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La Raza Now Featured On McDonald’s Menu

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At the end of April, La Raza made an interesting little announcement:

MCDONALD’S® ANNOUNCED AS TITLE SPONSOR OF THE 2009 NCLR ANNUAL CONFERENCE

 Washington, DC—NCLR (National Council of La Raza), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, today announced McDonald’s as this year’s Title Sponsor of the 2009 NCLR Annual Conference, which will be held July 25–28 at McCormick Place West in Chicago, Illinois.

“We are delighted to have McDonald’s as this year’s Conference Title Sponsor. Their support and alliance, even in these tough economic times, will help contribute to this key event for the Hispanic community,” said Janet Murguía, NCLR President and CEO.

“At McDonald’s, we are honored to welcome and support NCLR in bringing its Annual Conference to our hometown. We applaud NCLR for its unwavering leadership and work to address critical issues affecting the Hispanic community,” said J.C. Gonzalez-Mendez, President of McDonald’s Latin America and a member of the NCLR Corporate Board of Advisors. The NCLR Annual Conference is the single largest gathering of its kind in the Latino community. More than 25,000 community organization leaders, activists, and volunteers; elected and appointed officials; members of the corporate, philanthropic, and academic communities; senior citizens; college students; and youth are expected to participate this year.

McDonald’s USA, LLC, is the leading foodservice provider in the United States serving a variety of wholesome foods made from quality ingredients to millions of customers every day. More than 80% of its 14,000 U.S. restaurants are independently owned and operated by local franchisees. For more information on McDonald’s, visit www.mcdonalds.com or log on at any of the 10,000 Wi-Fi-enabled McDonald’s U.S. restaurants. Visit www.nclr.org/conference to learn more about the 2009 NCLR Annual Conference.

With the Obominable health care reform disaster now looming on the Congressional horizon, and armed with the knowledge that La Raza is fighting to force hard-working, tax-paying American citizens to give away nationalized health care to the 22+ million illegal aliens in this country (“better than amnesty” for criminals, they say), we say the stars have aligned to allow every patriot to show their true colors and make their voice heard.

BOYCOTT MCDONALD’S FROM JULY 19th THROUGH THE END OF THE MONTH

And don’t forget to politely let them know why they are not receiving your business.  It is important they understand that there are consequences to actions and when a business makes a bad decision it will cost them money.  In this case, half a month’s worth of money.

  • Call them:  1-800-244-6227
  • Write them:  McDonald’s Corporation, 2111 McDonald’s Dr., Oak Brook, IL 60523
  • Email them by clicking HERE

Sample comment:  I want you to know that I will not be visiting any of your restaurants during the second half of July because McDonald’s has chosen to sponsor this year’s National Council of La Raza annual conference.  The NCLR is working closely with Senator Mendendez to have illegal immigrants covered in the administration’s push for health care reform and I believe that this attempt to reward criminals is not only wrong, but it is unfair to legal, tax-paying Americans.  To sponsor such a group was a bad business decision on the part of McDonald’s and I am therefore choosing to not spend my hard-earned money to reward it.

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Health Reform La Raza Style – Giving Health Care To Non-Citizens

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As surely as that the wolf of socialized medicine wearing sheep’s clothing of health care reform means death to the elderly and others deemed not “cost effective” to treat, the legislation now brewing is going to be chock-full of pork and served with an enormous helping of spin, smoke and mirrors.  And of serious concern is the once-covert push to cover illegal immigrants.

At the forefront of this nastiness, prelude to adding 22+ million people to what is already a bloated and broken system, is the infamous La Raza.  It bills itself as “The largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, the NCLR works to improve opportunities for Hispanic Americans.”

Nice.  But in the land where equal opportunity is law, not necessarily necessary.  It’s just another way to draw attention to differences and establish a subculture of permanent victims instead of simply living the fact that we’re all Americans looking to create a good life for ourselves and our children.

But I digress.

La Raza is apparently in bed with Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), one of the key people involved in drafting the Senate’s version of a “health care reform bill”.  Mark Levin had a caller on his show recently who attended a La Raza conference and here are their words:

…they started the conference out by saying “America does not need health care reform, but Latino immigrants need health care reform.”And they also said that 75% of the children who will be picked up in this will be non-citizens and that 44% of the uninsured are non-citizens and they can’t possibly allow the American people to know this.”

And someone from Menendez’ office promised that he would make sure that “the useless barriers of citizenship would not be in this bill” and that he would make sure that they would use keywords like “streamline”…

It was La Raza, the Childrens Defense Fund and Senator Menendez from New Jersey, a representative from his office…

They actually got up and said “Latino children need health care more than whites“. And then they would say things like “you must go out into your communities, use words like ‘streamline’, use phrases like ‘all workers’ and ‘all families’,” because they said — and I quote — “If the American people find out that this bill is about giving health care to non-citizens, they will rise up against it.”

…One of the quotes they said was, “We want to make sure we take care of barriers like verification, but we can streamline programs to the more affluent” and, quote, “Useless treatments for the elderly can be gone because we don’t need to spend money for people who are going to die anyway.”

That’s a direct quote from that meeting. They also said, “We are very concerned there will be an effort to include “the illegal immigrants in this argument, so “we must make sure that we focus this” to the American people that it’s looking like we want “health care for everyone”.

 Menendez’ office said that he’s going to make sure that “a family of four that makes $66,000 a year or less will pay nothing at all for the new health care. And he was the one who said he was going to get rid of specifics like “citizenship status” and focus on, quote, “equity for all workers”.

And he said he’s going to make sure that the Latino immigrants are the focus of the health care reform.

And La Raza said if they get this, they don’t even care about amnesty, because they’ve fixed it so that one family member can apply for all extended family members.

It’s time to let our Senators and Representatives know that we know what they’re up to here and tell them in no uncertain terms that including illegal immigrants – criminals – in anything paid for with our tax monies is wrong.