A Day Without A Mexican

[Bronco_Beerslug]

The horror!

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http://tinyurl.com/24vy7

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[Crushaholic]

That was great...

[ClevelandBronco]

Actually, a day without a Mexican means that my wife and kids would disappear.

I have a problem with that.

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Originally Posted by ClevelandBronco

Actually, a day without a Mexican means that my wife and kids would disappear.

I have a problem with that.

I think the movie is about illegal immigrants, don't know for sure, haven't seen it.

[gunns]

Originally Posted by ClevelandBronco

Actually, a day without a Mexican means that my wife and kids would disappear.

I have a problem with that.

Yeah, my kids too. Makes me wonder if some people don't have a problem with Mexicans as a whole, or is it all illegal immigrants. Actually I'm having a problem with some legal immigrants. Want to talk about taking advantage of the system (our system) as if they are owed something........

[Rohirrim]

Originally Posted by gunns

Yeah, my kids too. Makes me wonder if some people don't have a problem with Mexicans as a whole, or is it all illegal immigrants. Actually I'm having a problem with some legal immigrants. Want to talk about taking advantage of the system (our system) as if they are owed something........

Actually, I wouldn't have a problem with illegal immigration from Mexico if the numbers were more reasonable, like a hundred thousand per year. Spread across the U.S., that really wouldn't be much of a big deal. The economy could absorb those numbers without a blip. It's the idea of 3 million per year (Bear/Stearns numbers). It's the idea of 20 million already in the country which represents more than 7% of the population of the U.S. with millions more lined up behind them! It's the idea of emergency rooms closing down across the country because they are federally mandated to provide emergency services to illegal aliens. Of schools that can no longer afford to teach my children music, or provide sports programs, because they are mandated by federal law to provide English teachers for illegal immigrants. It's Americans losing $20 per hour jobs in construction because illegal immigrants will do the job for $5 per hour.

It's not the who, it's the how many. These numbers don't constitute any form of immigration. They constitute an invasion.

[bendog]

rep. However, I really question whether the economy can do WITHOUT the illegal labor. I'd prefer they be legalized, paid min wage, and pay taxes.

[Play2win]

Well, you know, when a certain group is taking freebee's (for the poor... from donations...) from the local salvation army and shoving them in their vans and driving upto Longmont and SELLING them at GARAGE SALES... for Cash-MONEY... I don't think it gets any lower than that...

[TailgateNut]

Originally Posted by ClevelandBronco

Actually, a day without a Mexican means that my wife and kids would disappear.

I have a problem with that.

Could you explain that a bit! Isn't your wife a Mexican-American and your child an American with a Mexican/American heritage? OR

[Billy Clyde Puckett]

Slug - I support immigration reform, but don't you think that film is a little racist?

[Play2win]

Well, between all the jobs shipped overseas and a rash of illegals, our nation has allowed a good percentage of OUR American jobs to be SUCKED out of OUR Economy...


The Outsourcing of JOBS and illegals (especially any sort of amnesty...) are stealing jobs from Americans...

[Bronco_Beerslug]

Originally Posted by Big Guy

Slug - I support immigration reform, but don't you think that film is a little racist?

In what way? I believe it's satire and it was distributed by Televisa Cine.

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‘MISSING JOSE’ FOUND: WALKS HIS WAY TO BOX OFFICE SUCCESS THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Televisa Cine’s Feature Debut “A Day Without A Mexican” Grosses Estimated $620,000 Opening Weekend

Takes in Weekend’s Second-Best per Screen Average of $11,071

LOS ANGELES, CA – MAY 17, 2004 – Latino films took a giant leap forward this recent weekend, as Televisa Cine’s feature debut “A Day Without a Mexican” took in an estimated $620,000 throughout Southern California.
“A Day without a Mexican” is a total success,” said Mike Doban, (General Sales Manager of Televisa Cine USA). “It underscores that there is not only a broad Hispanic audience who wants to see this film, but also a significant cross over audience that embraces great storytelling. We are very pleased with our results and intend on releasing more films like this one.”

In only 56 playdates, the satirical, documentary-style depiction of what it would be like if Latinos inexplicably and spontaneously disappeared without a trace from California, “A Day Without a Mexican” yielded a strong $11,071 per theatre, second only to Warner Bros’ “Troy,” marking an impressive coming out for first-time director Sergio Arau.
“This story and the strength to make it came from our heart and gut,” said Director Sergio Arau and actor/screenwriter Yareli Arizmendi. “We did put all our eggs in the same basket: the audience. And they came through.”

Set in modern-day California and based on Sergio Arau and Yareli Arizmendi’s short of the same title, the much anticipated “A Day Without a Mexican,” starring Yareli Arizmendi (Like Water for Chocolate, 1992) as Lila Rodríguez, the sole remaining Latino in California after 14 million Latinos mysteriously disappear, delves into the economic, political and social implications of this disaster on the Golden State’s way of life. Experts pose questions and offer theories: Could this be a UFO kidnapping? Biological terrorism? The Apocalypse and Latinos are the chosen ones? Or perhaps they just left because they were tired of being taken for granted.
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[alkemical]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

Actually, I wouldn't have a problem with illegal immigration from Mexico if the numbers were more reasonable, like a hundred thousand per year. Spread across the U.S., that really wouldn't be much of a big deal. The economy could absorb those numbers without a blip. It's the idea of 3 million per year (Bear/Stearns numbers). It's the idea of 20 million already in the country which represents more than 7% of the population of the U.S. with millions more lined up behind them! It's the idea of emergency rooms closing down across the country because they are federally mandated to provide emergency services to illegal aliens. Of schools that can no longer afford to teach my children music, or provide sports programs, because they are mandated by federal law to provide English teachers for illegal immigrants. It's Americans losing $20 per hour jobs in construction because illegal immigrants will do the job for $5 per hour.

It's not the who, it's the how many. These numbers don't constitute any form of immigration. They constitute an invasion.

But it's not that it's done nec. cheaper. I've worked with illegals on landscaping jobs and we were making $12/hr easy. Same rate for all of us, legal or not.

[Bronx33]

Originally Posted by amesj523

But it's not that it's done nec. cheaper. I've worked with illegals on landscaping jobs and we were making $12/hr easy. Same rate for all of us, legal or not.

Is it not cheaper to not insure somebody that does not exist in th US?

[alkemical]

Originally Posted by Bronx33

Is it not cheaper to not insure somebody that does not exist in th US?

See that's what i was saying on another thread, but everyone kept saying "there's no benifit to paying someone in cash" -

Hey i had no problems taking under the table cash - The employer didn't have to pay all the extra crap, and i didn't have to have taxes cut out of my pay - even steven IMO.

I made decent money, i mean you know it's landscaping so weather permitted it - but for those of you in the seattle area.

Those homes up on magnolia were a biatch to get done some days in the rain. Fricken hilly assed city!

[TailgateNut]

Originally Posted by amesj523

See that's what i was saying on another thread, but everyone kept saying "there's no benifit to paying someone in cash" -

Hey i had no problems taking under the table cash - The employer didn't have to pay all the extra crap, and i didn't have to have taxes cut out of my pay - even steven IMO.

I made decent money, i mean you know it's landscaping so weather permitted it - but for those of you in the seattle area.

Those homes up on magnolia were a biatch to get done some days in the rain. Fricken hilly assed city!

I have a BIG problem with employers who pay UNDER THE TABLE. In todays competative market they have an illegal advantage over those who follow the RULES! So you may thump your chest about how it's good for you and good for them, but it's still f-ing illegal!

[alkemical]

Originally Posted by TailgateNut

I have a BIG problem with employers who pay UNDER THE TABLE. In todays competative market they have an illegal advantage over those who follow the RULES! So you may thump your chest about how it's good for you and good for them, but it's still f-ing illegal!

Gov't created this problem.

I would go work a legit day labour job when i was homeless for $7.01/hr (seattles then min. wage) - for a total for $38/day - unloading coal cars, cleaing up dead rats, etc -

Or i could go and make 'real' money doing a much 'better' job for $5/hr MORE than getting paid 'legit'.

I just find that for REAL captialism, there is not gov't involvement. I knew the risks of getting hurt at work, etc. Can't track me, i'm homeless - people don't care about your SSN # when you are homeless -

Infact to most of America - i was just 'trash', trash that did your mulching, weeding, mowing, etc -

[Billy Clyde Puckett]

Originally Posted by Bronco_Beerslug

In what way?

Substitute Blacks for Mexicans and you will see my point. I am all for fun and feel we have lost our ability to make fun of ourselves, but in these days of PC this would get clobbered if it were about Blacks.

[Crushaholic]

Originally Posted by Big Guy

Substitute Blacks for Mexicans and you will see my point. I am all for fun and feel we have lost our ability to make fun of ourselves, but in these days of PC this would get clobbered if it were about Blacks.

This appears to be a film produced BY Hispanics. If Chris Rock made a similar movie about black people, it wouldn't be considered racist.

[Rohirrim]

Maybe somebody should make a film called "A Day Without White People?" Of course, that would mean no musicians like Mozart, Beethoven, or Bach, no writers like Shakespeare, Homer, Tolkein or Dickens, no scientists like Newton or Einstein, no mathemeticians like Euclid, no artists like Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Monet or Picasso, no architecture from the Romans or Greeks, no poets like Whitman, Longfellow or Wordsworth, no presidents like Jefferson, Washington, or Lincoln, no Bill of Rights, no Declaration of Independence, no Constitution, no Magna Carta, no traditions of English common law, none of the traditions of Western Civilization, no Hippocrates or the traditions of Western medicine, no philosophers like Locke, Hume, Kant, Neitsche, Santayana or Marcus Aurelius, no inventions like automobiles, airplanes, steam engines, or rockets, no English language... did I miss anything?

[alkemical]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

Maybe somebody should make a film called "A Day Without White People?" Of course, that would mean no musicians like Mozart, Beethoven, or Bach, no writers like Shakespeare, Homer, Tolkein or Dickens, no scientists like Newton or Einstein, no mathemeticians like Euclid, no artists like Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Monet or Picasso, no architecture from the Romans or Greeks, no poets like Whitman, Longfellow or Wordsworth, no presidents like Jefferson, Washington, or Lincoln, no Bill of Rights, no Declaration of Independence, no Constitution, no Magna Carta, no traditions of English common law, none of the traditions of Western Civilization, no Hippocrates or the traditions of Western medicine, no philosophers like Locke, Hume, Kant, Neitsche, Santayana or Marcus Aurelius, no inventions like automobiles, airplanes, steam engines, or rockets, no English language... did I miss anything?

hehe - i could soooo play this game.

[bendog]

I dunno, but I jog past a construction site early AM (adding onto a public school) and there's a bunch of Americans and a seperate bunch of guys who don't speak english, and who to me "sound" like they're talking spanish with a Mexican accent. Look like decent hard working guys. I say "hey," and they say "hey," back.

If they're making union scale, I'd be amazed.

When Vincente Fox said they were doing jobs American blacks wouldn't take, I didn't see that as racist. But, the black guy who runs the crew that mows my lawn hires his black workers for cash, and I think they'd take labor jobs at the construction site for union wages. But, the mexican guys may be skilled carpenters or something, and the guys who mow my lawn are pretty much skill maxed out in using a weed eater. When I jog by, they're still drinking coffee and haven't started working yet.

[gunns]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

Actually, I wouldn't have a problem with illegal immigration from Mexico if the numbers were more reasonable, like a hundred thousand per year. Spread across the U.S., that really wouldn't be much of a big deal. The economy could absorb those numbers without a blip. It's the idea of 3 million per year (Bear/Stearns numbers). It's the idea of 20 million already in the country which represents more than 7% of the population of the U.S. with millions more lined up behind them! It's the idea of emergency rooms closing down across the country because they are federally mandated to provide emergency services to illegal aliens. Of schools that can no longer afford to teach my children music, or provide sports programs, because they are mandated by federal law to provide English teachers for illegal immigrants. It's Americans losing $20 per hour jobs in construction because illegal immigrants will do the job for $5 per hour.

It's not the who, it's the how many. These numbers don't constitute any form of immigration. They constitute an invasion.

I agree, but I was also commenting on the legal immigrants which is getting just as out of hand. Here we get 4 to 10 families about every two weeks and that is just for our zip code area in our state. That's a lot. BTW, the illegals are already paying taxes. That's part of the reason the government has allowed them to get away with staying. It's also how the government, when pretending to take a stand a few years ago, knew where to round them up and deport them. They give them Tax ID numbers (and this is not just those that are on work permits) and they definitely file their taxes. They are not allowed any earn income or child tax credits so the government loves it.

[L.A. BRONCOS FAN]

Originally Posted by Rohirrim

Maybe somebody should make a film called "A Day Without White People?" Of course, that would mean no musicians like Mozart, Beethoven, or Bach, no writers like Shakespeare, Homer, Tolkein or Dickens, no scientists like Newton or Einstein, no mathemeticians like Euclid, no artists like Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Monet or Picasso, no architecture from the Romans or Greeks, no poets like Whitman, Longfellow or Wordsworth, no presidents like Jefferson, Washington, or Lincoln, no Bill of Rights, no Declaration of Independence, no Constitution, no Magna Carta, no traditions of English common law, none of the traditions of Western Civilization, no Hippocrates or the traditions of Western medicine, no philosophers like Locke, Hume, Kant, Neitsche, Santayana or Marcus Aurelius, no inventions like automobiles, airplanes, steam engines, or rockets, no English language... did I miss anything?

Yeah.

There would also be no KKK, no Jim Crow, no Adolph Hitler, no Crusades, no Native American genocide, no Salem witch trails, no GOP, no Fox News, no Rush Limbaugh, no Lawrence Welk, no John Birch Society, no NASCAR, no WWF, no country music, no line dancing, no Krispy Kreme...

...did I miss anything?