How Much Did You Spend on 1 May? (In yo' face, Illegals!)

FR ^ | 1 May 2006 | self

[Rockitz]

Today's protest was purportedly designed by organizers to demonstrate the economic impact of a day without immigrants. Certainly, here in LA there were massive protests, but trade continued at a fairly brisk pace from my observations. BONUS: The freeways had the lightest traffic in years.

[Stag_Man]

Spent $60 in Phoenix. I too am a totally broke student. Got computer junk at Comp USA, toiletries at target and dinner at the Greek restaurant near me, owned by LEGAL immagrants (who make a darn tasty gyoros I might add).

[PhilDragoo]

Let the wheels roll to crunch the numbers while I fondly recall how uncongested the streets and stores were, how free of disgusting litter and noise the parking lots were, how decorous and polite the customers were, and how all the scanners went zip blip bip in that excellent American economic esperanto signalling life is for the best in this best of all possible worlds and we trust the puerta will not getthe illegals where the perro didn't bitthe bleaters.

History Channel reran Iwo Jima and today the FR Foxhole returned for a reprise of Bougainville--with patriots facing dug in machine guns it's all the more disgusting that the potomac bottom feeders are all politicos sans cajones.

Let's have an arrogant-illegals-stay-home-day every Monday.

[sine_nomine]

The Internet was a lot slower today. I figure the illegal network admins had been doing work that white people won't. Other than that, I noticed nothing today.

[raisincane]

...work Americans won't do.

They've changed this to, "doing work Americans are'nt available for."

[CounterCounterCulture]

Spent money at the supermarket, dry cleaners, lunch (Chinese), and dinner (American)

Most, if not all, of the taquerias were closed, so piss on them.

[Darkshadow]

I spent $240 on a new digital camera and a 1GB memory card.

[La Enchiladita]

Spent $110 at: the pharmacy, SEARS and VONS market (including cash back *g*).

The peacefulness of the day was priceless.

*sigh*

[Bob]

I suppose I made the usual daily expenditures, though - - lunch, gas, cigs, ammo....

Yor 'usual daily' expenditure for ammo?? I really love that thought. :=) (I should probably buy some more tomorrow.)

[GrandmaPatriot]

Over $1,000. We saved our spending so we could do it today. Bought a hearing aid for grandpa, some shopping at Wal Mart and Office Max and of course groceries. Loved the thought of spending today to show the illegals.

[Serenissima Venezia]

I'm not telling! (One of you might tell my husband.)

[LegendHasIt]

I spent about $400 above and beyond the usual. Most 'frivilous' purchase was a new stereo for my 'beater' off road vehicle. Also picked up a larger American Flag for the front of the house... Made in America (NJ) amazingly enough!

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Here is my report on today’s situation locally

Just for background: I live in a small mountain resort town 140 miles from the border… Until the last few years, despite our proximity to the border, we didn’t have a big hispanic population locally (other than old Spanish families that have been here for 200 years, who are ‘more American than most ‘white’ Americans’).

Population here has about doubled in the last few years. And about 3/4 the new people are Mexicans; I won’t say that any particular percentage of them are illegal, but in public places like stores, restraunts and etc. you are just as likely to hear Spanish being spoken as English around here these days, and a lot of them seem to be unable to speak any English at all, or very limited 'pidgin' English mat best.

Looking around today I only saw three restraunts closed. One of the local Italian food places and the other two were Mexican food places that are both owned by a (nice) ‘Green Carded’ LEGAL Mexican alien family; But they employ mostly non-english speaking and very likely illegal aliens.

Post Office was just about deserted mid-afternoon and late afternoon when I went by…. Usually about 10 people in the lobby at mid-afternoon, 15-20 people late afternoon.

Stopped by a convenience store for a soda; Business there is normal. There was a young, non-English speaking hispanic man in front of me in the checkout line purchasing eight money orders… So after making everyone in the checkout line waste fifteen minutes each, it looks like ‘remittances’ are continuing apace today.

The ‘tourist traps’ along the mid-town main road were pretty quiet, but that may just as likely be because it is Monday and we are ‘between seasons’ here… But it seemed to me to be a little quieter there than I would have expected.

The bars seem to have about 1/2 the normal vehicles in their parking lots this early evening. Restraunts are very busy though.

Spent a lot of time in Walmart. It was pretty crowded; about 90% of the normal number of shoppers; Under normal circumstances, at any given time about 80% of the customers in the store are obviously Mexican. Today though, only about 10% of them for the three hours I was there were obviously hispanic.

A lot of people were pulling /pushing two full carts, so I wasn’t the only one doing the ’shop til you drop’ thing… So, I don’t think that our local Walmart will notice much of a reduction of income today despite a 70% reduction of one particular group of customers. There is a Subway sandwich shop inside Walmart here… It was packed, about double or triple the number of people there as is usual for the time of day I was there.

Had to go to Checker Auto Parts twice this afternoon. Seemed to be fewer people in there than normal, but the cashier said that business today is about normal in terms of money coming in, even though fewer people.

The grocery store was about as busy as normal, but noticably fewer ‘Hispanic faces and voices’ than is common there. Cashier said that she didn’t notice any less money going into the register than usual.

Lot of new local street and sidewalk repair / construction projects begun today. I noticed quite a few ‘obviously Hispanic’ people working on those projects as I drove around town.

Didn’t see ANY Mexican flags today; Usually see several (bumper stickers and the like) on any given day. No protesters, picketers or immigration related signs etc. were to be seen.

Normally, I see at least five (and often many times that) Mexican license plates on vehicles on any given day. Didn’t see any today.

I did get a compliment on the embroidered US Flag patch on my shirt pocket from a cashier at the drug store; That was about the only nationalistic, cultural or ‘patriotic’ thing I saw or heard locally today.

[Stat Man]

I spent about $15, plus my health. (I'm disabled with a disease that stays barely under control only if I do absolutely nothing... I can go out of the house from time to time, but if I do, there's a high probability I'll spend part of the next day sick in bed.) I live in the non-Hispanic part of San Pedro (LA harbor neighborhood) and checked to see which of my local eateries would not be getting my business ever again. Our favorite Mexican restaurant was indeed closed, as also was a cafe/grill that makes everything fairly well. So we ate at the second best Mexican place, which was open and will be getting more business from us from this point forward.

[Rastus]

Only about $46 all told, but I did find a couple of local Mexican restaurants to never go to again.

[oldenuff2no]

I bought a new 4 wheeler, ATV, and a new tractor. Not a huge tractor, one about the size of the old ford 9N. It is a full sized 4X4 that runs 40HP. I've been looking at both for a long time and just decided today was the day. I ordered a couple of implements for the tractor. A very large tip trailer/manure spreader, a set of disks, and a bucket set up for the front end. With all that power equipment I can do some of that work that Americans won't do for my friends and neighbors and I'll do it for free.

[joebd_man]

About $400: at Hechts (Mothers Day presents), Dicks Sporting Goods (ahem, small metal projectiles in boxes of 50) and Giant supermarket (red wine in copious quantities while a pro-immigrant demonstration was taking place next to the parking lot).

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Not much monetarily, but symbolically, wife, friends and I went to a local Gringo owned eatery, and pigged out on their Monday special of 50 cent tacos, and washed them down with a cold pitcher of Gringo cerveza.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Ditto, the man has a tin ear and speaks like an elitist idjit at times.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

I think Pinko De Mayo in San Francisco is on Friday.

[drew]

Well, I had to get a brake job for my car today, so I took it to my local mechanic, who is a Chicano. He was, bless him, open and because he was slow today (he gets a lot of business from other Latinos and said he thought he wasn't busy because of the marches) he finished my car in no time. So I chipped in 135 bucks against the boycott and to a Mexican-American business owner who defied the madness. Makes me feel warm all over.

[opinionator]

I boycotted Taco Bell.