And How Local Communities are Fighting Back
By Tom Deweese Wednesday, March 12, 2008
In June, 2007 a solid eighty percent of the American people let Congress know they wanted the government to put the brakes on illegal immigration; they turned thumbs down on the President’s guest worker amnesty plan; and they wanted tax-paid services to illegals stopped.
Most Americans understand that new laws are not needed to stop illegal immigration. What is necessary is repeal of some laws granting taxpayer-financed services to illegals along with enforcement of existing laws. These two acts would be enough to stop the migration. In simple fact, they are called “illegal” because they are breaking the law.
In truth, the battle over the Senate’s guest worker-amnesty plan is really a battle over attempts to open the border as called for in programs such as North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP). Both plans call for open borders and economic integration of North America. Open borders are required to fully implement the plans.
The Bush Administration and those promoting illegal immigration were frankly stunned at the force and determination of U.S. citizens to reject the Senates immigration plan. Proponents played a very heavy hand in attempting to force the scheme on a resisting citizenry. Such powerful forces are not used to losing. Today they continue to seek new ways to work around the opposition and pass the legislation, as a whole or incrementally.
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My biggest problem with collidge… viewed by way too many as the only way to make the money to buy TVs and cars… Education should be lifelong and doesn’t always need a professor and a textbook to occur.
I feel you. The dumbest prof I’ve had was a retired Army Lt. Col. Holy shit that man was a shitty instructor.
They’re repeatedly bumping into windows or getting electricuted by those zappers? hose are weird symptoms…
Only in the United States.
So can kids.
Only if you get an arts degree.
You may be different, but the people I know with this problem either created and perpetuated it through their own poor judgment, or have learned better and are on the mend. But when you have people signing up for credit cards for a fee pizza, then charging and not paying it off every month, or else simply carrying on with school well past 4 years simply because they like it, racking up debt all the way, these problems are rooted in a lack of education about the long-term costs of debt and bad money management. Whether or not this directly applies to you, I can’t say.I have college debt, and I’m paying it off, but I have a hard time believing that credit cards can be better than a private loan in interest rate. Even with a good credit score, CCs charge 9% to 18% and beyond, while you can get loans at 5 and 6 percent.As for how they jacked up your payments, this is because people who miss payments are at high risk of failing to repay the loan, which is a big loss for the people who threw down to support you in the first place.As for the monthly bill being half your gross income, whether that is justifiable depends on the size of the loan and the size of your income. I, for example, voluntarily live simply on less than half my gross income, so I could handle such a burden.But when I say I have little sympathy, that doesn’t mean I’m not rooting for you to pay off your debts and get in better financial shape, I absolutely am, and have gone out of my way in the past to help people with budgeting and so on. I’d do the same for you. But I don’t buy that you’re a victim of someone else. You’re just learning, and that’s fine.I don’t know if all of this is behind you or whatever. Have you looked into consolidation loans (for lowering the cost of the CC debt while also getting out from under Sallie Mae)?
Quaint little consumer plantation, isn’t it?