Readers Write: Better off without TPP trade deal

The Island Now

I have been planning to say for some time that I voted for Hillary Clinton. It surely was not without reservation but Trump is definitely an embarrassment.

My thoughts were that she could save The Supreme Court from becoming an enemy of We The People.

The Clintons have a tremendous amount of baggage and she (I kind of hoped) might be impeached.

Next subject —The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement: Briefly looking around I noted that I have items made in or just from Italy, China, Vietnam, USA, Honduras, Mexico, England, France, Canada, Bermuda, Japan, Hong Kong, India, Germany, Spain, Brazil, Greece and Morocco.

Perhaps items from other countries too.

All due to the natural course of things. Some of these items I have had many years.

Also, in Central and South America there are those who harvest a nominal twenty pounds of the best Arabica coffee beans ‘just for me.’

It would be a nice vacation some time to go say hello and thank you to them.

It is obvious that we don’t need a TPP with all of the secrecy and dangers.

There have been the recent articles about globalization. Looking at it with the ‘bigger picture’, they are about nothing.

The United States today is the melting pot  where it is said that in time there will no more be races: only the Human Race.

I myself am of four ‘bloods’ I know of. My children would therefore have seven and two of my grandchildren have eight.

It is said that there are 160 languages spoken in Queens County, NYC. There have to be many interracial offspring.

This is too much to go into detail at this time.

Our Creator has brought into existence numerous life waves such as those who are now angels, We who are now human and those who are animals: all This over vast eons.

Biologists can confirm that the anthropoids are part of our life wave. They are the stragglers.

The monkeys are probably too far behind to ever catch up. They will probably die out and be cast out into chaos.

Also, those who are too crystallized into race will eventually meet the same fate.

That which does not progress degenerates.

There are many now who already don’t identify with any particular race. They are very open to all of humanity.

Another subject: There is talk these days of reverse commute.

Maybe they should get out of reverse and get into drive.

One weekday morning during rush hour I noted the time trains went west and east.

Westbound trains (to the city) averaged one train every 4.72 minutes and East bound every 8.5 minutes.

During the evening rush it was 6.32 minutes per train east and 11.5 minutes west. I measured the evening over a longer time before and after it was really busy.

This does not count the few Oyster Bay Line trains.

The trains are often enough that wait time is negligible.

Transit records were quoted that about 11 percent of total riders go east in the morning and west in the evening.

From this they, the ‘reverse commuters’ deduce that they are those who commute to LI to work.

They don’t realize that those are people who work night jobs going home when the majority are going to work and vice versa.

I imagine that the trains going east in the morning and West in the evening are quite empty.

Naturally, more trains go West in the morning and are stored close to Penn Station for the evening rush and away from Penn Station for the morning rush.

Have a nice day.

Charles Samek 

Mineola 

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