WASHINGTON - A 17 percent drop in overseas travelers to the United States since the Sept. 11 attacks has cost the country more than $15 billion in lost taxes and nearly 200,000 jobs, a study showed Tuesday.
Tough nuts for America. As for me, the day I am required to show a passport is the day I stop driving across the border to watch Bill's games. Buffalo's got nothing else going for it anyway, and the day has long since passed when you could get a good deal at Ralph Wilson Stadium. The beer is watery, the plastic cups it comes in get smaller every year, and the slices of pizza you buy for about $5.00 Cdn a pop are a pathetic disgrace. One slice of salami! Maybe! If you find a second one, consider yourself blessed! And is that orange stuff supposed to be cheese?
I will miss the tail-gate party, however, where you can see barbecues about an acre square. But they're not worth being treated like a potential terrorist.
PS. Right now you can still drive across the border without a passport. So if you do that, you can then hop a flight without a passport. But sssh! Keep it under your hat or the Taliban will hear!
5 comments:
So stay home ,who cares!
Ever since Ontario loosened up the laws on last call, liquor on Sundays, and porn, the reasons for crossing the border have become barely compelling.
So you don't have a passport,It kidda shows with your small miopic vision of things as evidenced by your whiny ramblings.
I have not seen the need to cross the border for years. Every once in awhile when the Canadian dollar was much higher I used to cross at the Peace Arch for shopping in Bellingham or Seattle, but when the dollar dropped it was just too expensive.
Since March of 2003 there have been other reasons for not stepping foot in the US and until there is a change in government I will be staying home. The US under the Bush regime has become a very uninviting proposition.
Anonymous said...
So you don't have a passport,It kidda shows with your small miopic vision of things as evidenced by your whiny ramblings.
12:17 PM
Exactly where did BCL say he does not have a passport?
BCL said:
As for me, the day I am required to show a passport...
GAB
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