Let's ramp our way back to the real subject?
Haven't been refillables in decades.
You would play hell trying to find someone in northern or central Mexico to work for less than 600 pesos a day for unskilled manual labor. For chrissake,s I pay my housekeepers 150 pesos for doing dishes and mopping floors -- which averages out to EIGHT US DOLLARS PER HOUR. This is in northern Mexico for the time being. Stop repeating stereotypes it sounds ignorant.
Lessee we could absorb airflight fees or freighter fees from halfway around the world
From a country who would nuke us if they thought they stood half a chance.
Or we could help our neighbor improve their economy while avoiding greasy palms (either you do this our way -honestly- or no way and let the population know this is a corruption-free deal) 100,000,000 pissed-off Mexicans in the grand plaza in Mexico city would scare the snot out of millionaire leaches.
Set up factories then let the citizens gain too much to lose. They'll fight for it, trust me on this. American overseeing and auditors. It's called management.
And don't try and tell me this cannot be done! There are enterprise operations down here that function exactly as I have described. My good friend Eduardo, works for Canadians. They raise striped bass in huge pens offshore. They send 480 TONS a month of fillets He makes more than a thousand dollars a month.
Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and blackberries are raised to the south under intense cultivation and the workers are paid three times the going rate and includes healthcare.
90% of the garbage China sends over here that arrives broken or at death's door can be made in Mexico. Labor intensive so refrigerators, televisions, electric motors, A/C would be repairable. A nine hundred dollar side-by-side goes boink. Thanks to the Mexicans an entire tray can be removed and sent back to Mexico. Then be repaired for 300 dollars retail resold.
I looked for heavy-duty rectifiers for a 270 amp Ford alternator. Which has doubled 40 amp dish diodes. Three phases. 80x80x80 do they add up to 270? And there are no alternatives. Same for voltage regulators. "Welcome to our restaurant, We have for you -The-Slop-Of-The-Day- No alternatives no exchanges and please, no complaints- "
Like the old Soviet Union joke goes
As long as they pretend to pay us
We'll pretend to work.
