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I updated my site with lots of new images over the last week from Nancy Pelosi’s take on water-boarding to Perez Hilton’s new promotional poster, enjoy!
http://thelcabroadside.wordpress.com/
The BabiesGrandma family is expecting another grandbaby – this time a boy – this weekend some time. Daughter is in light labor, so we shall see!
Going to watch the other grandkids (girls) at their Middle School track meet.
Busy, busy.
Foreclosures are on my mind. My house value has dropped 160k in two years. Article came out stating another 20% to 25% drop in home prices here in Cali.
How low will it go? Anybody’s guess.
Hoping to get in nine innings of baseball, if the rain holds off.
Nice to have a quiet day. It was a busy week.
Grandma, light labor? lol
Congrats!
NFL Draft Today!!!! whooo hooo!
and the Yanks / Sox are on at 1:00
What’s with the swine flu? Am I going to have to now wash my hands every day?
Only when you handle the hogs.
I’m trying to conserve water. Man, you just can’t win.
1. Dave Ramsey had a good thing going the other night concerning the economy and personal responsibility. I’d encourage folks to watch it. http://www.townhallforhope.com/
2. When will “conservatives”, as a group, quit complaining about Caesar’s schools, and pull their children out of them? Getting a Tea Party, a one-time event, together is easy, compared to the effort it takes to homeschool. But I ask, which is more rewarding, a Tea Party or children raised and trained in a way of your liking?
send_me: why don’t we do both? They are not exclusionary. Teas parties are best thing we have going. They highlight the fundamental problem of our one-party system being at war with voters and voters are uniting to fight back. Your alternative is available to the small minority of the population that actually have children in public elementary schools. You are eliminating the vast majority of citizens from joining in. People like me.
send_me, Pasadena … while my kids are long grown, I can still host a Tea party. Anybody in the Bay Area is welcome to stop by in Fremont on the 4th of July. I hope to have the website finished this weekend with all of the information.
http://www.fremontteaparty.com
Has anyone noticed how more and more “conservatives” are criticizing Tea Parties as being a waste of time and then offering an alternative that denies most of us the opportunity to participate?
EVERYONE can join a Tea Party, they cost nothing and they are working already.
If you aren’t sick to your stomach yet this morning, please fix that by reading this:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/194981
Let me share a story that is fairly popular here regionally:
“WW II veteran, 84, fights off two attackers”
cpodug: I am rarely up in your neck of the woods but I’ll check out your site. You never know. I plan to attend as many of these as I can.
“Has anyone noticed how more and more “conservatives” are criticizing Tea Parties as being a waste of time”
I would say the political class is criticizing them for sure. That’s because people taking back their power, as we are suppose to have, scares the crap out of the political class whether they be “R” or “D”…..
Rest, and lots of it. Last weekend was entirely too busy
Send_Me and Pasadena Phil,
I think you can do both tea parties and homeschool. I do! I even have organized the tea parties and homeschooled at the same time. Today, I’m off to “community hours” that Congressman Moore holds. He has these face to face “townhalls” which frustrates everyone. He refuses to have a normal townhall where we can participate as a group. BUT, it sounds like many will attend and demonstrate outside of the planned location. Should be fun!
I’m drilling an appraisal well off the coast of west Australia.
Wishing I was home watching the draft…
jsmiddleton: the door to the “truth commission” has already been slammed shut. Obama needed little time to see the Pandora’s box he was about to open. Looks like a dead issue to me. Another symbolic gesture by Obama to the nutty left.
jsm – here’s something that will cure that sick stomach of yours. Enjoy
Pasadena,
Gotta wonder exactly what “truth” would have been found if BOTH party leaders have slammed teh door shut……
cpo….
I’m at work and our surf patrol web software won’t allow me to connect to your link.
“well off the coast of west Australia”
Funny, I’m at home and would rather be off the west coast of Australia…..
“home” in a general way. I’m in Phoenix, AZ, at work, imagining being off the west coast of Australia….
Doing busy mom stuff, as usual, this weekend. Would like to share an article that expresses my thoughts exactly on the cognitive dissonance of the Left when it comes to morality.
At least on this rig they speak English (even if it is with a funny accent).
Good point. I think once you get away from Pelosi and her army of loony leftists, the adults realized that it was a terrible precedent to set. What would have happened to Truman had Ike used Truman’s unpopularity to form a political lynch mob?
It is very interesting to me how much traction Cheney’s call to release ALL memoranda gained. I think this will come back later to haunt AG Eric Holder. He is destined to life under the big bus.
*Yard work for me at the homestead; Need that vitamin D; Have to put that right wing extremism on the back burner until Monday.
*Remember the theme for 2010 and 2012:
**”If you voted for the bailout, then it’s time to get the hell out.”
**”If you voted for the stimulus, then you’re gonna feel the pain from us.”
*Viva la Fair Tax!
Deepdriller which team do you like?
ajmontana, I’m a die-hard Steelers fan.
grrrrrrr, Seahawks here. lol
30 pcs of silver bleeds the black and gold also.
To those who don’t think the Tea Party movement works, I refer you to a Mary Katherine Ham’s entry yesterday at Weekly Standard Blog about the lefty press getting nervous about populous sentiment shifting quickly to these Tea Parties. Read it carefully.
Once outside the beltway, Hollywood and college campuses, the left will soon realize that they have a small following and are not organized. The left flatters itself that it represents the popular majority. Then why are they on the wrong side of what is shaping up to be the biggest grassroots movement of all time? That is why we are going to win.
Listening to blues. Now playing: Buddy Guy and Junior Wells.
Gonna mow the lawn – emit some CO2 (which is NOT a pollutant)
Then clean up and go to church tonight. Haven’t been able to go for a while due to work.
Monday – sending the kiddo to his grandparents for a week! Time to have some child-free time with the Mrs.
Hockey junkie, hoping for Pens and Blackhawks in finals.
My last 21 years in the Army were in Germany and since returning in 2006 I am still wondering why we allow this invasion from our southern border? I am starting to wonder if our home(USA), will ever recover from the effects of corrupt media and politicians.
You are not alone in this concern. I was reading this morning about Chinese nationals crossing into Texas.
“…why we allow this invasion from our southern border?”
The collective “we” are part of the problem you see. “We” wanted cheap labor to put roofs on our houses, dig our sprinkler systems, wash our cars. “We” wanted to lower cost of labor at our business to increase our profit or at least stay competetive with Home Depot and Walmart.
Yes we need to shut our borders down and get ILLEGAL immigrants out of our country and stop the flow. But its not just a one sided issue that is the fault of “they” or “them”.
The Federal Government Political Class in general only sees voters coming across. They will not stop the flow of the folks who the political class thinks will keep the political class in power. Waiting for the federal government to act is an act of futility.
We need another tea party – our exhalted leaders still don’t get it. I was reading this right before I checked here:
http://tinyurl.com/davs6r (Bolding mine.)
Mr Durangodarlin and I are preparing the house to sell. WE are having a blast!!!
Reason 984,584,737,362,839,495 whyI am NO LONGER A REPUBLICAN.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors agreed to a budget of $3.3 billion earlier this week. They managed to cut a whopping $22.3 million from the previous budget.
The Fairfax County Times said “The board’s three Republican supervisors praised the budget as restoring fiscal responsibility to the county and said they hope to do more to reduce tax bills next year.”
Fairfax County cut 2/3 of 1 percent (0.006757%) from the budget and the GOP claims this is “restoring fiscal responsibility to the county…”
Of course Fairfax County gave the GOP the wunderkind Tom Davis and his wife Jeanne Marie Devolites Davis so at least the Fairfax GOP is consistent when it comes to fiscal insanity.
sending fax’s to our illustrious politicians on a weekly basis addressing the illegal alien problem, almost seems futile. one would think they’d get it, but it seems they never do. elections speak louder than words.
Its a 5 day school holiday here and Im laying a scorched-earth policy at home. Cell phone is gone, computer access is gone, summer camp is gone… How hard is it to ROLL a trash can to the street after being reminded to do it for 2 days.
To top it off, all my daughters classes and homework were centered around Earth Day/Global Warming.
One assignment was ‘How can you help to stop Genocide’ another was ‘What can you do about Global Warming’ another was ‘Name 25 reason why rebellion is good’
The daughter relayed the following exchange between one of her classmates and the teacher.
‘What if we dont believe in Global Warming’
“Then you are one of the few people in the world who doesnt”
——————-
Uh oh, I just checked her grades online… Princess was caught cheating this week….. now shes going to wish for the good old days of scorched earth…
I have to go now….
This Conservative doesn’t use “cheap illegal alien labor.” I hire kids, not illegal aliens, to cut my grass and wash my car. And no illegals have put a roof on my house.
We need to stop the flow of illegals period. And we need to demand our government does so NOW. And if if takes sending a fax every week until it is done then we need to do that. And if it requires marching on Washington, DC we need to do that.
Just dress nicely during the march as the FBI will be spying on all of us right-wing extremists.
No, “we” don’t. “We” used to be perfectly capable of doing those things ourselves. Then NAFTA sent the jobs overseas and President Bush proclaimed we were going to become a service economy. So, as people moved into the service economy the price of service labor declined and it became affordable for the middle class to hire help for mundane, middle class tasks.
It’s a tool of corporate America, and it prevents wages from rising as fast as inflation. Wages were starting to rise in the late ’90’s, then suddenly the immigrant population illegally exploded.
Love stories like that, 1st thing I read when I receive my new Freedom mag. from the NRA is Armed citizens. There all enjoyable, but for some reason when the perp ends up on cold slab in the coroner’s office, smile comes over me. Chock another one up for the good guys.
Well here in Wisconsin they lowered the value of our home but raised the value of the land it sits on so the valuation for taxes is actually higher than before. Isn’t the Gov great?
One word for you, RabbidSquirrel: “HOMESCHOOL!”
Wow, my Detroit Lions just paid a record amount of money for the privilege of ruining another promising quarterback’s career!
NFL draft coming up soon, 75 degrees here, plenty of brats for the grill and a fridge full of beer… good times.
Good point, I think some people just enjoy complaining. Many will say they can not afford to do so. Some some of that many are at Home Depot this morning buying storage sheds for the “stuff” they “need” but do not have room for.
But they will have more money when Obama lowers the interest rate on their credit cards they used to by the stuff in the storage sheds they need but do not have room for. What did I just say?
And I am on our local Tea Party organizing team–yes we can do both. And when a Leftist clown tells me these Tea Parties are “organized from the top down” I ask for documentation. The Left’s standard answers to all such challenges:
A. Everybody Knows
B. I feel
C. I know a person who knows a person who said so
D. HuffPro?
E. RACCIST
But it IS Saturday so I have to make like an Illegal Alien and both cut the lawn with a CO2 producing gas mower and wash the CO2 producing cars. After that I can fire up the CO2 producing gas grill and cook some dead animals. Still have Bambi’s mom in the Trophy Case Freezer.
Life is good-except for Bambi and mom.
Good call doug, I have some hot italian sausages ready and willing to die for the cause.
rightisright: Glad you appreciated that one as well
It’s a great story I’ll strongly recommend to everyone here.
The towel is thrown in the NY race. M. Steele is
>>>>>>>>
Political payback by Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed (both D-R.I.) to John J. “Jack” McConnell Jr for his “work”.
it’s who you know
WSJ has a better article but I can’t find it.
>>>>>>>>>
BO’s (not the dog) health initiative is looking just fine as it is getting major traction in the Congress to celebrate his 100 day mark.
>>>>>>>>>
There is a lot of discussion that “We The People” will have to pay the union benefits when Chrysler goes bust.
>>>>>>>>>
The really sad part is that when “WE” get back into the majority that “WE” will play nice with the Dems. “WE” won’t have the cajones to pin their ears back.
Us conservatives are so screwed.
>>>>>>>>>
Gotta go, wife wants to spread her paycheck around town.
update: she claims she didnt and that it was a mistake or a ‘misunderstanding’ by the teacher. But oddly she couldnt answer the pop quiz I gave her as she was struggling to wake up.
‘Which countries are nuclear powers?
“Uhhhhhh Japan?”
‘No’
“Uhhhhhh Iran?”
‘Get up’
We’ll have a parent-teacher-student conference next week to hash this out. But until then she has 4 days to do nothing but study…
I love this being a parent thing!
The TEA Parties are a great notion.
One thing that I found discouraging about the last one; listening to callers and conversations about how difficult it would be to attend one. What? Is that the measure of our concern for the loss of our liberties?
But a TEA Party, of itself, is nothing but a statement. The impetus behind them has to be focused on doing something effective, not simply saying you’re fed up.
Here’s an idea that I commend to all of you…
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124044199838345461.html
Swine Flu has to become front and center. The new president has to turn his vanity prime time TV appearance next week into something useful like a town hall on the potential pandemic.
Frankly I’m surprised blogs like those in the PJ Media are not on this already. Yes, maybe it’s a bit premature but let’s consider the facts.
1,000 cases reported and 64 dead. The dead are in an age group that normally fights off the flu well.
Second, the outbreak in NYC affected 75 kids from a school where numerous students had just returned from Mexico City.
Third, the W.H.O. has just this morning stated the Swine Flu has the potential to become a pandemic.
This is the story.
Some chatter on Swine Flu
That seems quite premature to conclude.
For one thing, Obama does not control either the Senate or the House.
He does not control Soros. Rather the opposite.
Added a new blog entry to my web site this past week entitled “Once Upon a Rant” if anyone cares to check it out!
http://www.crossandquill.com/journey
On April 25th, 2009 at 11:11 am, bjc said:
While I agree 100%, none of that matters if the elections are not honest.
We must start working for election reform NOW to prevent corruption of the electoral process in 2010.
I posted some thoughts in this comment and the comment below it.
Well, I actually have her in this school for a reason – I want her to get a balanced look at the world first. I’ll research private/charter schools later.
On our drive to/from school I have her listen to Mike Church, Hannity etc. When she is at home, I have her watch Beck (she loves him!) and certain segments by OReilly, Cavuto and anyone else I think has an important topic. But I point out media-bias and perspective also.
In the evenings, I spend deprogramming her, but I tell her that its possible I am wrong. But SHE needs to know both sides of the argument to make her own decision.
Shielding kids from sex, drugs, liberals, conservatives, etc. doesnt really work. They might as well be exposed to everything in a ’structured’ environment. Structured meaning you can control/explain it, not have a drug orgy in the living room.
Several of my childhood female friends who were bible-thumping Southern Baptist teenagers are now pot-smoking liberals, prescription drug overusing suburban moms, bar-hopping party girls. Others who were considered teenage “sluts” or party-girls are now Christian centric responsible moms. So there’s no perfect path to adult-hood.
(but my daughter gets mostly A’s so I might tend to believe her about the test… then again, magically she has transformed into Daddy’s perfect angel in the last 15 minutes. (sucker….))
Hmm, this thread is being used to slander a popular “Islamophobe”…
I say the included photo is fake…
HERE is a closeup.
What do you guys think?
Just had a brilliant idea: we’re going to Barnes&Noble and buying some practice SAT tests.
Shes going to get an education reality check this weekend.
An example of Private/Public co-operation: For years Chrysler paid them for doing nothing and now We the People get to. See how that works?
Tax the people who have a funded pension/ 401/IRA and or personal savings to support the people bargained for a non funded pension. When George Romney at American Motors agreed to the UAW Benefits package actuaries became alarmed yesterday. Ford, Chrysler and GM all fell into line. That Benefits package depended on a 2-4% growth in auto sales FOR EVER. Some societies would consider that agreement a murder-suicide pack.
Government guarantees of unfunded employer based pensions is becoming the next great Social Security type boondoggle. Hence we see the Obama’s NEED for grabing 401s and IRAs and rolling them into Social Security.
Insanity as Public Policy does not seem to be working well.
Well, good luck de-programming your daughter every night. We are taking the opposite approach. We teach them what they need to know when they need to know it. We don’t let the world beat on them for 6 hours a day and then hope we can undo that damage in an hour or two a night.
Eventually kids grow up and make their own choices. There is no guarantee that they won’t reject our faith and values at some point. You do your best and then let them live their lives.
Oh, great! NOW you tell me! Why didn’t you say something before the election…
I see nothing wrong in sheltering my children. They are a gift from God and exposing them to the evils of the world before they are fully mature to be capable to make their own well-informed decisions I prefer to build them up on the word of God. I will not neglect to tell them of evolution and liberal ideas. I just want them to hear the truth from me and my husband first.
Yesterday we went on a long nature walk. We saw prairie dogs, ducks, a variety of birds, a rabbit, a snake, and lots of different bugs. My kids are 6, almost 5, and 3. The simple gifts of God are usually overlooked. I want them to experience life richly.
Oh and by the way, we are homeschooling our children
New York City is being punished for making fake Salsa!
And this is a sterling example of more fascist economic policy at work.
Fascist economics sought to take all the “contention” out of labor relations by co-opting both business and organized labor into a corporatist structure controlled by bureaucrats. Big business and big labor both had representation.
Entrepreneurs did not, and were not tolerated. The resources of the fascist state, including labor, were allocated by government, and there was no room for individuals wishing to compete in the market.
Yeah, making fake salsa or electing Hillary Clinton. It’s a toss up…
On April 25th, 2009 at 11:33 am, rooster said:
Thank you for your service.
Answer: The Communist Party USA completely controls the Democratic Party, and has significant influence in the Republican Party through people like John McCain.
Emphasis mine
Note that “Yes We Can!” is merely the English translation of “¡Sí Se Puede!”, which was originated by Alinsky radical Caesar Chavez.
“Yes, We Can!” –> “¡Sí se puede!” –> Alinsky Radicals –> Lucifer
And be sure that I am not knocking homeschooling at all. Kudos to you and those others that do homeschool.
I am in a unique situation where virtually every one of my parents/step-parents/grandparents/uncles/aunts and childhood friends parents are/were teachers/professors or at the minimum worked in the public school system.
I myself have taught Junior Achievement in a local high school and may volunteer again next year.
Which brings up a point:
If any of you have time, energy or availability YOU TOO can volunteer in your local schools with Junior Achievement and influence the kids in a positive way.
Those who see reality objectively know this to be true:
Republicans are the party of class, morality, clear and realistic judgment.
Democrats are the party of crass, demagoguery, amorality, dangerous naivate, and hypocracy.
Having said that, traditional conservatives are on their way to permanently losing political power as the Jerry Springer generation takes over in sheer numbers.
I didn’t think you were knocking homeschooling.
But how does the fact that some of your relatives work in public “education” mandate that you expose your child to the indoctrination of other public “educators” who clearly are not objective?
I have a lot of friends who were employed by the public school system and I never felt obligated to let their colleagues indoctrinate my kids.
This from an article linked to at Drudge:
Right. The nation of Mexico is unique in North America in that it has NEVER “suffered a serious flu epidemic!” Who are these people kidding? How good are the Mexican government’s statistics? How good were they in 1918 and 1919?
How soon before Hillary starts telling us that the flu in Mexico was caused by American’s visiting Mexico? How soon before we here it is Bush’s fault?
If I have an issue with heights I skydive.
If I have an issue with liberals I live in Berkely.
If I have an issue with fire I become a fireman
If I have an issue with medical trauma I become a paramedic
If I have an issue with drowning I become a lifeguard/scuba dive
If I have an issue with military matters I join the military
If I have an issue with education I never stop going to school
If I have an issue with airplanes crashing I take a job that is 100% travel/become a pilot
If I have an issue with running I train for marathons
If I have an issue with getting my butt kicked I train in martial arts
If I have an issue with my kids being indoctrinated I expose them to the indoctrination
Strength through adversity – adapt and overcome.
We will be homeschooling the kiddo starting in the fall. (We’re already teaching him informally.)
A friend who teaches 2nd grade public school said that he knew more than most of her students did at the start of the year. He was 3 1/2 – 4 at the time.
Words to live by.
STARVE THE BEAST! Chose to fight. Adapt to reality to form effective weapons.
If the Center for Disease Control determines that thousands of US deaths from swine flu could avoided by securing the Mexican border, would our government do that?
I think the answer is “NO”.
Swine Flu and You: The Obama Response
http://thelcabroadside.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/swine-flu-and-you-the-obama-response/
Marco…
“No, “we” don’t. “We” used to be perfectly capable of doing those things ourselves.”
We certainly are capable of doing it ourselves. No doubt. But what I described is exactly what is happening in Arizona and part of why IF we do not hold employers accountable, folks who hire illegal aliens accountable, the border will not be secure. Kinda hard to blame JUST illegal immigrants when employers will hire them at a huge increase of wages compared to Mexico.
If I want my car washed for $4.99, then to get to $4.99 the local family car wash hires illegal aliens.
I pay $4.99. I am part of the problem.
For everyone who blames the Dems for the Immigration problem – hate to tell you but it is a two edged sword.
A. The 90’s were not when the problem started. The “problem” started in 1986 when Reagan signed IRCA in to law (the first Amnesty). Many will argue that he was tricked!! BS. He signed it.
NAFTA actually regulated the amount of Mexicans coning to the US by granting specific ones with skill at temporary work visa that did not lead to a green card. NAFTA did, on the other hand, allow unskilled Canadians to flood the US to do jobs such as mowing lawns. Under the “Science” clause of NAFTA, a US employer can write a “certificate” with crayon on a piece of toilet paper and that is all the qualification a Canadian needs to legally work as a “Landscaper” in the USA. Happens every day.
B. Clinton signed the toughest Immigration enforcement act since 1956 in 1996 (IRIRA). Of course, the Clintonistas immediately watered it down to nothing but, nonetheless, he signed it.
C. Bush, on the other hand, tried to get Amnesties pushed thought in 2001 and 2007. The first stopped by Islamic Terrorists and the second by We the People.
The fact is that Politicians will buy votes from whoever will give it to them. I’ve been an Immigration Officer 20 years and I’ve been stuck in parking lots “legalizing” criminals, raided safe houses, made deserving people US citizens and stopped a whole load of illegals at the border. I know what I am talking about. Since Carter left office, Democrats have done more for Immigration Enforcement than Republicans.
The only way to do something about it is two tiered: A. Stop the demand and B. Fix Mexico’s corrupt culture. As long as Mexicans will work for 1/2 the wages and no benefits, they will always have jobs waiting in the USA. As for fixing the culture – probably not going to happen in our lifetime.
jsmiddleton:
I wash my own car for $2 at the do-it yourself car wash.
I am not part of the problem.
Well, then when will you be sending the little kiddies to a leper colony? And when will you be sending them to live in Zimbabwe, Cuba or Venezuela so they can experience Marxist totalitarianism?
I taught myself to swim to overcome MY irrational fear of water. And I learned to rock climb to overcome MY irrational fear of heights. But I was prepared to face those situations and fears. There is a difference between me and my children…
As an aside..
Those of you who think the “Problem” started in the ’90’s lived somewhere other than California or Texas. You just started seeing them in your part of the country in the ’90’s. When Bush 41 was president, the Border Patrol didn’t have the money to buy gas for it’s cars. None of you cared then.
Up to the point DHS was formed, the Border Patrol flew early ’60’s era single engined Hueys. Customs under Reagan had Blackhawks and go fast boats. We had no gas for K-5 Blazers (Great Trucks when they ran).
I suggest you watch the opening scene to the movie “The Border” with Jack Nicholson. The rest of the movie is worthless but the first scene where he raids a factory by himself is the closest depiction to real Immigration Enforcement in the ’80’s and early ’90’s I have ever seen on film.
ply….
I bet there is someplace in where and how you spend your money that is impacted by using illegal immagration to lower the price of the service or the product.
Conservative in Europe is right. Immigration is not a Dem vs. GOP issue. Both the Dems and the GOP are very much to blame for the current immigration mess. That is ONE of the reasons I am no longer a Republican!
The Dems want large scale immigration because they KNOW the new voters will be little leftists. The GOP wants large scale immigration because they stupidly believe they can out-promise the leftists. Or the stupidly believe they can win over the hearts and minds of practically illiterate peasants from Mexico in short order. I really don’t know which GOP belief is stupider and I don’t care because both beliefs are idiotic at face value.
But both parties are to blame for the mess. We need to get rid of both political parties and return to limited government acting in the best interests of citizens and not illegal immigrants and career politicians!
Hahhaha!
I remember a particular Sugar Bowl where an outstanding QB spent most of his time on the turf because his line was overmatched. (And paid the price in the draft). I believe a Georgia QB is about to discover the shoe is on the other foot…
In as much as 10% of the entire Mexican workforce is presently working in America you may be right in some regard. It would have to be incredibly difficult to avoid the downstream impact of immigration that washes through the entire economy. But there is a difference between something that is unavoidable and actively participating in supporting illegal immigration. That should be patently obvious.
But of course any money that ply “saves” by this downstream impact is more than offset by the increased costs he pays in medical bills and insurance, law enforcement costs, education, etc., etc. due to the vast numbers of illegal immigrants in the country. Is he to blame for that?
Absolutely right. Couldn’t have said it better myself.
I am a Republican so I’m not a troll and I’m not hypocritical.
I just want to point out that it is easy to point a finger a Democrats because most of the other things they do are so anti-USA. Both parties are guilty as sin and have the blood of every American killed by a drunk-driving illegal alien on their hands.
The fact is that the last three Republican Presidents supported illegal immigration. No one seemed to give a darn about any of it until the mid ’90’s and by then it was too late.
Want to really do something about it? Tax all overseas money transfers at least 5% and use that money to fund Immigration Enforcement. A CIS official raised the idea in a Congressional hearing last year and the sound of hand wringing was deafening. It is the most logical step we can take – therefore Congress will never do it.
And one of the most debilitating, sorry, and tyrannic things to befall the brave people who make up our Border Patrol was the Ramos and Campean prosecution by Friend of GW, Johnny Sutton. It was disgraceful, and materially damaged our ability to enforce our borders.
Of course, what is happening under Obama is more universal and institutionalized.
As with so many other areas of life touched by our Political Class,
we’re screwed.
There are many logical things state and local governments can do to discourage illegal immigration and to encourage illegal immigrants to leave.
This site has a few interesting steps: http://www.chronwatch-america.com/blogs/764/Fixing-Illegal-Immigration-in-10-Common-Sense-Steps.html. (Note I don’t know anything about the site but this list makes a lot of sense.)
Prince William County in Virginia has lowered crime by significant amounts by taking some very simple steps in dealing with illegal immigrants. Even counties in Maryland are waking up to the costs (social and economic) of sanctuary policies recently.
If the feds won’t do anything counties can. If San Fran wants to host every illegal in the nation then they are welcome to them.