Archive for April, 2008

Jesus Christ or Genghis Kahn….Who’s footsteps are we really following?

Collateral damage.

Sounds reasonable, acceptable, and even unavoidable to the military minded among us.  But what is it exactly?  It is the cost in nonmilitary casualties to innocently involved people during military confrontations.  It is the cost in lives of unsuspecting women and children blown to bits in shopping malls or on subway trains and in markets when extremists seek to make a political statement.  It is the cost in families dislocated to relief centers because their homes have been commandeered by military personnel in war zones, or to those whose homes have disappeared altogether from bomb strikes.  It is the economic cost to countries whose infrastructure has been destroyed; manufacturing centers, roads and bridges, power facilities and grids, and commerce centers all disabled or destroyed by combatants during military campaigns.  This destruction is a result of goals which are completely irrelevant to the people whose lives are being destroyed by the “ruling” elite who supposedly speak for the people they govern.

Does this still sound reasonable?  Millions of people dislocated, hundreds of thousands of people dead, trillions of dollars of money wasted on the megalomaniac dreams and ambitions of a few deranged individuals?  And I do mean a few.  Less than a hundred powerful sheiks (similar to Mafia families) in Iraq are being propped up by a few hundreds of legislators in this country, in support of a few thousand businessmen.  These “elite” are costing the rest of the world hundreds of thousands of lives, trillions of current and future dollars, and generations of grief.

And for what?  I personally have nothing against a single Iraqi or Muslim.  In fact, I don’t even know one.  I feel certain that the poor civilian, who has lost a family member to this war (every family in Iraq has lost, on average, at least one) has nothing against me.  Where is the sanity?

Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to turn a biblical eye to the damage caused to us during the 9/11 disaster?  Instead of recovering from the disaster, haven’t we, in fact, more than doubled it — just in lives lost?  If we add the cost of the physically maimed and mentally diminished, and the cost in taxpayer dollars of a devastated economy, haven’t we caused ourselves infinitely more damage than the “enemy” could have ever managed?  With no end to the damage in sight!  Where is the sanity in a policy like this?

And to think my fellow Americans are considering voting for more of the same, for shame. And to think this is being done in the name of one of the foremost pacifists to ever place his saintly foot upon this planet…none other than Jesus Christ himself. It seems to me we do Genghis Kahn honor in the name of our savior.

Cheap Tomatoes

THIS HAS GOT TO BE PASSED ALONG TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE OR WE WILL ALL GO DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE A FEW DON’T CARE.

This English teacher has phrased it the best I’ve seen yet.

Tomatoes and Cheap Labor CHEAP TOMATOES?
This should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent From a California school teacher – - – “As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:

I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels.

Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens , Huntington Park , etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.

Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program.  When I say free breakfast, I’m not talking a glass of milk and roll — but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud.  The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten.
(OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK) 

I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight.  About 75% or more DO have cell phones.  The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids.  (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK) 

I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was littl e need for anything; my budget was already substantial.  I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America .  (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK) 

I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less then 3 months who raised so much -__– with the female teachers, calling them “Putas”  (whores)  and throwing things, that the teachers were in tears.

Free medical, free education, free food, day care etc., etc, etc.  Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?

To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes:  spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.

Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases etc., etc, etc.  For me, I’ll pay more for tomatoes. 

Americans.We need to wake up.  The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won’t have the guts to enforce it.  Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?

It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about “political correctness”  that we don’t have the will to do anything about it..

If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone you know. 

CHEAP LABOR?  Isn’t that what the whole immigration issue is about?

Business doesn’t want to pay a decent wage. 

Consumers don’t want expensive produce.

Government will tell you Americans don’t want the jobs.

But the bottom line is cheap labor.  The phrase “cheap labor” is a myth, a farce, and a lie.  There is no such thing as “cheap labor.” 

Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children.  He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour.  At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an “earned income credit” of up to $3,200 free.

He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.

He qualifies for food stamps.

He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.

His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.

He requires bilingual teachers and books.

He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.

If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI.  Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare.  All of this is at (our) taxpayer’s expense. 

He doesn’t worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.

Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.

He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits. 

Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills and his.

The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up. 

Cheap labor?  YEAH RIGHT!  Wake up people!

THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR EITHER PARTY.  ‘AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON’T DO AS THEY SAY, WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM AT ONCE!’ THIS HAS GOT TO BE PASSED ALONG TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE OR WE WILL ALL GO DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE A FEW DON’T CARE AMEN!!!

Since the New York governor’s mansion has self imploded with  Eliot Spitzer’s and David Patterson’s admissions of sexual excess, discussion has turned toward the possibility  Hillary Clinton might consider moving from the U.S. Senate to the New York governor’s mansion.

Recent polls clearly place Barack Obama a front runner in the national campaign.  Perhaps it’s time for Hillary to consider an exit strategy. Barack Obama has weathered the Reverend Wright earthquake and seems to be on firmer ground than ever.  His ties to organized crime in Chicago have evaporated.  His wife has slipped into the background after her gaffs about “finally feeling good about the country “she lives in and has benefited greatly from.

The worst that has been said about Hillary Clinton is she had ties to a company which got caught sideways in some very fragrant real estate deals.  Nothing was ever proven regarding her involvement in the Whitewater scandal. On occasion, she is charged with orchestrating a few “cover-ups” regarding Bill’s philandering.  No one I know can blame a woman for protecting her home and family, even if it requires using Capitol police to run the “pass” interference.

So are the trial balloons about her moving into a position to become the new New York governor just hot air?  Or is this just an attempt to thwart her national campaign hopes by the evil red herring genius?  Or maybe this is some serious possibility we have to consider.