Posted on 04/27/2006 8:27:37 AM PDT by Reagan Man
May 1 is going to be “A Day Without Illegal Aliens.”
This is supposed to frighten you.
Why? Because you are an American -- weak, pampered, spoiled and allegedly incapable of taking care of yourself. You need the illegal alien servant class just to survive.
Those who want amnesty for immigration criminals -- illegal aliens, pandering politicians, ethnic grievance agitators and the politically correct media -- have swallowed their own propaganda and believe that the American economy is totally dependent for its greatness on unskilled illegal labor and the corrupt underground economy it fosters.
So on May 1, the ridiculous, old socialist “workers’ holiday” known overseas as “May Day,” they intend to punish the American people, and intimidate Congress into passing a “guest worker” amnesty, by marching in the streets, boycotting American stores, and shutting down the corrupt businesses that have illegally employed them.
What a mistake. This will not paralyze the American economy -- but it will paralyze the underground economy and the greedy businesses that profit from it.
If you have ever wondered which local businesses hire illegal aliens and which ones hire legal residents and play by the rules, then on Monday, May 1, you will finally know.
Those businesses still functioning on May 1, dubbed “A Day Without Illegal Aliens” by the scheme’s organizers, will be the honest ones. They’ll be the ones who hire only legal immigrants and American citizens, obey our labor laws, collect their employee’s taxes, and pay their workers a fair legal wage.
The ones without employees will be the crooks, the corrupt schemers that have fueled the chaos on our insecure borders by providing no-questions-asked jobs to anyone willing to sneak into our country, work off the books and in the shadows, and accept substandard pay and conditions that no American could be legally made to tolerate.
That’s why movements have popped up all over the country to use this fabulous opportunity to fight illegal labor and the crooked system of human smuggling, document forgery, tax evasion, and sweat shop wages that have grown up around it.
I originally proposed calling May 1 “Conservative Shopping Day,” since so many of my fellow grassroots conservatives were disgusted with our open borders, illegal labor, and the march towards amnesty in Congress. But this goes well beyond one political movement.
Almost everyone I have spoken with -- conservatives, liberals, moderates, independents, Democrats, Republicans, legal immigrants, and native-born citizens alike -- are disgusted with the current widespread corruption of our economy and laws by illegal labor. They are disgusted in no small part because illegal labor is a national corruption that is openly condoned by the leadership of both political parties, who are much more eager to harvest campaign contributions from crooked business interests and votes from amnestied immigration criminals than they are to enforce our laws, secure our borders and protect the wages of working Americans.
In the spirit of putting aside partisan politics and joining together with all Americans that are opposed to illegal labor and demand that our laws be enforced by government, I declare Monday, May 1 -- the threatened “Day Without Illegal Aliens” -- to be AMERICAN SHOPPING DAY.
It is a day to fight for the rule of law, without having to beg our elected “leaders” to listen to their own voters. The strategy is simple and direct:
GET OUT AND SUPPORT THOSE BUSINESSES THAT PLAY BY THE RULES.
This will not only reward the law-abiding and allow one to avoid the corrupt, but it will also send a powerful message.
The planned boycott of American stores and businesses by illegal aliens and their enablers is designed to demonstrate the “purchasing power” of illegal workers and to cause a frightening one-day shock to American retail sales. It is being adopted and echoed by foreign supporters of illegal immigration as well. In Mexico, a nation that has become dependent upon the billions of dollars that illegal workers inside the United States send home each year, it is being called “Nothing Gringo Day.”
Through this contrivance, the illegal labor lobby hopes to appear more powerful and to frighten retailers into supporting amnesty, which is being dishonestly called a “temporary guest worker program” in Washington.
By making a point to do as much shopping as possible on May 1, American Shopping Day, Americans can stop this scam in its tracks. If the issue is to be decided by a demonstration of “purchasing power,” then let’s demonstrate the purchasing power of 300 million legal American residents. The purchasing power of 11 million illegal workers and their bosses and sympathizers will pale in comparison.
American Shopping Day: Five Things You Can Do to Fight Back
1. Buy, buy, buy. Make your regular purchases for the week or month, but make them all on May 1. Nobody needs to go broke, just to buy on one particular day. If you’ve been putting off a purchase, put it off no more. Besides, you know the clerks will all speak English if you shop on May 1. No more painful pantomime just to find out where the paper towels are.
2. Eat out. Contrary to pro-amnesty propaganda, most food service workers are American citizens -- but these workers do suffer much more from illegal labor wage competition than most. Get out and treat yourself to a nice meal -- one that serves up a big steamy bowl of justice for a change.
3. Take notice of which businesses can still function. These are the ones playing by the rules and deserve long-term support. Come back again and again. Avoid those that mysteriously close or are obviously understaffed.
4. Tell your friends. Send then this message or make up you own. Call it whatever you want and credit whomever you wish. All that matters is that people get out and shop.
5. Tell your congressman how much you enjoyed a day with illegal aliens. Write or call; it is one of the greatest powers you have. Elected officials figure that if you care enough to call on an issue, you care enough to vote on it. You can e-mail your senators and your congressman. And you can also call your senators and your congressman.
American Shopping Day -- Monday, May 1. A unique opportunity to do something good by doing something fun.
Call a Cop because they can protest but if they block your way for going about your business they've broke the law.
bttt
This clearly identifies those who are really behind this fiasco! What part of against the laws don't these people understand??????
The margarita blenders will go silent!
Like I been sayin', this is no longer an illegal alien problem, it's a Mexican problem...Apparently a huge number of American citizens with Mexican ancestry are intent on destroying this country as well as the illegals are...
That is true.
Aslo, I wanted to point out that a lot of hispanics are shopping today. I don't believe this economy crap.
They won't shop tomorrow because they already got what they needed over the weekend.
BUT....tomorrow is the first of the month. Isn't that when welfare checks come? They will be at check cashing places wiring taxpayer money south of frontera internacional.
Dirtbags.
I meant to say ALSO. I moved this weekend. I am tired.
Sorry :(
And tell those you patronize on that day. Let them know how nice it is not to have illegal invader's children running amok in the stores.
I agree.
Personnally I can't wait until towmarrow, its going to be a great day, a day without Illegals and their supporters just the thought brings a huge smile to my face.
I will boycott any business that I find closed on May 1st.
Will be out doing a bunch of shopping tomorrow in a two county area.
Better yet, celebrate at an Irish pub!
I agree! Let's face it, Stinko de Mayo is only celebrating a victory over the French troops. Not much to shout about, really. Now, if I can find some good corned beef and cabbage to go with the Irish beer on Friday...!
If only it were true.
Less congested freeways, plenty of affordable housing, hospital emergency rooms able and ready for emergencies,
no overcrowded prisons, less congested schools, classrooms of English speaking students ....
I could live with it.
Here is an article written on the 28th on how a local company supports illegals:
EXCERPT:Representatives of A. Duda & Sons Inc. and Taylor & Fulton Farms said they support their workers -- many of whom are in the country illegally -- and the message they are taking to the streets and to Congress.
But then if one goes to the DUDA website, we see this:
Statements attributed to DUDA in the article referenced above were not accurate. There will be a correction published in the Sentinel in the Saturday, April 29 th edition. cont... http://www.duda.com/
If a correction was published I didn't see it. Duda website goes on to say they are open Monday, all their workers have the proper docs, blah, blah, blah.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You've also talked about compassion for immigrants. And President Bush, Senator McCain, Senator Kennedy all look at that principle and say we need a path to earned citizenship. If you're here illegally, that you but pay back taxes, pay a fine, wait in line, work hard, you should be able to become a citizen. Do you agree with that?SCHWARZENEGGER: I agree that there should be a way to earn your citizenship, especially people that have been here for a long time, people that have contributed to our economy, that have contributed to our society, they have done community work, they been great citizens. I think we should give them a chance for redemption and for, you know, earning their way in by paying, doing more community work and all of those things and passing a test, a language test, a citizenship test, and all of those things. Yes. We should. Because the other thing that people talk about which is let's send them all back. I mean think about that. How do you do that logistically? How does that work? To send 12 million people back. It would cost $500 Billion dollars. Who's gonna pay for that? I mean it's ludicrous to think this way.
I think I gave a pretty good solution in No. 25. That shouldn't cost 500 bil.
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