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FourScore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 12:12 PM Original message |
US Dollars No Longer Accepted at Indian Tourist Sites |
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avaistheone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
1. I bet the Indians still like all the jobs we have offshored to them though. |
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atreides1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 12:25 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. "WE" Haven't done anything |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 12:29 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Let's guess you think they don't deserve those jobs? Why? |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 12:46 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. Two words: |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 12:57 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Refusing to accept dollars is not 'spitting on America'. |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 01:15 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. Do you accept rupees at your place of business? |
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Mend (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 12:41 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. I just received an email offering to do the billing for my office in |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 12:43 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. American corporations. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 12:45 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Dunno why... "multinational" makes them sound worse IMO. (nt) |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 12:45 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. I really don't think the poster meant everyone in the country. |
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pointblank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 08:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
37. We? |
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Double T (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 12:20 PM Response to Original message |
2. Just want ONE candidate that understands economics........... |
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avaistheone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 12:22 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Probably won't happen until the economy totally fails--- |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 12:47 PM Response to Reply #2 |
13. Why wouldn't they sell out? |
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MH1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 12:53 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. It's too bad John Kerry isn't running this time, isn't it? |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
6. Just another sign of the booming B*sh economy! |
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MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
9. Let's all thank George W. Bush, shall we, for keeping those greenbacks at home! |
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HiFructosePronSyrup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
16. Is this really a good indicator? |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 12:59 PM Response to Original message |
17. Who travels outside the country and expects to pay in dollars? |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 01:12 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. People accepting the Peso is becoming more common, at least here it is. |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 01:24 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Accepting Pesos? Where and for what services? n/t |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 01:26 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. In Dallas, for whatever services people will accept them. Quite a few retail operations accept them |
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zorahopkins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 01:21 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Arrogant Americans |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 01:39 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. "They also stay in American hotels and demand American-style food." |
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zorahopkins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 06:22 PM Response to Reply #27 |
35. My Point IsThis |
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ZombieNixon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
20. It makes sense. Why should you expect to use your own currency in someone else's country? |
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Mend (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 01:23 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. in the good old days, they used to beg for US dollars in foreign countries... |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 01:29 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. You think the "good days" is where people beg for something from another country? |
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Mend (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 05:35 PM Response to Reply #26 |
32. these weren't peasants begging on the street, these were prosperous store |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 08:22 PM Response to Reply #32 |
36. I know what you meant, you think things were better when it was so unequal that |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 01:45 PM Response to Reply #22 |
29. "Our money was like gold once upon a time." |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 01:41 PM Response to Reply #20 |
28. Enforced by whom? |
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ZombieNixon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 04:11 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Yeah, but no one cares enough to follow many of the laws. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
25. Well, I had to pay in pounds when I was in England. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 04:29 PM Response to Reply #25 |
31. About twenty years ago, I was at Narita Airport waiting to board a flight home |
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otherlander (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
33. Oh, *those* Indians. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-03-08 06:18 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Ha. Yes, you can still hit the casinos this weekend. |
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