Taxpayer-funded flash cards: “Name one benefit of being a citizen of the United States”
A Hill source tipped me off to government-funded “civics flash cards” that DHS is distributing to immigrants seeking to gain US citizenship.
One of the cards asks foreigners to name one benefit of being an American citizen. One card’s answer mentions the right to vote. Good so far.
But take a look at this one, which stands JFK’s famous admonition on its head. Ask not what you can do for America, ask what America can do for you. Gimme, gimme, gimme!
Yeah. That’s right. Your tax dollars are supporting flash cards that coach non-citizens to say that the most cherished benefits of living in the U.S. are government jobs, US passports, and immigration rights for family members.
And you wonder why the open-borders entitlement mentality is so prevalent.
How about printing this on a flash card?
Entry into this country is a privilege, not a right.
Photoshop, anyone? We can print them up and send them to DHS’s Citizenship and Immigration Services agency.
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You can view the entire flash card set here. Take note of the question on page 45 about the United Nations, too. Send in your suggestions for new cards or rewrites.
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Who the heck is in charge over there?
Fox?
Michelle, put up the paypal link. I’ll kick in so we can make that a #100 showing on billboards in major cities.
My mother-in-law would have had a REAL answer to that: to give back to this country which has given me so much.
To have 38% of my funds withheld when I am rewarded with stock options that have matured.
To know that I am helping fund “art” projects that are universally offensive in the name of challenging my perspective and generating an inner dialogue.
To be called “smelly” by Harry Reid when I visit the Capitol with my family.
I was watching a spanish language channel, the “commercials” were from government agencies advertising their services for immigrants. crazy.
Let me clarify, I love my country. It just needs a little dusting.
Does this surprise anybody? This is the essence of liberalism; the essence of just where deocrats want their constituents; dependent as h*ll on the federal government. Welcome to America 2008, and you can thank Democrats (and a bunch of treasonous Republicans) for this. This Country needs a border wall, a 10 year moratorium on any new immigrants; a wave of deportations (how about awards to anybody that turns in an illegal alien??), not to mention a political party that doesnt pander to illegals for votes (Dems) or cheap labor for rich corporate constituents (Repubs).
When I don’t think it can get any worse, it sure does. My, and all here, taxpayers are paying for this. I have been trying to find a tiny island someplace to get outta this gosh horrible mess. The island does have to have MM on internet though.
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“Please learn English”
Wow. I am surprised there wasn’t a card that said:
Q.What are two benefits of coming to the US secretly pregnant?
A. Free Money and Guaranteed Citizenship.
When traveling by air, Americans don’t have to worry about sniper fire.
The UN question is on PAGE 45 of the pdf file. It is not question 45…
the answer to the purpose of the supreme court — “To interpret **and explain** the laws”
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Thanks rbb! I checked out the flash cards and No. 90 is the one with the question about the UN. I was wondering if our high school students could answer these questions—sure hope so!
I want a flash card that says, “What is the Official Language of the U.S.?” English, of course!
re: the aforementioned “purpose of the un question — “… or to provide
economic aid to many countries”
double
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near the end — the most important right granted to citizens? — “The right
to vote”
/um, i think a number of rkba folks would dispute that!
I don’t think this is as bad as it sounds. My wife just went through her naturalization interview, and the study guide included the two questions noted here.
The first one asks for “some” of the rights that come with citizenship, and lists the jobs, passport, and petition ability. The second question asks what “the most important” right of citizenship is; the answer, of course, being the chance to vote. Not an issue, in my opinion. I’m sure that, if the interviewer had asked the first question and my wife had mentioned voting, it would not have been held against her; if, on the other hand, she’d been asked the second and she’d talked about bringing in her relatives…
oooh, here’s an interesting one — “Whose rights are guaranteed by the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights?”
“All people **living** in the United States”
FALSE!
A: To undermine United States security and provide aid and comfort to her enemies abroad.
On April 18th, 2008 at 5:07 pm, GOPGin said
When traveling by air, Americans don’t have to worry about sniper fire.
YET!
those are the best benefits they could coach? jeez.
As long as they are printed in English we don’t have to worry about illegals reading them, unless the set come with an interpreter.
i would guess the flash cards are also printed in 23 different Mexican dialogues. Costing the taxpayer a nice chuck of change
It didn’t free all the slaves. The answer should be “The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in states controlled by the Confederacy.”
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112391/myth_8.htm
Nitpicky, but still wrong.
It’s probably printed in 100 different languages . . . .just like the ballots on election day and every sign you see in any government office.
I don’t like this question, either. It’s an opinion. Personally, I think freedom of the press is more important than the right to vote. What good is the right to vote if you don’t know what’s going on?
That’s why I appreciate this website.
Can we get rid of people that can not answer that question correctly?
Like:
a)Michelle Obama, mean-unproud afro-centric millionaire who,with her husband, is a friend of terrorists
and
b) Jimmy Carter, friend of ALL terrorists overseas.
Disturbing
But,….. but….but….
you’d have to print it in spanish.
Those were the three things they came up with? Of all the wonderful things we have in this country they choose “government cheese”…ooppss, I mean jobs, as one of the “benefits”? Dang.
#84b: How do the citizens prevent him or her from serving forever? It’s called “limiting terms of those whose state’s voters don’t have the
brains gutswill to do it”. It can be enforced by a national referendum or by writing in the appropriate names in the designated area of the ballot in any November election.This is really getting sick!
To quit voting illegally and vote legally finally.
Can we send the flashcard for question 81 to Pelosi and Reid since they don’t seem to understand who is Commander in Chief.
The purpose of the UN is to hobble the US so that the other ones can feel better about their miserable performance.
Good old Department of Homeland Insecurity showing us how incompetent our civilian branches of the bloated Federal Government are. I’m surprised it didn’t instruct them to register as Democrats as soon as they earn their citizenship or better yet when amnesty is granted under the next Administration.
A: Bloviating gasbags
Question #91 Name one benefit of being a citizen of the United States?
Answer: The freedom to leave if you don’t like it here. Right Streisand?
I want my money back.
C’mon, why are you trying to make an issue of something non existing. Under current rules, someone needs to first have a visa/green card for atleast 5 years before they can apply for citizenship. In practice it takes much longer.
During these years, a visa holder or a green card holder pays taxes just like citizens. Also they need to pay good amount of application fees for every step in visa application, green card application and finally citizenship application. I really hope you have posted this based on ignorance and not just lies.
Here is some more proof that USICS does not depend on taxpayer funding – http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=725c0d1277470110VgnVCM1000000ecd190aRCRD&vgnextchannel=6185bf4c32b50110VgnVCM1000000ecd190aRCRD
Its directly from USCIS website.
Can I sue the DHS for a new computer? Mine seems to have had something spewed on it.
i have a few flash cards I would be more then happy to see to DHS cheep .
see= sell
Not only is the flash card idea a waste of my tax dollars, the one Michelle referenced is wrong.
You can get a Fed job as a non-citizen and you can petition for relatives to join you once you have a green card.
And who needs a US passport when your Mexican (or whatever country) passport will let you travel just fine?
Incumbents need not apply. Vote them all out and replace them with folks that love our Country.
I am most definitely a guarded border citizen. But, in the interest of honesty I’m sorry Michelle, I don’t see the words “most cherished benefits” on the card.
BTW, outside of the military, I can’t think of a government job I would want. To be an automaton at a mind-numbing, no-original-thoughts-allowed, not-interested-in-your-ideas, we’ve-always-done-it-this-way, put-on-two-hundred-pounds-while-sitting-at-the- counter-or-desk job doesn’t appeal to me. Although being unable to get fired sounds pretty good.
Travel on a US passport? Well, back in the last century I did quite a bit of that. But these days you’d probably get shot or bombed before you got out of the airport.
Petition for relative to come is a good reason though. However, those who come across the southern border,
Ain’t gonna wait for no stink’n petition.
First of all–for our illegal invaders, the answer is: “Everything free in America!”
For the rest of us, what is the benefit? Having to pay for them?
Re: Question 87
Freedom of Speech does not come from The Bill of Rights.
Freedom of Speech is one of the Blessings of Liberty (i.e. endowed by the Creator, aka Unalienable Rights) and the Bill of Rights enumerates those rights which our government is formed to secure for each and every citizen.
The funny thing is the card depicts an immigrant using a transit, shouldn’t it more realistically be a shovel?
We all need to ask what we can do for the country, not the other way around.
What would Daniel Webster say?
“Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government.”
Daniel Webster
Yet another example of how those who work for government are divorced of America’s past and present. They live in a world onto themselves, and as such, care not much for the interests of this country. It’s time to pull the plug.
I take it after reading the comments that this is for real? I’m still thinking that tomorrow someone will say, GOTCHA! Regardless, I have something to do in my spare time now, maybe I’ll go through the whole deck and make the deck libtard friendly…
How about printing this on a flash card, MM?
Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, the illegal-alien drug smuggler whose perjured testimony — along with the illegal shenanigans of Bush’s pal, persecutor Johnny Sutton — railroaded Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean into prison (where they remain) has finally been found guilty of drug-smuggling, yet Sutton maintains the same lying demeanor that characterized the Ramos/Compean trial, and Bush refuses to do the right thing and release them.
It might be added that the aleegedly patriotic MainstreamBloggers and radio pundits like Rash Limbaugh still avoid this issue.
Shall we put out a flash card saying that America abandons its own citizens when it’s politically correct to do so?
Someone should tell the DHR that there is no Constitutionally guaranteed right to vote. Nowhere is the right to vote found in the Constitution.
To start with, it is way too easy to become a US citizen. The test for writing and reading is one sentence (when I took it), and the test on the constitution/US government is too easy (you can also get a booklet with the potential questions and answers). When I was sworn in, the Judge told us that we WERE BETTER than Americans born here because we had to learn about the constitution. I was appalled by that statement.
Benefit of being a U.S. Citizen: allowed to swim in public pool. See http://ztruth.typepad.com/ztruth/2008/04/father-and-son.html
Here’s a change for the United Nations flash card.
Another great find on illegal aliens MM. Thanks for sharing. I appreciate the work you do in this field, and I understand your animosity toward McCain for his involvement in it this past year. It is important to control our borders and determine who can and who can not become citizens. Thank you for staying active and on this. . . just try not to single out McCain so much on this because he’s really just one basic pawn in the sea of hypocrites in DC.
And I realize now why you looked so good on the video earlier. It’s PASSOVER and you were going to the service. I don’t understand why Easter is not celebrated passover weekend as it originally was. Palm Sunday should be this weekend according to the Bible. Maybe I should become Orthodox or something. But you did look great tonight. Shalom or whatever is appropriate.
I’m a “big fence, wide gate” person (that is, in favor of dropping almost all barriers for legal immigration and focusing efforts on stopping illegal immigration (what little would be left)). But this is outrageous. To obtain Federal Government jobs?! About half of Federal Government jobs are immoral (e.g. IRS, DEA). about 90% of the remaining ones are simply unnecessary (e.g. Education, Social Security). So basically, we’re encouraging people to come here and be a warm body in a position that in all likelihood shouldn’t exist in a country based on freedom and individual rights. Great. Just what I need — people coming in from other countries so they can knock on my door and harass me for not answering mandatory government “surveys” about my sex life and bathing habits.
Time to change the questions, recycle the flash cards. People need to answer those from the heart.
THERE. IS. NO. RIGHT. TO. VOTE.
Whose constitution are these people trying to learn? This is the first I’ve heard of these cards. Thanks for finding them MM.
I’m sorry but I agree with the posters who believe this is blown out of proportion. We are die hard against illegal immigration, but as one poster mentioned the people who would see these cards have been Legal Residents for at least 3 years.
My husband just became a citizen and this is the first we hear about these cards, but they have the same material printed in the booklet they give to applicants.
Someone mentioned you didn’t need to be a citizen to petition relatives, only a legal resident. It depends on the relative you are trying to petition. If you wanted to bring your sibling you’d have to be a citizen.
While the citizenship test turned out to be a joke, the booklet is quite informative touching on the Bill of Rights, the Constitution and general history.
My husband’s favorite was “Who said ‘Give me freedom or give me death’?”
The greatest benefit of not being a citizen is that “laws don’t apply”.
*shakes head*
I was at Child Find (for the school district) the other day …
the family could not speak English, so the state must pay for interpretors.
Makes me mad they come here and cost us taxpayers billions of dollars.
Here’s a photoshop I did of the Flash Card.
http://hipsterdoofusfkajimmy.blogspot.com/2008/04/immigration-question-card.html
I’d be surprised if 50% of graduating high school seniors could answer all of those questions…
Meanwhile what are American’s being taught?
http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/04/one_man_its_a_s.html
card #9:
Q: why do we celebrate on July 4th
A: Independence Day
real Answer: The Birth of our Nation, and all that it represents.
I have never celebrated the “day”. I celebrate the bravery of men and women to essentially say:”Give me Liberty or give me Death”
card #10
Q: Independence Day celebrates Independence from whom?
A: Great Britain
real Answer: The Crown, specifically King George; which makes it’s a Kingdom NOT a country. Philosophically; tyranny.
Card #11 asks what country we fought. Gee uh, well duh, ummm Germania?
this is from America.gov:
So the State Department thinks it’s just a civic occasion. No doubt to allow Unionistas a day off. Where is the PC police on that statement, it’s not very inclusive.
Oh you will be happy to know that Michelle Kwan is a Diplomatic Envoy for our country.
Quite frankly the State Department seems to be confused about it’s mission.
You will be glad to find out that even Finland needs “Women’s Rights” advocates says the State Dept; and they are shining a light on all the injustices of Finland. Gee and I thought Europe was so cool.
card#26
Q: For how long do we elect Senators?
A: 6 years.
No doubt that’s news to Ted Kennedy, Bob Byrd, and Dan Inouye. Pretty sure their 6 years was up a while ago.
My favorite is card #27
Q: Name two Senators from your state.
A: The answer depends upon on where you live.
What if you live in Mexico? And do State Senators count? Since they asked to name two, there must me more.
Card #30 is wrong. The head of the Executive Branch is Karl Rove.
card #64 says the Cabinet “advises” the President. No they run departments.
card #77
Q: Who meets in the Capitol building?
A: Congress.
Wrong, it’s monied fat-cats and their puppets.
card #94
Q: What is the White House?
A: The president’s official home.
Wrong. It’s a symbolic representation of oppression by Anglos (aka Whitey) over native peoples. Don’t they get the DNC talking points at USCIS?
I wonder how many of our seniors graduating from high school could answer all of those questions correctly. While we’re at it, how many of graduating seniors from college could answer all of them correctly. *sigh*
Ummmm…every April 15th I’m bled dry to provide a blood meal for the sorriest collection of able-bodied parasites to walk the planet?
Question 75: Whose rights are guaranteed by the Constitution of the Bill of Rights?
Answer: All people NOT living in the SHADOWS in the United States. IE…Legal citizens and residents only!
Question 90: Name one of the purposes of the United Nations.
Answer: For the United Nations to blame and accuse the United States for all the world’s problems and bill U.S. taxpayers to fund other nations to hold meetings in our county to put down Americans and American values.
No. He’s surveying a smuggling tunnel.
Ask not what American can do for you, but why it hasn’t done it already.
Am I allowed to say Holy $hit?
I don’t know, but I think they need either a zoo keeper or a least a strong adult.
Make that a zoo keeper.