Mexican Snowflakes
Apparently Mexico wants to take their NAFTA toys, go home and blame the United States on their abysmal existence.
“The U.S. trade deficit with Mexico, he notes, has increased. Mexico “has out negotiated us and beat us to a pulp through our past leaders,” he said on Jan. 27. “They’ve made us look foolish.” On Thursday, he told U.S. lawmakers he is aiming to “kick-start” the Nafta renegotiation process.”
President Trump’s intentions to renegotiate NAFTA, crack down on illegal immigration and build the much needed border wall has sent Mexico into a Berkeley induced pitty party. They even visited the way-back machine when Porfirio Díaz famously said: “Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States.”
“This is not a negotiating strategy,” Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray told a Mexican broadcaster. “This is a limit we are not going to cross because it’s about Mexican dignity.”
“Just as Mexico was beginning to view itself more as North American than Latin American, it feels to many in Mexico as if the U.S. wants to kick it out of the neighborhood. Mr. Trump’s emphasis on building a wall—a fence already exists along much of the border—sends a pointed message to Mexicans, says Lorenzo Meyer, a leading Mexican historian.”
“The idea, which had been accepted in Mexico, that we were a part of—a poor part of, but part of—North America has been destroyed,” says Mr. Meyer. “Trump is saying, we have changed the definition of who belongs in North America, and it’s just us and Canada.”
Here are my tears….wait for it….never mind.
NAFTA was doomed from the start and needs to be renegotiated or broken. Remind me of the net overall effect NAFTA has had on the United States economy?
I barely made it through the article without choking on my coffee. Enjoy, I guess.
Mexico Teeters Between Its Recent U.S. Friendship and 170 Years of Hostility
Category: Politics
Oh lookie…
Their feelings are hurt.
I guess that means they want everything to stay like it was.
Because they benefited from it…
“Because they benefited from it…”
In the nut-shell.
Net effect. Lots of good and great paying jobs went hasta la vista.
GE in the first year was posting record profits. Shortly after that they went to all of the Air Parts suppliers and told them either move to Mexico or we buy from someone else.
Many of these companies were Family started, typically employed employees in the hundreds. Not huge but good size, and they paid 70k and 80k a year to many people in the 90’s.
Almost all gone. So one of the largest companies to receive Federal money for R&D, manufacturing, and finance force thousand of great paying job to Mexico. Not because they were in financial straits, because they could.
(Snerkkkk!) Uh, lo siento, pero no hay lástima aquí.
Amén Hermana!
Take a look at Mexico’s very strict immigration laws. If the US were to just translate them into English, adopt them, and enforce them, Libs would go nuts. One I like is that unless you are a citizen, you better not be even slightly involved in political activities of ANY kind to include watching a political rally. They also have strict rules on proven, continuous income before you’ll be granted anything but a tourist visa.
They do turn a blind eye to illegals passing through from points south but that’s even changing since The Donald is doing things to keep them out of the US…Mexico doesn’t want them either. They started deporting Cubans once the wet feet thing was cancelled by SCFOMF.
Oh. They ENFORCE their rules. Strictly.
I travel there in an RV frequently. Love the beauty of the country and the people.
Not just their immigration laws, THEY have a wall along their Border with Guatemala while they bawl about how wrong and “racist” it is for us to build a wall along our Border with them.
Not just a wall, but Armed Mexican Troops as well.
First this Guatemalan Woman do before crossing the Border into Mexico is get the Norplant contraceptive so they do not get pregnant because Rape is so prevalent by the Army and Police Force.
First Thing.
Sorry
And in Mexico…
You need a government ID to vote.
How come no one calls them racist?
Take back the players of the Mexican bagpipes.
The Hell with the Mexican Government. Those cock bites can climb a wall of dicks.
I grew up in the Southwest, and i’ll tell you- they need to clean their own house before they bitch to us. They have politicians that make ours look like Vienna choir boys. Dirty corrupt leaching assholes.
Foreigners have no rights under MEXICAN LAW- get caught protesting in mexico as a Foreigner, watch what happens. Own a business and make a profit and see how fast your work gets seized by the govt. The normal people have no rights to firearms: so they cant even protect their family or lives( if their not bad guys) And lets not even get on the police… SJW/BLM clowns act as you do in here in the states, please do the same stunts in Mexico, I dare you. -That’s right, NO BALLS
Lets not forget the Mexican Military escorted drug shipments into southern Arizona, or the more than usual el paso / juarez skin leather and pointing weapons at our boys show downs.
Might as well renegotiate with Canada, too.
Go anywhere in northern NY, VT, NH, or Maine, and ask how it changed their lives.
well said sir…. Mexico has the SAME exact response towards all this as far as being a “North American” member.. they in fact were segregating themselves finally with there “Wall building” scheme on there Southern borders… It was a admireable attempt… but do NOT begrudge us if we do the same.,.. we are simply demanding accountability after decades of having absolutely none.. In response to the wall that is allready there? You have not seen ANYTHING yet… we now have a president who “means what he says”..and to date.. way I see it.. TGHAT is precisely what has shooken the world…and pissed so many off…. and to be fair… gained him some supporters…Is hes doing what he says he will do… thats inconcievable by most standards and very hard for many to wrap there heads around..
Mexico, a third world shithole that relies on money putos send home from the US for 10% of its GDP… they shouldn’t run their mouth.
This is an aside, but one that has been with me regarding Mexico and Mexicans for many years. It is this: how in the world do you who live in the USA but have to see signs in Spanish at your local stores and restaurants, hear announcements in Spanish at many of those stores, and listen as fellow customers and passersby speak Spanish, manage to stay sane?
Please extend the left part of the n in “now” upward. If you do that correctly, it should look like this: h. Thanks.
Oh, so they don’t like the proposed wall, huh? Well, tough titties! We can do as we damn well please with our side of that line on the map, just as they can with theirs. Maybe if they actually respected our border, we wouldn’t feel the need to put up a wall.
Another third world shithole unable to care for its own citizens….perhaps if they would actually fight corruption and kill their cartel leaders they might be able to change their future. Their corruption and their blindness to all that is wrong in their nation is part of the reason it’s still corrupt and wrong.
When you always look elsewhere for saving your nation…well it’s not too hard to figure out why you don’t get saved.
Their president is a cartel guy, his election bought & paid for. Short of yet another Mexican revolution, it’s doubtful they could do anything about it even if they wanted to.
Well, we could send a few practice bombing runs over those two states in Mexico Lindo that have an economy built entirely on raising coca plants for the drug industry, you know. A little napalm, some herbicides, some drug dealers wearing Colombian neckties…. you get the drift.
We could do that, couldn’t we? Do you think they’d get the message?
Ah, yes! Paraquat spraying, like the DEA did in the 70’s. I remember the uproar it caused in the SOCAL area – a news reader at KMET was named “Paraquat” John Kelley, always was on the air telling people about the spraying of the Mexican pot fields and getting your stuff “tested”. Also claimed that the LAPD and feds were tailing him…
Fun days… good times
‘ Bill Clinton, while signing the NAFTA bill, stated that “NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good-paying American jobs. If I didn’t believe that, I wouldn’t support this agreement. ‘
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Free_Trade_Agreement
Depends on what your definition of “is” is.
I’m sure that “Blowjob Willie” was as sincere in saying that as he was when he wagged his finger and said “I did not have sex with that young Woman.”.
Well, it’s not as if he actually lied when he said it. It DID mean jobs, American jobs. The loss of them, that is.
Just as planned.
Some reports suggest over 700,000 jobs lost.