Posted on 06/06/2007 8:11:35 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
Bye,bye American Pie.
Don McLean was right.
Sad.
...Thompson’s record on immigration.
From NumbersUSA.
http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?DistSend=TN&VIPID=743
BTTT!
Good article.
It’s about the economics.
The Bush admin has been all about “globalism”, a word meant by proponents to sound like mutually beneficial,
But really is the exploiting of the cost difference of our middle class lifestyles and protections and those of abroad.
Worthy of a BUMP. I'm not confident on labeling either. I have family in Asian (ChiCom) imports and all they do is switch "country of origin" labels to thwart any tariffs.
It'll be quite difficult to "throw the bums out" using the electoral process if tens of million illegal aliens (and their extended families) are given amnesty (voting rights). In fact the bums would be more likely than ever to be voted back in again. ...and again.
If the catastrophe has any chance whatsoever of being averted we have to stop this amnesty train right now. .....and THEN start kicking the bums out -- both the illegal aliens and their political enablers.
... a study regarding the impact of the meatpacking industry on crime completed in Garden City, Kansas, prior to IBP’s arrival in Lexington, revealed large increases in the city’s crime rates shortly after the plant opened there. Garden City shared a similar pre-IBP population with Lexington, and each city had similar demographics prior to the arrival of IBP in each respective location. He said the research indicated that crime rates had increased considerably in Garden City after the IBP plant arrived. Given the similarity between the cities Clark assumed that crime rates would also increase in Lexington (Clark interview).
Clark further explained that he and Sheriff Reiber knew that the existing Dawson County Jail in Lexington would not accommodate the changes that were about to take place in the city. At the time, the jail was roughly 50 years old and contained only about 26 beds. Therefore, law enforcement officials in Dawson County began planning the building of a new jail before IBP even arrived in Lexington (Ibid.).
Dawson County’s new jail opened its doors in July of 1993, currently contains 126 beds, and costs approximately $1.2 million to operate annually. According to Sheriff Reiber, the entire jail and law enforcement center cost the county $4.5 million to build. The law enforcement center became the headquarters for the Dawson County Sheriff’s office (Reiber interview).
Sheriff Reiber provided me with population statistics for the jail from 1989 to 1996. The Dawson County jail houses both “contract” and “non-contract” inmates. Extra holding space in the jail allows Sheriff Reiber to hold Federal inmates as well as inmates from other counties for a contractual fee. Non-contract inmates, however, are solely from Dawson County. Figure 9 only accounts for non-contract inmates from Dawson County as this research is primarily concerned with prisoners connected to crimes committed in Dawson County. Figure 9 shows that in 1989 there was an average of 12 inmates housed in the Dawson County jail daily. By the mid-1990’s however, the average daily non-contract inmate population hovered around 45.
Once crime rates began to increase in Lexington during the early 1990’s, local law enforcement agencies required increased budgets to provide adequate law enforcement personnel to police Lexington and the greater Dawson County area. Sheriff Reiber explained that the budget for the Dawson County Sheriff’s office (excluding the jail’s operating costs) was approximately $400,000 in 1990. Now, 15 years later, the Sheriff’s budget has doubled to $800,000. Much of the increase in budget paid the salaries of new deputy positions as high crime rates demanded increased numbers of law enforcement personnel to police Dawson County. In 1990, Sheriff Reiber kept about 12 deputies on staff. Today he has a total of 18 deputies patrolling Dawson County (Reiber interview).
Sheriff Reiber further explained that he has also received some aid from the Federal government in the fight against crime in Dawson County. In order to fight against gang, drug, and other violent criminal activity, Reiber has kept a special investigator on his force since the early 1990’s. The Federal government provides funding for the gang, drug, and violent crimes investigator through a “Byrne” grant. Unfortunately, the Byrne grant for Dawson County will most likely run out in November of 2005, leaving Sheriff Reiber uncertain how he will be able to continue funding the position. He explained that Byrne grants are being replaced in Congress by Homeland Security grants. He further explained that the shift in funding could ultimately hinder his ability to fight drug and gang activity in Lexington and Dawson County (Ibid.). With Dawson County’s high rate of drug trafficking and its gang presence, the prospect of losing a gang and drug investigator is unsettling to say the least.
Chief Clark reported that he also had increases in budget and personnel as well as Federal aid for crime fighting due to increased crime rates in Lexington. With budget statistics provided to me by Lexington’s City Treasurer Barb Mills, I made a graph displaying the Lexington Police Department’s budget from fiscal years 1983-1984 through 2000-2001 (Figure 10). Throughout the 1980’s to fiscal year 1990-1991, the police department’s budget was at or near $400,000, much like the budget for the Sheriff’s office in 1990. Also similar to the Sheriff’s budget, the police department’s budget had doubled to $800,000 by fiscal year 2000-2001.
I don't think we can wait that long. Maybe it's time to take a page from the Dimocats' and illegals' playbook -- get out in the streets with bullhorns and make our voices heard. The pols in the logic-free zone (D.C.) obviously haven't heard us.
Just for the record: I think South of the Border illegals look uncannily like Oompa-Loompas...at least the ones in my area do.
In the case of illegal fighting city hall is impossible and that is depressing.
It is our elites that are doing this. They want to be in charge of peasants and since none of us are peasants, they are intent intoi turning us into such.
The only thing we can do is stop paying taxes. Can we get amnesty?
An old law of economics: “The bad drives out the good.”
The culprit:
“But in 1986, New Holland outsourced, and the plant was subsequently sold and converted to a meat packing facility, whereupon the local workers were systematically supplanted by a massive importation of illegals.”
ping
But there is a silver lining.
The super rich elite and the politicians are getting richer and more powerful.Hooray!
Just say NO to Amnesty!! Before it’s too late!!
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Leave the animals in the dark without water or power. They will kill each other.They will be unable to fix everything everywhere. There are simply not enough of them capable of it.They will turn on themselves, Their own ignorance will be the best weapon for defeating them and reclaiming what is ours.
a vote in favor of the amnesty bill is a vote for the next civil war.
one day we will have UN peackeepers in the US. Wonder what they will want to confiscate first?
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