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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.
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.
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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11 comments:
That sounds kind of harsh, but I guess Arizona has it coming for them. You sure got guts to post this out in the open. :)
Abbey
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Great Article, Thank You!!!
LOVE IT!!
LOL...
But yes we would like to encourage some of them to leave.
Diane,
Phoenix, AZ
So are these groups too stupid to know what they are advocating, or is it more likely that they just want the attention and realize that the boycott thing is a joke from the very beginning.
Here are a list of AZ companies that you can boycott wherever you live; doing so will punish the local franchise owner and put some of your neighbors out of work:
http://gawker.com/5526107/your-guide-to-the-arizona-boycott-porn-sky-mall-and-pf-changs?skyline=true&s=i
Yes, except putting pressure on people in the state in turn puts more pressure on the government to change/repeal the law. If they are really there to answer the lawful citizens in their state then when the money stops rolling in they will be forced into action. That's the way a boycott works, some suffer for a short period of time, but at least social justice is the outcome. You would have everyone sit around and play no part while HUMAN BEINGS are openly discriminated against and a law that violates our constitution is put into affect? That's the job of a person who cares very little for everyone.
-Boycotting: an idiots guide.
Dear penelope,
Boycotts can have that effect but its rather unclear that it is possible in this case. It's also very likely that the large percentage of folks that support the Arizona legislation would be inclined to increase business with them.
But here is one more thing to think about - The United States were always meant to operate independently with differing laws and subtle twists such as methods of taxation. Sandra Day O'Connor stood up for a states right to allow medical MJ. Her argument was that historically - people could always vote with their feet if the laws of a state were not representative for them.
Another issue, by a very large margin the folks that live in Arizona and that pay taxes support this law. That would be true in many states but would ultimately depend on the wording of the law.
Should those folks not have their voices heard as they try to find a way to educate, service, and maintain health for the people in their state. Should they have a right to question the men standing outside of Home Depot who take away work from licensed contractors who pay taxes??? Or should those licensed and insured contractors simply go extinct?
What is your method to solve the problem that the Southwest U.S. faces?
Regards,
Concerned in Los Angeles
This is a great article and you sure as hell wont hear any of this from the mainstream press!!!
Thank you.
Tim
KFI 640 is one of the few places that is covering the entire story. Jon and Ken especially.
I will surely not be boycotting Cold Stones! I am with you about boycotting we would be just hurting your local folk! In this post you keep mentioning everything is done by illegals, so if they do all this to generate income for the state of Arizona then why are they so eager to kick them out?! I am almost positive that no "legal" person is willing to get paid peanuts to do this! Arizona brought it on themselves. I get the frustration and I agree illegal immigration is a HUGE problem but to be dealt with by the president and not a state! Who do you think takes care of Jans lawn!? Yup the very people they are trying to kick out =D Mexicans are not the only illegals.
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