Why isn’t this news?

Sometimes you get an email that gets your dander up. I recieved just such an email a few days ago with a long video (over nine and half minutes) that gave me a wake up call. First I would like to thank Mr. Bryan Griffith for sending it to me. Then I have some questions. To all you “so called” environmentalists; where is your outrage? To those who favor amnesty for illegal aliens; where is your outrage?

Take nine and a half minutes and watch this video, or just read the text on the webpage and see what you think. The video was shot by the Center for Immigration Studies and shows how our native lands are being destroyed and wildlife threatened by illegal alien activities. To see what has me so worked up go to the Center
for Immigration Studies website.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but to me this should not be allowed in our country. Environmentalists threw a hissy fit about drilling for oil in ANWR saying it would disrupt the wildlife and they allow our beautiful federal lands to be raped? Sorry guys, but you’re not walking the walk you’re just talking the talk.
Comments are always welcome.

Economic answers

 We have to do something. That’s the lawmakers response when
people voice displeasure in the stimulus package. As usual,
I have a few thoughts on the issue. I will even make some
suggestions that won’t cost a trillion dollars, will help the
economy, and might even shorten the economic problems we
now face.

 Congress has been telling us the banking industry is corrupt.
I’d guess banks have been around since there’s been people. Now
after all this time, in our lifetime, we get all the lemons.
They’ve also told us our automakers are inept and greedy. Our
country has a one hundred plus year history with the automobile.
And once again, we were cursed enough to get all the bad apples
running all the companies into ruin during our lifetime.
 Man, what did we do to deserve this? We elected them.

 And now the Democrats are dancing in the streets because they
got rid of George Bush, who couldn’t run again anyway; and have
the majority in the House and Congress. Now we are tirelessly
reminded that Obama inheirited a $1.2 trillion deficit. Instead of
learning from the mistakes that got us to that figure,
our new President, and his Democratic legislature have decided it
would be better for us citizens if that figure was doubled in his
first month in office. Even knowing that the stimulis didn’t work
last time, won’t work this time, and will most likely prolong the
economic woes, this group has decided pork is more important than
progress.

 So What’s the alternative to a gazillion-dollar pork-laden
stimulis package? Glad you asked. First, we have to get people
back to work. How? Put people to work securing our border, and
them put more people to work sending illegal aliens back accross
the border. Fix  our rotting roads and failing infrastruture.
Make realistic wages a reality for everyone. While a CEO isn’t
worth $100 million a year, a person working on an assembly line
at one of the automakers isn’t worth $75 an hour and a kid who
is learning to flip burgers isn’t worth $10 an hour.

 Next, we should look to technology we have. Let’s use coal and
nuclear power. We should also get our national electric grid more
secure. We should look at ways to lower utility bills, and the
fuel bills of our trucker friends. A lot of people forget that
while gas prices are down, diesel prices are still high. Get the
prices down and it would help with our grocery costs.

 We should also revamp our schools. Not by throwing more money
into them. Put the money into finding the reason our school costs
are the highest in the world but on math tests our children score
32nd. We have a high dropout rate, and a lot of our graduates are
not prepared for college. That is unaceptable. Our children are
our future. At some point they will take over.

 A serious effort should be made to lower our health costs. They
have balloned to an almost unaffordable level for working families.
We don’t need government insurance, we need affordable insurance.

 Then we should take a long hard look at how our politicians are
running the store. There should be an instant pay freeze for all
member of the House and Senate. They’ve been giving themselves
a pay raise every year and calling it COLA, regardless of their
record. Well, why the rest of us are tightening our belts; they
should do the same. Instead of spending trillions on an unwanted,
unneeded stimulis, cut spending. Term limits should be enacted,
and the retirement should also looked at with a fine tooth comb.
Where else can you work a few years and get retirement?

 We should limit campaign fundraising, and length of campaigns.
We should also have a limit on inauguration spending. It is not
a corination, it is the taking over of an elected office.
Then it wouldn’t hurt to look into lobbyists, special elections, and
early voting. On top of getting rid of the pork we have to get rid of
the fat.

 It also wouldn’t hurt to look at all subsidized programs. Ethanol
comes to mind. Ethanol producers can make money if gas is above $3
a gallon, and the 54 cent a gallon subsidy is in place. All this
hocus-pocus to make ethanol appear a dime cheaper than regular at the pump.
To me, this is corporate welfare. It cost many to benefit a few.
Spend less money and let things work themselves out. By all means
help, just don’t put all of us in the poorhouse doing it.

 Not all these ideas are mine, but are my take on how they could be
implemented.There are a lot more things that could be done, but I
don’t want to turn this into a novel.
Comments are always welcome.

Food for thought

You think the war in Iraq is costing us too much?

 Since the Iraq war began 5 years ago the total cost is around $620 billion.
Sounds like a lot of money, and you may think it’s the main cause for our
financial problems. But consider this, illegal aliens cost us 
$338.3 billion a year! So in just two years time we spend more on illegal
aliens than we have for an entire war.

 So look at the following 14 reasons why the war isn’t the cause. Each one
is followed by a link if anyone cares to verfify the statement. We wish to
thank Dale for sending us the email that resulted in this post.
1. $11 Billion to $22 billion
    is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
      Verify at: http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2.  $2.2 Billion dollars
     a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC,
      and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
      Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

 3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year
      is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens .
      Verify at: http://www.cis.or/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

 4. $12 Billion dollars a year
     is spent on primaryand secondary school education for children here
illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
      Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

 5. $17 Billion dollars a year
      is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens,
      known as anchor babies.
      Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

 6.  $3 Million Dollars a DAY
      is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens
      Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

 7.  30% percent of all Federal Prison
      inmates are illegal aliens.
      Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCR IPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

 8.  $90 Billion Dollars a year
      is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American
taxpayers.
      Verify at: http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

 9.  $200 Billion dollars a year
      in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens.
      Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10.  The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s
      two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their
children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.
      Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11.  During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed        
our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries.
        Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and marijuana, crossed
into the U. S from the Southern border.
        Verify at: Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

12. The National policy Institute, estimated that the total cost of mass deportation        
would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and        
$46 billion annually over a five year period.’
        Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

13.  In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their countries
of origin.
       Verify at:  http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm>;;
14. The Dark Sideof Illegal Immigration:
      Nearly One million sex crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The
United States.
      Verify at: http: // www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR? Are we THAT stupid?
Here’s the thought of the day: The reason politicians try so hard to get re-elected
is that they would hate to have to work to make a living under the laws they’ve passed..

 Comments on just about anything are always welcome.

Something else

We recieved an email titled “Just one state” and checked it on Snopes We found some things interesting in the findings. So we thought we’d try to figure it out.

The email stated that two-thirds of all birth in Los Angeles County were to illegal aliens, and paid for by taxpayers. Vital Records do show 62.7% of all births were classified as hispanic. We do wonder how many of these were Medi-Cal births funded by taxpayers, and how many were to illegal aliens.

The email also stated that half of all gang members in LA were most likely illegal aliens from Mexico. Snopes found quotes from a California Department of Justice study that said 60% of the 18th Street Gangs’ 20,000 members were illegal aliens, while police officers said it was much higher. Does this gang have a higher number of illegal aliens than other gangs in the area?

How about ‘95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens’? In the first half of 2004, 95% of outstanding homicide warrents, and up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants were for illegal aliens. Snopes says even if the numbers are true, it’s subject to a variety of interpretations. Huh?

On the claim that 75% of the people on the most wanted list in LA are illegal aliens, we don’t know. It seems high, but we just don’t know.

23% on all inmates in California prisons are deportable aliens. Not necessarily from Mexico, but illegal. That certainly makes us feel better.

On the claim that less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare a GAO report stated that households headed by illegal aliens recieved $700 million in AFDC benifits and $430 million in food stamps in 1995. That seems like a healthy chunck of change to us.

Over 70% of the United States annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration. In California at least, if it weren’t for immigrant mothers, there would be virtually a zero population growth.

The snopes page ends with debate over the cost of illegal aliens. Some analists claim the country sees a net gain from illegals, we don’t buy it. Numbers are easy to play with, and when the two sides are $50 million apart someone’s wrong. We actually believe the cost figure to be low. If it runs millions a year for one Texas hospital to treat illegal aliens, it has to be higher.

We didn’t list every item listed on the page, just the ones that interested us. We also didn’t make up the figures, just stated our thoughts on them. Would amnesty and a fine help these figures?

Comments are welcome.

Why the cuts in senior citizen benefits?

Is it the war? Is it the price of crude oil? Is it our fault for the way we’re causing global warming? Oh no my friends; the real answer may surprise you. If you have any doubts, links are listed for the sources. Can you say no amnesty for illegal aliens?

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.
http://tinyurl.com/zob77

2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html

4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.html

5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.   http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.   http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html

9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by the illegal aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html

10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that’s two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html

11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border. Homeland Security Report: http://tinyurl.com/t9sht

12. The National Policy Institute, “estimated that the total cost of mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.” http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.pdf

13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to their countries of origin. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm

14. “The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes Committed by Illegal Immigrants in the United States”.  
http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml

 The total cost is a whooping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!

 A nod to Al. Comments are welcome.

What if they did go away?

 We recieved an email that had a link to an article by someone named Frosty Wooldridge. In it he answers a question from Mexican journalist Evangelina Hernadez. She asked- “They (illegal aliens) pay rent, buy groceries, buy clothes…what happens to your country’s economy if 20 million people go away?

 Mr. Wooldridge responds-
If the 3.5 million illegal aliens in California moved back to Mexico, it would leave an extra $10.2 billion to spend on school systems, hospitals and prisons.

 Colorado could save $2 billion to $7 billion, depending on the expert asked ,if the 500,000 illegal aliens and their 300,000 kids and grandkids went back to Mexico. At least 200,000 vehicles would be off the roads in Colorado,  unemployment would vanish and our working poor would gain jobs at a living wage.

 Florida would lose 1.5 million illegal aliens would again be an enlish speaking state.

 Closer to home, in Chicago, 2.1 million illegals gone would free up hospitals, schools and prisons.

 How about crime? If we returned the 500,000 illegal alien criminal inmates that cost us more than $1.6 billion a year, would that make a difference? How about if the 15,000 MS-13 gang members who distribute $130 billion in drugs annualy were sent back to Mexico? Or L.A. losing 20,000 members of the “18th Street Gang”?

 If 20 million illegal aliens were deported wouldn’t that clear up crowded highways, give us cleaner air, and help us use less of our resources? Over $80 billion wouldn’t return to their home countries by cash transfers, half of which is untaxed.

 Illegals wouldn’t be having babies here at a cost of $109 billion a year, and hospitals could operate in the black in California, Georgia, Florida, and Texas.

 To go to the webpage quoted here go to-
http://newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty306.htm

 These are Mr. Wooldridge’s figures not ours. It is not meant by this blogger to be absolute truth. But if even half of his figures are true, it should be a reason to rethink our policies on this. We’re still digging up facts on this and as time allows plan on adding more at a later date. This post is not intended to be racists, prejudicial, or mean spirited, only thought provoking. Comments are welcome.