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Friday, April 04, 2008

Absolutely never again.

In An Absolut World billboard campaign appearing in Mexico.

And below is a comment from a Texan:

Your map is just plain damn dumb. Apparently you and the market base you are pandering to is really, really short in the history department.

In July, 1848, the United States government purchased that portion of what is now Texas, save and except that part already given independence from Mexico (i.e. The Republic of Texas), all of what is now New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, Utah, Wyoming and a part of Colorado for a total of $15MM in 1848 dollars, and the then existing Mexican debt (whatever that was).

If Absolut Vodka and your intended market base want to talk about re-purchasing all that land, PLUS IMPROVEMENTS AND SERVICES, in today’s dollars, I for one will talk to you about my half-acre in North Texas. The purchase price shall include all the improvements surrounding the property plus the cost of installation of all utilities and services to the property, and my specific property’s fair reimbursement of the costs of illegal alien benefits from city, county, state and federal services.

Poor babies: You have lost more market share that you could ever have hoped to gain.

posted by Fundy at 11:08

1 Comments:

Blogger Churt(Elfkind) said...

If the US ever turns into an empire for real Mexico will be one of the first to fall. You know what they say about poking a sleeping dragon. It's really stupid. They don't seem to understand problem with touting that your going to take land back from the US. You change the label of those coming across the border from illegal immigrants to invaders. And different rules apply.

And don't think for a second this has to do with Hispanic lineage. There are plenty of Americans with Hispanic roots that would like to see the border closed as well. What so many don't realize is that uncontrolled immigration can not be adequately planned for. Therefore, left unchecked, our finite resources and infrastructure will not be able to keep up and the standard of living for the majority of the country will start to backslide. Which in turn will destabilize the economy. I realize this is a bit of gloom and doom speculation but I believe it's what will happen if things continue the way they are.

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