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Bush set for immigration speech
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| 5-14-06
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Posted on 05/14/2006 12:05:44 PM PDT by JustPiper
  
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BUSH SET FOR IMMIGRATION SPEECH WHITE HOUSE President Bush is getting set for a prime-time speech on
immigration tomorrow night. Aides note the 8 p-m, Eastern Time, speech will be the president's first from the Oval Office that does not involve Iraq and the war on terrorism. And they say that reflects Bush's
"passion" on immigration. He's speaking as the Senate is poised to clear a compromise measure including his idea for a guest worker program. However, a rival House bill is limited to a border crackdown, and meshing the two won't be easy. Stand Up For America !
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"We have room for but one flag, the American flag...
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...
And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
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To: potlatch; JustPiper
Just Piper posted it....I just thought I'd ping everyone to a "PROMINENT" shameful display of their names.
They deserve it.
3,361
posted on
05/25/2006 9:01:10 PM PDT
by
nicmarlo
(Bush is the Best President Ever. Rah. Rah.)
To: TheLion
Homebuilders back sheriff in illegal hiring crackdown
By Chris Dumond
Staff Writer
HAMILTON — In spite of concerns raised by some homebuilders, local building contractors Thursday lauded Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones’ pursuit of those who hire illegal immigrants.
The contractors said they hope raids by the sheriff’s office will make the market more competitive for employers who play by the rules. At least one man said he’s already seeing better pay because of it.
“We support him 125 percent,” Benchmark Masonry Contractors owner Steve Hester said. “We who do things right, who have drug testing and check papers and have benefits, we can’t compete with those who aren’t.”
The Middletown businessman said larger contractors who bring illegal workers to the job site often hire them indirectly as subcontractors, thereby dodging their responsibility to ensure the workers are here legally, paying workers compensation and collecting taxes.
“We always check documents and Social Security cards,” Hester said. “We have had people in the past where we found out they were fakes and we got rid of them.”
The reaction comes in the wake of Wednesday’s raid of Carmona Construction in Fairfield Township by the Butler County Sheriff’s Office. Documents, a computer and computer data storage devices were taken from the search, according to sheriff’s officials.
“The search warrant resulted from information that was received from the incident that happened (May 18) on Wendy Meadows Drive,” said Sgt. Nick Fisher of the BCSO.
Authorities were called to that Wayne Township home building site on a report of a dispute between two construction crews. When deputies arrived, they found nearly 20 Hispanic workers suspected of being here illegally.
The suspects were loaded on a bus and taken to the sheriff’s office, where they were detained, questioned and released later in the night.
The sheriff’s office’s crackdown is good for his business and for taxpayers in general, said Hoelle Construction & Maintenance owner Darren Hoelle.
“If they’re here illegally, chances are they’re not paying income tax, which means that’s more coming out of my wallet,” Hoelle said. “I don’t use illegal help, so this may help me get work since my competitors who do may be having a harder time.”
At Valley Drywall Service in Liberty Township, Tom McMahon said the issue hits particularly close to home since his wife works in immigration law. While Valley Drywall doesn’t hire illegal immigrants, McMahon said the local crackdown could result in a labor shortage in the construction industry. On the other hand, though, he said the business has been held down for years by cheap immigrant labor.
“With all this attention it’s getting, I got my first raise in 20 years,” he said.
http://www.journal-news.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/05/25/HJN052606RAIDS_s.html?UrAuth=%60N\NUOaNYUbTTUWUXUWUZTYU]UWU_UaUZU%60UZUcTYWYWZV
To: nicmarlo
Thanks, nic. Printing out for handy reference.
They will be SLAMMED this weekend.
3,363
posted on
05/25/2006 9:06:17 PM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(God Bless Our Troops...including U.S. Border Patrol, America's First Line of Defense)
To: nicmarlo
Frist must really believe we're stupid -- or decided not to run for President after all...
To: Altura Ct.
“If they’re here illegally, chances are they’re not paying income tax, which means that’s more coming out of my wallet,” Hoelle said. “I don’t use illegal help, so this may help me get work since my competitors who do may be having a harder time.”
A truth often overlooked in the illegal alien story. Probably a third work off the books, send the money home and we foot the bill.
To: JustPiper
Thank you, Piper. I will thank the "good guys," and as noted will slam the coyote traitors.
3,366
posted on
05/25/2006 9:09:05 PM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(God Bless Our Troops...including U.S. Border Patrol, America's First Line of Defense)
To: All
Not immigration but directly related. Our country has lost it's damn mind or has been completely overrun with globalist.
Keep 'America' in Michigan schools
State bureaucrats want to do what Stalin, Osama could only dream about
C ensoring the word "America" from our own schools is something Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden would never have thought possible. Michigan has done it without a whimper.
In perhaps a well-intentioned, but pernicious example of political correctness, the Michigan Department of Education is attempting to ban the "America" and "American" from our public schools. Even though the word "America" appears in the department's own civics and government benchmarks, the department's style protocol for the Michigan Education Assessment Program requires that "America" and "Americans" be expunged from our testing and grade level expectations. Last week, the department ordered that our hard-working teachers not utter the words.
We're all 'North Americans'
The Department of Education asserts that "Americans" includes Mexicans, Canadians and others in the Western Hemisphere, so referring to U.S. residents as Americans is inappropriate. In the department's view, "America" happens to include South, Central and North America. Accordingly, when referring to the colonial period, the state bureaucracy requires teachers to refer to "the colonies of North America" or "North Americans." After the American Revolution, the nation is called the United States (not of America).
The state's edict would be laughable if it were not so disgraceful. Instead of focusing on better teaching methods and educational resources to help our hard-working teachers and parents, the Department of Education spends its energy on confusing, misleading, historically inaccurate and counterproductive wordplay.
One can only imagine how teachers struggle to meet the semantic dictates of an educational bureaucracy gone awry. According to the department, before the American Revolution, George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were North Americans. But so were the French colonists in the Louisiana Territory, the Spanish settlers in Mexico and the British colonists in Canada -- not to mention the Native Americans.
No 'American' Revolution?
After the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers no longer qualified as North Americans, but apparently the British, Spanish, French and Native Americans did. What people in the United States are to be called after the Revolution is not clear, so long as they are not referred to as Americans.
Although the style protocol does not require educators to change formal titles such as "America the Beautiful," the students will apparently now believe the song is about a hemisphere and not a nation. The American Revolution is now the North American Revolution. Little did the writers of the Contract with America in 1994 realize that they were making an agreement with Mexico and Canada. The Voice of America obviously is broadcasting the inspirational messages of Brazil and Belize across the globe.
'Internationally friendly'
The Michigan Department of Education considers the dictate "internationally friendly." Why being friendly to an international audience or perspective is important in teaching and learning American history is incomprehensible.
That we would sacrifice our language to the altar of internationalism is a betrayal to the American spirit. Indeed, the whole idea of America is to be a beacon of light, a shining city on the hill, which inspires the rest of the world.
The word "America" is the most important word of all in learning about the history of the United States and our civics. America is an inspiration and an aspiration for generations of souls who strove, and continue to strive, for freedom and liberty.
Ideals matter
"Americans hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights," and that governments are supposed to protect those rights. Not all people or governments in the Western Hemisphere agree with those propositions -- as communist Cuba, Haiti and other nations show.
The time has come for our Michigan Department of Education to recognize the error of its ways and proclaim that it is teaching about America and Americans in American history and civics. In fact, the department should repent by creating an "American Freedom Curriculum" in which K-12 students learn the principles and history of the greatest nation on earth. Then the department will be worthy of the treasure for which they are responsible.
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006605240307
To: Arizona Carolyn
Frist probably REALLY believes we're stupid.
3,368
posted on
05/25/2006 9:10:30 PM PDT
by
nicmarlo
(Bush is the Best President Ever. Rah. Rah.)
To: Arizona Carolyn; La Enchiladita; Altura Ct.; JustPiper; potlatch; nicmarlo; All
To: Arizona Carolyn
3,370
posted on
05/25/2006 9:12:06 PM PDT
by
JustPiper
(We will be Governed by Rule of Law NOT by Mob Rule Senator !!!)
To: TheLion
3,371
posted on
05/25/2006 9:12:51 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
To: Smartass
3,372
posted on
05/25/2006 9:14:10 PM PDT
by
JustPiper
(We will be Governed by Rule of Law NOT by Mob Rule Senator !!!)
To: La Enchiladita
They will be SLAMMED this weekend. kewl!!! *evil grin*
3,373
posted on
05/25/2006 9:16:04 PM PDT
by
nicmarlo
(Bush is the Best President Ever. Rah. Rah.)
To: JustPiper
Read post #21 -- and it's only going to get worse.
To: nicmarlo
Did you happen to see the video of his "back of the bus" comment from today? Talk about condescending!
To: TheLion
bump for later read; thanks Lion.
3,376
posted on
05/25/2006 9:17:14 PM PDT
by
nicmarlo
(Bush is the Best President Ever. Rah. Rah.)
To: nicmarlo
Disregard. I'm looking at Frist and Thinking McCain!
To: La Enchiladita
3,378
posted on
05/25/2006 9:19:21 PM PDT
by
JustPiper
(We will be Governed by Rule of Law NOT by Mob Rule Senator !!!)
3,379
posted on
05/25/2006 9:24:53 PM PDT
by
JustPiper
(We will be Governed by Rule of Law NOT by Mob Rule Senator !!!)
3,380
posted on
05/25/2006 9:30:19 PM PDT
by
JustPiper
(We will be Governed by Rule of Law NOT by Mob Rule Senator !!!)
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