GETTING IT OFF MY CHEST!
By fred | May 17, 2010
CHIPPING FROM THE ROUGH – May 17th 2010
GETTING IT OFF MY CHEST – by Uncle Fred
Sorry I have not been able to get to you with another humor from buddies or another chapter from my book Everybody’s Danish – will work on that – however I would like to address the current situation related to our borders and the invasion of illegal folks coming across – plus all the jerks that seem be hammering our president lately.
My first bitch is all the right wing dingbats that are nailing Obama to the wall for this situation, the same dingbats that have been after him for the economy, and every ill that has beset our nation. I would like to remind these absolute idiots that the poor bastard has only been our president for a bit over a year. ALL –YES — DAMN NEAR ALL — THE CRAP WE HAVE HAD TO CONTEND WITH IS THE RESULT OF 8 YEARS OF THE REPUBLICAN COMPLETE RAPE AND PILLAGE OF OUR ECONOMY, OUR NATIONS ASSETS, ETC.
Obama has been working his ass off to first off get our nation a healthy economy, he has contacted the best minds and the way it looks we are slowly getting back on the road to recovery, he had to spend money to do it, most was lent, and if you can read and pay attention you will note that a bunch has already been paid back to our government from businesses.
He had had to fight all the Congress men and women (mostly Republicans) that have been paid off by drug companies etc, to get at least some kind of health package through congress, when lesser men would have given up, he stuck to his guns.
Re Health care – How can we be so dumb, even China is developing a health care plan for their people – why? – because it really has not that much to do with health care as such — by a nation having a health care plan that nation can complete with all the other industrialized nations on the face of the earth. Detroit can not complete selling cars against other nations –when the car company has to add hundreds of dollars in cost to a car in health benefits for its employees? It cannot! Japan and all the other nations on this earth have government plans for health– the car companies of other nations do not have to add those hundreds of dollars as we do. So who sells more cars, machinery, anything? The nations that have government health plans win. Obama understood, he understands that – but the idiots, our tea party jerks don’t have the brains to understand that he is protecting their jobs, adding jobs by getting health care passed.
Obama has traveled the world trying to repair the international image of our nation which took some big hits from that asshole Bush we had for 8 years, elected by the gross stupidity of many of us. He is getting us out of Iraq, a promise he made and is keeping. So how is he rewarded for his efforts? – the right wing idiots start tea parties, all fat cats that do not want their toys taken away, ten guns for every household seems to be their attitude.
The mess at our borders, another problem we dumped in Obama’s lap. I have mixed feelings about that one and even Obama hasn’t come up with a solution, hey he did not create the problem — it was created by years and years of greed for cheap labor. I have so many friends of a lifetime that are Mexican Americans, my best friend, Sally and my best man at our wedding is the son of hard working Mexicans that came to this country for a better life. Heck, my Dad came from Denmark for the same reason, a better life, can’t knock folks for wanting that!
I am including a number of articles / opinions / etc below sent to me by friends. Do I have an opinion about this mess? Not really – I do not even want to think about parents that are illegal folks when their kids are American citizens by being born here — that is one bitch of a problem. I am not an advocate of tearing kids from their parent’s arms. I think first we have to seal the damn borders. We have GOT TO SEAL the borders tight so no one can get in unless invited, visiting legally or an authorize person getting in. THEN we can address those that are here, get them legal or toss em out if they are not good citizens or have the will to be one. BUT FIRST WE HAVE TO SEAL THE BORDERS.
Again, this is not an Obama problem – it is one he inherited, yet another of the messes he inherited from Bush. Now regarding the Arizona law which you all know about, no matter how much I think about it, even if I was a Mexican American, why would I be ashamed to have an identity card? Seem each of us in the United States should have a card, citizens all should have one, and it should be a law for all of us to have an identification card. Doesn’t seem like that is so bad to me, has nothing to do with being a police state, we have a problem if having an identity card will fix it we should all be happy to have one. I sure would not mind having one in my pocket at all times and if a law enforcement officer asked to see it I would be happy to show it to him.
So here I am a Democrat thinking it is a super idea. Sorry, but I do. I still think job one is closing our borders, sealing them tight, stopping the illegal folks coming in and stopping the drugs coming in also. This is job one and has to be done first.
So I got this off my chest, how about leaving Obama alone for another few years, give him the same breaks Bush got, I will guarantee that he will not be giving our money to the already rich, that the oil companies making billions of dollars in profits will not maybe be so rich. I guarantee you that the life of the average American will be a lot healthier, a lot better off if we leave him alone for the same length of time we gave Bush in office, another six or more years. This guy works, he is trying to be the best president this nation ever had, and he will do it – sorry that all of you that can’t handle a person of color doing the job he is doing so well. Tough! Get with it, it is a new world, let him make it better.
Below – all of the articles, etc, related to the illegal folks – AND – my thanks for hearing me out. My heart doctors say I should not get upset, to stay cool, but for months I have been hammered with stuff and shut up – so this is actually therapy for me to get this off my chest, if this offends your politics, your ideals, hey that is what a BLOG is for just post it on the BLOG, I don’t have to read it – others may.
Love ya all – the opinions stated above are mine and mine alone – those stated below are for your information most and most have a source. Uncle Fred
ILLEGALS – OUR BORDERS – AND SO FORTH!
5 Myths about immigration
By Doris Meissner
Sunday, May 2, 2010; B02
Despite the fact that we are a nation of immigrants — or perhaps because of it — immigration continues to be one of America‘s most contentious topics. The new law in Arizona authorizing police to arrest individuals who cannot show documents proving that they are in the country legally has set off a fresh bout of acrimony. But as in the past, much of the debate is founded on mythology.
1. Immigrants take jobs from American workers.
Although immigrants account for 12.5 percent of the U.S. population, they make up about 15 percent of the workforce. They are overrepresented among workers largely because the rest of our population is aging: Immigrants and their children have accounted for 58 percent of U.S. population growth since 1980. This probably won’t change anytime soon. Low U.S. fertility rates and the upcoming retirement of the baby boomers mean that immigration is likely to be the only source of growth in what we call the “prime age” workforce — workers ages 25 to 55 — in the decades ahead. As record numbers of retirees begin drawing Social Security checks, younger immigrant workers will be paying taxes, somewhat easing the financial pressures on the system.
Moreover, immigrants tend to be concentrated in high- and low-skilled occupations that complement — rather than compete with — jobs held by native workers. And the foreign-born workers who fill lower-paying jobs are typically first-hired/first-fired employees, allowing employers to expand and contract their workforces rapidly. As a result, immigrants experience higher employment than natives during booms — but they suffer higher job losses during downturns, including the current one.
It’s true that an influx of new workers pushes wages down, but immigration also stimulates growth by creating new consumers, entrepreneurs and investors. As a result of this growth, economists estimate that wages for the vast majority of American workers are slightly higher than they would be without immigration. U.S. workers without a high school degree experience wage declines as a result of competition from immigrants, but these losses are modest, at just over 1 percent. Economists also estimate that for each job an immigrant fills, an additional job is created.
2. Immigration is at an all-time high, and most new immigrants came illegally.
The historic high came more than a century ago, in 1890, when immigrants made up 14.8 percent of our population. Today, about two-thirds of immigrants are here legally, either as naturalized citizens or as lawful permanent residents, more commonly known as “green card” holders. And of the approximately 10.8 million immigrants who are in the country illegally, about 40 percent arrived legally but overstayed their visas.
It’s worth noting that although the unauthorized immigrant population includes more people from Mexico than from any other country, Mexicans are also the largest group of lawful immigrants. As for the flow of illegal immigrants, apprehensions along the U.S.-Mexico border have declined by more than 50 percent over the past four years, while increases in the size of the illegal population, which had been growing by about 500,000 a year for more than a decade, have stopped. This decline is largely due to the recession, but stepped-up border enforcement is playing a part.
3. Today’s immigrants are not integrating into American life like past waves did.
The integration of immigrants remains a hallmark of America’s vitality as a society and a source of admiration abroad, as it has been throughout our history. Although some people complain that today’s immigrants are not integrating into U.S. society as quickly as previous newcomers did, the same charge was leveled at virtually every past wave of immigrants, including the large numbers of Germans, Irish and Italians who arrived in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Today, as before, immigrant integration takes a generation or two. Learning English is one key driver of this process; the education and upward mobility of immigrants’ children is the other. On the first count, today’s immigrants consistently seek English instruction in such large numbers that adult-education programs cannot meet the demand, especially in places such as California. On the second count, the No Child Left Behind Act has played a critical role in helping educate immigrant children because it holds schools newly accountable for teaching them English.
However, the unauthorized status of millions of foreign-born immigrants can slow integration in crucial ways. For example, illegal immigrants are ineligible for in-state tuition at most public colleges and universities, putting higher education effectively out of their reach. And laws prohibiting unauthorized immigrants from getting driver’s licenses or various professional credentials can leave them stuck in jobs with a high density of other immigrants and unable to advance.
4. Cracking down on illegal border crossings will make us safer.
The job of protecting the nation’s borders is immense, encompassing nearly 7,500 miles of land borders, 12,380 miles of coastline and a vast network of sea ports, international airports, ports of entry along the Mexican and Canadian borders and visa-issuing consulates abroad.
Since Sept. 11, 2001, we have dramatically strengthened our borders through the use of biometrics at ports of entry, secure cargo-shipment systems, intelligence gathering, integrated databases and increased international cooperation. The Border Patrol has nearly doubled in size in the past five years, to more than 20,000 agents. The Department of Homeland Security says it is on schedule to meet congressional mandates for southwestern border enforcement, including fence-building. And cooperation with the Mexican government has improved significantly.
Still, our southwest border is more a classic law enforcement challenge than a front line in the war on terrorism. Antiterrorism measures rely heavily on intelligence gathering and clandestine efforts that are unrelated to border enforcement.
The seasoned enforcement officials I have spoken with all contend that if we provided enough visas to meet the economy’s demand for workers, border agents would be freed to focus on protecting the nation from truly dangerous individuals and activities, such as drug-trafficking, smuggling and cartel violence.
5. Immigration reform cannot happen in an election year.
The politics of immigration can be explosive and can chase lawmakers away, especially as elections near, with the result that Congress infrequently and reluctantly updates immigration laws. However, all the significant immigration bills enacted in recent decades were passed in election years, often at the last minute and after fractious debates.
This list dates back to the Refugee Act of 1980, which established our system for humanitarian protection and refugee and asylum admissions. Next came the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, which made it illegal to hire unauthorized immigrants and provided amnesty for 2.7 million illegal immigrants. The Immigration Act of 1990 increased the number of visas allotted to highly skilled workers. And the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act charged immigration agencies with implementing significant new law enforcement mandates.
Legislative attempts to make urgently needed changes fizzled in the House in 2005 and in the Senate in 2006 and 2007, and the to-do list for this Congress is substantial. But ruling out immigration reform, whether because Congress has other priorities or because it’s an election year, would be a mistake. The outline for immigration legislation that Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and his Democratic colleagues unveiled last week, together with the uproar over the Arizona law, may help convince lawmakers that there’s no time like the present.
Doris Meissner, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, served as commissioner of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1993 to 2000. She will be online Monday, May 3, at 11 a.m. ET to chat. Submit your questions and comments before or during the discussion.
Want to challenge everything you think you know? Visit the “Five Myths” archive.
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LET ME SEE IF I GOT THIS RIGHT.
IF YOU CROSS THE NORTH KOREAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET 12 YEARS HARD LABOR.
IF YOU CROSS THE IRANIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU ARE DETAINED INDEFINITELY.
IF YOU CROSS THE AFGHAN BORDER ILLEGALLY, YOU GET SHOT.
IF YOU CROSS THE SAUDI ARABIAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE JAILED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CHINESE BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU MAY NEVER BE HEARD FROM AGAIN.
IF YOU CROSS THE VENEZUELAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE BRANDED A SPY AND YOUR FATE WILL BE SEALED.
IF YOU CROSS THE CUBAN BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU WILL BE THROWN INTO POLITICAL PRISON TO ROT.
IF YOU CROSS THE U.S. BORDER ILLEGALLY YOU GET
A JOB,
A DRIVERS LICENSE,
SOCIAL SECURITY CARD,
WELFARE,
FOOD STAMPS,
CREDIT CARDS,
SUBSIDIZED RENT OR A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE,
FREE EDUCATION,
FREE HEALTH CARE,
A LOBBYIST IN WASHINGTON
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS PRINTED IN YOUR LANGUAGE
THE RIGHT TO CARRY YOUR COUNTRY’S FLAG WHILE YOU PROTEST THAT YOU DON’T GET ENOUGH RESPECT
AND, IN MANY INSTANCES, YOU CAN VOTE.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I HAD A FIRM GRASP ON THE SITUATION
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I don’t know how everybody else feels about it, but to me I
think Hispanic people in this country, legally or illegally,
made a huge public relations mistake with their recent demonstrations.
I don’t blame anybody in the world for wanting to come to the
United States of America , as it is a truly wonderful place.
But when the first thing you do when you set foot on American soil is illegal it is flat out wrong and I don’t care how many lala land left heads come out of the woodwork and start trying
to give me sensitivity lessons.
I don’t need sensitivity lessons, in fact I don’t have any-thing against Mexicans! I just have something against criminals and anybody who comes into this country illegally is a criminal
and if you don’t believe it try coming into America from a foreign country without a passport and see how far you get. What disturbs me about the demonstrations is that it’s tanta-mount to saying, “I am going to come into your country even if it means breaking your laws and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
It’s an “in your face” action and speaking just for me, I don’t like it one little bit and if there were a half dozen pairs of gonads in Washington bigger than English peas it wouldn’t be happening.
Where are you, you bunch of lily livered, pantywaist, forked tongued, sorry excuses for defenders of The Constitution? Have you been drinking the water out of the Potomac again?
And even if you pass a bill on immigration it will probably be so pork laden and watered down that it won’t mean anything anyway Besides, what good is another law going to do when you
won’t enforce the ones on the books now?
And what ever happened to the polls, guys? I thought you folks were the quintessential finger wetters. Well you sure ain’t paying any attention to the polls this time because somewhere around eighty percent of Americans want some thing done about this mess, and mess it is and getting bigger everyday.
This is no longer a problem, it is a dilemma and headed for being a tragedy. Do you honestly think that what happened in France with the Muslims can’t happen here when the businesses who hire these people finally run out of jobs and a few million disillusioned Hispanics take to the streets?
If you, Mr. President, Congressmen and Senators, knuckle under on this and refuse to do something meaningful it means that you care nothing for the kind of country your children and grand-children will inherit. But I guess that doesn’t matter as long as you get re-elected.
Shame on you.
One of the big problems in America today is that if you have the nerve to say anything derogatory about any group of people (except Christians) you are going to be screamed at by the media and called a racist, a bigot and anything else they can think of to call you
Well I’ve been pounded by the media before and I’m still rockin’ and rollin’ and when it comes to speaking the truth I fear not.
And the truth is that the gutless, gonadless, milksop politicians are just about to sell out the United States of America because they don’t have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to face reality.
And reality is that we would never allow any other group of people to have 12 million illegal in this country and turn around and say, “Oh it’s ok, ya’ll can stay here if you’ll just allow us to slap your wrist.”
And I know that some of you who read this column are saying “Well what’s wrong with that?”
I’ll tell you what’s wrong with it. These people could be from Mars as far as we know. We don’t know who they are, where they are or what they’re up to and the way the Congress is going we’re not going to.
Does this make sense? Labor force you say? We already subsidize corporate agriculture as it is, must we subsidize their labor as well?
If these people were from Haiti would we be so fast to turn a blind eye to them or if they were from Somalia or Afghanistan ?
I think not.
All the media shows us are pictures of hard working Hispanics who have crossed the border just to try to better their life.
They don’t show you pictures of the Feds rounding up members of MS 13, the violent gang who came across the same way the decent folks did. They don’t tell you about the living conditions of the Mexican illegal some fat cat hired to pick his crop.
I want to make two predictions.
No. 1: This situation is going to grow and fester until it erupts in violence on our streets while the wimps in Washington drag their toes in the dirt and try to figure how many tons of political hay they can make to the acre.
No 2: Somebody is going to cross that border with some kind of weapon of mass destruction and set it off in a major American city after which there will be a backlash such as this country has never experienced and the Capitol building in Washington will probably tilt as Congressmen and Senators rush to the other side of the issue.
I don’t know about you but I would love to see just one major politician stand up and say, “I don’t care who I make mad and I don’t care how many votes I lose, this is a desperate situation and I’m going to lead the fight to get it straightened out.”
I don’t blame anybody for wanting to come to America , but if you don’t respect our immigration laws why should you respect any others?
And by the way, this is America and our flag has stars and stripes Please get that other one out of my face.
God Bless America
Charlie Daniels
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