Here is are a few points I’d like to see in new immigration laws that SHOULD be passed by our Congress. Read the entire post before you pass judgment. (Thanks, Ron!)

1. There will be no special bilingual programs in the schools.
2. All ballots will be in this nation’s language.
3. All government business will be conducted in our language.
4. 4. Non-residents will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are here.
5. Non-citizens will NEVER be able to hold political office.
6. Foreigners will not be a burden to the taxpayers. No welfare, no food stamps, no health care, or other government assistance programs. Any burden will be deported.
7. Foreigners can invest in this country, but it must be an amount at least equal to 40,000 times the daily minimum wage.
8. If foreigners come here and buy land… options will be restricted. Certain parcels including waterfront property are reserved for citizens naturally born into this country.
9. Foreigners may have no protests; no demonstrations, no waving of a foreign flag, no political organizing, no bad-mouthing our president or his policies. These will lead to deportation.
10. If you do come to this country illegally, you will be actively hunted &, when caught, sent to jail until your deportation can be arranged. All assets will be taken from you.

Too strict? The above laws are current immigration laws of MEXICO!

These sound fine to me. Now, how can we get these laws to be America’s Immigration Laws?

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Listening to: Danny Elfman – The Little Things
via FoxyTunes

So, have YOU got an opinion on the Arizona immigration law? You know, the law that is more restrictive to police there than the federal border laws? The law that is more lenient to the illegal alien (that’s right, ILLEGAL) than the federal law? The one that the media is bashing every chance they get? Well, here’s the text from an email (thanks, Ron!) that explains illegal immigration in an easy to understand way. It’s an old email, but it is still valid (maybe because the feds aren’t doing their job?):

A lady wrote the best letter in the editorials in ages!!! It explains things better than all the baloney you hear on TV. Her point: Recently large demonstrations have taken place across the country protesting the fact that Congress is finally addressing the issue of illegal immigration.

Certain people are angry that the US might protect its own borders, might make it harder to sneak into this country and, once here, to stay indefinitely.

Let me see if I correctly understand the thinking behind these protests.

Let’s say I break into your house.

Let’s say that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave.

But I say, ‘No! I like it here. It’s better than my house. I’ve made all the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors. I’ve done all the things you don’t like to do. I’m hard-working and honest (except for when I broke into your house).

According to the protesters:

• You are Required to let me stay in your house
• You are Required to feed me
• You are Required to add me to your family’s insurance plan
• You are Required to Educate my kids
• You are Required to Provide other benefits to me & to my family

My husband will do all of your yard work because he is also hard-working and honest. (except for that breaking in part).

If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my RIGHT to be there.

It’s only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I’m just trying to better myself. I’m a hard-working and honest, person, except for well, you know, I did break into your house. And what a deal it is for me!!!

I live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of cold, uncaring, selfish, prejudiced, and bigoted behavior.

Oh yeah, and I DEMAND that you learn MY LANGUAGE!!! so that you can communicate with me.

Why can’t people see how ridiculous this is?!

If you agree, let me know (in English). If not blow it off……… along with your future Social Security funds and a lot of the former benefits of being an American Citizen.

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Listening to: Buckcherry – Everything
via FoxyTunes

Found another gem on line, in the signature of one of the users on a political forum:

Last four letters of American: I Can
Last four letters of Republican: I Can
Last four letters of Democrats: Rats
End of lesson!

If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one.
If a liberal doesn’t like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
If a liberal is down-and-out, he wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels.
If a liberal doesn’t like a talk show host, he demands that all of them be shut down.

If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church.
If a liberal is a non-believer, he wants any mention of God and religion silenced.

If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it or may choose a job that provides it.
If a liberal decides he he needs health care, he demands that the rest of us pay for his.

If a conservative reads this, he will show it so his friends and share the bookmark to this website so they can have a good laugh.
If a liberal reads this, he will delete the bookmark to this website because he’s “offended”.

(Thanks, Ron!)
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Listening to: Toadies – Possum Kingdom
via FoxyTunes

I think this quote defines compassion:

“I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it”. – Benjamin Franklin

Unfortunately, our government is “making them easy in poverty” and has been for about 50 years now.

So the health care bill passed. Ouch. Yeah, we’ll regret that long before it’s secrets have been revealed. I say secrets because Obama’s campaign promises of transparency and all just didn’t happen to this one. But that’s not what I’m posting about. Yeah, I’m disappointed about it being passed… by why all the hate? ESPECIALLY against all those who wanted this monster passed. That’s what I’m most puzzled about. Of course, if I honestly look at the last 40-50 years of rhetoric from the Democratic party I shouldn’t be surprised at all. They have been pushing class envy since I’ve been alive. All of this rich vs. poor mentality really comes to a head on the Yahoo postings. Here’s a few examples:

First, from a poster named “Calvin”:

I can understand why some people would be against this bill. Heck they’re the one who’s going to have to pay more taxes to cover the cost of this bill. But you know what…they make enough money to secure themselves financially for the rest of their lives so go ahead…cried and moan all you want….RICH PEOPLE…..you finally get what you deserve…The war of the classes between rich and poor is getting a little bit narrower now thanks to this bill. I don’t mind one bit seeing a spoil little rich guy have to give a little bit of his money to help out his own citizens if u know what I mean.

OK, the bill (according to the Democratic Party leaders) is to mainly be funded by those who make more than $200,000 per year. I am not in that group, but I am simply appalled by this mentality. The rich “finally get what they deserve”? Really? So, Calvin, none of these people worked hard all their lives to get where they are so they can enjoy the fruits of all their years of hard work? Or did they work so that the government can take an inordinate amount of their money from them so that others can have health care? People who make that kind of money are NOT to be despised; they are to be admired. Isn’t that why we work in the first place? To get on the path to becoming “rich”? And now you want to punish them for working like that? Jeez.

Next, from a poster called “Georgia Girl”:

about time 200.000 and over pays i payed for 40 years i was called middle class now bush took my job and the tea party people are here so now they can pay for voteing for bush.my job left in 1999

Now this is just silly. About time they paid? So they haven’t been paying? Really? Bush took your job? So you were President? Your job left in 1999… what have you done since then to get another? All you want to do is punish those who make $200,000 or more and that’s just hateful.

Next is a popular sentiment from a poster called “Jasmine”:

So individuals are motivated to prosper by greed? Those individuals really need to grow up. And if requiring health insurance is unconstitutional, then so is requiring car insurance.

No, I’m not motivated to prosper out of greed. I want to provide for my family. I don’t want my family to worry about me or have to take on any financial burden when I retire. If that’s greed, then I guess I’m greedy. And the car insurance analogy just doesn’t make sense. It has NEVER made sense, even when Obama used it as a reference. We will be forced to have health insurance – to buy it essentially – simply by being a citizen of the United States. And if Jasmine stopped and thought about it, she’d realize that you do not HAVE to carry auto insurance. You can have a driver’s license and not have auto insurance. Only when you BUY a car do you have to carry auto insurance; well, when you register the car anyway. There are literally millions who do not own a car but rely on public transportation, walking and bicycling to get around – no required auto insurance there. But this disaster of a health care bill REQUIRES everyone to have health insurance. And for those of you who want to say it won’t be required, why can the IRS levy fines against those who don’t have it?

Next, a poster going by the handle “Sparky”:

You people who say, “Health care is not a right” are the biggest whack jobs of them all. People wonder why the rest of the world looks at us as “ugly americans”?!?!?! What ever happened to being one nation, under god?? Wake up righty…

Well, Sparky, I hate to burst your bubble but health care is not a right. Look in the Constitution. Where does it say anything about health care? (Where does it state anything about separation of church and state? Well, that’s another argument entirely.) It doesn’t. I’m not saying health care isn’t necessary, I’m just saying it isn’t a right. Food is also necessary, but it’s not a right – I have to work to make money to get food. What’s next, Sparky? Are we going to make food a right?

Next up, a poster named “Lawrence”:

Agreed. i have more faith in Obama than i ever had trust in Bush. This is not some self serving act.

No it isn’t a self-serving act. If it were then Congress, the White House, the Supreme Court and all staffers would be subject to this bill – BUT THEY AREN’T! I’m quite proud of one of my own US Senators, Charles Grassley, for introducing an amendment to the bill that would require all on Capitol Hill to have to use the plan they are pushing on the good people of this country. However, Harry Reid has said that what Grassley is doing is just a stall/delay tactic. (sarcasm on) SMART, Harry! Real SMART! (sarcasm off)

Well, this post has gone on long enough. I can’t say I’m happy with the bill being passed, but it was. I can only hope that our Congress figures out what exactly is in the bill and then repeals most of it and gives us our choices back.

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Now playing: Spatterdash – Vander Veer
via FoxyTunes

I saw this on a reply thread for a blog out there:

Let me get this straight……we’re trying to pass a health care plan… written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it,… passed by a Congress that hasn’t read it …but exempts themselves from it,… to be signed by a president that also hasn’t read it …and who smokes, …with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes,… all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, …and financed by a country that’s broke.

What could possibly go wrong?

Interesting indeed!

For too long we have been too complacent about the workings of Congress. Many citizens had no idea that members of Congress could retire with the same pay after only one term; that they didn’t pay into Social Security; that they specifically exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed (such as being exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment) while ordinary citizens must live under those laws.

The latest is to exempt themselves from the health care reform that is being considered…in all of its forms. Somehow, that doesn’t seem logical. We do not have an elite that is above the law. I truly don’t care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent or whatever. The self-serving must stop. This is a good way to do that. It is an idea whose time has come.

Ask each person contact a minimum of Twenty people on their address list, in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one proposal that really should be passed around.

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution:

Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States

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Listening to: Theory Of A Deadman – Bad Girlfriend
via FoxyTunes

• You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
• You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
• You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
• You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
• You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
• You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.
• You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

……..Abraham Lincoln

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Listening to: Weezer – Pork & Beans
via FoxyTunes

Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it.

Be sure and show it to your kids. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are Facts!!!

Our Social Security

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. He promised:

• That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary. (No longer Voluntary)
• That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program. (Now 7.65% on the first $90,000)
• That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year. (No longer tax deductible)
• That the money the participants paid would be put into an independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund and would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program and no other Government program. The fund would have covered Social Security payments for 100+ years. (Under Johnson the money was moved to The General Fund and Spent.)
• That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income. (Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be taxed)

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’. You may be interested in the following:

Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.

Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.

Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US.

Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?
A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country and at age 65 began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it, in order to get their votes!

Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!

And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! (Thanks, Ron!)

One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut.

After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, ‘I cannot accept money from you , I’m doing community service this week.’ The florist was pleased and left the shop.

When the barber went to open his shop the next morning, there was a ‘Thank You’ card and a dozen roses waiting for him at his door.

Later, a cop comes in for a haircut, and when he tries to pay his bill, the barber again replied, ‘I cannot accept money from you , I’m doing community service this week.’ The cop was happy and left the shop.

The next morning when the barber went to open up, there was a ‘Thank You’ card and a dozen donuts waiting for him at his door.

Then a Congressman came in for a haircut, and when he went to pay his bill, the barber again replied, ‘I can not accept money from you. I’m doing community service this week.’ The Congressman was very happy and left the shop.

The next morning, when the barber went to open up, there were a dozen Congressmen lined up waiting for a free haircut.

And THAT, my friends, illustrates the fundamental difference between the citizens of our country and the politicians who run it. (Thanks, Ron!)

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Listening to: Kiss – Strutter
via FoxyTunes

DEA officer stops at a ranch in Texas , and talks with an old rancher. He tells the rancher, “I need to inspect your ranch for illegally grown drugs.” The rancher says, “Okay , but do not go in that field over there,” as he points out the location.

The DEA officer verbally explodes saying, ” Mister, I have the authority of the Federal Government with me.” Reaching into his rear pants pocket, he removes his badge and proudly displays it to the rancher. “See this badge? This badge means I am allowed to go wherever I wish…. On any land. No questions asked or answers given. Have I made myself clear? Do you understand? ”

The rancher nods politely, apologizes, and goes about his chores.

A short time later, the old rancher hears loud screams and sees the DEA officer running for his life chased by the rancher’s big Santa Gertrudis bull……

With every step the bull is gaining ground on the officer, and it seems likely that he’ll get gored before he reaches safety. The officer is clearly terrified. The rancher throws down his tools, runs to the fence and yells at the top of his lungs……

” Your badge. Show him your BADGE ! ”
(Thanks, Ron!)

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Listening to: Little Feat – Texas Twister
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