They are not negotiating from a position of strength:
In 2015 we predicted if Donald Trump won the 2016 election, the Southern Border and Security Wall would not only happen as a construct of following through on a promise, but also factually happen as a function of avoiding the crisis of a neighboring economy in complete collapse.
What underpins that prediction is the hidden scale, and almost unquantifiable scope, of the exfiltration of U.S. dollars -legal and illegal- into Mexico.
While the actual valuation of the outflow of dollars into Mexico is unknown, there are indicators it could be greater than our current economic trade deficit with China, $500+ billion.
Only a few indicators have ever reached visibility. One such indicator being the outbound U.S. Western Union wire transfers, remittances, which now exceed the entire Mexican Energy Sector (oil and gas) combined.
An honest evaluation of all possible currency transfer streams puts the outflow well over several hundred billion per year. Well over.
Trump holds the power of Apocalypse over a nation of dependent rabbits who are not designed for Apocalypse. Combine an attack on dollar outflow, with a hard-core attack on the drug war, and add in a wall that will not let anyone escape, and Trump could set off the political equivalent of a steel cage deathmatch in the nation next door. And nobody could stop him.
Of course Mexico will pay for the wall. They will have to.
How amazing it is to have a K-strategist as a leader who is actually not afraid to put his own people’s well being over preemptively appeasing outsiders.
Spread r/K Theory, because preemptively appeasing is for losers
[…] Mexico Will Pay For The Wall, Or Donald Will Crash Their Economy […]
An extra 100% payroll tax on foreign employees (with very large fines for not reporting foreign employees, and no penalty for refusing to hire people suspected of being foreigners) would also lead to a lot of Mexicans losing their jobs and going home. If they insist on staying in the US, they just volunteered to pay off our national debt!
Silicon Valley would hate this, but they always vote for the party that wants to tax us more, so they can STFU and pay.
” the United States actually subsidizes the nation of Mexico,” . Ha , the USA subsidizes the world, and all of the filth in its own borders.
Stay angry.
Mexico deserves a nice hard punch in the face.
Off topic for this post but you may find the following story interesting:
http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2017/01/05/felony-embezzler-million-dollars-bloomfield-township-michigan-pinckney-mom-prison/96215814/
Just check out the facial asymmetry on that embezzler!