Posted on 04/16/2005 4:40:42 AM PDT by Chairman_December_19th_Society
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!
Good morning!!
Do not let the victims of the attacks on New York and Washington, nor the brave members of our Nation's military who have given their lives to protect our freedom, die in vain!!
American National Income Redistribution Day has come and gone, and with it the annual chore of actually informnig our Government how much they were allowed to confiscate from us under the law. Indeed we spent SIX THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED MILLION HOURS preparing the paperwork during the last tax season.
Put another way, the IRS accounts for fully 80 percent of all of the Government-compliance paperwork faced by the public.
Wall Street ended the week at a two-year low.
The Predident of Ecuador has declared a state of emergency and instituted martial law throughout the country. People have taken to the streets.
For AMERICA - The Right Way, I remain yours in the Cause, the Chairman.
Here, here! I've already sent DeLay's office an email of support. I agree that something has got to be done about the border, but for Tancredo to stab DeLay in the back leads me to think he's nothing more than the House version of "One Note Johnny" McCain.
You know the RINO's like Chris Shays will get weak-kneed, but for an alleged "hardcore conservative" like Tom Tancredo to call on DeLay to step aside is an insult to all conservatives. As Mike Jerrick pointed out on F&F after Ellen Ratner became Tancredo's newest best friend this morning: "If it's such a great idea, why didn't the RATS ask x42 to step aside until the heat died down during the Lewinsky scandal?"
I won't say what part of the human anatomy George Voinovich resembles,... but George went out without his face covered, and got arrested for indecent exposure.
Good morning everyone! You all are cheery and witty this morning! Happy week-end.
There's a Mexican restaurant that's more famous for it's bar than it's food about a 1/4 mile from my home. Every April 15, it's packed to the rafters with accountants. They don't go to eat, they go to get plastered because the Margarita's in that place will do it. Quick.
I did too.
There has to be a middle ground between Tancredo and the current plant regarding immigration.
It was infuriating to read this morning that Massachusetts House Democrats are fighting the governor there over whether or not to extend tax breaks for college to illegals.
Once again, those who follow the rules and pay their taxes and work hard are going to pay more to give the same benefits we all enjoy to people who disobey the rules and don't pay taxes.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1384939/posts
There are lots of Republicans and Democrats who benefit from the cheap labor of illegal immigrants. For every Republican who wants the border closed to illegal imigrants there is one who wants the border open. It is not the big corporations that hire illegal imigrants, it is mom and pop companies run by people active in the Republican party. There is also a significant number in the Democratic party.
The Democratic elite do not understand their own followers, so many of them are using this as an issue to attack Bush.
Click here for a tator take on the Democratic parties ignorance about Democrats.
For every Republican vote held onto by closing the border at least one Republican vote is lost. But by doing nothing Republicans stand to pick up some Democrats who want cheap labor.
Some freepers point out to me when I note that we had lots of imigrants 100 years ago that they were legal.. UH HUH!!!.
The imigration laws from the late 1800s on requried that all legal imigrants have imigration papers issued by their native land and a birth certificate or other proof of birth and identity. A large number of people just came to the USA with no papers.. No passport, no imigration papers, and no birth certificate... nothing A huge number of them were poor illiterate Italians.
The people who arrived at Ellis Island seeking entrance into the USA with out proper papers were given a short hand name. They arrived with out papers and were therefore called WOPs by the people who processed them on Ellis Island. We let them in papers or no papers.. legal or not legal. And the name stuck.. that is why Italians were often called WOPs. There was opposition to imigrants who got in with out papers. But they still got in. We wanted the cheap labor.
The fact that many of us don't feel we should pay for government benefits for those that are not here legally, does not overcome the fact that a large number of our fellow Republicans and Democrats want even more cheap labor.
It seems to me we have two choices. We can export jobs to where the cheap labor lives, or we can import cheap labor here to work for the low wages? The question is will the Mexican spend his wages here or in China. Will the chinese spend his wages here or in China?
The same arguments were made a hundred years ago. Back then William Jennings Bryan won the Democratic Nomination for PResident 3 times in which unlimited imigration was one of his major issues. Bryan got beat by a nearly 2 to 1 margin more than once.
In the USA when a party is split on an issue.... it is called a Hot Potato issue. Poltical parties rarely play with a hot potato.
The rule is , when the party is split on an issue do nothing. And Nothing is what is being done
You have two courses of action:
You mean persuade politicians to decide the very laws they pass (based on the will of the people) aren't worth enforcing?
Why do we have laws if we aren't willing to see them enforced?
Why do we permit people who don't pay taxes and aren't here legally access to our health care to the extent that it's shutting down services to law abiding, tax paying citizens?
We can parse it all we want, but the fact is that laws that were passed by US through our elected representatives are not being enforced.
If I may...
Persuade a majority of the American people to your position, then sit back and watch the politicians compete to do your will.
or scream at the politicians .. and watch them do absolutely nothing.
Or, actively work against their reelection, and vote them out. That tact has worked in the last three election cycles.
5.56mm
That worked, thank you
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April 16th is just NOT a good day for any politician/political party or anyone else for that matter to be conducting a fund drive.
IMHO
I did tell her to try me again in a couple of months.;^)
It feels so good to say "Em is at WORK"................."Em got a JOB"............."I'll talk to to you when you're done with WORK, Em!"etc. etc. etc.
She'll eventually need something more full-time but OTOH I snuck a peek at her schedule yesterday and they have her working well over 20 hours next week............PLUS her old piano teacher has promised to line her up with some accompanying jobs, AND she'll be playing for the summer musical again, which means more $$$.
Now she's talking about wanting to go back to school & finish her degree but I sort of wish she'd take an entire year off, and then go back. She seems to be having so much fun just.......being. School adds so much pressure.
But we'll see.
Anyway, thanks again for your care & concern & esp. your prayers.
(((Jem)))
Here's what I meant to say:
Hubby bought a cantaloupe yesterday. Every time I see it I think of you & your linen closet.;^)
Yikes............
Gremlins. There are gremlins living in my computer.
Okay.:(
In regards to enforcing laws, remember that some laws have been negated by THE COURTS, like several of California's efforts.
I think Tator is pretty close to the truth. We all remember how many immigration bills X42 passed, don't we? ZERO. And not only did he not enforce the existing laws, he actively circumvented them, like allowing a whole bunch of people to get their citizenship early so they could vote for Gore!
I haven't kept up on the immigration stuff because it's so frustrating on so many levels and the threads on this matter are disruptive.
My preference, however, would be for the congress to do what they feel is right, and then force the courts to overturn them, which in turn will wake people up to the problem of judicial activism.
And good memory re X42's moves for Gore. I'd forgotten that little tidbit.
Hope the series is a good one; we'll be taping it.
Politicians misread the voters all the time. The cost is defeat. Some, like Tom Daschle think they can fool the American people. But time catches up with all of them. One thing is clear, If a majority of the American people are against what you want to do, changing politicians WILL NOT WORK!! Lincoln had it right. This is a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people.
If 70 percent of the American people want welfare reform while a liberal Democrat is president, we will get welfare reform. A Liberal President will claim it was all his idea. Dick Morris told Clinton.. sponsor welfare reform or get defeated. Clinton sponsored welfare reform.
If 70 percent of the American people want Medicare to pay for prescriptions, then a conservative president will work to pass it and claim it was his idea. We don't know what Rove told Bush.. but he did sponsor medicare prescriptions.
Some .. perhaps many.. politicians fail to read the will of the public and follow it. Those that do not follow the will of the people, get defeated. But politicians rarely get defeated because they are not trying to do the peoples will, they get defeated because they misjudge the peoples will.
People who propose to do only what they think is right never ever get elected. Ask Alan Keyes how that works. Alan doesn't know it.. but his record with the electorate proves it.
I would remind you that those who fail to follow the political winds are few and far between. Oh yes.... and they are never named Clinton... Bill or Hillary. That is what makes them so very dangerous.
I can't imagine why your daughter won't let you take the viagra clock.................
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