Posted on 05/13/2010 6:55:24 AM PDT by laotzu
Are they going to boycott the emergency rooms too.
Wow. That's an excellent argument!
Yes, it does.
A day without hit-and-run accidents
A day without TB
A day without having to repeat my food order three times at the counter
A day without multi-state e.coli investigations
A day without having to call the foreman on another job because nobody he left at my site understands English
Adios. Two can play this game. Americans win. Mexico looses.
“They better be careful, people will discover how well America can get along with out them. Happened to the unions here in Houston during a strike of a certain corporation’s refineries back in the 70’s”
Man, are unions stupid. They must know that their entire existence depends on the fact that they restrict the supply of labor, jacking up the price by keeping those unfortunate enough not to be in a union out of consideration. They usually grasp the situation perfectly, for instance when they crack the skulls of “scabs” on the picket line. But apparently they periodically forget, and don’t use the governemnt/violence to stop at all costs honest people from voluntarily making an honest day’s pay without the union’s say-so.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
Actually, illegals are better than slaves.
You can hire an illegal for next to nothing only if and whem you need him/her - and you do not need to be responsible for feeding and housing him/her or their family.
Slaves, on the other hand, had a significant up-front cost and you were responsible for housing and feeding them whether they worked or didn't.
So, purely from a financial perspective, an illegal is far more economical.
I tried the argument that to have some wealth and power, they had to do what the economy dictated in order to compete with those with slaves. I pointed out their disapproval for the practice and that they got the tools in place in the constitution to eventually end the practice.
It was like talking to a brick wall.
The chambers are encouraging people across several northern Mexico states not to enter the United states today to shop or to do business, and to withhold their patronage from any U.S. companies.
It is sad that the Chambers of Commerce cannot distinguish between legal commercial activity and illegal immigration.
It is even sadder than many Freepers cannot either.
Victoria Texas is a town about 80 miles west of Houston. Local Hispanic leaders there, in opposition to pending Immigration Legislation, boycotted all Caucasion owned businesses last month as a demonstration of their economic impact on the community. The boycott was declared asuccess by the Hispanic community, noting revenue in Caucasion owned businesses was down by 19 percent.
Business owners declared the boycott a success as well, pointing out that shoplifting was reduced by 77 percent, money orders out of the country were down by 97 percent, and the cost of daily clean up and trash collection was down 84 percent.
Shoppers reported they could acually hear English being spoken throughout the community for the first time in recent memory, and customers paid for purchases with real money, not government debit cards or food stamps.
This should be countered with
“A day with an Illegal Immigrant”
...and it should showcase the murder, kidnapping, gangs and strains on the local government education, health and welfare systems.
Most likely a hoax but it makes a point:
Subject: Boycott Makes a Difference In: Victoria, Texas
Victoria, Texas (pop.55,000) is a town about 80 miles west of Houston.
Local Hispanic leaders there, in opposition to pending Immigration Legislation, boycotted all Caucasian owned businesses in the Victoria area this past weekend as a demonstration of their economic impact on the community. The boycott was declared a success by the Hispanic community, noting that revenue in Caucasian owned businesses was down by 19%.
Business owners declared the boycott a success as well, pointing out that shoplifting was reduced by 77%, money orders sent out of the country were down by 97%, and the cost of daily clean-up and trash collection was down by 84%. Shoppers reported that they could actually hear English being spoken throughout the community for the first time in recent memory, and customers actually paid for purchases with real money, not government debit cards.
“I tried the argument that to have some wealth and power, they had to do what the economy dictated in order to compete with those with slaves.”
That’s not the argument I’d make. It’s more a matter that that’s the life they were born into. They were aristocrats, and there’s an understanding amongst those people that you carry on the family honor. That you owe a debt to your forebears and your progeny to maintain the fortune. You can, and people did, divest yourself of the slaves because of the moral stain involved. But it’s a big move, and unsurprisingly they didn’t do it lightly, despite their otherwise truly liberal (in the good, old sense) leanings.
Imagine inheriting millions of dollars from your father, whose father’s father, you discover, earned it from—I don’t know—beating it out of little children. Or whatever. You’d like to say you’d give it away to charity, but would you? Even without the aristocratic principle of a bond between generations (if that principle actually exists), do people sacrifice wealth out of general principle?
If Prince William Windsor decided, along with most moderns, that monarchy is either unecessary or positively bad, does he abdicate the throne? Does he give up not only vast personal wealth and power, but also the whole long line of Windsors, Hanoverians, Stuarts, Tudors, and Platagenets before him, but also who knows how many people after them, on a personal whim?
It’s not so easy.
I thought it was Everyone Draw Mohammed Day?!
and here I am with my Sharpie....
They tried this here in the San Francisco Bay Area not too long ago. It was a one day boycott, where illegal Mexicans (and their sympathizers) were encouraged to teach us all a lesson about how invaluable they are by staying home for a day. No work, no school, no participation in the community.
For the first time in as long as I could remember, there were no traffic jams, the freeways flowed, the surface streets were uncrowded, it felt like a holiday.
For one Monday, we got a glimpse of what life would be like without illegals and their liberal supporters, which included other activist minority groups.
Since it backfired so beautifully, this tactic hasn’t been tried here since!
Now if they could just agree to 364 more days without “Mexican Citizens”.
The roads had so much less traffic, the commute times were virtually cut in HALF.
The emergency rooms in our hospitals were almost empty.
Crime was reduced by more than half.
It was GREAT.
northern Mexico states
Lord, am I uninformed - I didn’t know Mexico had states. I have never heard of the United States of Mexico. I just thought it was one big screw up. Need to go to a re-education camp.
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