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I've been there, but no, I'm not from or currently residing in Houston. Why would that be relevant?

Look to the far right of my screen name. Location: Minneapolis

 

Experience. Example: I saw a Hispanic who spoke perfect English tell a black sales guy at a store if he spoke Spanish and he said "no". She insisted to speak to a sales person in Spanish. It's a culture thingy like you said and the Black guy was side stepped! IS THAT OK TO YOU? No sale?

 

To take your analogy to its logical conclusion and apply it to this thread, Jedi Knight was entering the Hispanics people's workplace at lunch. Therefore, to respect them he should have spoken in Spanish.

 

Waiting for an answer.

 

Waiting for an answer to what? I don't even know how the story ended. She asked for a sales associate that spoke Spanish? Ok, if they didn't have one that did then I guess she is out of luck? What point are you trying to make here exactly? She was obviously being unreasonable in that instance becuase she was apparantly bilingual. What does that have to do with this thread at all?

 

That wasn't a cultural thing. That was being overly demanding. So if the rude and demanding customer didn't get her needs met then, yes, that's OK with me.

 

Why do you believe lowering taxes and eliminating onerous regulations on small businesses would "destroy" small business?

Why do you believe that revamping and streamlining our military to better be able to defend our nation in the 21st century (you know, like our military leaders are calling for) "weaken our military"?

Third, why would assigning federal resources to rounding up border criminals take state and local law enforcement away from "serious crimes"? What about "serious crime" committed by border criminals? And what about things such as tax evasion and identity theft, which are routinely committed by border criminals? Are those not "serious crimes"?

If you like the status quo, the invasion of our nation by foreign nationals, record unemployment, federal corruption, federal incompetence, and out of control debt and spending, then, by all means, don't vote for me.

But you brought it up in this thread.

Also, could you please explain why you insist their should be an increase in minimum wage jobs, but then turn around and say that the economy will be destroyed if we deport border criminals because there will be nobody left to perform menial labor at the current low minimum wage.

Which of the federal employees I said I would furlough have anything at all to do with the military?

Which of the employees I said I would furlough have anything at all to do with the military.

Please feel free to explain how furloughing Bureau of Indian Affairs employees and Department of Education employees will harm the military.

Why?

So, because you don't have the skills to make it in the private sector, it's my fault for wanting to reign in an out of control federal government?

 

I don't believe I would have the authority to end same sex marriage. But that would be one of the issues I would address in the period of national repentance I call for.

At the very least, I would issue a presidential proclamation affirming traditional marriage, condemning the redefinition of marriage, and condemning no fault divorce.

The problem is, much as I hate the redefinition of marriage it wouldn't be within my authority to do much. Same with abortion. If I could wave my magic pen, I would be overjoyed to outlaw it.

But then, we're getting into "dictator" territory, and we already have one of those.

 

There is a pretty good conversation in the other immigration thread about why small businesses would suffer.

As for weakening the military, I thought I explained that but to suggest that furloughing 90% of federal employees does not weaken the military suggests that you are ignorant of the enormous amount of effort and resources required to sustain military programs. These services are largely provided by civilian support agencies that work to support things like payroll, operation and maintenance of equipment, design and construction of installation facilities, utilities, etc. You can't hack the labor force by 90% and expect the military to not be drastically weakened. To even suggest this means you have no idea how the military is strucutred and sustained.

It's also ridiculous to complain about record unemployment while recommending a furlough for 90% of government employees. I enjoy getting paid for what I do and supporting my familiy so your furlough idea is not appreciated coming from someone that had to endure one last summer and while paying a mortgage.

 

Washington has to honor the North American Free Trade Agreement. NAFTA = open borders.

 

This administration doesn't feel like it has to honor any agreement, unless it's convenient. Be that as it may...

Nafta did not legalize entering the country to stay and work, without going through the immigration process.

 

I suggest deporting all the politicians, that would fix 99% of our problems..

Then build a huge fence to keep those same politicians out.

 

How US Policies Fueled Mexico's Great Migration

http://www.thenation.com/article/165438/how-us-policies-fueled-mexicos-great-migration#

Nafta Should Have Stopped Illegal Immigration, Right?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/weekinreview/18uchitelle.html?_r=0

While there has been some media coverage of NAFTA's ruinous impact on US industrial communities, there has been even less media attention paid to its catastrophic effects in Mexico:

NAFTA, by permitting heavily-subsidized US corn and other agri-business products to compete with small Mexican farmers, has driven the Mexican farmer off the land due to low-priced imports of US corn and other agricultural products. Some 2 million Mexicans have been forced out of agriculture, and many of those that remain are living in desperate poverty. These people are among those that cross the border to feed their families. (Meanwhile, corn-based tortilla prices climbed by 50%. No wonder many so Mexican peasants have called NAFTA their 'death warrant.'

NAFTA's service-sector rules allowed big firms like Wal-Mart to enter the Mexican market and, selling low-priced goods made by ultra-cheap labor in China, to displace locally-based shoe, toy, and candy firms. An estimated 28,000 small and medium-sized Mexican businesses have been eliminated.

Wages along the Mexican border have actually been driven down by about 25% since NAFTA, reported a Carnegie Endowment study. An over-supply of workers, combined with the crushing of union organizing drives as government policy, has resulted in sweatshop pay running sweatshops along the border where wages typically run 60 cents to $1 an hour.

So rather than improving living standards, Mexican wages have actually fallen since NAFTA. The initial growth in the number of jobs has leveled off, with China's even more repressive labor system luring US firms to locate there instead.

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0425-30.htm

Mexico is hearing that "giant sucking sound" to.

Law is of little concern to a starving man.