Now, this isn't he first time someone has done this, but the first time a Congressman has said something like this as far as I can recall.
Link to article
Monday, July 16, 2007
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Someone Finally Standing Up For American Citizens
The Governor of Arizona has signed a tough illegal immigration employment bill. This bill will severely penalize employers who hire illegal immigrants.
You can read the article here
You can read the article here
You Know I Have To Be Honest
I don't know all of the details in the Lewis Libby trial. I am familiar with the case, the charges, etc. But I have to say, that although completely legal, it seems almost inappropriate when a President commutes a prison sentence. I guess the reason I feel that way is because, a trial has been held, and a jury has found the defendant guilty.That is how our judicial system is set up in this country. Now when a President steps in and commutes a sentence, or pardons a convicted criminal, it seems like a dictatorship where one power can override a decision like this.
Having said all that, I crack up that Hillary Clinton actually had something to say about this. I knew when President Clinton was ending has last term in office that he had pardoned a number of people. What I didn't know was how many he pardoned during his entire Presidency. Here is the list. I think it is hysterical that Hillary would open her mouth and expose her to be the hypocrite that she is. Don't give the, "It wasn't her, it was her husband" argument fooey either.
Friday, June 29, 2007
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Immigration Bill Has Advanced In The Senate
Words cannot encapsulate how I feel right now.Check out Roll call and some explanation of the amendments on NumbersUsa
Thursday, June 21, 2007
2008 Ballot Question on Gay Marriage - See How Your State Senator or Rep Voted
You might be interested in how your local Senator or Representative voted.
Remember this was not about our legislators voting for or against gay marriage. This was about allowing the people of Massachusetts to vote on the issue with a ballot question next year(2008). This is also not about YOU voting for or against gay marriage. This is about our legislators voting against giving us a say on whether we want this or not in our state.
The Boston Herald article is here
The Boston Globe article is here
Remember this was not about our legislators voting for or against gay marriage. This was about allowing the people of Massachusetts to vote on the issue with a ballot question next year(2008). This is also not about YOU voting for or against gay marriage. This is about our legislators voting against giving us a say on whether we want this or not in our state.
The Boston Herald article is here
The Boston Globe article is here
Friday, May 18, 2007
I can't look yet
I can't look at the details of this proposed immigration bill. The pieces that I hear about anger and disappoint me. I'll have to wait another few days to take a look.
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Think what you want.....
Some laugh at me. Some might accuse me of being a xenophobe. Nothing could be further from the truth. My grandmother came to the United States from Portugal, legally. My in-laws came to the United States from Portugal, legally. They speak Portuguese and English as does my wife. Although Portuguese, I never had learned to speak it, but chose to learn it when I met my wife in college.
People who think that because someone has a differing opinion are "haters", try backing your argument with facts before casting labels.
Yesterday, May 1st 2007, legal and illegal immigrants marched in different parts of this country peacefully to oppose this nations immigration laws. I have a couple of problems with this:
1. The illegal immigrants marching are in fact here illegally. Whether it is because their visa ran out, or if they ran across the border, they are here illegally. Because of this, they are breaking the law, yet they have the nerve to march in our streets, and protest our laws as if they have some right or say to them. They do not. Yet our law enforcement, our government allows this behavior making illegal immigrants more brazen. Our government validates their behavior by allowing it.
Imagine if you will that I travelled to Mexico. Once there, I decided that I would stay for as long as I'd like. I would then try and find a job, and demand school tuition benefits, unemployment benefits and for the Mexican government to overlook the fact that I wasn't there legally. Next, because I didn't receive the benefits that I would like, I tried to form a rally of other illegal immigrants in Mexico to protest that I am not allowed these rights. Sounds crazy doesn't it?
2. The fact that illegal immigrants want a "path to citizenship" is ludicrous to me. Why you ask?
First and foremost, what about all of the people from different countries who are following our laws and doing the process legally? Providing a path to citizenship is rewarding people who have knowingly broken our laws. What message our we sending to people waiting to get in to the U.S.? We're essentially telling them to abandon the process, walk over, break our law, because that will be cheaper and easier and we will not punish you for it.
People don't seem to understand. I hear, "well they are doing the jobs that Americans don't want to do" and "they are paying taxes". Bologna. If an illegal is paying taxes, he is paying illegally through an illegal social security number. Now let's stipulate that an illegal is doing this. What kind of implications do you think that would cause the actual owner of that SSN number when he/she has a 3rd more income reported for the year? How effective is a SSN when multiple people are using it? You don't know who is opening what, whether that be a credit card, a home loan, etc. As for the jobs, illegals are working. Not all, but they are out there working.
Now the funny part to all of this to me is, leaving illegals to exist as they are is largely a Democrat idea. You might convince me that a percentage of independents (aka unenrolled) might back this as well, but for argument sake, this is a Democrat idea. For full disclosure, I belong to the "unenrolled (aka independent)" party. Now we all know that the Democrats are supposed to represent blue collar workers, the party of the "working" class. Now explain this to me. If a blue collar worker is making $10 per hour mowing lawns for a landscaping company. His/her employer has to pay unemployment to the state and possibly health benefits. That legal, blue collar United States citizen has to work many hours to make a living at that rate. Enter an illegal immigrant. The employer now is no longer required to pay unemployment to the state, benefits, or $10 per hour. Let's say they pay $6 per hour. The illegal immigrant wants to earn money, so he will work longer hours at the lower rate, knowing that the lower rate will get them the work. The employer has saved themselves thousands of dollars. That practice causes wages to be driven down for those jobs, not up. So each year as new legal citizens are entering into the work force, they are less likely to find work in the trades because of the above reasons. The employers margin is higher, but the hourly rate stays low as long as there is a way to pay someone a lower wage. So for unions who are largely Democrat voting groups, how does this benefit them? If a non-union contractor who hires illegals comes and bids at 30% less than a union contractor who may not, who do you think will win that bid?
Schools, hospital care, insurance, there are so many facets to the way illegal immigration is hurting our culture, I could type for days. I understand that people are looking for a better way of life. America does currently provide that. I am certain that many illegal immigrants are nice, hard-working, family loving people. But there are a finite amount of resources. My taxes and my parents taxes paid and pay for the services we use (i.e. hospitals, schools). Those facilities were built to service a certain population of people for a particular geographic area. Adding 30, 20 even 10 percent more of the anticipated people changes the way that service can be provided. A hospital built in the center of Beverly, MA. is meant to service far less people than a hospital build in the center of Chicago. Why? Because when each hospital was built it was planned to service a certain number of people, and a certain amount of tax payer and federal money was used to build it. If you have 30% more people using a service, but had no hand in paying for it, then it will not longer be able to work at the anticipated service level because that extra 30% was not figured into it's size .
Laugh at me if you will. In 20 years, our country will no longer be the same country where our parents raised us. It will have changed, because we allowed it to happen. By then it will be too late. Based in no fact, label me a racist or a xenophobe. That's what people do when they argue with emotion and without facts. It saddens me.
People who think that because someone has a differing opinion are "haters", try backing your argument with facts before casting labels.
Yesterday, May 1st 2007, legal and illegal immigrants marched in different parts of this country peacefully to oppose this nations immigration laws. I have a couple of problems with this:
1. The illegal immigrants marching are in fact here illegally. Whether it is because their visa ran out, or if they ran across the border, they are here illegally. Because of this, they are breaking the law, yet they have the nerve to march in our streets, and protest our laws as if they have some right or say to them. They do not. Yet our law enforcement, our government allows this behavior making illegal immigrants more brazen. Our government validates their behavior by allowing it.
Imagine if you will that I travelled to Mexico. Once there, I decided that I would stay for as long as I'd like. I would then try and find a job, and demand school tuition benefits, unemployment benefits and for the Mexican government to overlook the fact that I wasn't there legally. Next, because I didn't receive the benefits that I would like, I tried to form a rally of other illegal immigrants in Mexico to protest that I am not allowed these rights. Sounds crazy doesn't it?
2. The fact that illegal immigrants want a "path to citizenship" is ludicrous to me. Why you ask?
First and foremost, what about all of the people from different countries who are following our laws and doing the process legally? Providing a path to citizenship is rewarding people who have knowingly broken our laws. What message our we sending to people waiting to get in to the U.S.? We're essentially telling them to abandon the process, walk over, break our law, because that will be cheaper and easier and we will not punish you for it.
People don't seem to understand. I hear, "well they are doing the jobs that Americans don't want to do" and "they are paying taxes". Bologna. If an illegal is paying taxes, he is paying illegally through an illegal social security number. Now let's stipulate that an illegal is doing this. What kind of implications do you think that would cause the actual owner of that SSN number when he/she has a 3rd more income reported for the year? How effective is a SSN when multiple people are using it? You don't know who is opening what, whether that be a credit card, a home loan, etc. As for the jobs, illegals are working. Not all, but they are out there working.
Now the funny part to all of this to me is, leaving illegals to exist as they are is largely a Democrat idea. You might convince me that a percentage of independents (aka unenrolled) might back this as well, but for argument sake, this is a Democrat idea. For full disclosure, I belong to the "unenrolled (aka independent)" party. Now we all know that the Democrats are supposed to represent blue collar workers, the party of the "working" class. Now explain this to me. If a blue collar worker is making $10 per hour mowing lawns for a landscaping company. His/her employer has to pay unemployment to the state and possibly health benefits. That legal, blue collar United States citizen has to work many hours to make a living at that rate. Enter an illegal immigrant. The employer now is no longer required to pay unemployment to the state, benefits, or $10 per hour. Let's say they pay $6 per hour. The illegal immigrant wants to earn money, so he will work longer hours at the lower rate, knowing that the lower rate will get them the work. The employer has saved themselves thousands of dollars. That practice causes wages to be driven down for those jobs, not up. So each year as new legal citizens are entering into the work force, they are less likely to find work in the trades because of the above reasons. The employers margin is higher, but the hourly rate stays low as long as there is a way to pay someone a lower wage. So for unions who are largely Democrat voting groups, how does this benefit them? If a non-union contractor who hires illegals comes and bids at 30% less than a union contractor who may not, who do you think will win that bid?
Schools, hospital care, insurance, there are so many facets to the way illegal immigration is hurting our culture, I could type for days. I understand that people are looking for a better way of life. America does currently provide that. I am certain that many illegal immigrants are nice, hard-working, family loving people. But there are a finite amount of resources. My taxes and my parents taxes paid and pay for the services we use (i.e. hospitals, schools). Those facilities were built to service a certain population of people for a particular geographic area. Adding 30, 20 even 10 percent more of the anticipated people changes the way that service can be provided. A hospital built in the center of Beverly, MA. is meant to service far less people than a hospital build in the center of Chicago. Why? Because when each hospital was built it was planned to service a certain number of people, and a certain amount of tax payer and federal money was used to build it. If you have 30% more people using a service, but had no hand in paying for it, then it will not longer be able to work at the anticipated service level because that extra 30% was not figured into it's size .
Laugh at me if you will. In 20 years, our country will no longer be the same country where our parents raised us. It will have changed, because we allowed it to happen. By then it will be too late. Based in no fact, label me a racist or a xenophobe. That's what people do when they argue with emotion and without facts. It saddens me.
Monday, March 05, 2007
Taxes In Massachusetts
I was over my parents house for dinner last night. The topic of sales taxes came up. Now I know a third of the people at the table voted for their incumbent state reps and senators. They also voted for our newly elected Governor Patrick.Now with all things being equal, without a balance of power in this state, who will be looking out for the taxpayer? A Democrat-controlled Legislature and Democrat Governor means they will get almost anything they want. I posted my fears on November 7th. Some of them have already started manifest themselves.
Hillary with a southern drawl.....
Come on... The lengths one will go to court voters. I think most of America will see through this.
This is typical politics and typical Clinton acting. When you listen to the clip, do you notice the drawl come and go?
http://www.ifilm.com/profile/breitbart/video/2829104
This is typical politics and typical Clinton acting. When you listen to the clip, do you notice the drawl come and go?
http://www.ifilm.com/profile/breitbart/video/2829104
My photos area is busted....
It looks as though my hosting service did some kind of upgrade, because the path to my photo directories appear to be broken. I'll take a look when I get the chance. Would be nice if they notified me of such things though!
The little man is on my lap this morning as I type, Mom and the the little girl are still in bed chasing sheep hoping they can get a little more sleep.
The little man is on my lap this morning as I type, Mom and the the little girl are still in bed chasing sheep hoping they can get a little more sleep.
