Posted on 07/07/2007 3:24:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
More people everywhere seem to be staying home. I’m ok with that.
Tourism = down.
Congress’s solution: increase the size of the government.
Brilliant.
Well there will be no fence. Just massive help for illegals both in and out of this country. We need a lot more illegal Mexican visitors, and this new government agency will guide them along the way.
I have in idea, lets get all the progressive, liberal, socialist, un American commies and their lackey GOP helpers on one stage and hand out rotten fruits and veggies to toss at them. I would think the only problem would be that the tourist would have to stand in line to wait until we Americans are thru with them!
“..to promote the United States as a tourist destination..”
Al-Qaeda loves the idea. If we don’t even give our immigrants security checks, how can we expect tourists to undergo this scrutiny? How can we make sure that tourists do not overstay their time limit in the country?
What they don’t tell you is that we still get many more times the tourist dollars of any other nation on the planet.
What I say is...who gives a rats a$$ about tourists? Give us more jobs dammit! Drill for oil and bring back our manufacturing. Then ramp up our space program. We can put tourists on the freaking moon.
If the USA wanted to do that the Pres could repeal the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and open a Land Office for recording entry and mining claims on the moon and elsewhere. But, the USA doesn't want private enterprise that uses space resources except under contract to NASA.
Yeah, no bias in that remark. / sarcasm off
Oh great, just what we need, more foreigners.
Yes I would love to have more tourist coming from the thired world.Espechialy Islamic tourist who’ll be coming to do what they do best./Sarcasm
If Congress really wanted to increase tourism it would 1) fire every TSA employee, and 2) let airlines handle security. At least the airlines would treat passengers with decency. (I’d rather have a root canal than go through TSA’s airport screening.)
You forgot the /sarc tag!
But the good news is that our 'tourism' from Mexico is at an all time high.
Congress could fix tourism in a heart beat, by creating a N-E-W Seventh Wonder of the World. All they would have to do would be to STAY IN SESSION for a WHOLE month, without one and two week shutdowns for recesses for one-day holidays like 4th of July, Easter, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Presidents Day, etc. The whole country would flock to Washington, DC, and just stand out in the Mall staring in amazement and awe, not believing something like that could ever happen. People would be clinching each other with tears rolling down their cheeks. It would be like the Second Coming.
“nonprofit public-private corporation’
Groan. You don’t need profits when the taxpayer gets stuck with the bill.
I feel like a tourist in this socialist pit already. I grew up near DC. Last time I was there, it felt like East Berlin. And that is without going NEAR an airport.
They could institute super duper express visas for doctors. /s
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