posted by admin on Feb 1

Immigration – What’s Going On?

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
-Anais Nin

When I hear people talking about undocumented immigrants it makes me wonder why, if this is such a problem, is it allowed to happen here in the United States? Then I take a good hard look at the entities that have everything to gain by having them here.  The motivation for undocumented immigration may be found in the “moving force” known as the capitalist system – the quest for profits.

During the Health Care “debate,” it was loud and clear in the arguments that some people believe the costs of schools, hospitals and public service are rising because of this undocumented population.    ”Send them back,” some of the “debaters” said, but at the same time you had  the agriculture, construction, restaurants and manufacturing industries hiring this population and service industries selling to them without any regard to the law. This is called talking out of both sides of your mouth.   If you do not want undocumented workers here…then stop hiring them. If you do not want undocumented immigrants here…then stop selling to them. But this is not going to happen, because the removal of this population out of the economic equation for the US of A and Mexico for that matter…would cause a devastation that would require a long time and a lot more stimulus money to heal.
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posted by admin on Jan 11

He Didn’t Start the Fire…

When I close my eyes and think 2009, I see a panorama of events beginning with the inauguration of our first minority President of the United States of America…then…the transition…like the first rent house I lived in, newly inaugurated President Barack Obama moved into a house full of “stuff “left by the previous owners …and not good stuff.

Today it seems the public is having a hard time remembering pre-Obama…let me remind you – this man inherited this mess – our country has been spiraling out of control for the last 9 years and one more makes it a decade. Our public discourse seems to be taking on a likeness to a major football game…the Democrats versus the Republicans – each side trying to score points by any means possible. And now, only the middle of January and we are starting to have a memory lapse…maybe Obama did start the war…we did not have any terrorists acts under the previous administration…ok stop, when I heard that one you know I screamed…HELLO…remember September 11…2001!!! Come on let’s take a walk down the 2009 memory lane…

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