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PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 7:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Another example, poised to move north and east across the country (I've not vetted this; I have a life):

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Subject: California "English" Teacher Explains Things

Nine hundred teachers just got laid off from the Los Angeles Unified School District. They are $650,000 over their annual budget. The following comments by an English teacher help to explain one area that looms large over California's educational crisis. I hope each person receiving this mail will read it carefully, all the way to the end.

It is sad what is happening to our great country, all because our politicians are afraid they will miss out on a vote. What a travesty!

This English teacher has phrased it the best I've seen yet and it should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent.

From a California school teacher....
As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of: I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title-1 school, meaning that its students average in the lower socio-economic and income levels.

Most of the schools you are hearing about are Compton, South Gate High, Bell Gardens, Huntington Park, etc., where their students are protesting – these are also Title-1 schools.
Title-1 schools are on the free-breakfast and free-lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I'm not talking about a glass of milk and a roll. But a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make the Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten. (Our tax dollars at work!)

I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids (More of our tax dollars at work!)

I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department, or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything. My budget was already substantial, but I ended up buying new computers for the Computer Learning Center, half of which, one month later, were carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America. (More and more of our tax dollars at work!)

I have had to intervene several times for young substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less than 3 months, who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them putas (whores) and throwing things,
that the teachers were in tears.

Free medical care, free education, free food, free day care, etc., etc., etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled not only to be in this country, but also to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?
To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society, because they happen to like their gardener and/or housekeeper, and they like to pay less for tomatoes, I say: Spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the true costs.
Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases, etc., etc., etc. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.

Americans, we need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won't have the guts to enforce it. Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?
It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by age 15, and that refuses to assimilate, plus an American culture that has become
so weak and worried about "political correctness", that we don't have the will to do what is needed.
If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone you know including your Congressman and Senators.

Cheap labor? Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about? Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage.
Consumers don't want expensive produce. Government will tell you "Americans don't want the jobs".
But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase "cheap labor" is a myth, a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as "cheap labor".

Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or $6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an income tax return, he gets an "earned income credit"
of up to $3,200 free.

Also....
1- He qualifies for Section-8 housing and subsidized rent;

2- He qualifies for food stamps;

3- He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care;

4- His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school;

5- He requires bilingual teachers and books;

6- He qualifies for relief from high energy bills;

7- If they are, or become aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI;

8- Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare (All of this at taxpayer's {our} expense);

9- He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowner’s insurance;

10- Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material;

11- He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits;

12- Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills and his;

13- The American taxpayers also pays for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.

14- Free Child Care (i.e., free babysitting from 6 AM – 6 PM

15- Free ‘mommy makeovers’ after having their children ( includes: tummy tuck and breast lift)

Cheap labor? Yeah right! Wake up people! These are the questions we should be addressing to the Presidential candidates for either party. We must take action or we will all go down the drain because a few don't care.
This will be passed on only by those Americans who truly care!
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2019 11:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

isobars wrote:
Another example, poised to move north and east across the country (I've not vetted this; I have a life):

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Subject: California "English" Teacher Explains Things

Cheap labor? Yeah right! Wake up people! These are the questions we should be addressing to the Presidential candidates for either party. We must take action or we will all go down the drain because a few don't care.
This will be passed on only by those Americans who truly care!


thank you for no link to a russian hate propaganda story for all we know with your link.

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 4:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

and here are what the right-wing senators are going to cover...

more years of email investigations. and trump is crying about the ones on him and all have been controlled by ultra partisan life long republicans. claiming these investigations are taking to long, yet we have not even stopped the hIllary ones over emails.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/graham-turns-focus-clinton-email-probe-draws-democratic-mockery?cid=eml_mra_20190122

Graham turns focus to Clinton email probe, draws Democratic mockery
01/22/19 08:40 AM—UPDATED 01/22/19 09:15 AM
By Steve Benen
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Given the severity of the scandals surrounding Donald Trump’s presidency, there’s plenty of important oversight for the Senate Judiciary Committee to go over the next couple of years. The panel, however, now has a new chairman – White House ally Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) – who has some of his own ideas about the committee’s agenda.

The South Carolina Republican, who’ll seek re-election next year, has begun sketching out an agenda for the committee, and as The Hill reported yesterday, it includes examination of “the FBI’s handling of its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant applications targeting former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.”

For the record, I double-checked the date on the piece. It was published yesterday, not months ago. It really is 2019, and the new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee really is interested in an official examination – which is to say, another official examination – of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails and Republican conspiracy theories about Carter Page.

Democratic senators on the panel responded in an interesting way: with mockery.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), asked about Graham’s plans, started laughing and compared them to the “thrilling days of yesteryear.”

“This is going to be like the History Channel it turns out. Instead of taking a look at the current issues, Lindsey Graham wants to go back and answer important questions about the Bermuda Triangle and Hillary Clinton,” Durbin told The Hill.

Durbin said he was “concerned” about Graham’s plans but quipped that “you know there is that question about Jimmy Carter which he probably wants to ask.”

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), another member of the panel, said maybe Graham should “investigate Benghazi some more too” – an apparent reference to a years-long House probe that Democrats considered a political stunt.


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PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 5:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

AOC wants capitalism -- specifically any system that allows anyone to become a billionaire -- abolished. Source: her lips, on camera. She -- like most people her age and danged near anyone in danged near any university these days -- doesn't even comprehend how many jobs Gates generated, how much productivity he created, or how many people WANT to give their money to rock stars, jocks, computer and auto dealers, realtors, etc.

She also said, on Monday, that she and other young Americans fear "the world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change." Who's fault is that level of idiocy but the leftard media, academia, Tom from my gym, and ... lest we forget ... Al Gore just a mere decade ago with his “NYC will be under water by 2015 if we don’t address global warming!?

To think she's a UNITED STATES SENATOR! Says a lot about New York State voters (and the jeen-yuses in this forum).
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't promote AOC yet, she's just a congresswoman, which is bad enough.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

C'mon boys, you can think of a suitable misogynist term.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 9:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

nw30 wrote:
Don't promote AOC yet, she's just a congresswoman, which is bad enough.


Thanks for correcting. I even Googled it before my initial post to verify it, and the first hit referred to her as a senator. Just goes to show how reliable the internet is, and how easy is is to get fooled when one has a life outside of verifying every little thing (and when one pays ANY attention to such dangerous loons as Buzzfeed, Huff Post, Media Matters, NBC*, etc..

* Example: Chuck Todd's Meet The Press fiasco on NBC at
https://cei.org/content/cei-calls-nbc-and-chuck-todd-stop-denying-debate-over-climate-change, in which he and NBC refused to allow ANY rebuttal.

Regardless, some poll shows that 74% of Democrats and Dem supporters said they would consider voting for AOC if she were old enough to run for president. That's our schools and media at work, folks.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2019 9:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

isobars wrote:
nw30 wrote:
Don't promote AOC yet, she's just a congresswoman, which is bad enough.


Thanks for correcting. I even Googled it before my initial post to verify it, and the first hit referred to her as a senator. Just goes to show how reliable the internet is, and how easy is is to get fooled when one has a life outside of verifying every little thing (and when one pays ANY attention to such dangerous loons as Buzzfeed, Huff Post, Media Matters, NBC*, etc..

* Example: Chuck Todd's Meet The Press fiasco on NBC at
https://cei.org/content/cei-calls-nbc-and-chuck-todd-stop-denying-debate-over-climate-change, in which he and NBC refused to allow ANY rebuttal.

Regardless, some poll shows that 74% of Democrats and Dem supporters said they would consider voting for AOC if she were old enough to run for president. That's our schools and media at work, folks.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 31, 2019 11:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

also a day off work a national holiday

https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/mika-mcconnell-s-power-grab-remark-fell-flat-1435164227853

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 14, 2019 5:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/house-judiciary-passes-first-major-gun-violence-bill-in-decades-1442367555506?cid=eml_mra_20190214

House Judiciary passes first major gun violence bill in decades
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Rachel Maddow reports on a bipartisan background check bill passing the Democratically controlled House Judiciary Committee, the first such gun violence prevention legislation to pass the committee since the 90s.

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