How To Boycott Arizona (An Idiots Guide)

Got Your Panties In A Bunch Over the Arizona Illegal Alien Law? Here's What To Do:

Several cities (including San Francisco) and and many groups including 'LA Opinion' (an editorial segment of the LA Times) are promoting a full scale boycott of Arizona. Let's have a quick look at exactly how dumb those groups are and what you can do to join them:

Arizona's #1 crop is lettuce. Stop eating salads unless it is certified 'Arizona free'. Since nearly all lettuce is picked by undocumented workers you will primarily be hurting illegals 1st and the farmers that hire them 2nd. These are exactly the people that the law is meant to constrict.

Beef Cattle and Dairy are Arizona's leading source of farm income. Cease beef eating and milk drinking wherever possible in order to deny Arizona of this income. Again, these segments are heavily dependent on undocumented workers so they will be the ones who are actually laid off and perhaps forced to return to Mexico, Latin America, or other countries of origin.


Stop your travel plans to Tuscon, Flagstaff, and Scottsdale. The Tourism income from resorts, hotels, and restaurants are a major source of revenue for the 'Grand Canyon State'. Just a quick disclaimer: Many of the folks who staff those businesses are undocumented. So, perhaps they wont exactly be living the J-Lo dream after they are laid off.


Copper is AZ's #1 most important mined product (they are the #1 state in copper production). Copper wire never shows state of origin but you can definitely call off all new electrical projects or repairs. Doing so would only impact your local electrician since copper pricing and sales are just as global as crude oil. (But you are welcome to sit in the dark).


A few other products such as space vehicles and guided missiles are designed and built in AZ. So be absolutely certain to avoid all space travel and geopolitical strife in your daily routine.


All in all the boycott should have a much larger affect on moving non-citizens out of Arizona then the law could ever accomplish. So... Boycott? Well, that sounds like the quickest way to bring about the means that Arizona is asking for.

UPDATE April 28, 2010:

Several other websites such as Gawker have begun publishing lists of companies that are based in Arizona. Again the concept is to punish the AZ economy so that the government will have to change its tune. Here is a partial list of companies: Best Western, Cold Stone Creamery, Discount Tire Co, Greyhound, PetSmart, PF Changs, Ramada, Sky Mall, U-Haul and the list goes on.

To boycott or not is the question. The answer: boycotting most of these companies will only hurt the local franchise owner and the people that are employed there. These are your neighbors and maybe even you. BTW, many of those companies are based in Phoenix, Tucson, and Scottsdale - three of the cities that are considering legislative action against the state because they don't share widespread support for the new law.

If you want to punish the supporters of the law then make sure to stop doing business with Jeb's Transmission repair shop in Yuma; it's just a few miles north of the border; Jeb is the guy sitting out front with a shotgun.

Idiots: Do as you will, ignorance is bliss.

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Finally A Great Reason To Raise Taxes In CA!!!

Sacramento: California's three major public pension funds are collectively more than a half-trillion dollars underfunded if their projected investment earnings are adjusted downward to a "risk-free rate," a team of graduate students at Stanford University has calculated.

The report, conducted under the aegis of Stanford's Institute for Economic Policy Research,Arnold Schwarzenegger's case for an overhaul of the state's pension systems. bolsters Gov.

"The consequences are clear," Schwarzenegger said. "Increasingly large portions of state funding for programs Californians hold dear such as schools, parks and health care will be diverted to pay for this debt."

Schwarzenegger has proposed a broad pension overhaul, including shifting new employees to a new, lower-cost system and raising state employees' pension contributions. With opposition from public worker unions, his plan has gone nowhere.

CalPERS, CalSTRS and the UC retirement system now use a projected "discount rate" on their pension liabilities of 7.5 percent to 8 percent, the same rates as their projections of annual earnings on investments. Critics say those are too high in today's climate.

The Stanford team based its underfunding estimate on a "risk-free" discount rate of 4.14 percent, which results in higher projected liabilities than the systems now portray.

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/04/06/2657531/the-buzz-california-pension-funds.html#mi_rss=Capitol%20and%20California#ixzz0kOWqCxmO