Economic reality: Why I reluctantly said goodbye to Mexico last week...
     
 While all my neighbors in Berkeley were stoically trying to endure 
all those adverse weather conditions from Hell including heavy storms, flood 
waters and two-day power outages, I was happily down in sunny Mexico and
 having a fabulous time.  If only I could afford it and could speak Spanish
 and didn't look like such a Gringo, I would gladly move south of the 
border forever.  
      Mexico is a warm friendly safe happy country filled 
with history, creativity and helpful community values.  Drug lords and 
street gangs are just a small part of the story down there.  Most places
 in Mexico are safer at night than New York City.
 
     "But if Mexico is such a heaven on earth," you might say, "then why are
 millions of Mexicans choosing to leave it in droves, sneak into America
 and steal all our jobs?"  
     Good question.  And I have a good answer too.  "Economic reality."  
    
 The pay scale is much better here in America -- or at least it used to 
be before COV$D, Ukra$ne, the Federal Re$erve, central bank dig$tal 
currency, bank fa$lures, $raq, Afghan$stan, L$bya and 9-$1 happened to 
us.  Not to mention getting stuck with Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush lite,
 Obama, Trump and Biden.  "You just don't like authority figures, 
Jane," said my friend.  Got that one right -- especially ones that lie through their 
teeth and think that "war" is a fun sport and not the major cause of climate 
catastrophe.  But I digress.  
     
 What's not to love about Mexico?  Before the Europeans invaded, Mexico 
had a highly impressive pre-Columbian civilization.  And there are still
 Aztecs, Mayans, Zapotecs and Mixtecs living there now.  And they are 
hard-working, friendly people who smile a lot.  Who the freak would ever
 voluntarily want to leave Mexico?  Not me.  And probably not them 
either.
    
 Remember seeing all those long lines of immigrants on TV, crossing the 
Rio Grande with only the clothes on their backs?  Do you honestly 
imagine that any one of those desperate people wouldn't much rather be 
back in their homes, with their families, if it weren't for the drug 
lords supplied with U.S. weapons and the poverty encouraged by Latin 
America's greedy neighbor to the north?
    
 Whenever I see a Mexican ex-pat living up here in America, I just want 
to give him or her a warm hug and say, "So sorry that you've been 
forced to leave your lovely home to come up here to this cold unfriendly
 place.  I feel your pain.  Economic reality's a bitch."
PS: 
 Speaking of human migrations, one of the saddest things I ever saw was a
 deserted room in a deserted home in Baghdad back in 2007.  It was covered in
 dust.  A broken toy doll lay in one corner.
    
 "A university professor and his family used to live here before they 
were forced to flee from our incoming mortars," said U.S. Army captain 
Hernandez, my military escort.  "I hear that the whole family died 
trying to escape to Syria."  
    
 And I recently met a Haitian woman who had fled Port au Prince after U.S. 
thugs and enforcers toppled Jean-Bertrand Aristide's popular Lavalas democracy. 
     And just the other day I read that the dead and bloated bodies of Libyan refugees are still
 washing up on the shores of Italy, years after their entire country was 
brutally destroyed by the U.S.A.  People who once had free university 
educations and free medical care under Qaddafi are now just piles of 
unclaimed corpses on some deserted European beach.
    
 And let's not forget the millions of terrified refugees who have fled 
American-created hell-holes like Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Cuba, Yemen, 
Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Honduras, Guatemala, Ukra$ne, Angola, El 
Salvador, Allende's Chile, Lumumba's Congo, Iran's Mosaddegh, etc.
    
 It seems like the whole planet Earth has become just one giant ant hill
 that's been carelessly kicked open by some sadistic boy named America.
     No wonder nobody likes us.
PPS: 
 Let's review:  In its rush to deprive us of our cars, our streets, our stoves and our 
cows, the mainstream media always forgets to mention that "war" is the 
number-one cause of climate catastrophe.  No one in power ever talks 
about depriving us of "war".
Resources:
"I'm gonna leave Old Texas now..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RW5-ZKWYn4
"Haiti is not a poor country.  It is a robbed country":  https://www.transcend.org/tms/2022/11/wisdom-from-the-jungle/
And now America wants to invade Mexico (again)?  https://www.courthousenews.com/lopez-obrador-responds-to-republicans-calls-for-us-armed-forces-in-mexico/
70% of all cartel weapons in Mexico come from America:  https://www.courthousenews.com/curbing-illicit-firearms-trade-is-crucial-to-success-of-u-s-mexico-security-deal/
America has also been invaded -- not in the style of Iraq or 
Ukra$ne -- but the results are the same:  A broken economy, a broken 
society.  But where the freak are we going to flee to?  Here's the link -- while it lasts:  https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bombshell-vax-analysis-finds-147-billion-economic-damage-tens-millions-injured-or-disabled 
 "Bombshell Vax Analysis Finds $147 Billion In Economic Damage, Tens Of 
Millions Injured Or Disabled:  A new report estimates that 26.6 million people were injured, 1.36 million disabled, and 300,000 excess deaths can be attributed to COVID-19 vaccine damages in 2022 alone, which cost the economy nearly $150 billion."
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