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Immigrants demonstrate economic clout
AP via Yahoo ^ | 05/01/06 | Dave Carpenter

Posted on 05/01/2006 2:51:34 PM PDT by Sterm26

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To: HitmanLV

I see a lot of people walking the streets of San Jose, in and of itself unusual, and they are for the most part wearing white T-shirts. The march is going to start here pretty soon.


61 posted on 05/01/2006 3:14:14 PM PDT by uncitizen
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To: Nice50BMG

roflmao


62 posted on 05/01/2006 3:14:47 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: Sir Gawain

I wonder if Jesse Jackson is marching in support of this.
It is my understanding that black folks ....er...."African Americans" are none too happy about the hispanic invasion.


63 posted on 05/01/2006 3:14:48 PM PDT by Muzzle_em (taglines are for sissies)
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To: Sir Gawain

Truly. The MSM seems to be on exactly the wrong side of everything. It's as though they want to bring this country down--and yet, this country gives them all the perks they now have. In Mexico, dissident reporters have a way of disappearing. They face less fortunate prospects in places where groups like the Taliban are in charge. Have they really thought this through?


64 posted on 05/01/2006 3:14:50 PM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: Hi Heels
...AFTER THEY GET OFF WORK!!!!

Lol! That's funny, and probably accurate. Dispite this misguided venture, a lot of illegals understand not to bite the hand that feeds them.

65 posted on 05/01/2006 3:15:07 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
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To: randog

In fact, while driving home on the LA freeways today I saw an old broken down truck pulling an unsafe trailer ... with a Hispanic behind the wheel.

I realized that we need to add the lack of unsafe vehicles to our Day Without Immigrants equation.


66 posted on 05/01/2006 3:15:18 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
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To: demkicker

LOL. I spent $25 for my son's shoes and I am going to get about $400 worth of boards this evening. At least those are things I need!. I am also going to have dinner at Denny's (making an exception today, regarding eating out, but that's going to be only a few bucks).


67 posted on 05/01/2006 3:15:22 PM PDT by angelanddevil2
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To: Sterm26

Well perhaps we should use the same tactics and boycott businesses that use illegal aliens, i.e McDonalds, Wal-Mart, Mexican restaurants, landscaping companies.

See who gets hurt worse, us or them.


68 posted on 05/01/2006 3:15:38 PM PDT by DaiHuy (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: Hi Heels

I'm just teling you what LA's leading conservative newstalk radio station reported at 3pm. Maybe they're wrong, I dunno.


69 posted on 05/01/2006 3:15:39 PM PDT by HitmanLV ("5 Minute Penalty for #40, Ann Theresa Calvello!" - RIP 1929-2006)
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To: durasell
I was in Vegas last week as well and noticed several people drinking heavily to dull the pain...

Sounds about right!

70 posted on 05/01/2006 3:16:21 PM PDT by HitmanLV ("5 Minute Penalty for #40, Ann Theresa Calvello!" - RIP 1929-2006)
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To: HitmanLV

I think I sent you a freep mail on this, can't remember...I was in the nightclub Pure at Caesars. They were offering bottle service and the waitresses couldn't keep up with orders for Grey Goose at $475 per...I don't know who owns the joint, but they're making a bloody fortune.


71 posted on 05/01/2006 3:18:02 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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To: Muleteam1

I'm in North Carolina. There's a large construction project, major redesign of a city street that I use every morning, in downtown Greensboro, and the work crews are by far and away hispanic. No hispanic faces this morning, though. No workers at all by lunchtime.

Outside of that, I haven't noticed a thing. There's a demonstration that was scheduled to begin at 3:00 PM, and I haven't heard anything about it. Had it been well-attended, outbound 5:00 traffic would have been snarled, and it wasn't.


73 posted on 05/01/2006 3:18:26 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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74 posted on 05/01/2006 3:19:12 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Learning to shrug is the beginning of wisdom)
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To: HitmanLV

Oh, I'm sure they're closing it. Gotta amplify.....


75 posted on 05/01/2006 3:19:13 PM PDT by Hi Heels (Don't you wish there were a knob on the computer to turn up the intelligence?)
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To: Boycott.Cinco

I think I'll just celebrate my anniversary on that day.


76 posted on 05/01/2006 3:19:18 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (There are no trophies for winning wars. Only consequences for losing them.)
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To: randog

Yep, some guy called Rush this morning and said he loved it, breezed right into work today and didn't have to worry about so many uninsured drivers on the road.


77 posted on 05/01/2006 3:19:48 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Sterm26

This doesn't prove anything. This only shows what would happen in the short term if we actually bothered enforcing immigration laws. Long term, the economy would adjust. However, I'm sure many employers will look at their bottom line and support illegal immigration or amnesty to avoid losing money short-term, which is the whole idea of today's events.


78 posted on 05/01/2006 3:20:24 PM PDT by nosofar
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To: Sterm26

Hampton Roads, Virginia was hit really hard! Nearly a dozen demonstrators in Norfolk, maybe two dozen in Virginia Beach and none on the Lower Peninsula.


79 posted on 05/01/2006 3:20:42 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink)
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To: Sterm26
Diane Swonk, chief economist at Chicago-based Mesirow Financial. "To be turning our backs on people who want to work..."

The lingo of professional economists does not include "turning our backs" on people. She may be a "chief economist", but her choice of descriptions tells us that she spouting political talking points, not providing economic analysis.

Investigating further, we find that she has a book:

She is passionate, don't you know. Not for her is "turning our backs" on people.

80 posted on 05/01/2006 3:21:16 PM PDT by Plutarch
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