Nice “work” if you can get it
Two items to raise the blood pressure of law-abiding, hard-working Americans:
1) From the L.A. Times: “San Francisco D.A.’s program trained illegal immigrants for jobs they couldn’t legally hold.”
As she runs for state attorney general, prosecutor Kamala Harris faces questions over a program that trained illegal immigrant drug felons for jobs, kept them out of jail and expunged their records…Harris, 44, was elected district attorney in 2003 and reelected in 2007. She designed Back on Track to help young adults who are arrested once for selling drugs; the goal is to help them avoid falling into a life of crime. Like cities and counties across the nation, San Francisco was already running several programs with that goal.
Back on Track participants agree to plead guilty to a drug felony and spend a year in the program, a mix of community service, employment and life-skills training, family counseling and English lessons for those who need them. While in the program, they are free to live where they wish.
Even natural adversaries of the district attorney have applauded Back on Track.
“It’s very innovative for the district attorney to have a program like this,” said Simin Shamji, a deputy public defender in San Francisco. It might work better, she said, if the D.A.’s office ceded some control and collaborated more with social service agencies.
Over the last four years, 113 admitted drug dealers have graduated from the program, while 99 were yanked for failing to meet the requirements and sentenced under their guilty plea, according to the D.A.’s office.
Harris said graduates of the program are far less likely than other offenders to commit crimes again, but her spokeswoman declined to provide detailed statistics.
And now, the D.A. who hatched the program is running for state Attorney General.
Californians get what they deserve.
2) The Associated Press follows up on a New York City public schools nightmare story that pays bad teachers not to teach at a cost of $65 million a year to taxpayers.
Nice “work” if you can get it…
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The democrat machine at work, anyone surprised?
Kalifornia…. it’s how they roll.
And the state can’t understand why they are broke. The inmates are running the asylum.A DA that don’t know what the word “illegal” meands. Amazing!
I am so sick of all this unbelievable stupidity!! I need a day off, and plan to turn off the TV and read a good beach book, work in my garden, and get my blood pressure back down. I’m sure the madness will be there when I return, but I need to protect my sanity. Michelle, I hope you do the same occasionally, as we desperately need you to stay healthy!
Lately, I feel like I’m in that Sienfeld episode where Costanza does everything the opposite of what his gut tells him. It seems that every decision government makes, on all levels, is the opposite of the decision that they SHOULD make.
I’m with you happy. I don’t know how much more I can take! I have never seen such corruption. As for a good book, Glenn Beck’s new book “Common Sense” is pretty good so far but it still makes you depressed.
If I did something illegal or questionable, I wouldn’t get a rubber room – I’d be shown the door.
Must be nice to get a paycheck if if you are a phenomenally EPIC failure.
When I was a kid we called that “High School.”
englishqueen…or you WOULD get a rubber room…
Someone here, I believe, said several weeks ago (paraphrase?):
Capitalism punishes inefficiency and bad decisions;
Socialism/statism rewards them.
oops
sorry
i’m a dimwit
Getting paid to collect dust? Where do I get an application?
I was going to say that there are no adults leading the State of California, but clearly, there are…the problem is that most of them are agents, not of change, but of the Mexican government, tasked with liquidating the wealth of American citizens and their businesses, as punishment/reparations for “stealing” the West coast of Aztlan.
Unfortunately, this entitlement cancer is spreading, enabled by the co-dependancy of Democrats, labor unions, and the Obama Fasci-machinen….
The only question I have for the CALIFORNIA CITIZENS??? How long are the 50% who pay the BILLS, going to put up with the 50% who are sucking at the teat of the public trough??? Someone in that sorry excuse for a STATE has got to start to FIGHT BACK!!!
Speaking of the socialist machine, anyone else seen this article in Human Events referred to by Atlas Shrugs?
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32398
If I read it correctly, it seems that Baucus of Montana is thinking about favoring union members that receive health insurance benefits over non-union recipients.
Bingo. I’d become a teacher, but my sense of personal responsibility would make me feel guilty if I tried to do what these people get away with.
Stuff like this makes me shake my head and wonder why…
Let’s see *) Soon to be college graduate with a Bachelors Degree, *) Starting graduate school in August, *) No criminal history, *) Navy Veteran who served 20 years, *) doing everything a job seeker is supposed to do, and *) willing to take an entry level job to get my foot in the door of a company without demanding the corner office via affirmative action.
Pardon moi if I seemed steamed….
GSP
“This is Sparta!”
illegal aliens are not criminals in california, because it’s now part of mexico, so in essence the few real americans left are the illegals now.
one has to question all san francisco government officials, impossible to ascertain if any of them are worth a damn. more than likely not, as being law abiding and honest would disqualify you.
On June 23rd, 2009 at 11:31 am,
Many are trying to fight back.
With a statement like that, glad to know instead of watching our back, some people are content to stab us in the back. Glad to know you think Tony Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew,16, got what they deserved.
I have never committed a felony or a misdemeanor in California.
Oh, yeah, I have NEVER taught school in NY either.
Where are MY checks?
I can send along the mailing address if that will speed up the process…
I gotta figure you are already in the DHS data base…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpQOCvthw-o
Congressman J. Randy Forbes (R-VA)
Watch this uplifting 4-minute speech and then pass it along to everyone you know.
How the hell do I deserve that?
Oh, you are right. I am pretty sure I got entered automatically when I joined the NRA! What was I thinking…
And in NJ, the sewage treatment plants smell like rose gardens. Last I checked, the California governor and U.S. Senators weren’t under indictment for fraud, having affairs, or doing strange things in public restrooms.
http://www.casttv.com/search/Congressman%20Randy%20Forbes/1
I know I am going off topic on these links…but this man could be a contender, and the word needs to get out. Thanks!
Yeah, I take offense to that as well, Michelle. Not all of us can just pack up and leave the state because of what it’s become. I voted down all of the tax hikes and have written letters to Senators but all I have the time to do is work. And work my arse off I do. My business is here and much as I’d like to sell it, between Obama and the states financial issues, I can’t. Add two sets of ailing parents anchoring me here and you have a victim of California and not someone deserving of all this BS.
Time to re-think your blanket statement.
Now that is not fair. Do you really think that all of this deserve the garbage we are being given?
I sure as heck would like to know what it is that make me deserving of all this Liberal and RINO crappolla.
1. “Californians get what they deserve.”
Well, I’m not going to offer an opinion on that one – other than to say that neighboring states suffer from the open borders idiocy officially espoused by CA. We in Oregon pay a price when states that should buttress the illegal inflow instead choose to welcome it.
2. Did anyone notice that the proponents of this program failed to recognize that it has a failure rate of about 45%? “Success” in the eyes of a Bay Area government employee….(sigh).
3. Here’s my alternate plan: A long jail sentence, followed by mandatory restitution/work/work release, and then a long, hot, bumpy, uncomfortable ride back to your country of origin with a permanent ban from re-entry into the US.
LGM probably wants on board with the NYC program me thinks..
OT, but we’ve got a couple of Dems down here at UVA talking about the “recklessness” of the deficit!
http://www.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/local_govtpolitics/article/in_uva_visit_democrats_call_deficit_reckless/41837/
And speaking of illegal aliens, government wrongdoing/illegality and amnesty…
NumbersUSA has an update about Sen. Schumer’s upcoming ongoing on “Comprehensive Immigration Reform”
drudge reports that the california legislature is going to pay for those illegals and illegal murderers (southpaw) by doing away with the child exemption in the tax code. so you family types, soccer moms and working dads, can fund the illegal wets in california. YOU DO DESERVE WHAT YOU GET FOR NOT STORMING SACRAMENTO AND IMPALEING YOUR ENTIRE LEGISLATURE ALONG THE HIGHWAY INTO SAN FRAN AS A LESSON TO THE INSANE IN THAT CITY.
It’s not like some of us haven’t been trying…
Sounds like the democrats have it under control in NY. ACORN is not the only corrupt organization.
sarc
With the exceptions of the two Conservatives-if the one hasn’t moved out yet.
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That state spends more money on nothing, over taxes everything, regulates jobs right out of existence and wonders why they have money problems. They should hire the first 100 people at Disneyland-employees or visitors- and make them the legislature. It would have to be better. They-Kalifornikans- voted for the jerks–but I fear we will end up paying they bills–until we are broke too.
Earthquakes, tsumanies, a volcano and IMPALEING THEIR ENTIRE LEGISLATURE ALONG THE HIGHWAY (Feinstein, Boxer, Pelosi, Maxine Waters and SpaceCase Waxman included) : Kalifornikans only hope.
Impaling is a lost art isn’t it
Do you have a book on how to do it?
I pay attention every single day to the idiotic proposals coming out of Sacramento. People here are angry and fighting back. What Californians opposed to the insanity don’t need right now are out-of-staters to come sniffing around with their holier-than-thou attitudes.
I read the article you cited and it says nothing about the money going to pay for “illegals and illegal murderers”. Obama is the one that cut the reimburments to states for incarcerated illegals. Translation: the rest of the states get a reduction in money going to keep illegals in prison, California parents pick up the tab. Glad to know we’re all in this together. Anything else us Californians can do to help you poor, suffering outsiders?
You get a strong stick or board, ensure that the point is sharp. Bury it in the ground, then insert the sharp end into the anus. One push to ensure that it remains in place and gravity will slowly force the body down the pole until the body rests on the ground.
Blame the history channel and a show on vlad the impaler.
cheapseat, I dare you to exist one day in my shoes and see if you have any extra time to go storming the Capitol. The only way I’m able to see my kids lately is if they come to work with me. If I’m lucky I only have a 68 hour work week and can’t afford to hire anyone thanks to the wealthy liberals in this wonderful state of mine. And keep in mind folks, not all of us voted for these nutcases. Blame the ones responsible but leave out the blanket accusations.
Here in the NW, we got Bagdad Jim McDermott asking for a $250,000 earmark to renovate a private club for the Seattle high and mighty
These people are stuck on stupid. The only way to stop it is to bleed the coffers dry and finding legal ways to avoid paying taxes whenever possible.
As an outsider, I wouldn’t blink if the next big one caused California to break off and float away into the Pacific. Why on earth do you think we should be obligated to fund your disfunctional welfare state? Most of the other states are having their own financial problems and don’t need to be taxed to fund your stupidity. You elected these idiots, you continue to re-elect them, you deal with it. Get out of our pockets.
So, um. I send $1 of my tax money to the federal government. 75 cents comes back to California. Where does the other 25 cents go? Oh, I know:
Bridges to nowhere, community organizing, foreign aid, other states.
Nice try.
I would vow to haunt this thread the rest of the day, but I’m in the middle of a debate about the greatest and worst Rock and Roll songs of all time, elsewhere. Better use of my time.
Moral Superiority – “Nice “work” if you can get it.”
sonofdy-
That has to hurt
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Show your love of country- avoid taxes in all ways possible.
It is fairly clear that Vlad Tepes (Vlad the Impaler) had some issues from potty training that were never fully resolved.
Well, that proves it then. I’m sure Obama will take her word for the success of her program and implement it nationwide. In fact, it sounds like a good candidate for solving Obama’s Gitmo problem in time to close it next year. Expunge terrorist’s records in exchange for a year in a counseling program. And, “while in the program, they are free to live where they wish.” What could go wrong? After all, liberals view terrorists no worse than undocumented workers with felony records, right?
That’s harsh. I certainly don’t deserve the politicians we have out here and I assure you it isn’t my fault, quite the opposite.
I deserve better.
Do we all deserve Odopey? I think not.
Having learned a little from the expert spokespersons in the Obama administration, let me explain.
The president’sMichelle Malkin’s rhetoric shouldn’t be taken literally: What she really means is that the majority of California voters who put these clowns in office get what they deserve. If you didn’t vote for any of these clowns, then it truely isn’t your fault. But those who did vote for them, as well as those who voted for Odopey, deserve what they get. That’s my explanation and I’m sticking to it.Somehow I’ve either fallen down the “rabbit hole” or I have woken up on “Htrae”. Anyone have any ideas how I can get back to Earth?
Kendra, I feel for you. But soon you will not be alone, as residents of the other 49 states will soon be joining your plight.