A day without heartburn??
(Or a day without gas??)
I didn't have any rice or beans today. I guess they showed me. Of course, I didn't have to have them running their uninsured cars into me and standing in the welfare line next to my office either.
They aren't needed, President Bush. They can go home to Mexico.
NOW, GO HOME! (can you hear me now?) LOL
Forget the nonexistent traffic today, THIS is THE great unforeseen benefit. If they're not in session, they can't screw anything else up!
These employers who caved in will be sorry. They have shown that they are not in charge. There will be more protests and more and more workers will be taking days off. It's going to be alot harder for employers to crack down later. Frankly, it they can't afford to pay their employees a decent wage, then maybe they don't need to be in business.
LAPD just released numbers -- 250K in the rally earlier in downtown LA.
75K hanging around now.
Refreshing!
Groovy. So move to Mexico. According to you, should be Nirvana. Why wait? Leave now, take your backbone with you...we'll just have to muddle along without y'all...
Report from Occupied San Jose: driving around East San Jose (the center of the civilized Universe, where all Hardworking, Dedicated, Family Oriented and Focused People dwell), I saw a number of the usual dilapidated cars and trucks draped, of course, with giant Mexican flags, and piloted by the usual sinister looking folks who appear to be evading the parole officer today. Did not see the GIANT demonstrations on King and Story roads, even though I was on both about the time when it was supposedly happening....maybe I'm just myopic.
And it was a beautiful sound.
It was the sound of Americans doing the work Americans would do if illegal aliens weren't doing it for less.
God Bless America and God Bless Americans!!
This article is unmitigated B.S.
I liked what a caller to Rush's show said about the boycott and protests. He wanted illegals to be banned from all emergency rooms, free gov't services, etc., for the same length of time to see how it all balances out.
Sorry if this point has already been made, but I'm too tired to read the whole thread. I wonder if they also said "No--No welfare benefits for today, no uninsured illegals at the hospitals today, no Latino gangs killing babies in drive-bys today." Now THAT might make a positive impact.
The media will make sure people THINK this was a big success! At least where I am, it was not!
Who, in there right mind, would trust their kids to a person who is illegal, and whose past could never be verified? They could molest your kids and sell the videos in Mexico when they returned to be splashed all over the net. Or, worse yet, while you are gone, they could just take your kids back over the border and sell them deep into Mexico to have videos made and you would never know the true identity of the "undocumented worker" that took your kids. As a boy growing up in southern Texas, we were always aware of kidnappers that sold kids across the borders (and that was before the Internet perverted a lot of these people). Some parents are freakin nuts.
So why are your union's members only making pennies per hour with no retirement and only the tax payers to take care of their health benefits?
Mrsdd hired an American to do the yard work today - Me.
Cheap labor - A hug and a kiss and I'm a rich man!
Must be one of those jobs that Americans are willing to do if the criminals weren't flooding the market.
Throughout the state, employers seemed eager to accommodate employees if they could.
In food-loving San Francisco, owner Laurie Thomas made a deal with workers at her Rose Pistola restaurant: she would keep the Italian eatery shut for lunch if the night crew promised to show up for dinner.
Carmen Murray, owner of Rodeo Carpet Mills in Commerce, Calif., said she was operating on a skeleton staff Monday as two-thirds of her 33-person work force took the day off to attend rallies. She said her workers asked weeks in advance and were allowed to use vacation time.
Many farms and packing plants let their workers take the time off while others rearranged schedules to make up for missed work on Monday,
"We made it clear there would be no repercussions if they wanted to take that day off. We wanted them to feel free to express themselves," McNally said.
For some enterprises, that meant a boon in business. With so most other restaurants closed, Wan Kee, a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco's Mission District, did brisk lunchtime business.
In other words, whatever success the boycott had was due to the fact that the boycotters were assured that there would be no risk to themselves if they participated. From the above, the total sacrifice that I see by the protestors is that a few of them had to take vacation days. Otherwise, because of fear, or because of greed, the employers themselves were assisting the boycott, and the boycotters got a free holiday.