Posted on 12/19/2002 10:24:13 PM PST by hoosierskypilot
(AP) Travel executives say the nation's $91 billion foreign tourism industry is in peril because of a growing perception overseas that the United States has become "Fortress America."
In the year after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, 66 million fewer visitors tried to enter the United States, according to Immigration and Naturalization Service figures. And those who did try were sent back home at a higher rate than the year before.
Travel industry executives complain that the post-Sept. 11 security crackdown at airports - especially some widely publicized incidents in which visitors were searched, interrogated and put on a plane back home - has discouraged tourism.
"There is an impression being made that we are creating a Fortress America," said Rick Webster, a spokesman for the Travel Industry Association of America.
INS officials recognize the concerns but say their first priority is to secure all borders.
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Please, spare me.
BTW: Boxer and Fein are much worst than Hillary because they actually believ the BS they peddle while Hillary knows she is a lying sack of shit.
Boxer and feindstien are worse that Hillary Clinton? How can that be? There is only one female worse than Hillary, and that's Ms Reno......Another eastcoaster I might add :o
Well I think that answer to that is obvious. Outside of our political idiots, and I might add that BOXER and GRAY DAVIS ARE FROM NEW YORK. Hehehe
It kills me how everyone likes to bash Californians. I've lived here my whole life and only know about ten Californians.
You bet. If you removed all the folks that aren't from here, the place would be just about empty.
Don't worry about it. Most of them are green with jealousy. Always been like that. How would you like to be freezing your butt off 5 months out of every year and sliding around on ice, decorated by brown snow? Sure we got political problems, but there is no where else I would rather be....
Actually she is the senator of New York state. And like I mentioned earlier, two of our idiots, Boxer and Gray Davis are also from New York.
And yes, I know some places in upstate New York are nice and not NY City. Just like most of Cal aint San Francisco and LA.
Yea, but it took CA to make him a star.
A star? Last I heard he was sitting in a cage, quite gray and arguing with the toilet in his cell. It's Amazing what Midwesterners consider a "star".
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
My experience with hispanic gals is daydreaming about Selma Hayek.
Please read #43. And yes I have been to New York at least 20 times, very nice.
But it don't beat California, the crown jewel of this great country.
Where some areas of the state look like the great deserts of the Australian outback, while others look like the rain forest of South America, still others appear like the great Swiss Alps, with towering peaks that reach almost 15,000 feet above sea level, the highest point in the continental US, to the lowest point in the U.S. where Death Valley Scotty built a castle in the desert, something out of a dream, while still others appear like the beaches of Hawaii, and other areas with the tallest trees in the world, and still other areas that are right out of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer.
This country is filled with beautiful areas. California just happens to be my favorite. As you can see, I am biased, It's my state and I am very proud to be here.
Merry Christmas to all.....
Glad to see someone else that thinks like I do!!! if you and I joined forces...there'd be two of us!
"The smart ones won't even try to cross, the stupid ones will die along the way, and the survivors can be seen at night, glowing, making it much easier to shoot 'em!"
Pass it along: "Line The Borders With Nuclear Waste!!!"
No doubt. I'm sure they're jealous that we've turned over the prettiest city in CA (San Francisco) to perverts and street dregs. My favorite aspect of San Fran is the drug addicts and AIDS infested people urinating and defecating on the streets.
I'm sure they're jealous of the fact that 50% of the population doesn't even speak English.
I'm sure they're jealous of the fact that our universities are staffed by tenured professors who are communists and socialists. (I happen to be a student in one of our esteemed universities and know whereof I speak.)
I'm sure they're jealous of our incredibly high cost of living. I'm sure they're jealous of the fact that the median price of a (modest) home is $300,000.
I'm sure they're jealous of our traffic jams. (My last trip to LA took me four hours just to get across the city.)
I'm sure they're jealous of Berkeley, home of traitors, seditionists and rebels.
I'm sure they're jealous of the fact that one cannot even buy a centerfire rifle that has either a pistol grip or a flash suppressor.
I'm sure they're jealous of our in-your-face militant homosexual rights movement.
Sorry. You could not be more wrong. Most of the USA holds CA in contempt. They could care less about our food or weather. Some things are more important than comfort.
Drugs, fags, crime, traffic, illegals? Every state has that, and your cities are loaded with it too. LOL! Get real. And don't be so angry.
My Dad use to tell me that his relatives from Ohio were always jealous of where he lived in Cal 50 years ago. It was a joking back and forth thing, be it was obvious to him. Especially come the fall and winter months.
California is a huge state, the crown Jewel of this great country.
Where else in this country can you finde some areas that resemble the great deserts of the Australian outback?
Others look like the rain forest of South America, still others appear like the great Swiss Alps.
Other areas with towering peaks that reach almost 15,000 feet above sea level, the highest point in the continental US, to the lowest point in the U.S. where Death Valley Scotty built a castle in the desert, something out of a dream.
While still others appear like the beaches of Hawaii, and other areas with the tallest trees in the world, and other areas that are right out of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer.
Only about 5 regions on earth with the same climatic conditons.
This country is filled with beautiful areas, as I have been to your state and about 42 others including 6 different countries. California just happens to be my favorite place on earth. As you can see, I am biased, It's my state and I am very proud to be here.
Cheer up and don't be so dang jealous! Merry Christmas to all.....
California has always served as a conduit into America for perversion, left wing ideology and treason. You're either a child ("My dad says......") or stoned.
California is a cancer to America; a blight on civiled man.
I, too, live in California and am duly impressed by the weather and recreational facilities. But the moral and political situation in this accursed state are at crisis proportions.
And it's no wonder, if CA's "conservatives" like you choose to hide your heads in the clouds and pretend all is well.
I, too, live in California and am duly impressed by the weather and recreational facilities. But the moral and political situation in this accursed state are at crisis proportions.
Lets see, first you say your not in Tennessee and your an Indiana Hoosier, whatever that is, and now you live in California. It's seems you are confused as to where you actually live. I noted no state flag in your profile. Interesting. And revealing
If your in Cal and don't like it, hit the road to Indiana or cornhusker land, Jim. LOL!
Just a bit of advise though. You need to get out of downtown Indianapolis or SF which ever one you may be in.
I'am a native to Cal, unlike people like Boxer and Gray Davis and you, and others who migrated to California from the east and everywhere else.
Yes, the truth of the matter is that some areas that many are absolutely green with envy towards California, with our great deserts that resemble the Australian outback or our regions that look just the rain forest of South America, still others appear like the great Swiss Alps.
Where we routinely go fishing where there are towering peaks that reach almost 15,000 feet above sea level, the highest point in the continental US. Twice a year we go to places like to the lowest point in the U.S. where Death Valley Scotty built a castle in the desert, something out of a dream. Other areas of my state appear like the beaches of Hawaii, and other areas with the tallest trees in the world, and other areas that are right out of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer.
Only about 5 regions on earth with the same climatic conditions.
This country is filled with beautiful areas, as I have been to your state and about 42 others including 6 different countries. California just happens to be my favorite place on earth. As you can see, I am biased, It's my state and I am very proud to be here.
You can continue to rant and bit*h about California, that's fine. I can only hope that you get in you car and drive to Indianapolis, or where ever you really live. But the problem will be that what you are attempting to avoid is not isolated to Cal. Hell, everyone knows that. Even the cornhuskers I bet.
I can offer you current articles from all over this country, and in Indiana, where people are brutally murdered in the middle of no where, where crime is abundant, drugs, prostitutes, Illegals, and state budgets are in the red by billions, etc etc.
Would you care to see them?
I suggest maybe you by a motorhome, that way you can just keep on running, instead of taking a stand where ever you may be. I couldn't help but notice that your another Freeper that has no state flag in his profile. I find that humorously revealing. But do me a favor. If your in my state, just leave. Oh, and feel free to take as many of your friends with you as possible.
Quit your dang crying. Just get it.
Thanks, and Merry Christmas!
By the way, your spelling, grammar and punctuation are atrocious. You come across as an ignorant buffoon. (Or a 13 year-old-kid.)
In the future, if you expect anyone to consider you a credible source of information (instead of, as I suspect, one who derives his information from a two hour movie-of-the-week), edit your posts. Stupidity is only acceptable in CA. But not only Kalifornians read the posts.
Semper fidelis
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