Posted on 11/21/2004 3:31:21 PM PST by chicagolady
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NCLR WELCOMES NOMINATION OF GONZALES TO SERVE AS ATTORNEY GENERAL
Washington, DC The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the U.S., today welcomed President Bushs nomination of White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales to succeed John Ashcroft as Attorney General. If confirmed, Gonzales would be the first Hispanic ever to serve as Attorney General.
“We are very encouraged by the Gonzales nomination. We previously criticized the Bush Administration for not having an Hispanic in the cabinet since the departure of former HUD Secretary, now Senator-elect, Mel Martinez. We are pleased that one of the first acts since the Presidents reelection both rectifies that situation and marks an historic milestone for the Latino community. Never before has an Hispanic served as head of one of the four major cabinet posts Secretary of State, Treasury, Defense, and Attorney General, stated Janet Murguia, NCLR Executive Director and COO.
Murguia also noted Gonzales ties to the Hispanic community throughout his career. Alberto Gonzales served with distinction on the board of directors of one of NCLRs oldest and most respected affiliates, the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans (AAMA) in Houston, Texas. Moreover, during his tenure as White House Counsel, he has been one of the most accessible members of the White House staff to NCLR and other Hispanic organizations, added Murguia.
Murguia concluded, We acknowledge that this is the first step of a long confirmation process that requires that his record be fully examined. That being said, Gonzales is a thoughtful, reasonable public servant, a man of his word, and we have every expectation that his nomination will be very well received in the Latino community.
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National Council of LaRaza confirms that Alberto Gonzales is one of their members. Those of us in border states know the slogan of this group:
"For those within 'the race,' everything; for those outside 'the race,' nothing."
The definition of "the race" of course, is "Hispanics/Latinos/Chicanos" or whatever their current name du jour. Should a "white" candidate be a member of the KuKluxKlan or other white supremacist group, the National Council of La Raza would scream in outrage. Seems they believe that racists are only "white."
Contact your two US Senators and tell them no, no, no. NO on Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General and NO for the US Supreme Court. When candidates for office (elected and appointed) are rejected for membership in racist groups like LaRaza, membership will become a liability.
To send an e-mail to your US Senators, go to www.senate.gov and you'll find their website email forms. You'll also find the phone numbers of their offices for a follow-up phone call.
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Oh terrific! And so it begins.
hmmm... notice this is much much different then the reaction out of the NAACP and other so-called 'civil rights' organizations regarding Rice and Powell.
If Raza approves of Alerto Gonzales, then no doubt my two Senators - Durbin and Obama - will approve of him too.
You mean Twiddle Dee and Twiddle Dumber.
So are we sure he is a member of LaRaza, or not? I suppose he will be in favor of the following:
Totalization: Sellout of American Workers
by Phyllis Schlafly
Nov. 17, 2004
The Democrats are trying to make a campaign issue out of George W. Bush's alleged plan to "privatize" Social Security, scaring seniors into thinking their checks will be cut off. That is a phony issue; all Bush suggests is to offer younger workers the option (not the compulsion) of transferring a very small part of their Social Security benefit into private investments.
The real threat to Social Security doesn't come from giving young people this opportunity. The threat comes from the Bush Administration's plan to load illegal aliens into the Social Security system, an idea that would skyrocket costs and bankrupt the system at the same time that baby boomers flood into their benefit years.
The code word for this racket is "totalization." The United States has totalization agreements with 20 other countries, which have been reasonable and non-controversial, but totalization with Mexico is TOTALLY different.
The idea behind totalization with other countries is to assure a pension to those few individuals who work legally in two countries by "totalizing" their payments into the pension systems of both countries. All existing totalization agreements are with developed nations whose retirement benefits are on a parity with U.S. benefits, and the affected employees work for companies that have been paying taxes into the other countries' retirement systems.
Workers from the other 20 countries come with documents from their employer verifying that they are authorized to work in the United States. Only a minuscule fraction of Mexicans enter with such documents.
The legitimate goal of totalization with other countries is to avoid double taxation for retirement when employers assign their employees to work temporarily in another country. Reciprocity works because there is rough parity between the number of U.S. workers in the 20 other countries and the foreigners from those countries who work in the United States.
But this goal has no relevance to Mexico. There is no parity whatsoever between the number of Mexicans working in the United States and the number of U.S. citizens working in Mexico, and absolutely no parity in the social security systems of the two countries.
Mexican benefits are not remotely equal to U.S. benefits. Americans receive benefits after working for 10 years, but Mexicans have to work 24 years before receiving any benefits.
Mexican workers receive back in retirement only what they actually paid in, plus interest, whereas the U.S. Social Security system is skewed to give lower-wage earners benefits greatly in excess of what they and their employers contributed.
Mexico has two different retirement programs, one for public-sector employees, which is draining the national treasury, and one for private-sector workers, which is estimated to cover only 40 percent of the workforce. The rest of the workers are in the off-the-record economy (euphemistically called the "informal" sector).
The 10 million Mexicans who have illegally entered the United States previously lived in poverty, did not pay social security taxes in Mexico, and did not work for employers who paid taxes into a retirement plan. If they were working at all, it was in the off-the-record economy.
Illegality is no issue with the countries where we have existing totalization agreements because none of them accounts for even one percent of the U.S illegal population. On the other hand, Mexico provides more than two-thirds of the illegals in the United States.
The Bush totalization plan would pay out billions in Social Security benefits to Mexicans for work they did in the U.S. using fraudulent Social Security numbers, something that Americans would go to jail for doing. It would pay Social Security Disability benefits to Mexicans who worked in the United States as little as 3 years.
The Bush totalization plan would lure even more Mexicans into the United States illegally in the hope of amnesty and eligibility for Social Security benefits. The Bush plan would even cover the Mexicans' spouses and dependents who may never have lived in the United States.
Since few if any of the illegal aliens have built up any equity in the Mexican retirement system, what is there to totalize? Totalization is a plan for the U.S. taxpayers to end up assuming the entire burden.
When George W. Bush became President in 2001, the Mexican government expected the United States to pass amnesty (disguised as a guest worker plan and "regularizing" the entry of Mexicans). After 9/11, Mexico's national policy turned to increasing the number of its nationals working in the United States and getting them to qualify for all the social benefits and privileges Americans receive, from driver's licenses to Social Security and Social Security Disability.
The Social Security commissioners of both Mexico and the Bush Administration signed a totalization agreement in June of 2004, but the text of the agreement has been kept secret. Maybe we will be permitted to see it after the President approves it and sends it to Congress.
Let your Members of Congress know you want them to stop this billion-dollar sellout of American workers and taxpayers.
http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2004/nov04/04-11-17.html
What's that smell???
Why, of course, it's bigotry!!!
A capable man with an extensive knowledge of the law is morally executed by our resident Hispanic-bashers just because he's endorsed by a questionable Mexican-American organization with a questionable slogan.
It's equivalent to Bush nominating a white guy who happened to be endorsed by the KKK? What would you Hispanic-bashers say??
Qualifications be damned!!!
It is about time that NCLR did something worthwhile. As a member of the Association, I have had several disagreements regarding their policies and decisions. I guess that they finally see the light and have decided that they have more to gain with Bush than being taken for granted by the Dems. It is about time!
Hispanic-bashers
I am not a Hispanic Basher, I am a Hispanic Who has a brain and uses it!
Sounds like you have sniffed one to many burritos, Paco.
OH that is so old, cant you guys come up with something a little better.
La Raza bashing becomes Hispanic bashing. La Raza has a different agenda than the ordinary Hispanic. La Raza wants to take back the Texas Republic by using the voting block of Hispanics to accomplish this. The average Hispanic is satisfied with the extra economic opportunities in the United States and doesn't want to return to the failed economic policies and corruption in his native Mexico. Both are opposed to one another in objective. Gonzales's membership in La Raza is surely a treasonous issue for a member of our administration.
Iran News
Nov 19th, 2004 - 10:44:17
Mexico seeks greater ties with Iran mullahs
Nov 19, 2004, 10:42
Mexico is ready for expanding ties with Iran on all areas, notably in economy and trade, the deputy of Mexico's foreign ministry for economic affairs, Irma Avriana said on Friday.
Speaking to the grand seminar on Irano-Mexican economic relations, Avriana said Iran was an important power in the Middle East and" we believe expanding ties with Iran will be in the intersts of every country including Mexcio".
Also addressing the audience, the head of Iran's Chamber of Commerce, Alinaghi Khamoushi said Iran enjoyed an economic growth rate of 6.5, adding his chamber tried to strenghten trade bewteen the two countries.
© Iranian.ws
Been posted several times.
Thanks for the heads up!!!!!!!!
So some lefties endorsed Gonzales. Big deal. In '64, the KKK endorsed Barry Goldwater for President, but he didn't ask for it or accept it.
I don't think Bush would nominate someone untrustworthy to be Attorney General.
Watch for the neo-republicans to come along and tell us LA RAZA is good for us.
The new AG is a member of La Raza? You just couldn't make this stuff up.
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