Stupid e-mail RE: MAY 1st....UGGGGG!

[Texasgal]

COME ON GIRLS...(AND GUYS) THIS IS ONE THING WE ALL LOVE TO DO, SO LETS DO IT TO HELP OUR COUNTRY AND SHOW "WE" SURE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.





Show that Americans can keep our Country and our economy strong and that we don't depend on illegal Immigrants to support us.



Make the First of May Shopping Day!



Illegal immigrants are planning a nationwide boycott of all goods and services on Monday, May 1st. They have marched in our streets and demanded rights as a reward for breaking our country's law. They hope to show that they have an impact on our economy, they hope to hurt American business, they hope to emotionally and economically blackmail us into submission.



So what can we do?



All Americans who support LEGAL immigration but demand that all immigrants RESPECT our law are asked to act on May 1st. Wear RED or BLUE that day (They will be wearing white), and go SHOPPING.



If you have to grocery shop, make it May 1st.

Need gas in your car? Fill it up May 1st.

Buy Mother's Day gifts, buy summer clothes, buy whatever you need, but BUY THAT DAY.



American citizens outnumber illegal immigrants, and we MUST make ourselves heard. Wear red or blue to show your pride in your country, and your opposition to weak border and amnesty legislation. And GO SHOPPING! Let's make May 1st a day to remember, and remind Congress that the illegal immigrants they cower before can't vote. We can. And we will.



Make the First of May Shopping Day!



FORWARD THIS TO SHOW YOUR PRIDE IN YOUR COUNTRY!!!!!



Forward this to everyone on your email list, at work, at school, your friends, your family.



We CAN make ourselves heard.



We CAN remind the politicians that WE are the ones that put them in office, and that it's OUR tax dollars they're squandering.



Pass the word along and make your voice heard!





HATEFUL CRAP! :mad:

[Sparkly]

1. "When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping."

What is it with this shopping thing?!? Remember right after 9/11 -- the preznit didn't tell Americans to make sacrifices, he told us to go shopping. :eyes:

[originalpckelly]

2. May first is the first, but not the last day people are going to strike...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1043719&mesg_id=1043719
Viva la Revolution!

[gkhouston]

3. note to self: do all weekly errands on 4/29 and 4/30. n/t

[DS1]

Time to slap a Mexican flag on that giant elephant in the room

called Iraq

[democracyindanger]

4. You. Cannot. Be. Serious.

Shopping day?

:rofl:

[NYCGirl]

5. Snopes is already on the case:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigration/may1.asp

[pilgrimm]

6. consuming is the cause of and solution to all of life's little problems

[CanuckAmok]

9. I thought that was alcohol.

I'm now officially confused

[Selatius]

7. It may or may not be racist

It's difficult to distinguish nationalism with racism here.

What is clear though is my own judgments on the manner.

I don't hate anybody for having jobs Americans used to have. I hate the men who sent the jobs away and men who knowingly hire these people knowing they can skirt labor laws and minimum wage protections. Often times, these men do both in a campaign to make themselves rich at the expense of everything else. Greed is their game, and if it means doing business with a one-party dictatorship like China or destroying the middle class, they'd do it.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

8. Yes, go to WalMart and buy junk made in China by slave labor

make sure that you shop mindlessly. After all, all that matters is you, right? It's not like we're interconnected or anything. :sarcasm:

[stop the bleeding]

10. I'm wearing green on that day n/t

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

11. What, pray tell, would that actually prove?

The legal immigrants can shop? :shrug:

Conservatives never cease to amaze (and amuse) me.

[Blaze Diem]

12. HA like this is going to do any damage.

Go shopping????????
I'll be walking in the streets with my neighbors. We've made a sign and will add balloons to the baby's stroller. I wish all safety and hope the message is heard.
I have my fears about this day however...honestly have to say it.
Not sure why.

[Midlodemocrat]

13. I'd reply to this, but I have to grocery shop and fill up my car today.

[calmblueocean]

14. I don't see why progressives are supporting illegal immigration.

I'm definitely not for deporting all those who are here illegally now, but they should be registered, they should be bumped to the bottom of the citizenship list, they should be checked out for a criminal record. Soft borders and illegal immigration just helps rich corporations get richer by exploiting their labor. Wake up, sheeple!

[Texasgal]

16. I think you are confused.

I am in NO WAY supporting illegal immigration. I believe that our system needs to be made easier for people to obtain citizenship.

It should not be a FELONY to be an illegal immigrant. Period.

This is where I draw the line.

[calmblueocean]

17. Help me understand you, then.

I support a 4 year window in which those who are currently here illegally can register for citizenship. After that 4 years is up, employers are heavily fined for hiring unregistered, illegal labor.

I would like to properly fund and technologize the INS so we can increase our legal immigration to quotas that are closer to the amounts of illegal immigration we have today. But if legal immigration is made easier, I can't support people who choose to thumb their nose at the American system and come into this country illegally. I think if we have a legal immigration system that is fair, then illegal immigrants who try to bypass it should be deported.

What do you think of this sort of plan? What would you say should happen to those who come here illegally if such a plan were in place?

[Texasgal]

18. I have no issue with dealing with

Illegals fairly. If they are willing to abide by rules of the INS ( which NEEDS to be overhauled ) then I agree... deport.

The plan, is not that though, ol' Dumbya wants to make it a FELONY to be here the country illegally, and I find that crazy!

Just how in the hell do we round up and procecute all of the so-called "felons"? It would create a massive STRAIN on our legal system, which is already strained.

Make it an easier process, have INS deal with and grant visa's to hard working immigrants and let the rest go home. I think it's pretty simple if you ask me. So, I must say agree with you.

[calmblueocean]

19. From what I can understand of Bush's plan

he wants to provide a new legal status -- "guest worker" -- for everyone here illegally who has a job. If he had his way, if you were here illegally, you could register for the guest worker program, which would not only allow you to live here, but travel back and forth to your country of origin if you wanted to. It is only if you are here illegally, do not have a job, and your guest worker status has expired, that you will be deported.

There are a lot of people in Bush's base who would like it if the illegal immigrant round-up trucks came out tomorrow in full force, but Bush wants to provide a way for illegal immigrants to stay in this country by working.

What I think is wrong about the "guest worker" program is that it is just another way for cheap labor conservatives to break the ability of regular citizens to assert their will over corporations. It would allow any corporation to drastically cut the wages and benefits of its workforce by threatening to bring in "guest workers", a completely docile, compliant worker population controlled by threat of deportation. And Bush hasn't spelled out what rights his "guest worker" class would even have. If they're injured on the job, for instance, to the point where they can't work, do they get to remain in this country on Worker's Compensation or are they deported to where they came from, where proper medical care may not exist? Given the Republicans history of making up imaginary classes like "enemy combatant" that subvert the Constitution, one can only expect guest workers to be a second class citizen with fewer rights. And that's not the America I want to live in.

Let's get 'em in here as real, true American citizens. None of this guest worker crap. No half measures.

At any rate, I'm glad we pretty much agree. Funny how that happens when you ask questions and listen! :)

[MadHound]

15. Where did this stupid new phenomenon come from.

It seems that the right wing's answer to everything is to go shopping. From Bush shorty after 911 proclaiming that the patriotic thing for Americans to do was shop, to this piece of jingoistic crap urging shopping as a way to counter protest the immigration protesters, it seems that shopping is a new form of patriotism:crazy:

I've met more than one RWer who are completely unworried and non-caring about rising gas prices, all due to this skewed notion that spending money equates to patriotism. The more money spent, the more patriotic they are. Credit card debt doesn't bother these people, after all, they are spending money for the good of the country. And I, with my little 100mpg scooter, am somehow being unpatriotic because *gasp* I'm conserving fuel, and not spending money. I'm unpatriotic because I don't have a credit card, and because I live within my means.

I find this whole notion bizarre. Back in WWII, it was the patriotic thing to do to save money, save it and invest it in War Bonds. Looking back at that time, and talkng to those who lived through it, War Bond drives, and the concurrent message of saving money, were spread far, wide and often. Even as recently as ten years ago there was much concern about Americans' inability to save money, with dire warnings of how this could damage our economy.

But somewhere between now and then, the paradigm was changed, and the economic poles switched. What was once considered good for both the country and the inividual is now starting to border on treason. What was once considered the wise and logical thing to do is now considered to be unpatriotic. What's next, changing the fable of the ant and the grasshopper around so that it is the ant who has bad things happen to him because he dared to store things up while working hard?:shrug:

And what is sad is that this movement of shopping as patriotism is continuing to harm our country as our brainwashed population continues to rack up record breaking personal debt. This people are contributing to their own demise without really realizing it.

But hey, I'm going to continue to save and store up, and you should too if you're smart. Back times are coming, their just coming over the horizon. It is easier to withstand the storm if you got a rainy day package stashed away. And let those who equate spending with patriotism be stuck out in the rain getting soaked.

[uppityperson]

20. Shopping? That is too funny.