Americans against the sale of good and services
A Texas based pizza chain has enraged some by pricing pizzas in Mexican pesos as well as greenbacks, prompting death threats and hate mail.
Sounds like a thoroughly sensible business move to me, and it should be no more controversial than stores in tourist areas in the UK pricing things in euros, dollars or whatever else makes sense. The chain in qurstion reckons that maybe 10% of transactions have been in pesos, with it reckoning that it is being paid with notes lurking in sock drawers and so on.
Sounds like a thoroughly sensible business move to me, and it should be no more controversial than stores in tourist areas in the UK pricing things in euros, dollars or whatever else makes sense. The chain in qurstion reckons that maybe 10% of transactions have been in pesos, with it reckoning that it is being paid with notes lurking in sock drawers and so on.
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I bet there's probably more of a storm over this than the war in Iraq. Jesus wept.
It's all bling at the bank - does it really matter if it's pesos, or mickey mouse tender we call euros? Money is money.
In England, I struggle to spend notes I've acquired in Scotland. Bloody bloody. People in London seem to be particularly ignorant.
C the point of C is that many americans are rightly frightened thatthere country is being over run by aliens , same way as our country is.
If you wish to live in Aerica you should speak english and trade in dollars , not speak spic and trade in pesos
Not to our credit, I agree. A pal of mine with a wife from Ulster particularly relishes declaring the law on legal tender when faced with clerks dumbfounded by Ulster banknotes.
Money is money.
Whilst a country has a legal currency, there is no reason why anyone should not wish to accept any other valid form of payment.
If I, EU Hater Extremis, were to own a Cafe and a French Chap wished to buy a coffee using Euros, I would be only too happy to oblige.
Were the UK government to try and force us to use it, I would happily take part in a Lynching.
With you there Serf. I was entirely happy for the euro to circulate as a parallel hard currency to sterling, the Franc, Drachma et al and for it to win or lose out through market forces. Likewise dollars etc etc.
Ooh dollars. no w I am excited. With Scotland on the edge of indepenence, see Dale, a nice fantasy enters my view...
Scotland can have our eu membership and seat on the security council.
we can then be left to join the US as 51st state.
England would be the most powerful state by a distance and so we would have a huge influence on US politics.
Lower taxes and better laws too...oh and a better currency.
Peter Hitchens is closest. The Americans aren't frightened of the Mexicans, but in Texas, the illegals take over whole neighbourhoods, play very, very loud music at all hours, shout insults at people who ask them to turn their music down, put their cars up on blocks in their front yards, have squillions of children born in the USA, so the parents can't be kicked out - geddit? These are called 'anchor children'. They drive ancient, very noisy (which is against the law) cars with giant boomboxes.
Just as bad, the Supreme Court ruled that their children had to be taught in Spanish, a stupid, divisive decision if ever there was one. As the illegals don't pay taxes, the bills for all these thousands of regular school classes in Spanish are picked up by legitimate Americans.
It is not lawyers, bankers and skilled medical specialists who are sneaking in illegally. It is people who cannot find even casual labour in Mexico. Yet all over the city I live in, there are teams of labourers renovating houses,building new buildings, doing roadwork, etc. They're not paid much, but they've all got work.
Another element is, many of these people are not even from Mexico, but Guatamala and Honduras. Mexico is modern and well-run (except the drug runner border towns, which Calderon is even now cleaning up), but you have people from the jungles of Guatemala living in Houston and similar cities. They can't speak English, they have never seen anything modern in their lives and they are bloody pests.
So,while the pizza chain did, in a sense, make a pragmatic commercial decision, in that they will be able to mop up a lot of unspendable pesos these people brought up with them, people living in non-Mexican areas will resent it mightily.
City Unslicker - No one is a keener promoter of Britain becoming the 52nd US state than me, we would not "have a huge influence" on US politics. We would have no more influence that S Dakota, or New Hampshire or Washington state. They are not panting for our political pensées. In fact, they fought a war to get rid of us, so that is not a good attitude. We would come in as a member of the team, that is all.
Also, City Unslicker, seeing the mess "we" have made of Britain, they might want to put us in quarantine for a few years first. The Americans definitely do not need any advice on how to run their country from us.
Between Verity and PH it sounds like Spics and Trade is the best little whore house in Texas.
can't disagree with you in reality Verity. Was only a fantasy. No way the yanks would let in a state with the biggest population, biggest economy and massive social welfare costs!
Union with Canada it is then. I wonder what the fuzzy heads at UKIP think along these lines?
Some years back there was a movement among the Newfies to rejoin the Union. I'm all for it.
City Unslicker - Yes, the enormous welfare costs of Britain would put the Americans off. If we had applied 20 or so years ago, we would probably eventually have got in, but not now, with the large number of unassimilated muslims. Imagine giving 2.5m muslims American citizenship with no background checks! I. think. not. The days when we could have applied for statehood are gone.
Croydonian, your post suggests an intersting idea. Let us say Quebec got its independence. The concern has always been for the Maritimes. We could invite them to be part of Britain! That would work. They're all Scottish stock anyway. Third world immigrants haven't settled there in any numbers. They could become shires and we would get all the fish we need!!
PS - Houston does not have any speed bumps as drivers are moderately law abiding, especially driving through neighbourhoods and school zones - EXCEPT in the Mexican barrios. A Houston friend tells me they've just installed them.
Verity why not solve two problems in one go.
Chain the meskins up and lie them in the road instead of speed bumps?
It would make driving slowly fun, probably get a lot of reversing as well.
There was a take-away owner in New York City who wouldn't serve people who didn't ask for food in English, what made me laugh is this guy was an Italian-American.
Do any of these people have a business brain???
Unlike the British, who have been cowed into being apologetic for being British, Americans are proud of America and proud to be American. They think people are lucky to be living in the United States and should therefore fit in with the mainstream. That includes speaking English, the language of the country.
Why it is amusing that this man was an Italian-American puzzles me. Obviously, his family were immigrants from Italy, a very poor country until recently, and he was grateful to be an American. Why be so dismissive of something you don't understand?
Verity, yes I do understand the fact that this guy was probably proud of his Italian and American connection this wasn't meant to be a blast at this guy personally or his cultural history, I just thought that is was kind of Ironic that's all. From a business propective it's pretty dumb, look at how many tourists from all over the World go to New York City.
Believe me I know first hand about moving to another country it's a big culture shock, even when they speak the same language.
Hercules - Fine, but the point of this chap was, he was putting his money where his mouth was. He was saying, "I am proud of my country and its language and if you're not equally proud, I would rather not have your money." In Tony Blair's fantasy Britain, this would be considered "racist".
And non-English-speaking tourists don't go to the five boroughs of NYC. They go to Manhattan. I don't think you're going to get a German couple who can't speak much English saying, "Hey! I know! Let's skip Manhattan and have lunch in the Bronx!" I seem to remember that this man, who I also read about, was not in Manhattan.
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