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Food fight over pesos for pizza (more details on Pizza Patron, NAFTA)
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | January 17, 2007 | Ruben Navarrette Jr., San Diego Union-Tribune

Posted on 02/23/2007 3:55:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

SOME UPTIGHT Americans are going loco over the peso. In fact, it's a real food fight.

Pizza Patron, a Dallas-based pizza chain, is accepting pesos at its 59 stores in Texas, Colorado, Arizona, California and Nevada. The gimmick is aimed at the company's clientele, which is 60 percent Latino. The company has received thousands of angry e-mails and even death threats.

The thinking was that folks might find themselves with a loose peso or two after trips to Mexico. So why not trade pesos for pizza? That sounds like capitalism. Everyone wants Latinos' dinero. According to marketing experts, Fortune 500 companies spend more than $2 billion per year on advertising for a shot at nearly $800 billion in annual Latino spending power.

But to others, these marketing campaigns are the hoofbeats of the Apocalypse. They worry about the dissolving of borders and the creation of a free-trade region of the Americas stretching from Alaska to Chile. It won't happen anytime soon.

That was the headline from a recent meeting between the editorial board of the San Diego Union-Tribune and U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez. The Cuban-born Gutierrez, who earned praise as the youngest CEO in the history of the Kellogg Company before joining the Bush administration in 2005, described a free-trade zone of the Americas as "a vision that will one day come to be."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: California; US: Colorado; US: Nevada; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; crime; fastfood; illegalaliens; illigalimmigration; immigration; mexican; peso; pizzapatron; reconquista
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To: gcruse

I care and you will too when we are balkanized and you are a stranger in your own land.
If you don't care about your own country and what happens to it then you deserve whatever it sinks to.


21 posted on 02/23/2007 7:53:18 PM PST by smoketree (the insanity, the lunacy these days.)
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To: smoketree

As long as they accept US currency, there is no balkanization.
As for losing the country, try walking down the street at night in East St Louis. Illegal immigration has nothing to do with what happened to that part of your country.


22 posted on 02/23/2007 7:59:23 PM PST by gcruse (http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
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To: gcruse

We don't have problems with illegals in Alaska. Does that mean we don't anywhere else?
You can always find an area where something is different. That does not in any way mean that we are not losing part of our country to an invasive culture.
When we can't keep emergency rooms open under the strain of illegals the point of no return is near and you say that is no problem as long as hospitals still treat citizens. Same difference as who cares what kind of currency is used.
When they are able to vote in their own people then the point of no return is here and we are close to that.
So what you say as long as we can still live here as minorities in what used to be our own country.
I say you are a Quisling.


23 posted on 02/23/2007 8:11:18 PM PST by smoketree (the insanity, the lunacy these days.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Last time I went into Canada at Niagra Falls I stopped at a Canadian Dennys for lunch. They accepted payment in dollars and gave change in Canadian. I didn't see this as a violation of Canadian sovereignty, just a good business move by the Dennys by way of accommodating hungry customers.

Same here.


24 posted on 02/23/2007 8:20:37 PM PST by tlb
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To: Digger

PhD in business, and you?


25 posted on 02/23/2007 8:29:36 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Newt Gingrich/John Bolton 2008)
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To: tlb

Not the same here at all. If there were tens of millions of US citizens crossing into Canada illegally and defrauding tens of billions of dollars in social services and wanting their own culture and language and currency and then restaurants were accepting mostly US dollars you would not be saying it was no problem.


26 posted on 02/23/2007 8:35:22 PM PST by smoketree (the insanity, the lunacy these days.)
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To: smoketree

"I say you are a Quisling."

Knock off the insults.


27 posted on 02/23/2007 8:51:46 PM PST by gcruse (http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
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To: gcruse

If the "description" fits so be it.
If you don't want to be called that then don't act that way.


28 posted on 02/23/2007 8:54:07 PM PST by smoketree (the insanity, the lunacy these days.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The company has received thousands of angry e-mails and even death threats.

I hope they sent the same e-mails to the congress critters who are supporting amnesty/shamnesty!! That's who really deserve it.

29 posted on 02/23/2007 8:54:29 PM PST by NRA2BFree (Duncan Hunter for President '08 - A genuine "Reagan Republican" for America!)
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To: gcruse

"try walking down the street at night in East St Louis. Illegal immigration has nothing to do with what happened to that part of your country."



So, are you for capital punishment for capital crimes, including murder, spying and treason?


30 posted on 02/23/2007 9:10:11 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

I'm for a businessman running his business as he sees fit within the bounds of the law. Sorry if that rankles.


31 posted on 02/23/2007 9:13:09 PM PST by gcruse (http://garycruse.blogspot.com/)
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To: gcruse

More power to all patriotic entrepreneuers, as opposed to mere globalist mercenaries large or small. Hope you're one of the former.

Now, back to my question, I didn't catch your answer on capital punishment.


32 posted on 02/23/2007 9:25:38 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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