Living in AZ not far from the Border with Mexico I’m used to tourist shoppers from south of the Border.

There are the small businessmen who come here searching for used items they can refurbish to sell in Mexico. We see them driving their old pick up trucks with high sides installed on the beds, then loaded to heaping as they follow I-10 & I-19 back to Nogales, Sonora & beyond.

There are the better off middle class who are buying better quality than they can get at home. They often are just day trippers or stay only 1 night in a moderately priced hotel.

But we also see the wealthy who stay at the high end resorts for several days & buy out the malls!

Biggest shopping season for the wealthy? Not Christmas. Not back to school time. Marijuana harvest! ~lol~

Well, we don’t compete with trade any more. Tourism is the only other way to get foreign money into our country.

I see the paranoid fringe has once again taken over the conversation even on tourism. Tourists from other countries love our Western history (Cowboys and Indians) and other facets of our culture. They should be encouraged not discouraged from what America has to offer. They know we have more freedoms than they might have and that can be a plus when they return to their home countries.

So the government thinks we are penny-pinchers? Now I just wonder how that came to be? Could it be due to the uncertainty of having a job at the end of the week? Could it be that the 700+ regulations on businesses may have kept them from hiring? Could it be the high taxes that encourages companies to move overseas? Or is it just the big picture plan to kill America and replace it with Socialism? Or perhaps it’s all of the above. At any rate, if I were you, I’d take a good look around and start writing down your memories of what America was and then hide them before the government takes them so that only their version of these times exists. Good bye America. It was great while it lasted. I feel sorry for my grandchildren and my children.

PS: The ultimate goal of having illegals come here and vote is simple: You can vote yourself freebies in America, if you support those candidates who will give you the soul of the country to advance their own political aspirations.

My first suspicion is that lawmakers really don’t give a rip if Chinese or other foreign visitors spend money here. I think the real goal is to just hand out easy visas and then ignore the law and allow them to stay and vote democrat. Of course, non-citizens are not supposed to vote, but we do have the motor-voter program to help overcome that tiny little discrepancy.

If I have not learned anything else about our lawmakers, particularly the one we like to call “progressive” or “liberal” or even “moderates” is that to trust that what they say they are after to actually be what they really are after is the surest route to loss of freedom.

Just don’t let them drop a baby and become welfare recipients. Before we consider this shopping plan, we need to change the 14th ammendment regarding citizenship – making it automatic for babies born to citizens or mothers who are permanent legal residents only. No visitors or people here illegally qualify.

This is rich. For years we have heard about the Ugly American who traveled and treated the countries he went through with a certain disdain. Do you think maybe that phenomenon is not confined only to the Americans? People are pretty much the same everywhere. You have your nice people and your arrogant “the world was created for me to wipe my feet on it” people. So why not encourage tourism? Besides a lot of the goods built in China are not available there. They are built specifically for the US businesses and not sold there. I work for a contract manufacturer which means that we built things specifically to a contract that someone gives us. I do not get to skim off a couple of their designs for me to sell on my own. That is how a lot of the manufacturing is run.

“this is the first time in the history of the United States that such measures have been taken.” If any rational thought is given to the idea, it certainly looks irrational. Why would a person from China come here to buy goods made in China unless those goods are not available in China? Tourism for the purpose of seeing the natural beauty of the National Parks of the United States makes more sense than to come for some kind of shopping spree on goods, most of which are made in countries that are closer to the countries mentioned than the U.S. is, the cost of importation/transportation of which is a greater factor in cost in the U.S. than those countries. It will not be surprising if the effort is a total failure.

Tourists usually are loud and sometimes rude. First, they feel far from home and free from restricitions, at least moral ones. Second, Tourist group is psyhological “organism”. Third, The goal of tourism is importatnt. Shoping, culture, nature, drinking, sex, entertainment? The goal of a tourist impacts his/her behaviour.
I love to enjoy peacful recreation, nature, little bit culture so my behaviour is the same as my goal, peace, silence, tranquility and respect of local culture.

Three words:

TARIFFS TARIFFS TARIFFS

If the Federal Government just put a tariff on all goods coming into the United States from China, America would be so much better off, but they don’t.
The United States buys from China because many American companies have moved their industry plants and people there. What does the United States need that China does not already produce? What? An American car? Don’t be silly!

This is funny if you ask me. We tax our businesses to death so that they move overseas. We lose the majority of our productive output. As a result of minimal productivity in the US, we buy most of our products from other countries. With our economy in a decline from a lack of jobs, which is caused by businesses leaving the US, which is caused by heavy taxation and oversight, we are paying out more in entitlements every day. Because of what the government pays out to the less fortunate, the people are taxed more. The businesses that have remained are taxed more, which means that citizens are taxed more since businesses pass that on to the consumer.

And then they encourage the people who aren’t being taxed by us (i.e. foreigners) to buy the products we sell, which are made by the very people who sold them to us, bought back from us at a lower cost due to a deliberate debauching of our currency, which is designed, at least in part, to encourage our export trade by making the products we sell less expensive to overseas consumers.

You just gotta laugh at the irony of it all.

Some “Foreigners” don’t need ecouragement. They are here already as illegals spending our money. Too many of them have also been encouraged by our “Lawmakers”.

Idiotic idea. Good way for the bureaucrats to encourage more “visitors” to come here and overstay their visas.What good will this do to mortgage holders who are underwater?—NONE What good will this to to make more jobs?—-PROBABLY NONE Who will this help except rich businessmen? NOBODY. Please stop using this country as a tool to help certain people get rich. Let problems be solved for everybody not just a few.

Why would chinese tourists come to the US to buy our stuff? Most of it is made in China. By the way, when they do come here, they only eat at chinese restaurants. They are common, rude people (the tourists, the chinese I personally know are quite polite and gentile) although this may just be typical of tourists in general as American tourists in other countries are not too pleasant ether. I know the european, northeastern US, and arab tourists in FLorida are just plain rude.