observers cease breathing to as to focus on the outcome of the Great (Sir Edmund) Hillary Interview with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, El Gringo Viejo reassures all that nothing will come of any of this.   Take one teapot, put two hundred million tonnes of landfill and septic discharges into said teapot, pour it out on the central government's system of justice as it relates to the Clintons, and the Obsolete Press as well as the FBI will assert that (Sir Edmund) Hillary is now qualified for Beatification because of all she has done for Women and Reproductive Rights and Everything.
     "In seriousness, the FBI's collusion with (Sir Edmund) Hillary in so many things....such as framing the White House Travel Office staff and even sending one to prison (conviction later overturned), and the forwarding of over 1,100 raw data personnel files (simple possession of each file a felony) at the demand of (Sir Edmund) Hillary, along with, at a later point, the raw data file of Linda Tripp to (Sir Edmund) Hillary when she demanded it, plus so many other collusions with Her Majesty....we can be absolutely assured that she is not only going to remain un-charged in these matters, but she will probably be given a glowing apology for ever having  had to suffer the troubling little pin-pricks of suspicion from all the little people, and sniveling investigators who actually thought they had any right to even look at Her Highness, much less interrogate her."

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     In any regard we have a few pictures from your home in the Mexican outback:

 Here, El Gringo Viejo checks on the quality of some of the
 several hundred avocados that adorn the corner of the "long
 west-facing corridor".  Like the Iguana said, "Time's fun when
 you're having flies,"

     Truth be known, these are not actually avocados.  Many, if not most, of the "avocados" we and the Mexicans eat are actually "paguas"(PAH  guahs).  What possible difference can that make at this point?   Almost none.   BUT!  The pagua is larger and almost always covered with a skin that is "fire-engine green".   The seed of the pagua is also larger both in terms of overall ratio of seed to meat inside and in comparison to any regular black-skinned avocado's seed.

This tree has suffered all kinds of wind abuse.  It may have
 even had some indirect lightning damage.  But it
continues to produce, and prosper.  We have  another such
  tree down a few yards lower down on the property
that also is a  good producer.  Almost any tropical
 fruiting thing grows and prospers in this
 area and with this soil. 

    We shall have more things upon which to report after a return from the dentist's office later this morning.

El Gringo Viejo

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A Few Comments before we depart Monday for our little hideaway

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     As the OROG nation watches, and millions of other observers cease breathing to as to focus on the outcome of the Great (Sir Edmund) Hillary Interview with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, El Gringo Viejo reassures all that nothing will come of any of this.   Take one teapot, put two hundred million tonnes of landfill and septic discharges into said teapot, pour it out on the central government's system of justice as it relates to the Clintons, and the Obsolete Press as well as the FBI will assert that (Sir Edmund) Hillary is now qualified for Beatification because of all she has done for Women and Reproductive Rights and Everything.

     When Ruth Bader Ginsburg keels over that big countertop inside of the Great Temple of Justice, Loretta Lynn (sp?) will be appointed Queen of the Court and males will be required to use the women's rest rooms at all times.....but only after paying the entry fee of $1.00 for each visit in order to finance the operations for the counter-reverse, retransgendered volunteers entering the military now.

     In seriousness, the FBI's collusion with (Sir Edmund) Hillary in so many things....such as framing the White House Travel Office staff and even sending one to prison (conviction later overturned), and the forwarding of over 1,100 raw data personnel files (simple possession of each file a felony) at the demand of (Sir Edmund) Hillary, along with, at a later point, the raw data file of Linda Tripp to (Sir Edmund) Hillary when she demanded it, plus so many other collusions with Her Majesty....we can be absolutely assured that she is not only going to remain un-charged in these matters, but she will probably be given a glowing apology for ever having  had to suffer the troubling little pin-pricks of suspicion from all the little people, and sniveling investigators who actually thought they had any right to even look at Her Highness, much less interrogate her.

    Forget about (Sir Edmund) Hillary facing anything beyond another stumble into an airplane, or failure to wake up for her 03:00 telephone call.  Who knows, perhaps she will join Barry as Co-President of the United Nations next January, and they can push the reset button together.  Once ensconced  in the corner office at the UN building, the General Assembly can give (Sir Edmund) Hillary the Vince Foster Lifetime Achievement Award while they are approving the next Global Warming warning.

     And speaking of the United Nations:

John Ashe Photo: Reuters

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The death by barbell of disgraced UN official John Ashe could become a bigger obsession for conspiracy theorists than Vince Foster’s 1993 suicide.

Ashe — who was facing trial for tax fraud — died Wednesday afternoon in his house in Westchester County. The UN said he’d had a heart attack. But the local Dobbs Ferry police said Thursday that his throat had been crushed, presumably by a barbell he dropped while pumping iron.

Ashe was due in court Monday with his Chinese businessman co-defendant Ng Lap Seng, who is charged with smuggling $4.5 million into the US since 2013 and lying that it was to buy art and casino chips.

Ng was identified in a 1998 Senate report as the source of hundreds of thousands of dollars illegally funneled through an Arkansas restaurant owner, Charlie Trie, to the Democratic National Committee during the Clinton administration. (Ng was not charged with any crime.)

Ng and Trie had visited the White House several times for Democratic fundraising events and were photographed with then-President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary Clinton.

One source told me, “During the trial, the prosecutors would have linked Ashe to the Clinton bagman Ng. It would have been very embarrassing. His death was conveniently timed.”

Ashe’s lawyer Jeremy Schneider told me he is sure Ashe’s death was an accident. “There is not one iota of evidence that it was homicide. This is nothing at all like Vince Foster.”

Police in Dobbs Ferry village are keeping the investigation open pending an autopsy by the Westchester medical examiner.

You just can't make these things up.....the number of bodies just pile up and the people keep marveling at the Empress's beautiful raiment.  Amazing.

EL GRINGO VIEJO

Sent from our spies in Extreme Central Texas - A Real and True analysis of Benghazi

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The observers from the outpost in Extreme Central
Texas received this communique that can only 
be reviewed by the OROG Community and/or 
anyone that community might wish to reveal
this reconaissance.   We submit it to the readers
as a set of valid observations and very probably
extremely accurate deductions.

Xxx, Xxxxx, et al,

I know you have all been waiting for my erudite analysis of the

Benghazi report.   Sorry to be slow, but the social, cultural and

athletic distractions of The Villages have lured me away from

any serious reading.  I mean, should I stay in and study the

report or go out and play pickleball with a really hot 65

year old chick?  And by “hot” I do not mean the

temperature in Central Florida.

I have spent a few hours reading the report and my primary

conclusion is based on something I learned as a young action

officer on the Joint Staff.  This was during the Carter

Administration and my job was working papers on Foreign

Military Sales (FMS) policy.  My immediate boss was an

Army Col, but he was a nonentity, so I normally got my

guidance from Ace Lyons.  At the time Ace was a new one

star and not greatly concerned the minutiae of FMS.

However, we were often required to go to interagency

meetings on FMS subjects and he would ask for a

quick briefing. 

One evening I was attempting to talk to him about a subject as

he was packing up his briefcase to go home.  I was in the middle

of my passionate defense of the Joint Staff position when he

interrupted to ask for the bottom line.  I said that the bottom

line was that the State Department guys did not understand that

in 10 years………….

Ace:  Don’t be stupid!

Me:  Sir?

Ace:  You said something about the State Department and

10 years.

That is just stupid.  What do you think the long range planning

horizon is over at State?

Me:  (Knowing the insults usually came in groups of three.)

 Nine years?

Ace:  That is dumb even for a 1310.  But, let me teach you

something about the way things are in these meetings we go

to.  No one at my level, and very few at your level, in the

State Department can think of anything beyond the next

Presidential Election.  That is it.  Just until the next election.

When the military talks about long range planning they

ignore us unless there is to be a press release.  Then their

only concern is the effect the wording might have on the

election. 

Ace’s words seemed a bit harsh at the time.  But, Ace

when on to the 4 star level so perhaps he had a valid

perspective.  His words did come back to me many times

during a later Attaché tour and 10 years as a contractor

working on State Dept programs.

The thought that State’s planning horizon was only out

to the next election came back again as I read the Benghazi

report.  It occurred to me that I had been looking at the

problems from a military perspective and so much of what

was done simply did not make sense.  So many things that

happened, or did not happen, were in Ace’s words “stupid.”

But, in reading about the various meetings and e-mails

it occurred to me that it was basically a State Dept 

problem (with the CIA as a silent partner) and I should

look at it from their perspective. And suddenly it was

all crystal clear.

The REAL problem was that there was an election in less

than 60 days. The prime directive therefore, was to

minimize the bad press.  Fortunately the video that had

cause a bit of a demonstration in Cairo presented a way

to place the blame for the deaths on right wing idiots.

How could the Administration be blamed for a morally

justified riot that happened with no warning? 

In the first few hours after the attack, there was the

minor problem of getting the people and bodies out

of Benghazi.  Doing that in a way that would establish

and preserve the fiction that the “video” was the cause

of the “riot” was important.  The last thing they wanted

was to have some door kickers going into Benghazi.

That might make it seem as if there might be an

organized military opposition.  What if there was

a fire fight and a marine was killed?  Would that be

a combat death?  NOT GOOD!  

The answer was to keep the military away from

Benghazi at all costs.  Tell all the military commands

that an evacuation was arranged and they should

hold positions (can you say “stand down”) and then

hope the evacuation took place without any

opposition.  If we communicated to everyone

in Benghazi that we only wanted to get our bodies

out and that no retaliation would take place,

perhaps no one would attack the convoy to the

airport or the vulnerable aircraft on the ground.    

Once everyone was in Tripoli it was just a matter

of telling everyone as often as possible that there

had been a riot over a video, and then keeping that

idea operative until after the election.  Fortunately

they could throw the creator of the video in jail, etc. 

So, on Sunday, a few days after the attack, we have

Susan Rice going on all five Sunday morning

political shows to propagate that lie.  I have

watched all of her appearances on YouTube.

My absolute favorite is the State of Union

appearance with Candy Crowley.

Candy certainly knew the truth and was too

embarrassed to ask the exact question Susan

needed, but she got close. Close enough for

Susan to get all of her well-rehearsed talking

points in while Candy sat in silence and did not

interrupt.  Here is the link to the YouTube 

portion of the show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cetu6SMiZsY

With the party line established by Susan,

it was only necessary to hold on for a few

more weeks until the election. They could

trust most of the press and media not to ask

difficult questions, Romney to be too much

of a gentleman to seriously raise the issue,

and various talking heads to discredit FOX

or any other media that got out of line.

Questions about the attack were raised by

various Senators and Congressmen but

they were not widely covered.  Susan Rice’s

“talking points” were questioned, but that

was a side show and only added to the

confusion.  The statements of the families

of the dead were an unfortunate footnote,

but not a major problem as only FOX

covered their anger and grief.

And it worked perfectly.  Confusion about

Benghazi reigned supreme and nothing was

as widely covered as Rice’s Sunday

appearances.  Anyone who raised

questions was accused of being a

conspiracy junky by the Kool-Aid

drinkers.  Add a few more lies about

keeping medical plans and doctors

and the election was won.

After the 2012 election the time horizon

shifted to the 2016 election.  So the game

plan became one of delay, obstruction,

executive privilege, etc.  Only a Republican

congress would do any serious investigating,

and every committee would have loyal 

Democrats to loudly proclaim the probing

was a political witch hunt.  CIA director

David Petraeus was the wild card, but he

screwed up and allowed himself to be

discredited. 

So now we just a few weeks from the 2016

election and the plan is working nicely.

Unfortunately the Benghazi committee

discovered the Clinton email server issue,

but the results of that investigation can be

delayed until well after the election.  Then

a new time horizon can be established.

When I previously assumed the lack of

military response to the attack on the

Consulate and Annex was a massive screw

up, I was dead wrong.  It was obviously

part of an extremely well-conceived plan

to get past the election with the falsehood

that the video was the culprit.  It was so

easy.  Keep telling the lie, deny, obstruct,

and win.  Who can argue with success?

I will cease being interested in the

command center/military response

aspects of the Benghazi catastrophe.

I am now certain that the plan to keep

anyone in uniform far away from the

action was in place very early in the

evening.  Marines in Rota?  Give them

uniform changes and send them to

Sigonella.  F-16s?  Even if they were

armed, fueled and ready to launch

they would not have been used.

One would not want another accident

like what happened at Desert One in

1980.  If a shoulder fired missile shot

one down it would be big trouble.  How

could one fit that into the video/mob

scenario?  It was best to just tell

AFRICOM that the evacuation

would take place without any

need for cover and there was

definitely no need to send

anyone in to recover anything

from the Annex or the wreckage

of the Consulate.

Looking at this through Ace’s lens,

everything falls into place for me.

Even the minority report is logical

if you believe they knew and supported

the plan from the beginning.  

As of this moment I am officially

bored with the whole Benghazi thing.

Bored..... and revolted.

Attachments area

Preview YouTube video [FLASHBACK] On CNN Susan Rice blames the internet video for Benghazi

signed,
El Gringo Viejo.
on behalf of
XX. Xxx.  XXXXX

Trump and Hillary do not know what Free Trade is, and they hope you don't either.....

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Thoughtful international trade practice or Tomming like any common demagogue to the poor union workers who have been sold out by mean old businesses?  What is this debate or discussion about?  Both of these horrid candidates are counting on what they sense is the stupidity and ignorance of the electorate.  

    Mr. Trump, and to all those who believe that Free Trade has anything to do with the movement of American companies to foreign operational venues, please consider these facts:

     (1)   The vast and overwhelming majority of jobs that have been lost in the Rust Belt's auto industry have been transferred to Confederate States.  Why?  Because there is a better labour environment in the South.   The people there have a better work ethic.  They might move a bit slower, but they take and give orders without the need for some sloth of a union thug "looking out for their interests".

     The tax structure for companies and wage earners in the South is much more favourable for the productive than in the North.   Before the nationalisation of General Motors and Chrysler the valiant union workers were being paid, with benefits and secondary costs paid by the company, something along the lines of 70.00 yankee dollars per hour to bolt bumpers on Oldsmobiles.

       (2)     We are told that "the big companies want to send all the jobs to Mexico".  We are told that the Mexican workers are paid "less than five dollars per day and have no protections and work in sweatshop conditions in the auto manufacturing plants".  We are told that "the Mexican workers have no labour unions to look out for the workers' interests.   And we are told that "...the Mexican workers have taken all the jobs Americans used to do in Flint and Detroit". 

     Once again, many if not most of the jobs lost in the Rust Belt went to the American South.  They did not "all go to Mexico" or even Red China.   Expansion of operations and other strategic considerations both by Mexican and American heavy industry essentially created a huge number of semi-skilled and skilled blue-collar jobs.   While this was going on, direct American automotive production workers numbers increased from 600,000 to 900,000 during the past six or seven years.

     

     Mexican autoworkers' numbers, for instance, have increased from around 40,000 before NAFTA to nearly 400,000 at this time.   They all have unions,  known as "white unions" (the kind the government and the socialist international people hate) that are established by the companies, and then run entirely by the workers.   Nothing made by human mind or hand is perfect, but the rank and file semi-skilled and skilled line worker in Mexico much prefers this "employee association".   Benefits have steadily increased, along with wages, to the point where the average wage and benefit package for a four-day, forty-hour week in an auto factory in Mexico is around 400 dollars per week....an unheard of sum, even when adjusted for anything....even 10 years ago.

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     The Texan working at the Toyota Factory in San Antonio makes considerably more, of course, which is interesting because this is a totally new industry for Texas....the ground-floor to exit-door production of a motor car or truck.   It looks like this for about 4,000 Toyota employees:

Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas Salaries in San Antonio, TX

Job Title	Texas Salary	Location
Production Team Member - Hourly	$22.23/hr	San Antonio, TX Area
Team Leader - Hourly	$25.09/hr	San Antonio, TX Area
Engineering Specialist	$70,182/annum	San Antonio, TX Area
Specialist	$64,742/annum	San Antonio, TX Area

  

     This wage structure in Texas places folks very high on the socio-economic totem pole.  While we have and 8.25 per cent sales tax, there is no corporate or personal income tax levied by the Republic of Texas against her citizens.  

     It should suffice to say that some of these vehicles are exported to Mexico, some have Mexican and Japanese parts, and most are marketed in the United States and Canada.   The movement of this production is aided substantially because there is only inventory and laden to be considered, and no thought has to be given to quotas, duties, tariffs, etc.   We have other facilities, such as a Ford assembly and finishing plant in Arlington and they ship everywhere, and they have a similar wage structure.

         One might also consider that very high end vehicles are shipped directly into Mexico by train and tractor/trailer rigs from the Northern States.  Vehicles such as the Escalade, various Lincolns, and the like used to carry a tariff of 300% of the MSRP sticker.   With NAFTA that tariff went by the wayside.

     Another thing that is certain....the movement of American manufacturing entities into Mexico and other such places "offshore" began long, long, long before the initial efforts to establish a free trade zone between Canada, Mexico, and the United States.   It was a long-time dream of various of the "California Republicans"such as a fellow by the name of Ronal Wilson Reagan, numerous Texans of various degrees of importance, and major agricultural operators throughout the American Southwest.

     Some companies from Japan, Europe, and the United States had been active in establish significant brick and mortar factory outlays even during the Depression, and then again during the post World War II period,  followed by another spurt in during the late 1960s through the early 1980s.  This was long before NAFTA (or the Tratado de Libre Comercio - TLC as the Mexicans call it).   Caterpillar, Ford Motor Company,  International Harvester, Zenith, John Deere, and many others had established wholly Mexicanised, independent operations in Mexico during those times.  McCormick and many others had been there forever.   American agricultural operators had been "doing" onions, tomatoes, okra, and mixed vegetables in several places deep in the interior of Mexico from the 1930s.  In the 1960s companies like the Green Giant and Bird's Eye among others began setting up advanced quick-freeze operations with the intent of selling both to the Mexican market and the United States and Canada.

     In to-day's terms we are looking at perhaps an outlay, in 2016 dollars, of what would have been around 1,000,000,000 (one billion) American Dollars.   All of that, plus the "twin-plant" operation starting in the late 1970s was already very much in place, and was having a profound effect on the Mexican economy as well as the American and Texian entities. By the time NAFTA had been approved, the build-up of cross border industrial and commercial activity was already "....gone 500 miles":

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     Then come the pundits, observers, charlatans, demagogues, know-nothings and other assorted experts.   Plants were shutting down in the United States and moving to other places in the world.  Much of the reason was because the American corporate income tax was either the highest in the world or among the highest, and the higher it went, and the more shrill scavengers such as (Sir Edmund) Hillary and Father Obamaham would shriek about ".....make the rich pay their fair share, and the banks and corporations as well....", the faster capital was  frozen up or moved off-shore.

     American business faced headwinds in its own country that curtailed research and development, reinvestment, and other things such operational impediments that caused many businesses to simply re-establish in other parts of the world.   The Great Leveler who intends to teach Free Traders a lesson they will never forget brings his really hideous campaign caps from some place that labels its products with the phrase "Made in China" (aka - Red China).

     As we took note, his most recent project of "Making America Great Again" had to do with a place way, way over in Eastern America, called Scotland.   It is his way of bringing investment and "job development" back to America, we presume.

      Further, the problem with the border, and the building of The Wall is another ploy of demagoguery that places Mr. Trump in a peculiar position.   On the one hand he wants to control the border by preventing the insertion of illegal aliens over that border, and he proposes a military grade wall.  It cannot be done.   The loons from the Earth First Movement, and the Symbionese Ecology and Immigrant Rights Coalition, and the ACLU, and Occupy Every Street will all be out in force.   The Obsolete Press will rally the masses to the commons, the cities, and the fields to vandalise and blockade every effort to build the Wall in a place where a mommy Gila Monster once laid her eggs.

     Mr. Trump, as a consummate self-absorbed egomaniac, has done as Father Obamaham has done, when he pronounces with shouting intonements that "I will build the Wall and make the Mexicans pay for it.....the Mexican Government will pay for it....count on it."   In so promising, he is stating that he will rule by executive order, as would any king, and only the Great Beelzebub knows how he will cajole the "Mexican Government" to pay for such an undertaking.  If it were not so sad it would be laughable.

     Now in quick order.   Canada and Mexico both have a positive balance of trade with the United States of America.  Neither has a positive balance of trade with the Republic of Texas.   Why?  Because we are better, smarter, and just too cool to bake biscuits?  Not really.  Mexico and Canada's populations, combined, come up to half of what the population of the United States is.   They can sell more to us than we can sell to them because we have a bigger market.  

     We sell more heavy equipment to Mexico and Mexico sells a lot more agricultural stuff, such as avocadoes and mangoes and the like.   Most of Mexico has what we jokingly refer to as a 400 - day growing season.   Their harvests have been increasing markedly during the past twenty years.  About a fifth of their production is designed for export, and almost every pound they export the Gringos buy because of it fair price and high quality.   Mexican qualities even in manufactured things they produce have gone up due to the NAFTA.

      At times the Gringos sell eggs by the millions, flown in on UPS and/or FEDEX 747 air-freighters when Mexico's large supply can't quite keep up with domestic demand.   Sometimes Mexico exports natural gas and electricity to us in Texas, and then there are times when we sell natural gas and electricity to them.

     Common shoppers and tourists coming from Mexico buy tonnes of stuff along the border.  In McAllen, San Antonio, El Paso, Brownsville, and Laredo alone their purchases total up one side or the other of 5,000,000,000 (five billion) American Dollars per annum from Mexican cross-border, as well as deep interior Mexican touristic and business visitors.   This sum is not included in calculations by American analysts as part of the import / export mix.   The Mexican economics gurus tabulate hotel receipts of probable American clients to a degree....they do it by sample and projection....and that amount is also exempted from the amount of "cross border or American international tourism" income.

     The Mexicans export several thousand categories of products to the United States, much of it coming over the many bridges we have here in Texas.  They also import several thousand categories of goodies.   We do the same with them.  The trucks never cease....some heading north and others heading south laden with wants and needs of people and businesses on both sides of the frontier.    Much of this activity....the large majority actually....has occurred since the passage and implementation of NAFTA.   The graph below will give some general idea of how the selling and buying by each nation from the other has exploded in the time since NAFTA was implemented.      

1985 : U.S. trade in goods with Mexico 

NOTE: All figures are in millions of U.S. dollars on a nominal basis, not seasonally adjusted unless otherwise specified. Details may not equal totals due to rounding.

Month	Exports	Imports	Balance
January 1985	1,135.4	1,303.3	-167.9
February 1985	1,117.1	1,501.6	-384.5
March 1985	1,260.9	1,698.2	-437.3
April 1985	1,236.7	1,937.0	-700.3
May 1985	863.3	1,327.5	-464.2
June 1985	1,377.3	1,719.6	-342.3
July 1985	820.3	1,708.0	-887.7
August 1985	1,405.7	1,461.0	-55.3
September 1985	1,015.7	1,479.4	-463.7
October 1985	1,170.8	1,562.7	-391.9
November 1985	1,214.1	1,647.1	-433.0
December 1985	1,017.4	1,786.3	-768.9
TOTAL 1985	13,634.7	19,131.7	-5,497.0

2015 : U.S. trade in goods with Mexico 

NOTE: All figures are in millions of U.S. dollars on a nominal basis, not seasonally adjusted unless otherwise specified. Details may not equal totals due to rounding.

Month	Exports	Imports	Balance
January 2015	19,100.7	22,256.0	-3,155.2
February 2015	18,108.6	22,711.8	-4,603.2
March 2015	19,835.7	25,648.4	-5,812.7
April 2015	19,998.4	24,701.8	-4,703.4
May 2015	19,606.6	24,482.9	-4,876.4
June 2015	20,448.7	26,920.6	-6,471.9
July 2015	21,074.3	24,784.2	-3,709.9
August 2015	19,536.7	24,695.7	-5,159.0
September 2015	19,486.1	25,330.3	-5,844.3
October 2015	21,163.6	27,672.0	-6,508.4
November 2015	18,869.0	24,050.2	-5,181.2
December 2015	18,516.8	23,154.0	-4,637.2
TOTAL 2015	235,745.1	296,407.9	-60,662.8

     One can note that we are now doing in a month what we used to do in a year,  each way. The same case is roughly true with Canada - Mexico, and Canada - USA, and Mexico/Canada - Republic of Texas.   These figures, I believe, have been adjusted to constant 2015 dollars.

     We would like to point out that in terms of employment, one thing that is not counted here is the number of Americans and Texans who are employed legally in Mexico, directly and indirectly due to this movement of goods and services between the United States - Texas and Mexico.   That number is thought to be around 60,000 individuals.  The wages and benefits drawn from such employment and/or contractual services provided by individuals are not computed in these trade stats.  Conversely, the number far exceeds that of the number of Mexicans who are working directly or indirectly in the United States or Canada due to the NAFTA - TLC.

    While there are deficits, we have explained that the impact upon economic activity brought on by the increase of trade with Mexico and Canada has employed many times more Americans than those who have been displaced by the disparity between buy / sale numbers between the three nations.   The "displacement" of autoworkers jobs, for instance represents the shift from the labour union dominated North to the right-to-work States in the South.   The fact is that many, many more employment opportunities have been created by the increase in trade, due to the free trade policies brought by the Treaties than have been lost.

    To end up with this overview, we are in favour of strict immigration and naturalisation control, and enforcement of existing laws and established rules concerning such matters.  While we oppose, in general terms, the construction of a physical wall between Mexico and the United States  and Texas and/or Canada and the United States, we urge and support the establishment of a much more muscular interception and enforcement posture on the Frontiers.  In these days it is only rational and correct to avoid committing, essentially, National Suicide by the system we are now suffering.
     We also wish, urge, demand,  jump up and down shrieking and screaming, that "refugees" such as those dissolute broken up families and pseudo-families who arrive from Central America be intercepted and immediately turned around, at whatever expense to Central America.   At a minimum, 90% are arriving due to a carefully crafted plan engineered by marxist elements in the United States, many of  them associated with entities that once could be respected such as Catholic Charities (presently rotted out from the inside with Liberation Theology nutters) and within the structure of the Executive Branch of the United States government.  The simple notion that an all-powerful, chief-executive-officer sitting in the White House can deign to order a change in a law or the establishment of what is essentially a new law should send people to the barricades and cause the arrest and confinement of such a Peronista and/or Castroite inspired maniac.

     The Central Americans should and must be "turned around".  They are not "immigrants" or "migrants".   They are invaders and will quickly come under the control of Mara Salvatrucha (and similar) gangs and other criminal pursuits once they are ensconced in some shadowy corner in Peoria or big city barrio.   Likewise, we stoutly oppose, in the strongest terms the introduction of "refugees" from the Middle East save for those who are Christians, Jews, and others about whom there is clear and evident danger of their extinction.
     
      The Muslim cohort of the displaced people are certainly more characteristic of "colonists" than refugees.  While our experience with the Muslims in this country has been not terribly negative, it has become increasingly that which is found in Europe.....with whole large sections of major cities that are essentially "sovereign islands" where the culture, traditions, and expectations of the host country are not permitted.   It has been demonstrated over and over that, while the majority of Muslims in the United States are not disposed to violence, there remains a certainty of their approval of changing laws, conditions, and requirements that will permit the replacement by Sharia Law over the present English / American Common Law precepts we now enjoy.   It is also clear that there are large percentages of very militant Muslims ready and very disposed to murder and destroy, all infidels and heretics who will not sincerely convert to Islam.

     We are already heavily infiltrated with radical Ishmaelite terrorist moles, as well as Red Chinese moles and plants who have been inserted into this country for various reasons, none good.   We do not need more.   Every photo of the crowds at the gates that Obama says are just families, women and children, just like our own always seems to be made up of huge majorities of males aged 15 to 50 who are either cowards running from the obligation to defend their country / people, or they are plants from al Qaeda and ISIS who are hoping to blow the guts and brains out of Europeans and Americans and their children.

     There is no law or constitutional requirement that requires this Republic and its citizens to commit suicide.

    With the Mexicans and the Canadians we can argue, disagree, agree, and come to reasonable outcomes.   We do it daily, millions of times.   We work well together, and we have many, many more compatibilities than differences.   We must move wisely between the arguments and choose from the truths those arguments present, and discard the falsities.  To do otherwise is folly.

Enough for a while.   We prepare to return to our little mud-hut on the skirts of the Sierra Madre Oriental, somewhere deep in Nowhere, Rural Mexico.
El Gringo Viejo

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