California Fleeing

Huffington

OK. I'll give ya Aaahnold and Cruz Bustamante as people who "speak English as a second language." But Zsa Zsa Huffington can't really speak English. She makes Jackie Chan (is he running yet?) sound like the Ronco slicer/dicer salesman.

Bustamante has the welfare-leech element of the hispanic-immigrant vote sewed up. Aahnold probably has the edge on the working-immigrant vote (which includes a subset of the hispanic-immigrants).

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

fifty or sixty illegals...

he hasn't been able to work his fields for years, until we came and drove out the mullah who had stolen his land -- and asks you to thank George W. Bush and Hamid Karzai for him.

Tell Bush to get off his ass and try and protect our borders and sovereignty for a change. Tell um while Outer Mongolia is having problems, we here in America are being over run from millions entering our country illegally, literally choking off our system. Tell um it's a *national* disgrace, and now a national security disaster. Tell him to wake the hell up.

Thanks.

Businesses? They're fleeing, too. Facing onerous environmental rules in places like Los Angeles and San Francisco, they can't grow. In a recent small-business survey, more than half said they've stopped hiring and expanding, due to soaring workers' comp costs.

The Investors Business Daily had an article followed the next day by a commentary on the skyrocketing costs of just Worker's Compensation.

Mitchell Grief, owner of a plastic bag making company "Coast Converters", has 150 employees. In 2001, he paid $225,000 for Workers' Comp. In 2002, it rose to $330,000. This year it is $570,000. By staying in LA he will pay $700,000, over $4500 per employee just for worker's compensation. He has moved out of California, and 2/3rds of his employees followed him.

Just think about that. $4500 per employee just for worker's compensation. Then add $1500 in FICA and Medicare tax, then Unemployment Tax and other outright seizures and theft by government. The US worker already has $5/hr disadvantage over his illegal alien or overseas competitor. The US factory laborer needs to add at least $5/hr more value than the illegal alien before he or she is even considered to be of equal value in the eyes of the employer.

Our government is our enemy. These wicked and depraved souless beings in our capitol buildings are actively seeking ways to destroy us and destroy the US economy. Calfornia is just the most obnoxious and obvious about their utter contempt and hatred for America.

We are close approaching the point where we need to realize that the Arnold's Circus Act is just a sideshow to captivate the masses and we really need to utilize our 2nd Amendment Rights.

Anyway, the traffic [in Austin] is damned congested when not merely heavy almost any hour of the day. Folks are in such a hurry anymore, running red-lights

Don't forget the I-35 'NAFTA Freeway' hasn't been expanded to handle the massive increase in Mexico traffic

and picking up the problems of-- a Houston/Dallas/San Antonio.

I read an article in the Austin [Real-e]Statesman some time ago, (back when I subscribed to such a thin leftist pamphlet of a newspaper) and they reported that the everage commute times were fewer than 20 seconds than that of a Dallas resident.

The city "planners" in Austin don't believe in building E/W and N/S corridors, but rather closed off community next to closed off community, forcing everyone to get on a freeway, or drive in complicated zig-zag paths. Even their highways are deliberately designed so that one waits at every possible traffic light no matter what time of day or density of traffic.

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