Posted on 01/11/2017 6:39:10 PM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Mexico's government said...it would throw its relationship with the United States wide open when it sits down for talks with the incoming U.S. administration, putting security, migration and trade on the table in search of a deal.
... President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to tear up a trade agreement that underpins Mexico's economic model if he cannot renegotiate its terms in his favor, battering the peso currency and fuelling uncertainty over foreign investment.
However, President Enrique Pena Nieto said Mexico would take a broad approach to the talks, seeking a deal that would benefit both Mexico and its neighbor as his government attempted to head off the risk of an economic shock from the Trump presidency.
"All the issues that define our bilateral relationship are on the table, including security, migration and trade," Pena Nieto said ...
... Mexico's government aimed to use security and migration to gain leverage over the US in its talks with Trump, and could offer to reinforce its borders to get a better deal on trade.
... Mexico named former finance minister Luis Videgaray to be its new foreign minister, giving him a crucial role in discussions with the new U.S. government...
[Trump] said he would soon begin talks with Mexico on building a border wall to keep out illegal immigrants and would make Mexico reimburse the U.S. for construction costs. Trump also promised a major border tax on companies that moved jobs outside the U.S.,...
Pena Nieto said Mexico would invest in a more secure border but repeated that it would not pay for Trump's wall.
He noted the U.S. government shared responsibility for the migrants seeking to reach the U.S., and should also work to stop the southward flow of illegal weapons and illicit funds that helped finance organized crime in Mexico.
(Excerpt) Read more at ca.news.yahoo.com ...
Nieto = Lucky Ned Pepper
The Scene = Kate's Meadow
Who remembers that dialogue?
ROOSTER: "Fill your hand, you son of a bitch!"
Ned, I mean to kill you in the next few minutes or take you back with me to hang at Judge Parker's convenience. Which will it be?
My favorite negotiating technique.
“He (Nieto) noted the U.S. government shared responsibility for the migrants seeking to reach the United States, and should also work to stop the southward flow of illegal weapons and illicit funds that helped finance organized crime in Mexico.”
Yeah, we shouldn’t have such nice things.
Nieto is a pinche cabron, like Fox.
Which broad are they seeking to negotiate with Trump?
Making bricks is more like it. Mr. Trump, where would you like us to deliver these bricks for your wall?
You wanna negotiate? Seal the borders. Then get back to me.
I’d say a good opening negotiating position for Trump is “cease your acts of war immediately or we’ll f-ing nuke you by February”.
Animals and birds migrate.
Humans emigrate or immigrate.
Laws regulate.
They didn’t miss this, they were trying to turn us in to North Mexico.
You'd think the Prohibition era would have taught America a thing or two about trying to control people's personal choices through government mandate.
It doesn't work, and only serves to create black markets and criminal empires.
Now that’s winning. mexico is used to dictating terms to us and now they know they better get good with their hat-in-hand approach...
Sorry, Mexico; the wall is NOT negotiable, and you WILL pay for it!
It doesn't work, and only serves to create black markets and criminal empires.
OK, decriminalize it. Then when a substantial number of those who partake freely have toked themselves into unemployability, it will be declared a disease and they'll go on SSI disability. Then we non-druggies end up paying for their BEHAVIOR. How will we handle that?
And which side to arm.
“Then we non-druggies end up paying for their BEHAVIOR. How will we handle that?”
Simple. End welfare.
Let them die in their own juices.
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Everyone. Encourage a second amendment, arm them all equally, let them sort it out.
Seek a little harder. $$$
People have been destroying themselves with alcohol and drugs since time immemorial. If you think big government can save them (or us) by force, you’re sadly mistaken, as Prohibition proved.
I don’t have the perfect answer, but I do know what doesn’t work.
I was complaining about the actions of government, not promoting it. If the care and feeding of the indigent-through-their-own-fault was not stolen from me and redistributed to them, then no problem. BEHAVIORS (drug and alcohol abuse, AIDS spreading activities, etc.) being treated as diseases by government picks my pocket, and yours as well.
To rephrase an old saying, millions for charity freely given; not a penny for charity stolen.*
*Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute.
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