1
Jul

What Is The True Cost Of Illegal Aliens?

   Posted by: JamieGator   in #TCOT, #clcs, #fltcot, GGYR

Here is an example of why hiring illegal aliens is not economically productive for the State of California ….or any other State

You have 2 families…”Joe Legal” and “Jose Illegal”. Both families have 2 parents, 2 children and live in California.

“Joe Legal” works in construction, has a Social Security Number, and makes $25.00 per hour with payroll taxes deducted….”

Jose Illegal” also works in construction, has “NO” Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash “under the table”.

Joe Legal…$25.00 per hour x 40 hours $1000.00 per week, $52,000 per year Now take 30% away for state federal tax Joe Legal now has $31,231.00

Jose Illegal…$15.00 per hour x 40 hours $600.00 per week, $31,200.00 per year Jose Illegal pays no taxes… Jose Illegal now has $31,200.00

Joe Legal pays Medical and Dental Insurance with limited coverage

$1000.00 per month $12,000.00 per year Joe Legal now has $19,231.00

Jose Illegal has full Medical and Dental coverage through the state and local clinics at a cost of $0.00 per year Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00

Joe Legal makes too much money is not eligible for Food Stamps or welfare Joe Legal pays for food $1,000.00 per month $12,000.00 per year Joe Legal now has $ 7,231.00

Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for Food Stamps and Welfare Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00

Joe Legal pays rent of$1,000.00 per month $12,000.00 per year

Joe Legal is now in the hole minus (-) $4,769.00

Jose Illegal receives a $500 per month Federal rent subsidy Jose Illegal pays rent $500.00 per month $6,000.00 per year Jose Illegal still has $25,200.00

Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.

Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.

Joe Legal’s and Jose Illegal’s children both attend the same school.

Joe Legal pays for his children’s lunches while Jose Illegal’s children get a government sponsored lunch.

Jose Illegal’s children have an after school ESL program. Joe Legal’s children go home.

Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same Police and Fire Services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.

What do you think?
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10
Jun

The Obama Stimulus: Predictions vs. Reality

   Posted by: JamieGator   in #TCOT, #clcs, #fltcot, porkulus

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10
Jun

Audit the Federal Reserve!

   Posted by: JamieGator   in #TCOT, #clcs, #fltcot

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9
Jun

Rasmussen Reports™: The Most Comprehensive Public Opinion Data Anywhere

   Posted by: JamieGator   in #TCOT, #clcs, Democrats, Republicans

Rasmussen Reports™: The Most Comprehensive Public Opinion Data Anywhere.

Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on six out of 10 key issues, including the top issue of the economy.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 45% now trust the GOP more to handle economic issues, while 39% trust Democrats more.

This is the first time in over two years of polling that the GOP has held the advantage on this issue…..

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29
May

Ronald Reagan 2012 Address to the American People

   Posted by: JamieGator   in #TCOT, #clcs, #fltcot, Conservative, GGYR

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15
May

Do the ends justify the means?

   Posted by: JamieGator   in #TCOT, #clcs, #fltcot, GGYR, RPOF

It appears that the RPOF’s (Republican Party of Florida) leadership is trying squash dissent to their proclamation that Charlie Crist is our next candidate for Florida Senator.  I had the privilege recently to hear the RPOF Chairman Jim Greer speak this past weekend at the Florida Federation of Young Republicans Convention in Gainesville, Florida.  He was very inspiring and I felt privileged to hear him speak.  The one comment that created the most buzz among Young Republicans was that, I am paraphrasing, the RPOF will clear the board to have only one candidate represent the Republican Party in the Florida Governor’s race.  I understand the pramatism of this action.  If Republicans have a very contentious political season and rip each other then the thought is that we are doing the Democrat’s job for them.

It appears to me and many others that the RPOF is taking this approach with the Senate seat being vacated by Mel Martinez.  I have talked with many Republicans and they feel that this is just plain ‘dirty pool’ and unfair to Floridians.  It stinks of elitist powerful politicians hand picking our next leaders.

The question the RPOF leadership needs to ask itself is ‘do the ends justify the means?’.  Does having your top candidates go through the fire, so to speak, create better leaders or does it undermine their momentum to do battle with their ideologically opposite opponents?

I won’t pretend to know the answers to these questions.  I will say that after the last election cycle that we can’t sit by and let leaders of our party dictate what our options are.   National Committeewoman Sharon Day has been quoted as having said “We have a process and it allows the voters to choose the candidate – and that’s called a primary.”

I for one believe that the Republican Party is strong enough to handle strong debate within our party.  Many people are running scared including our leaders.

It is possible that the ends do justify the means but that is a very rare event and only history can tell us the answer to this question.


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10
May

Twitterations Digest for 2009-05-10

   Posted by: JamieGator   in Twitter

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6
May

The Next Step

   Posted by: JamieGator   in #TCOT, #clcs, #fltcot, #teaparty

So you went to a TeaParty and it felt good to become an activist for the first time in your life.  What is the next step?

The absolute wrong next step is for the TeaParty to be your last step.  To do nothing at this point will feel worse than if you had never participated in activism at all.  If you are like me, then you are starting to get used to expressing your views much more readily than before attendance at a TeaParty.

Much like our liberal friends have been doing for years, we need to become organized to better respond to specific issues and causes.  Having our common ideals is a great foundation but without specific action to produce a change then there will absolutely be no change.

Activism Defined:

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Activism, in a general sense, can be described as intentional action to bring about social change, political change, economic justice, or environmental wellbeing. This action is in support of, or opposition to, one side of an often controversial argument.

The word “activism” is often used synonymously with protest or dissent, but activism can stem from any number of political orientations and take a wide range of forms, from writing letters to newspapers or politicians, political campaigning, economic activism (such as boycotts or preferentially patronizing preferred businesses), rallies, blogging and street marches, strikes, both work stoppages and hunger strikes, or even guerrilla tactics.

In some cases, activism has nothing to do with protest or confrontation: for instance, some religious, feminist or vegetarian/vegan activists try to persuade people to change their behavior directly, rather than persuade governments to change laws. The cooperative movement seeks to build new institutions which conform to cooperative principles, and generally does not lobby or protest politically.

Below I have listed some of the actions that I have chosen to produce a change.  My focus is on leveraging technology because it reaches so many with so little expense.  This list is from my own experience as a newly reformed ’sideline conservative’. (A ’sideline conservative’ is a true conservative believer but can’t be bothered to participate in politics other than as a casual observer.)   The obvious reason for my status as a reformed ’sideline conservative’ is the unrelenting attack on our country’s founding principles.  Don’t get me started!

1.       Find like-minded people (Groups on Facebook, Twitter groups like TCOT)

2.      Start a blog.  (Believe it or not, other people want to know what you think and care about)

3.      Join a like-minded grassroots organization.  (Grassroots means that control is shared on a local level and is not dictated by an elite few to railroad some agenda that may or may not be relevant to you.)

4.      Get the like-minded people you meet organized and join your local Republican organizations.  Drive out the ineffectual leaders and take back the Republican party.  (I read and hear rumblings about starting a viable 3rd party.  There has never been a modern successful 3rd party.  3rd parties in general take away votes from the original party that they most identified with.  This leads to a greater victory for those you oppose.  I will not participate in a 3rd party.)

5.      Hang out with the new people you meet. (This includes online)

6.      Plan more events.

7.      Participate in charities in the name of your organization.  (This lets people know that you also care about your community. You’re not here just to complain.  You’re here to help change things for the better.)

8.      Listen to conservative talk radio.

There are many more activist ideas out there.  Search for them and implement what you can.  Don’t feel you have to do everything.  Every little bit helps. I encourage you to make a difference and not be a ’sideline conservative’.

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3
May

Twitterations Digest for 2009-05-03

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30
Apr

Obama disowns deficit he helped shape

   Posted by: JamieGator   in #TCOT, #clcs, #fltcot, Bailout, barack

Finally an unbiased article.  I almost didn’t recognize the lack of bias.  It has been a long time.

FACT CHECK: Obama disowns deficit he helped shape.

FACT CHECK: Obama disowns deficit he helped shape

By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer Calvin Woodward, Associated Press Writer Thu Apr 30, 12:21 am ET

WASHINGTON – “That wasn’t me,” President Barack Obama said on his 100th day in office, disclaiming responsibility for the huge budget deficit waiting for him on Day One.

It actually was partly him — and the other Democrats controlling Congress the previous two years — who shaped the latest in a string of precipitously out-of-balance budgets.

And as a presidential candidate and president-elect, he backed the twilight Bush-era stimulus plan that made the deficit deeper, all before he took over and promoted spending plans that have made it much deeper still.

Obama met citizens at an Arnold, Mo., high school Wednesday in advance of his prime-time news conference. Both forums were a platform to review his progress at the 100-day mark and look ahead.

At various times, he brought an air of certainty to ambitions that are far from cast in stone.

His assertion that his proposed budget “will cut the deficit in half by the end of my first term” is an eyeball-roller among many economists, given the uncharted terrain of trillion-dollar deficits and economic calamity that the government is negotiating.

He promised vast savings from increased spending on preventive health care in the face of doubts that such an effort, however laudable it might be for public welfare, can pay for itself, let alone yield huge savings.

A look at some of his claims Wednesday:

OBAMA: “We began by passing a Recovery Act that has already saved or created over 150,000 jobs.” — from news conference.

THE FACTS: This assertion is flawed on several levels. For starters, the U.S. has lost more than 1.2 million jobs since Obama took office, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Even if Obama’s stimulus bill saved or created as many jobs as he says, that number is dwarfed by the number of recent job losses.

But Obama’s number is murky, at best. The White House has not yet announced how it intends to count jobs created by the stimulus bill. Obama’s number is based on a job-counting formula that his economists have developed but have not made public. Until that formula is announced — probably in the coming week or so — there’s no way to assess its accuracy.

Whatever the formula, economists who study job creation say it will require some creative math. That’s because Obama has lumped “jobs saved” in with “jobs created.” Even economists for organizations that stand to benefit from the stimulus concede it probably is impossible to estimate saved jobs because that would require calculating a hypothetical: how many people would have lost their jobs without the stimulus.

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OBAMA: “We must lay a new foundation for growth, a foundation that will strengthen our economy and help us compete in the 21st century. And that’s exactly what this budget begins to do. It contains new investments in education that will equip our workers with the right skills and training; new investments in renewable energy that will create millions of jobs and new industries; new investments in health care that will cut costs for families and businesses; and new savings that will bring down our deficit.” — news conference.

THE FACTS: While the budget does set a roadmap for achieving the president’s goals, it says nothing about how to pay for his health plan, expected to cost more than $1 trillion over the next 10 years. And while the deficit, under the plan, would drop to $523 billion in 2014, it achieves it with unrealistic assumptions, such as projections that spending in Iraq and Afghanistan will amount to only $50 billion a year.

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OBAMA: “Number one, we inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit. … That wasn’t me. Number two, there is almost uniform consensus among economists that in the middle of the biggest crisis, financial crisis, since the Great Depression, we had to take extraordinary steps. So you’ve got a lot of Republican economists who agree that we had to do a stimulus package and we had to do something about the banks. Those are one-time charges, and they’re big, and they’ll make our deficits go up over the next two years.” — in Missouri.

THE FACTS:

Congress, under Democratic control in 2007 and 2008, controlled the purse strings that led to the deficit Obama inherited. A Republican president, George W. Bush, had a role, too: He signed the legislation.

Obama supported the emergency bailout package in Bush’s final months — a package Democratic leaders wanted to make bigger.

To be sure, Obama opposed the Iraq war, a drain on federal coffers for six years before he became president. But with one major exception, he voted in support of Iraq war spending.

The economy has worsened under Obama, though from forces surely in play before he became president, and he can credibly claim to have inherited a grim situation.

Still, his response to the crisis goes well beyond “one-time charges.”

He’s persuaded Congress to expand children’s health insurance, education spending, health information technology and more. He’s moving ahead on a variety of big-ticket items on health care, the environment, energy and transportation that, if achieved, will be more enduring than bank bailouts and aid for homeowners.

The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated his policy proposals would add a net $428 billion to the deficit over four years, even accounting for his spending reduction goals. Now, the deficit is nearly quadrupling to $1.75 trillion.

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OBAMA: “I think one basic principle that we know is that the more we do on the (disease) prevention side, the more we can obtain serious savings down the road. … If we’re making those investments, we will save huge amounts of money in the long term.” — in Missouri.

THE FACTS: It sounds believable that preventing illness should be cheaper than treating it, and indeed that’s the case with steps like preventing smoking and improving diets and exercise. But during the 2008 campaign, when Obama and other presidential candidates were touting a focus on preventive care, the New England Journal of Medicine cautioned that “sweeping statements about the cost-saving potential of prevention, however, are overreaching.” It said that “although some preventive measures do save money, the vast majority reviewed in the health economics literature do not.”

And a study released in December by the Congressional Budget Office found that increasing preventive care “could improve people’s health but would probably generate either modest reductions in the overall costs of health care or increases in such spending within a 10-year budgetary time frame.”

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OBAMA: “You could cut (Social Security) benefits. You could raise the tax on everybody so everybody’s payroll tax goes up a little bit. Or you can do what I think is probably the best solution, which is you can raise the cap on the payroll tax.” — in Missouri.

THE FACTS: Obama’s proposal would reduce the Social Security trust fund’s deficit by less than half, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

That means he would still have to cut benefits, raise the payroll tax rate, raise the retirement age or some combination to deal with the program’s long-term imbalance.

Workers currently pay 6.2 percent and their employers pay an equal rate — for a total of 12.4 percent — on annual wages of up to $106,800, after which no more payroll tax is collected.

Obama wants workers making more than $250,000 to pay payroll tax on their income over that amount. That would still protect workers making under $250,000 from an additional burden. But it would raise much less money than removing the cap completely.

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OBAMA: “My hope is that working in a bipartisan fashion we are going to be able to get a health care reform bill on my desk before the end of the year that we’ll start seeing in the kinds of investments that will make everybody healthier.”

THE FACTS: Obama has indeed expressed hope for a health care plan that has support from Democrats and Republicans. But his Democratic allies in Congress have just made that harder. The budget plan written by the Democrats gives them the option of denying Republicans the normal right to block health care with a Senate filibuster. The filibuster tactic requires 60 votes to overcome, making it the GOP’s main weapon to ensure a bipartisan outcome. The rules set by the budget mean that majority Democrats could potentially pass health care legislation without any Republican votes, sacrificing bipartisanship to achieve their goals.

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Associated Press writers Matt Apuzzo, Kevin Freking and Jim Kuhnhenn contributed to this report.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.

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