Posted on 09/19/2015 12:26:51 PM PDT by NaturalBornConservative
It will be way down in 2015.
About half the trade dollars last year was oil. Over 300 million barrels and average price of $85.
More in past years.
I might take this guy a little more seriously if he knew what “NAFTA” stands for. (Hint: it isn’t North Atlantic anything.)
My bad. That should read the “North American Free Trade Agreement”.
It’ll be a nice wall....a great wall...and it will say....Trump This!
Can’t have people spending their money and buying stuff. We need to raise taxes to bring something into “balance.” Whatever it is.
“the U.S. lost nearly $5.0 trillion in national wealth ($4 trillion to China and $1 trillion to Mexico alone)”
No, we haven’t lost WEALTH. We have their STUFF, they have our little green pieces of paper which grow less valuable over time. Eventually, those green papers will come back to us in return for some of our stuff (which, unfortunately, we’ve decided instead of creating as much stuff as we can we’ll just borrow money and pay people not to make stuff).
OK. Good article in any case.
My employer pays me to work. I earn money and I buy stuff with it. Can you imagine how much wealth I’ve lost over the years?
More below.
NAFTA is not the most important event that happened in Clinton’s first term. Treas Sec Rubin destroyed the Mexican peson (for their own good). This caused a shift in maquiladora growth from Mexico to Asia. That domino then left many Mexicans with no job in Mexico and no desire to leave their factory town and return to their backwards hometown. So the next domino was a massive economic migration from Mexico to the US as a direct result of the meddling of Treas Sec Rubin in Mexico’s internal
THE MYTH.....the Mexican government has “allowed” millions of its own citizens, and prolly gets a huge fee for allowing its border to serve as the gathering place for those from 145 nations, to pour over our southern border illegally. The Mexican government “looks” the other way while tens of thousands ride trains from its southernmost to its northernmost border, allowing them to cross our border without any resistance.
REALITY CHECK Mexicans sucking off our welfare system are under the jurisdiction of the Mexican govt.
A sworn affidavit by Mexico’s consul general to a Texas court declares that “Mexico is responsible to protect its nationals wherever they may be residing.”
The Document also admits that Mexico’s official policy is to encourage its poor people to migrate here illegally in order to access the US’s generous welfare system......
This explosive document filed in Texas by the government of Mexico adds fuel to the debate touched off by Donald Trump.....
THE MONEY QUOTE A footnote states that “Mexican nationality is granted to children born abroad of a Mexican born parent.” IOW, anchor babies born in the US retain their parents’ Mexican nationality.
A sworn affidavit by Mexico’s consul general admits that Mexico’s official policy is to encourage its poor people to migrate here illegally in order to access the US’s generous welfare system......declaring that “Mexico is responsible to protect its nationals wherever they may be residing,”
The Mexican consul’s sworn testimony asserts that “My responsibilities in this position include protecting the rights and promoting the interests of my fellow Mexican nationals” and “The main responsibility of consulates is to provide services, assistance, and protection to nationals abroad.”
Ergo, Mexico’s assertion of continuing jurisdiction over its “nationals abroad,” is inconsistent with any claim to automatic US citizenship merely by reason of birth on US soil.
MEXICO IS SLOBBERING AT THE US PUBLIC TROUGH The “impoverished” Mexicans here send BILLIONS of US tax dollars collected under multiple identities BACK to Mexico. The federales are getting a huge cut of that. Prolly Mexico also gets a fee for letting other countries use their border as a gathering place to slither into the US.
Trump accurately tells Americans oil-rich Mexcio is ripping us off royally......and is pocketing billions from deal after deal. This is in addition to millions in US foreign aid to “help” them w/ then the drug cartel problem.
NOW GIMMEE THIS AGAIN Mexico’s official policy is to send their impoverished classes over the border to ride the US gravy train...but declares that “Mexico is responsible to protect its nationals wherever they may be residing.”
OK....comprende, amigo.
Now tally up the welfare bill and send it to Mexico.
Don’t worry. Atlantic is just a slip. Critic did not have a substantive objection to your post. Post was grest.
When you trade with someone, what are you losing?
Do you have some specific examples of your personal losing trades?
As usual, Trump is right about Mexico playing us for suckers.
Yes, indeed, Mexico has been screwing the US and the world for years. That’s why they’re so wealthy. And, boy, do they know how to conceal wealth! I know a lot of people who still think that Mexico is a poor country.
Or is it only some of your trades that are losers?
Which trades?
One of the promises of NAFTA was that it would lift the standard of living for Mexican citizens, so why are they pouring across the border looking for gringo welfare?
NAFTA was another lie by the money-grubbing free trader thieves.
I can tell you in the automotive component area, all the stuff that went from the US to Mexico in the 90s/early 2000 era subsequently went to the ChiComs because they substantially undercut on price.
I’ve been told (no longer working myself) that because of currency adjustments, Mexico is now competitive with them again.
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