Arizona economy ruined by anti-immigration laws.

[ErikJ]

Breaking News NY Times

A letter signed by 60 state business leaders this week blamed last year’s bill for boycotts, canceled contracts, declining sales and other economic setbacks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/us/19immigration.html?_r=1&hp

[Howler]

1. Snort!

More then a time out I think. LOL!
How about a wake up call!

[Rage for Order]

2. Wait. So now we're in agreement with big business?

I thought big business was ruining America? It's so hard to keep up nowadays :silly:

[rucky]

4. The boycotts are working.

That's what they're supposed to do.

[JonLP24]

9. Disappointed Adrian Gonzales (baseball player) said he would go

to the All*Star game when he previously said he wouldn't. Said he misunderstood the original law but doesn't realize Russell Pearce has been pumping as many laws he possibly can, starting with the silly two birth certificates one.

[dbt]

5. NICE try!

:bounce:

[Rage for Order]

8. You agree with these people?

http://24ahead.com/arizona-chamber-commerce-endorses-john-mccain

"Throughout his congressional career, Sen. McCain has been a consistent champion for our state and country’s entrepreneurial spirit and for policies that encourage job creation and free enterprise... In this past year alone, Sen. McCain has stood strong against job killing legislation like card check and has injected the debate over health care with much-needed real world perspective. The Arizona Chamber is proud to make this much-deserved endorsement."

Suit yourself

:shrug:

[oldlady]

3. Mexico boycotted too--

My daughter just returned from an extended stay in Mexico and said the television stations regularly aired commercials urging Mexican citizens to boycott Arizona and products made in Arizona -- so, seeing this made me laugh out loud -- pesos power!

[taught_me_patience]

6. Arizona forgot that the hispanic population

is the fastest growing in the United States. When you piss off the people who will be the source of economic growth, the economy is going to suffer. ...Idiotic policy

[Kali]

7. well it may have been part of it

but the housing collapse was a major factor here - we are a state that depends hugely on unsustainable population growth

[former9thward]

10. The state's unemployment rate has gone down about 1%

since the boycott began. It was at 10.6% a year ago and is 9.6% now. I haven't seen any difference in business. I have asked some downtown Phoenix hotels and restaurants and they said they haven't noticed anything. The various groups who originally called for a boycott called it off about 6 months ago. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/09/23/20100923arizona-boycott-over-immigration-law-called-off23-ON.html

[Jane Austin]

11. A group of my friends get together every spring for a spa vacation.

This year it's in Arizona and I'm not going - because it's Arizona.

[jillan]

12. The good news about this is that some of the wackos in our state legislator are listening to

businesses instead of Russell Pearce.

They actually voted down some of Pearce's more extreme bills.

[sendero]

13. Aw gee..

... there goes some of those "unintended consequences" right wing fucktards are always yapping about! Oops!