Tag: Mexico

Tariff Time

Tariff Time

by MichelleMcHatton

So SHITHOLE has just announced that as soon as he takes “office”, he’s going to enforce a 25% tariff on products from Mexico, Canada and China. It wouldn’t surprise me if more countries ended up in the mix eventually. You think prices are high now for everything from food to gas, just wait.

Here’s a little experiment I did recently, and you can and should do it too. Take a look at products around your house. How many things do you have in your home that were actually made in the USA? In one hundred items I looked at in my own home, I found one item that was manufactured in the USA with “essential ingredients from Canada” and Kleenex, fully made in the USA. So we’re good for toilet paper and tissues, I guess!

Go to any Walmart and look at the clothes and other textiles such as bedding and linens. You’ll be searching for a long time to find any textile item sold there that was made in the USA. The next time you do the laundry, look at the clothing tags. We could take a trip around the world in just washing our clothes!

Wrangler jeans made in Mexico. A Christmas t-shirt made in Haiti. Towels made in India and Indonesia. You name it. Even underwear and socks. It wasn’t made here. It was made everywhere BUT here.

Then there’s everything else: this laptop I’m typing on–made in China. Most of your housewares–made in China. A lot of your health and beauty products–made in Canada. Candy made in Mexico. In fact, cereal aside, I was hard-pressed to find many food items fully made in the United States. Many items were manufactured here but with imported ingredients. Imported from where, who knows! Shit, my Great Value oatmeal is a product of Canada AND the United States! How do I know which oats are Canadian and which are American? No wonder I feel partially Canadian when I eat breakfast every day!

In doing your Christmas shopping this year, it may be wise to stock up for next year and the years after because the prices you pay this year for everything from Wrangler jeans to electronics won’t be seen again for quite a while. And in going forward, it will probably be a good idea to stock up on certain foods, such as produce, much of which is imported, especially this time of year. Because those avocados you need for your guacamole or avocado toast? They come from Mexico and Guatemala.

Brach’s cherry candy canes – made in Mexico

deodorant – made (fabricated) in Canada with imported materials. From where? Maybe China? Double tariff!

lancets – product of China

McCormick storage containers – made in China

Great Value oatmeal from Walmart-product of Canada AND United States!

Something as American as “The Peanuts” – a coffee mug made in China

my favorite pie plate – made in China

Great Value multi-vitamins – made in Canada

Wrangler jeans – made in Mexico – Ole!

If The Tables Were Turned

If The Tables Were Turned

by MichelleMcHatton

What if the tables were turned?

What if the country of Mexico said they were sick of Americans visiting their resorts in Cancun, Acapulco and Tijuana?  What if they said they were sick of college kids driving down from San Diego for spring break?  What if they said they don’t want any Americans working in their country?  What if President Obrador declared he was building a wall to keep Americans out?  Although that wouldn’t prevent anyone from flying to Mexico or arriving by water.

What if the country of Canada said they were sick of Americans living in America and working in Canada?  What if they said they were sick of Americans immigrating to Canada?  What if they said they were sick of Americans visiting their country, spending their American dollars in such cheesy touristy places such as Niagara Falls?  What if Prime Minister Trudeau decided to build a wall to keep Americans out?  Although it wouldn’t prevent anyone from flying to Canada or arriving by water.

I wonder how Americans would feel if either of these scenarios happened.  I’d bet the majority of us would be angry at the fact that either or both of our bordering countries would want to keep us out of their countries.  By building a wall.  Even worse.  They would want Americans to pay for it.

A wall does nothing.  People can go under it.  They can go around it.  They can go over it.  It’s not that people coming to America bothers SHITHOLE.  It’s the color of the people’s skin that are coming to America is what bothers the racist motherfucker.  If people in the Mexican caravans were blonde and blue-eyed, he could give two fucks.  And shit, if they were Russian, he’d fucking adopt them.

Could you imagine what SHITHOLE would be doing right now if he had been “president” when 9/11 happened?  My God, he’d probably be planning to place a great dome over America so nobody could get in or out.  As if that would be feasible.  But that’s how delusional SHITHOLE is.  Hence, his “great” idea of a “wall”.

The thought of a wall has become a metaphor.  A figurative wall that SHITHOLE has built around himself for protection from America and all those who are investigating him.  And there are lots of investigations.  For very good reason.

I can guarantee SHITHOLE this much.  Between his wall shit and his SHIT DOWN shit, if he even makes it to 2020, (which I doubt he’ll even make it through 2019), I know of at least 800,000 people who won’t be voting for him.  Those 800,000 people know a lot of other people.  So do the math.  Having a SHIT DOWN a year before an election year was not a very wise thing to do.  Then again, SHITHOLE is not very wise.