By: Poconoeagle On: Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:08 am
Interesting story -- if you can believe
> it!!!!!!!!!!! You really need
> to check this one out.
>
>
>
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> Subject: Boycott
>
>
> Don't you just love
> it ! !
> !
>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> An Interesting Event in Victoria
> ,Texas
> >> Victoria, Texas (pop. 55,000) is a
> town
> about 80 miles west of Houston
>
> >>
> .
> >>
> >> Local Hispanic leaders there, in
> opposition to pending Immigration
> >> Legislation, boycotted all
> Caucasian owned businesses in the Victoria
> >> area this
> past weekend as a demonstration of their economic
> impact on
> the
>
> >> community. The boycott was declared a success by
> the
> Hispanic community,
> >> noting that revenue in Caucasian owned
> businesses was down by 19%.
> >>
> >> Business owners
> declared the boycott a success as well, pointing out
>
> >>
> that
> >>
> >> shoplifting was reduced by 77%, money
> orders sent out of the
> country
> >> were down by 97%, and the cost of daily clean-up
> and
> trash collection was
>
> >> down by 84%. Shoppers reported that
> they could actually hear English
> >> being spoken throughout the
> community for the first time in recent
> >> memory, and customers
> actually paid for purchases with real money, not
> >> government
> debit
> cards.