As you most know, my family escaped from Cuba in 1967 to escape a communist regime and start a new life in freedom in the United States. Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans were among the first Latinos to thrive in the United States. Today we see Latinos of all walks of life from all different countries from all over Latin America. Why should we as Americans care? Simple….Latinos number in the millions here in the United States and invest billions of dollars in our economy. Also, and most importantly; we have Latinos participating in policies in the U.S. government that shape our nation. That translates into millions of votes and citizens involved in shaping our society.
We must watch our neighbors. For example, Venezuela and Hugo Chavez who constantly try to provoke the United States. Honduras with Zelaya who wanted to change the Honduran Constitution so he could rule indefinitely so, Micheletti took power. What is our government doing? Turning a blind eye and not supporting Micheletti and continuing to allow Chavez to disrespect, berrate and bully the United States.
Another case in point…look what happened in Cuba 1961. The Bay of Pigs was a total disaster and fiasco of the Kennedy administration turning his back on Cuba. The result? Thousands of Cubans murdered by a weak Cuban airforce thanks to John F. Kennedy leaving them out alone to dry after promising to back up those valiant freedom fighters and then going back on that promise…thereby missing our window of opportunity to remove Castro from power without threat from the Russians. Cuba is only 90 miles away! We must worry because many people are coming from these places and that means they are also bringing their political ideas. The White House now has a site in Spanish to indoctrinate and bring in Latinos. We must get these important voters on our side…the side of freedom. Why? Because they come to this country,then become American citizens who vote and shape our agendas and have American children who are the future of this country and it won’t be long before we have the first Latino president. And God help us that his or her policy isn’t the same as Barrack Hussein Obama. We must attract these minority groups who, just like us, share in family values and have high morals but, bought the promise of immigration reform which will never be delivered. How does the White House respond? They shut up the Latino minority group by buying us off with Sonya Sotomayor no less! Wake up America! Sotomayor is the daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants with a leftist agenda who sees the Constitution as something to be changed and amended. So me must care about the Latino group and care about what is going on in our backyard to avoid anymore “change” from what our Founding Fathers intended.
Chuckie Schumer (D-NY) says the Immigration (Amnesty) bill will be ready by Labor Day. This bill would ensure that amnesty would be granted to nearly 12 million illegal aliens, who never thought twice about doing the right thing; America will reward bad behavior. I have a serious issue when it comes to morals and standards – any immigrant who wants to come to the USA should show they care enough about the country. This means they follow the rules and show respect to the millions of citizens already residing here legally, paying taxes, and working, by doing the same.
And what about the immigrants who came here legally and have been living in this country for years? I am friends with many from Asia, especially Vietnam – they came here to be free and enjoy democracy after the Vietnam War. One of the ladies I know wrote a wonderful short story about her escape from Vietnam. She fled to Europe, where she became a Dutch citizen, until she made enough money to come to America. She took her citizenship test and took all the steps required to be a productive, tax-paying member of society. She now owns her own business and does quite well for herself. She is a conservative because she remembers the horrors of where she came from and has never let one day pass where she took this country for granted… Maybe more, besides illegal aliens, should do the same.
“I think we’ll have a good bill by Labor Day,” said Schumer, D-N.Y. “I think the fundamental building blocks are in place to do comprehensive immigration reform.”
Schumer said the way to get the bill done is to be very tough on future waves of illegal immigration. He declared himself pro-immigration and said the U.S. should encourage legal immigration and find some kind of path for people now here to find a way to legal citizenship.
“We have a shortage maybe of engineers here or Ph.D’s in physics, but we probably don’t have a shortage of people who can do construction work,” Schumer said.
If you read between the lines, Schumer wants to pass amnesty and give a free pass to the millions of illegals already in the country. He then says he will be harder on future generations coming into the country. Chock this up to more empty words from the Dems – fooling the masses but making it appear as though things will be ok; if we pass this bill now, we can resolve the other issues later. However, they never resolve the other issues! They try to pass legislation that only cures the symptoms, but never fix the underlying disease! Congress-critters are too concerned about their own pockets and power, to ever go back and fix policies, although they promised they would. Most are just lying, corrupt thieves.
Does anybody recall when George Bush created the Patriot Act and began wire-tapping practices? Do you remember Democrats screaming about the right to privacy and how that wasn’t constitutional? Well, it wasn’t constitutional and it did give the government a lot of control into our lives. The Liberal rantings of “Big Brother is out to get me,” could be heard far and wide and the media certainly wouldn’t let us forget it. So where is the media now? They would be investigating… but they haven’t found time to clean their noses after being so close to Obama’s rear.
I didn’t mind the Patriot Act that much only because I was still in shock and appalled by the actions of radical Islamic terrorists on 9/11. I knew I had nothing to hide and had no problem if they in fact wanted to tap my phone. However, I now understand that this is not constitutional, and see why there was such a big deal made about this piece of legislation. So why aren’t the liberals out in full force now that Obama has expanded upon the Patriot Act and is also considering to let the United Nations become the new global IRS? We may be paying global taxes this time next year. Why are the liberals, given that several Democratic Senators were against extending the E-Verify program for illegals, all of the sudden supporting eye scans and biometrics to check for citizenship?
Eye scans and United Nations control seems more Big Brother-like to me than the Patriot Act. If you are going to be upset about the actions of one then be upset about the actions of another, if they are the same. Ann Coulter completely nailed her evaluation of liberals when she said: “If liberals didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all.” You would think that there would be no surprise to any of this, but I guess I am just hoping that Democrats and Progressives alike, wake up and actually stand on principle for once – and call a spade a spade.
The Conference on the World Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impact on Development that begins on Wednesday will consider adoption of a document calling for “new voluntary and innovative sources of financing initiatives to provide additional stable sources of development finance…” This is U.N.-speak for global taxes. They are anything but “voluntary” for the people forced to pay them.
The most “popular” proposals, which could generate tens of billions of dollars in revenue for global purposes, involve taxes on greenhouse gas emissions and financial transactions such as stock trades.
The document was agreed to at an informal meeting of expert “facilitators” and was made available on Monday afternoon at 3 p.m. It is doubtful that any changes will be made to it.
The conference was postponed from June 1-3 and will now take place June 24-26 at the U.N. in New York. While the “outcome document” has been watered downsomewhat from the previous version, it still reaffirms attainment of the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals, which would require the payment of $845 billion from U.S. taxpayers. A commitment to the MDGs was a stated objective of the Global Poverty Act, which Barack Obama had introduced as a U.S. senator. It requires the U.S. to devote 0.7 percent of Gross National Income to foreign aid.
Senate Democrats outlined plans yesterday to overhaul the nation’s immigration laws, including a requirement that all U.S. workers verify their identity through fingerprints or an eye scan.
Speaking on the eve of a White House summit with congressional leaders on immigration, Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) said a national system to verify work documents is necessary because Congress has failed to crack down on unscrupulous employers and illegal immigrants with fake documents.
“I’m sure the civil libertarians will object to some kind of biometric card — although . . . there’ll be all kinds of protections — but we’re going to have to do it. It’s the only way,” Schumer said. “The American people will never accept immigration reform unless they truly believe their government is committed to ending future illegal immigration.”
By announcing his plans, Schumer, who chairs the Senate’s main immigration subcommittee, ushered in what President Obama has signaled will be his next major legislative campaign, after the economic stimulus plan, health care and energy.
I am utterly speechless - Is it just me or are we living in an Orwell novel?
Just when you think things couldn’t get worse. We have an impending Cap and Tax vote sitting in the House for tomorrow. Obamacare is coming down the pike and the administration is using every means possible, such as state-run media, to hock this idea to the public. The next item for the administration is Immigration Reform, otherwise known as Amnesty.
Amnesty would potentially destroy the economy as would the other pieces of legislation mentioned above. America’s unemployment rate continues to increase and it doesn’t show signs of stopping. Given the fact that the United States and it’s LEGAL citizens are experiencing massive amounts of unemployment, the likes of which have not been seen for over 20 years, Amnesty would allow more citizens to enter the United States taking away more jobs from the American public and only increasing the unemployment rate. If we already don’t have enough jobs for our own, how can we possibly support more 12 million more? Jobs are only one aspect of this precarious bill. Many of us would also be paying for more entitlement programs, health-care benefits, unemployment benefits etc., for the millions who would be allowed to enter our country. We will be told that it is our duty to help these new citizens assimilate into society so we will prop them up until they can get their feet on the ground, if that ever happens… Unfortunately, this is not the American thing to do. When my ancestors arrived from overseas they worked hard, made their way and built themselves up from nothing. They entered Ellis Island legally and through immigration lines as was the proper way of doing things. My friend who is Vietnamese escaped communism and the war to come to the United States. She entered legally, took her citizenship test, saved her money, and started a business. She has a serious problem with those who think they are entitled, owed, and come here illegally. I don’t blame her.
What’s worse though, is the fact that this isn’t just a one-sided issue. Many Republicans are also on the side of Amnesty and due to the minority status in both the House and the Senate, Republicans who oppose Amnesty may find a very tough go of it.
President Obama is meeting today with a bipartisan committee to discuss this other priority of his, and La Raza’s. He hopes to create a new bill with lawmakers that would include new language/clauses to reform immigration. Ultimately, this is again, fancy rhetoric and wording, coded to mask the true intention to allow amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.
The White House meeting will bring together lawmakers who were involved in the failed immigration fights of the George W. Bush years, but who weren’t the central stars. Gone will be Sen. Edward Kennedy (D., Mass.), suffering from a brain tumor. His Republican partner, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, will be at the White House Thursday. But bearing scars from his presidential battle with Mr. Obama and from his own party over his pro-immigration stand, Mr. McCain says he won’t lead the fight this time.
Instead, it would be up to a new cast, including Sen. Charles Schumer (D., N.Y.) and opponents of the last immigration-overhaul efforts, such as Sens. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) and John Cornyn (R., Texas), to forge any bipartisan compromise, lawmakers say.
The stimulus package was one of the biggest crises driven, pay-to-play politics schemes in the history of this nation. Our country already has an example of what works and what does not during a recession. We can look back at the Great Depression and see that FDR’s actions of more government control/intervention and spending didn’t even begin to work until we began WWII, ramping up production of military equipment for other countries who were overspent. Nothing that FDR did directly stimulated the economy and it took 8-9 years to get there. Reagan, on the other hand, who was elected during another time of tremendous economic turmoil cut taxes, cut the size of government, and curtailed spending until we were out of the inflationary recession. His actions even took time, but not as long as 9 years – more like 1-2. This is what I do not understand? Why do liberals think you can resolve your debt problems by spending more money that you don’t have – where is the common sense?
The same thing is bound to happen in this scenario once deflation runs its course. There will be inflation and there is still the very real possibility that it could be hyperinflation – maybe not as high of a chance but still feasible given the volatility. There are several estimates that the bond market is on the brink of imploding; if that happens it will take everything else down with it! Sorry to be a negative Nancy but take a look at the below video clip – this guy is very intelligent:
Of course the administration wants to sell their little (and by little I mean massive) piece of legislation to the public to make it appear as though it’s working and that they didn’t just pay off their cronies for last year’s campaign contributions, ensuring more votes the next election cycle. So the administration puts out a booklet marking the 100th day anniversary of the dreaded (to us fiscal conservatives) stimulus. He of course touts it as the best thing since sliced bread, so whatever is stated as fact in that booklet should be checked and double checked. Propaganda abounds in the Democrat party, that’s not to say that it doesn’t in the Republican party either, but I have not seen the likes of the indoctrination or the Pravda media campaign for the Dems since I was eligible to vote!
Without question the book lists many projects that are having an impact of one way or another on the economy.
But the first one of the projects featured in “100 Days, 100 Projects” doesn’t seem to withstand the scrutiny of its description.
The project is described by the Obama administration this way:
“Using $27 million of Recovery Act funding, a public housing development in Washington, D.C., the Regency House, has undergone a green retrofit. As part of this upgrade, the building installed solar panels, a ‘green’ roof, a rainwater collection system, energy-efficient lighting as well as water conserving toilets, showerheads, and faucets. The greening of this building will allow the Regency House to save money in energy costs, while lessening their impact on the environment.”
In reality, the work done on the Regency House that was funded by the stimulus package amounted to $59,000 in parts and labor, according to Dena Michaelson, director of public affairs for the Washington DC Housing Authority.
The $27 million is the total amount given by the stimulus act to the Washington DC Housing Authority, the vast majority of which hasn’t been spent.
In addition, though the White House’s “100 Days, 100 Projects” entry for the Regency House work lists “solar panels, a ‘green’ roof, a rainwater collection system, energy-efficient lighting as well as water conserving toilets, showerheads, and faucets” as what was done as “part of the upgrade,” the only parts funded by the stimulus were the solar panels, at a cost of $45,000, and the rainwater collection system, at a cost of $14,000.
The response of the White House to questions about the claim in the book evoked a critique of journalists.
Liz Oxhorn, Recovery Act Press Secretary, said in a statement that the Regency House work is “one of thousands of targeted investments we’re making nationwide to jumpstart new and ongoing energy efficiency renovations to public housing units and we only wish the same amount of time and energy that has gone into dissecting the structure of three sentences had gone into exploring the billions of dollars in new job-creating projects like this one now underway thanks to the Recovery Act.”
Michaelson said that installation of the solar panels necessitated 330 total man hours: 202 man hours for plumbers and helpers, 40 man hours for electricians, 50 man hours for welders, 30 man hours for superintendents, and eight man hours for a crane operator.
The booklet also mentions the “police academy graduates in Ohio” whose graduation ceremony President Obama attended in March, heralding how the stimulus enabled the city of Columbus to hire 25 cadets.
But this week Police Chief Walter Distelzweig told the Columbus Dispatch that unless residents approve a tax increase, those 25 cadets face the real possibility of layoffs.
And what good does the stimulus have on jobs if they are willing to, in the future, tear down other sectors of the economy like energy/coal production, the auto industry, the financials, health care, etc. Or what if they pass amnesty for 12 million illegal aliens in the fall – how much stimulus will we really have if we already have double digit unemployment, but we allow more in? There is something inherentlywrong with the logic of all of this.
