5/24/2006

More Welfare For The Wealthy!

On an almost party line vote, the House Republicans today voted to grant oil companies $500 million of your tax dollars for exploration of new oil.

Oil company executives in a Senate committee hearing late last month told Congressmen that, though they would gladly accept the money, they do not need such an incentive to explore for more oil sources. According to them the current price of oil, expected to remain high or higher for quite a while, is enough incentive. Even Bush in a press conference urged Congress not to offer the funds.

That's just another moment of evidence that, though Bush has been a problem to the prosperity of average Americans, it's the Republicans in Congress that are the real problems for anyone but the wealthy.

4/25/2006

Prove Your Non-Support!

Okay, so the illegals want to teach us how valuable they are to our economy by boycotting all businesses and schools on May 1.

Well, folks, we have the right to reciprocate. Do some research in your area on May 1. Determine all businesses and organizations that supported their boycott. Then boycott them in return for at least 1 month. We can prove to them what little importance they actually have to our economy.

Don't forget the politicians. Any that support the boycott, or support guest worker programs or amnesty for the illegals should be ousted from office for not putting the American workers' needs first and foremost.

3/30/2006

Who Gains From Illegal Aliens?

Who stands to gain by allowing illegals to enter and remain in the U.S.?  The most obvious are corporations.  By hiring low-waged illegals they force the acceptable wage rate lower, and their resulting profits higher.  The second group that profits by hiring illegals are large vegetable and fruit farms.  They’re too cheap to invest in crop picking machines, and they don’t have to if they can hire people at below poverty wages.

Lawmakers comprise the third group that favors amnesty for illegals.  This group includes two sub-groups.  The first is those who think more of their corporate sponsors than they do the American workers.  I think of people like Harry Reid and Rick Santorum when I think of this sub-group.  The other is those who stand to gain most from the influx of potential new voters in the 2006 or 2008 elections.  That could be a significant help to people like Hillary Clinton or John McCain.  In fact, I can think of no Congressman or bureaucrat that truly cares about the American worker that is in favor of amnesty for illegal aliens or any form of guest worker program.

Who loses?  The American worker who pays for the welfare, free health care, free education, free child and family services, and the costs of trials and incarceration of illegals when they commit crimes.

Illegals Aren't A Burden?

I’m sick of hearing that illegal aliens are not a burden to the American economy, and the illegals only take low-paying agriculture jobs Americans don’t want.  The facts don’t support either statement.

I decided to undertake a quick study using the most recent publicly available information from INS and the Bureau of Labor Statistics – 2004.  I included only legally naturalized citizens 18 years and older, and only those from Mexico, since that’s where the vast majority of illegals are now coming from.

Here are the results:
  • 1.65% serve in our military

  • 2.10% are in jail/prison (this includes all Hispanics and is from the Dept. of Justice)

  • 12.32% hold administrative and managerial positions

  • 22.95% work in construction, manufacturing, transportation, repair and service jobs

  • 60.24% are unemployed and subsist through various welfare and social programs

  • Only .83% work in any form of agriculture.  Only a small portion of these actually work in the low-paying, migrant type jobs.

Remember, those I’m reporting are only the newest U.S. citizens from Mexico.  Just imagine the costs to American taxpayers for eleven to fifteen million illegals that flooded across our border.

Nooooo.  Illegals won’t take American jobs.  Nooooo.  Illegals won’t be a burden to working class Americans.  We already have 3.7% of our citizens that can’t find work.  The unemployment rate is actually 5.7%, but there is always about 2% of our work force in transition between jobs.  So whose jobs AREN’T the illegals going to take?  Who AREN’T they going to be a burden to?

2/13/2006

Republicans Refuse Hearing

Republicans have refused to allow hearings requested by Democratics to
study mine safety issues. Probably because it would then be made public
that the Republicans were the villains that gutted mine safety standards
in 2002 to benefit the wealthy mine owners.

1/22/2006

Congress Murders Miners

Two miners recently died in a WVa coal mine fire. The fire was caused by an overheated coal conveyor unit.

Until 2002 such conveyor units were required to be fireproof. In 2002 the Republicans in Congress forced through legislation to eliminate environmental and safety regulations on businesses. The requirement for fireproof conveyors in mines was one of those eliminated regulations.

Always more concerned with the profits of big business than with the needs of people, the Republicans now have more innocent blood on their hands.

1/20/2006

I Ain't Dead Yet!

It's been so long since my last post that one commenter asked if I was dead. Nope. I'm still kicking. I had a couple family members that I almost lost, though.

Over the last 15 months my mother had a diabetic reaction, plus two other trips to hospitals for heart problems. My wife was diagnosed with cancer, and had to undergo surgery and many post-surgery treatments. I've had to take care of my mother's house and her affairs, as well as my own home and affairs that my wife took care of before. In addition I've kept my business running and a living history group growing. That left no time for blogging.

No, I'm far from a super human being. It's amazing how much you can both endure and accomplish when you have to - if you really care. I'm back with a much greater appreciation for life and how delicate it is.

I don't know how active I'll be for a little while yet, because I still have a few things to clean up (i.e., bills, paperwork, and a response regarding one doctor's actions and attitude). And then there's always the wonderfully billigerent buffoons at an insurance company and a state agency on my mother's behalf. But I am back. Look out politicos!