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Don't assume worst in Taco Bell flap
Wisconsin State Journal ^ | 18 july 09

Posted on 07/18/2009 5:03:26 AM PDT by rellimpank

Not so fast. A group of clergy has jumped to the conclusion that Taco Bell is a big, bad company for firing more than two dozen Hispanic employees in Madison and Sun Prairie. The firings followed discrepancies with the workers' Social Security numbers. "It troubles us on a moral level if hard-working people are being treated with such a lack of respect and dignity," states a June 20 letter from 16 local clergy to Greg Creed, president of Taco Bell Corp. The key word here is "if." Some facts are in dispute, and many others are unknown to the public.

(Excerpt) Read more at madison.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; economy; illegals; immigrantlist; immigrants; jobs; tacobell
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1 posted on 07/18/2009 5:03:26 AM PDT by rellimpank
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To: SJackson; Diana in Wisconsin

-ping-


2 posted on 07/18/2009 5:05:11 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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To: rellimpank

Typical Catch-22 created by the government.

If as a business you hire Illegal Immigrants you are subjected to possible civil and criminal penalties and lawsuits.

If as a business upon learning your employees are illegal you are subject to EEOC lawsuits, liberal clergy group boycotts, civil penalties and fines.

This whole problem was created by Democrats and Republicans in Washington DC REFUSING to protect our national borders via enforcing immigration law already on the books.


3 posted on 07/18/2009 5:12:51 AM PDT by WaterBoard (Somewhere a Village is Missing it's Socialist.)
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To: rellimpank

My sister is one of those bleeding hearts who thinks everyone should have free access to America, all the perks, free health care, etc. WE OWE THEM.

It’ll come back to bite her in her ample @ss one day.


4 posted on 07/18/2009 5:14:04 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I am married to one, a good man but a LIBERAL. Keeps harping on about the United Nations is a Institution for Good and Global Warming and the Polar Bears./Just Asking - seoul62......


5 posted on 07/18/2009 5:16:49 AM PDT by seoul62
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
"discrepancies with the workers' Social Security numbers.

Translation: STOLEN or completely BOGUS SS #s. No bias in reporting here...
6 posted on 07/18/2009 5:17:07 AM PDT by Mister Muggles
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To: rellimpank

Illegals,
round them ALL up and send them packing to from which they came.


7 posted on 07/18/2009 5:18:47 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Patrick)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
A video for your sis to watch, if she's willing. Ask her to pay particular attention to the last few minutes since it deals with good intentions...

Immigration Gumballs

9 posted on 07/18/2009 5:24:32 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla

Thanks, Mew.

I’ll enjoy it for her; she doesn’t talk to me unless she absolutely has to. I’m the enemy and a baby killer (military) and the antithesis of all things good in this world. *Rolleyes*

Who, Moi? LOL! :)


10 posted on 07/18/2009 5:27:44 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Hey, I used to be a five-alarm, flaming lib.

Where there's life, there's hope :)

11 posted on 07/18/2009 5:33:38 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: rellimpank

What part of “illegal” do the clergy not understand?

Did they go to “public” seminaries... where nothing is taught?

Are there “religious education teaching” unions forcing this drivel upon innocent clerics?


12 posted on 07/18/2009 5:35:50 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Da Coyote

They’re thinking butts in the pews, I suspect. And money in the collection plates.


13 posted on 07/18/2009 5:38:38 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: rellimpank
Somewhat ironic for a company whose ad campaign is "run for the border"

CC

14 posted on 07/18/2009 5:42:37 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Calling illegal aliens "undocumented workers" is like calling drug dealers "unlicensed pharmacists")
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To: F15Eagle
"It troubles us on a moral level if hard-working people are being treated with such a lack of respect and dignity,"

If he is referring to the American citizens who have been treated with a lack of respect and dignity by getting screwed out of these jobs by illegal aliens who broke our laws to get here, and by the politicians who look the other way and wink as illegals flood across the border to scam the governnment and the employer by lying about who they are, to steal jobs from legal citizens and to steal taxpayer funded services from all of us then I agree with him.

15 posted on 07/18/2009 5:46:14 AM PDT by Iron Munro (If you cannot be a good example you can serve as horrible warning - like Obama.)
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To: seoul62

Hope springs eternal, lady!

When I first met my sweetie from Chicago, he was a hardcore flaming lib. NEA member! Obama supporter! Whole family of elitist libs: Harvard, Oxford, Stamford! University of Chicago!

I straightened him out. Took me 3+ years, but I did it. LOL It’s not easy, but it can be done.

Here’s what I did:

Don’t personalize his liberalism. None of this “you guys” or the “idiot lefties” or any of that stuff. I spent the first year and half starting sentences with “While I realize they meant well at the time....” then leveling my criticism. Libs are like children; they want acknowledgment that their hearts are in the right place. (which ironically why they initally such good partners!)

Bolster your case with email that includes mainstream sources that even they trust. Avoid the right wing blogs, but use their sources. Just yesterday, I sent my sweetie the NPR piece about the disaster in Venezuela regarding the redistribution of farmland.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106620230

Two reasons for this. First off, they trust it and secondly, it’s a source they can forward to their fellow leftwing nutjobs. And you’ll battle them, trust me.

Be gentle and nice, but resolute. You’ll get there.

My sweetie attended the Tea Party on July 4th in Chicago. And he LOVES Hannity and Levin. :)


16 posted on 07/18/2009 5:57:47 AM PDT by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: seoul62

And one more thing, before I fall asleep, before I forget.

Don’t get mad. Be a happy warrior for conservatism. One thing I’ve learned about this bunch is this:

They can’t know, what they don’t know.

In other words, many of your patiently explained conservative notions will be heard to his ears for the very first time. This is why you have to be ready with calm facts. The schools HAVE turned out nothing but liberal-speak; so what you say will be strange to him.

My sweetie never knew, until I demonstrated it to him, that Republicans were formed as an anti-slavery party. THE party to fight for civil rights.... for 140 years running. He has a masters degree and never knew such a thing. You think they taught him that at the U of Chicago? LOL

Just tonight, I had to inform him of Walter Cronkite’s sad record of participating in our loss in Vietnam. He never heard that either. I was ready, with facts and information.

Go ahead, ask me where he was tonight. Ok, give up? I’ll tell ya. He was at a banquet where his younger sister was getting an award from her employer:

http://www.publicallies.org/site/c.liKUL3PNLvF/b.5106423/k.BD7E/Home.htm

(get a load of this crowd. This is Michelle Obama’s community organizing outfit!)

THIS is what I’m up against! LOL ;)


17 posted on 07/18/2009 6:13:02 AM PDT by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: mewzilla

wOW, THAT was a good video. How old was it? The people appeared to be dressed like in the early 90’s, so I wondered if it was older footage. If so, i wonder if we are growing like the chart or if it has actually gotten worse.


18 posted on 07/18/2009 6:41:22 AM PDT by EmilyGeiger
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To: Daisyjane69

He shows no interests in any of my political things, be it books, shows or book signings. He says: Oh, enough of your FOX NEWS-Conservative Politics. He is a good man, just misguided./Just Asking - seoul62......


19 posted on 07/18/2009 6:43:40 AM PDT by seoul62
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To: Daisyjane69
Loved your post about gently converting liberals. I'm doing the same thing with my walking buddy. She's a retired teacher, and her husband was a big shot in the NEA (of all things).

We walk to the beach, and cover every subject imaginable. I use the same tactics that you use: "Well, the Community Reinvestment Act was passed with good intentions,but...".

I also get away with criticizing Obama by praising Hillary, and saying that Hillary had the nomination stolen from her. LOL.

Even though she's a Democrat, she's actually quite conservative. It's just that they are so programmed (like robots) to support the Dems. Frustrating.

20 posted on 07/18/2009 6:48:03 AM PDT by Inspectorette
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