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To: jiggyboy
We survived “a day without Mexicans” a couple of years ago. Tell ya what, take the whole week off, that will really show us.

Really?

It is pretty pathetic when the left chooses one of its identity groups to go on strike as an example to show how much the country depends on that group, and no one notices their absence.

17 posted on 11/11/2016 7:25:21 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

I didn’t even notice. Something happened?


19 posted on 11/11/2016 7:26:15 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: exDemMom

Yes. Maybe it was big only in California. I deliberately picked a sushi restaurant for dinner that night.

From wikipedia:

The Great American Boycott (Spanish: El Gran Paro Estadounidense, lit. “the Great American Strike”) was a one-day boycott of United States schools and businesses by immigrants in the United States, of mostly Latin American origin that took place on May 1, 2006.

The date was chosen by boycott organizers to coincide with May Day, the International Workers Day observed as a national holiday in Asia, most of Europe, and Mexico, but not officially recognized in the United States due to its Communist associations.[1][2][3]

As a continuation of the 2006 U.S. immigration reform protests, the organizers called for supporters to abstain from buying, selling, working, and attending school, in order to attempt to demonstrate through the extent to which the labor obtained of illegal immigrants is needed. Supporters of the boycott rallied in major cities across the U.S. to demand general amnesty and legalization programs for illegal aliens. For this reason, the day is referred to as A Day Without an Immigrant in reference to the 2004 political satire film A Day Without a Mexican.[citation needed]

Though some demonstrations were peaceful, a Vista, California rally took a violent turn at day’s end when crowds began throwing rocks and bottles at sheriff’s deputies. There were also two arrests made at a demonstration in Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park.[4] A stabbing that occurred near the location of the march in San Jose, California, may or may not have been related to the day’s events.[5]

While the economic effects of the boycott are unknown, most initial reports indicated that the boycott failed to halt “business as usual”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Boycott


74 posted on 11/11/2016 1:16:42 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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