Posted on 01/07/2007 5:58:37 AM PST by devane617
Yeah. That was kinda my point. I couldn't give a damn if some pizza joint decides to take Pesos, so long as they also take legal U.S. tender, as indeed they are required to by law. They could take payment in goats as far as I'm concerned. No skin off my nose. But you are outraged at this decision by a private business, and seemingly convinced that it affects you somehow.
Affects me? Here is how it affects every American!
I am seeing FIRST hand what happens when Hispanic and Hispanic illegals infiltrate a city, a once quiet beautiful growing city.
On my way to a part of the city to get to city hall to report ordinance violations I was shocked to see how innercity looking parts of the city had become.
I was told by a Council person that hadn't I noticed our city had become "culturally diverse".
Reason I was heading to city hall and complain about the
ordinance violations was because in MY neighborhood Hispanic adult males moved in to a home and literally had trash all over their back yard that faces our area, had tires strewn around, old appliances, AND allowed 10-15 adult males to stay longterm, shortterm and everything in between seeing 10-20 hispanic adult males coming and going
daily is definite cause for concern in a private residential neighborhood and SINGLE FAMILY property.
So what does a business accepting peso's have to do with my life? Just another way to encourage participation and welcoming of Hispanic illegals to come in to this country and ruin nice cities, States, and ultimately the country.
Call it drama queen but I call it the truth!
Thank goodness there are Texas Republicans who believe that
we should pay in AMERICAN dollars and speak ENGLISH in Texas, for those interested his name is:
Dan Patrick (R) of Houston.
Just heard him on Fox voice loudly his opinion about paying in peso's, gee I wonder if he will be called drama queen.
And wonder if he will be asked how paying in peso's will affect his life. As Texas Republicans we KNOW how illegals affect every aspect in the lives of Texas taxpayers.
Perhaps we're confusing which currency was used by which country. Mexico didn't exist until after 1811. For the first couple of decades after the Mexican American War, Mexico's defacto currency was the US Dollar because we basically floated their economy after the War.
If a company wants to accept pesos for payment of goods and services, that is their business.
I do not encourage them, because if one looks at the banking system in the respective countries, the US dollar is considerably more stable.
Historically, if one is considering investing their savings in Mexican banking institutions, one might want to perform some due diligent searching on how Conoco had their investments handles in Mexico in the 50s-60s.
Hmmmm, there just might be some good reasons why international business transactions/contracts between Mexican interests and US interests only occur after escrow is held in US financial institutions.
Yeah. Lack of pizza availability was the one thing holding back the final flood of illegals. Now we're DOOOMED!
Perhaps not. Mexican independence dates from 1821, not 1811. Even before then, as a province of Spain, Mexico coined its own money, in the name of the Spanish Viceroy.
I think the currency was based more upon gold and silver than on a money reserve at that time. Didn't really matter if it was gold peso or an eagle piece.
Frankly, if a business owner wants to accept foreign money, the shirt off your back, your belt buckle or a sack of rocks as a fair trade, that is their choice. What disgusts me is that this is clearly being done to spit in the faces of law abiding American citizens, and I'm just sick of it.
I'm ready for another Revolutionary War.
when I go to europe, they take US dollars.
I fail to understand why when someone comes here, we don't take their money.
My US dollars have been accepted in stores as far south from the border as Villahermosa and Mexico City, as far north as Saskatoon, Regina and Winnipeg, as far east as Kuwait. I have also been in stores in Minot and Bismarck, ND that will take Canadian dollars. Why is a pizzeria anywhere accepting foreign currency a bad thing. Maybe we should all focus on the real issue of getting people to come here legally to spend their foreign currency.
Exactly, those of us who travel internationally, understand currency exchange and the need to sometime spend dollars in Villahermosa and British Pounds in France.
I like your home page!
Excellent cartoons.
So do you live in PalmBchFl or Texas?
We left PBC two years ago, but since I voted in the CHAD election, the FReep name had to stay. :)
Re the peso BS non-news story: I agree 100%. Any news network that raised this as anything other than a brief human interest story is peddling something other than "journalism."
Re the peso BS non-news story: I agree 100%. Any news network that raised this as anything other than a brief human interest story is peddling something other than "journalism."
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