Tuesday, December 25, 2007

A Christmas Prayer from William Landers

I prey oh lord.

Please bring the businessmen or women of America, back to your ways.

Please help them understand it is not how much money they can make.

But what they can provide to families in America.

Have them stop making America part from you lord, but help them bring them back to you.

Please have them stop thinking only of how much profit they can make, but rather how much good they can do for the people unselfishly.

I pray that you can help them make it so a family can live comfortable working 40hrs a week instead of 50 or more.

Allow them to give time off to employees so they can spend that time with their families.

I prey you can bring our troops back soon while leaving goodness in the hearts of the Iraq and Afghanistan children.

I prey that goodness leaves peace among us to last forever.

Well Merry Christmas and Salom to the world.


God Bless you all I pray this in Christ word Amen.


Bless you all from William Landers

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Saturday, December 22, 2007

THE TRUTH ABOUT MITT ROMNEY

Mitt Romney is strict with illegal immigrants, only if he or his fellow corporate ( million-billionaires ) are not using them. Mitt Romney did nothing to stop illegal immigration during his role as liberal leader of MASS.You might ask why I say liberal leader. Well during Mitt Romney’s leadership the state of Mass was the forefront for gay marriage. Never had in the history of Mass, did so many companies leave the state, close up their operations and move them over seas, work visa programs increased 60%, illegal immigration increased 70%, and unemployment increased 90%.
The unemployment was replaced with the following:
The results $15 to $25 hr jobs these Mass residents enjoyed for many years turned into $5.50 to $10 an hr. Walmart, McDonald’s, and other job types like that, with no benefits.
Connecticut had to bail Mitt Romney out by providing better paying jobs for Mass residents.
Mass residents had to use state funded health care that was being paid by the employers before. The hospitals had lines 10 hrs long to get a basic health care dealt with.
The tax payers had to pay for Mitt’s buddies who sold out the state of Mass. and reaped huge profits.
When the citizens finally got rid of Mitt Romney there is now a law requiring employers to pay for health care for all employees in Mass. The huge lines to get health care are now gone and the Mass. residences are now healthy and happier.
Mitt Romney knowingly had contributed to illegal immigration. He knew that the worker who had been there many times was caught before working illegally on his lawn. He said he talk to the company yet the company for years sent the same guy back who was caught.
I ask you this, if you are that naive and as governor you do not know who is on your lawn and interacting with your family. Then you would never know who is coming into the USA taking all the jobs in America. I should say you and your rich friends know but do not care as long as you can reap the rewards of slaving (working slaves) humans, while selling out your fellow Americans.
John McCain and Rudy Giuliani share similar views.
John McCain wants to give amnesty to illegal immigrants and increase work visa programs. Which will costs the remainder of good paying jobs while those same people lose their homes and China companies buy them up.
Rudy Giuliani and his rich elite want to keep free trade with China and increase goods made there, he thinks it is a good thing, (LOL).
Giuliani will end all manufacturing in the USA and cause this country to go into a depression so him and his rich buddies and buy themselves some young wives.
Ron Paul is just simply a hater of anything good.
Fred Thomson is one of the bush rich elite pack. Nice trophy wife Fred. How many deals with the devil did that take.
The only one of the group who has been honest and has his entire life served the poor and middle class, has been Mike Huckabee. Strange isn’t it they are freaking out he is beating them. I guess since Mike , is more like Teddy Roosevelt who brought America out of the great depression and raised the quality of life in America is a bad thing for that rich elite.
SUCHITEPEQUEZ, Guatemala — Outside his aqua-colored concrete house here, Rene Alvarez Rosales paused under an almond tree to answer questions about a subject with which he has surprising familiarity: Governor Mitt Romney’s Belmont lawn.
For about eight years, Rosales said, he worked on and off landscaping the grounds at Romney’s home, occasionally getting a “buenos dias” from Romney or a drink of water from his wife, Ann.
“She is very nice,” said Rosales, 49.
About 6 miles away in Copado, a 37-year-old man who recently returned to Guatemala from the United States told a similar story, describing long days tending Romney’s 2 1/2-acre grounds.
“They wanted that house to look really nice,” said the worker, who asked to remain anonymous. “It took a long time.”
As Governor Mitt Romney explores a presidential bid, he has grown outspoken in his criticism of illegal immigration. But, for a decade, the governor has used a landscaping company that relies heavily on workers like these, illegal Guatemalan immigrants, to maintain the grounds surrounding his pink Colonial house on Marsh Street in Belmont.
The Globe recently interviewed four current and former employees of Community Lawn Service with a Heart, the tiny Chelsea-based company that provides upkeep of Romney’s property. All but one said they were in the United States illegally.
The employees told the Globe that company owner Ricardo Saenz never asked them to provide documents showing their immigration status and knew they were illegal immigrants.
“He never asked for papers,” said Rosales, who said he had paid smugglers about $5,000 to take him across the US-Mexican border and settled in Chelsea.
The workers said they were paid in cash at $9 to $10 an hour and sometimes worked 11-hour days.
Romney never inquired about their status, they said.
In addition to maintaining the governor’s property, they also tended to the lawn at the house owned by Romney’s son, Taggart, less than a mile away on the same winding street.
Asked by a reporter yesterday about his use of Community Lawn Service with a Heart, Romney, who was hosting the Republican Governors Association conference in Miami, said, “Aw, geez,” and walked away.
Several hours later, his spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, provided the Globe with a statement saying that the governor knows nothing about the immigration status of the landscaping workers, and that his dealings were with Saenz, who is a legal immigrant from Colombia.
Fehrnstrom said that Romney would look into the matter further.
“We’ll see what happens from here on out,” Fehrnstrom said. “If the Globe has information on people that are in the country illegally, obviously that would have to be verified. . . . We’ve already taken the first step in that direction by calling Mr. Saenz.”
Page 2 of 3 –The situation underscores the extent to which illegal immigrants permeate the US economy. Even as Romney travels the country, vowing to curb the flood of low-skilled illegal immigrants into the United States, some of those workers maintain his own yard, cutting grass, pruning shrubs, and mulching trees.
Saenz said he met Romney through the Mormon Church and said Romney has used his company’s services for a decade. Saenz said Romney never asked him if his workers are legal immigrants.
“He doesn’t have to ask,” Saenz said. “I’m a company.”
Saenz asserted that all the workers he used were in the United States legally. Told by reporters that his employees said they were in this country illegally, Saenz responded: “What you’ve heard is not my problem.”
Saenz said he had never requested any proof from his employees to show they are here legally.
“I don’t need to tell them to show me documents,” he said. “I know who they are, and they are legal.”
Federal law calls for employers to examine the documents, such as green cards or Social Security cards, that establish an employee’s identity and eligibility to work in the United States.
The Globe received a tip in July alleging that Romney was using illegal immigrants to landscape his property. Reporters then observed the lawn service workers outside Romney’s house more than a dozen times, sometimes as frequently as twice a week.
Reporters tracked down four current and former employees of the company at their homes in Chelsea and in Guatemala. All had landscaped Romney’s property while working for Community Lawn Service with a Heart, and their tenure ranged from one worker who had joined the company just a month ago to another who had worked there 10 years.
The workers said they found the jobs at the landscaping company through other Guatemalan immigrants after arriving in Chelsea.
Of the four interviewed, only one said he was in the United States legally, showing a reporter his Social Security card and a Massachusetts driver’s license, which the reporter checked against public databases to verify its authenticity. The other workers acknowledged they had no genuine documents, though some said they purchased fake documents, and described harrowing trips to the United States, eluding authorities and paying thousands for their passage. The interviews were conducted in Spanish.
The undocumented workers appear to be a significant presence at the tiny company. Reporters who observed the company in recent months never saw more than three people working at any time. Typically two men were working on any given day.
Community Lawn Service also provides landscaping for a Massachusetts Port Authority property in Revere and public school grounds in Chelsea. The Globe reported in June that companies using undocumented workers had received state contracts, triggering intense debate on Beacon Hill. Romney and GOP lawmakers have supported an effort to prohibit the practice.
The workers who had landscaped Romney’s property seemed unaware of the governor’s support for stricter controls on illegal immigration. Several described casual encounters with Romney over the years and said he had never expressed any curiosity about their status.
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Rosales recalled Romney sometimes waving as they tended to the grounds, which include a tennis court and swimming pool. Romney occasionally called out, “buenos dias,” drawing good-natured laughter from the workers. Ann Romney was friendly, Rosales said, and he said she brought them water on one particularly hot day.
Romney has been critical of illegal immigration as he touts himself to Republican primary voters as a conservative alternative to Senator John McCain, who has teamed up with Senator Edward M. Kennedy to push for a middle ground approach on the issue.
Romney supports construction of a new 700-mile fence along the country’s border with Mexico and stationing National Guard troops at the border until it is finished.
He also said that employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants should be penalized. After the Globe’s story in June about contractors on public projects using illegal immigrants, the governor announced he would seek an agreement with federal immigration authorities to allow Massachusetts State Police to arrest illegal immigrants for being in this country illegally.
In September, on Fox TV’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” Romney said the border must be secured and restated his support for the fence along the Mexican border, prompting host Bill O’Reilly to dub it “the Mitt Romney Memorial wall.”
The experience of the workers on Romney’s property seems far removed from the political rhetoric.
The worker in Copado said a state trooper stationed in Romney’s driveway once inquired about his immigration status, about six months ago. Saenz, the company owner, who was at the property at the time, told the trooper that the worker was in the country legally, but had forgotten his papers, the worker told the Globe. The trooper never inquired again, said the worker, who repeatedly returned to the governor’s property but avoided the trooper. Saenz told reporters he did not recall the incident.
Both the Copado resident and Rosales said they took the landscaping jobs to earn money for their families back home. After making it to the US-Mexican border, they crossed the Arizona desert on foot. When they finally arrived in Chelsea, where friends and family lived, they did odd jobs and eventually found work at Community Lawn Service with a Heart.
They said they were grateful for the work. About 80 percent of Guatemalans live in poverty, according to the US State Department. The workers said they made far more at Community Lawn Service than they could in their Central American homeland.
“It was a good job,” said the worker in Copado, not far from a stream where local women wash their clothes. “I didn’t make a lot, but I earned $16,000 working for that company.” He said he returned to Guatemala after four years because he missed his wife and daughter and has used his earnings to buy a pickup truck and land on which to build a small house.
Another of the undocumented workers, who has been living in Chelsea for two years and joined the landscaping firm a month ago, is finding life here hard.
“The truth is, it’s very difficult,” the 46-year-old worker said. “One lives day to day.”
The one legal Guatemalan immigrant interviewed by the Globe, who has done work at the Romney property numerous times, has been a constant presence at the landscaping company. But he said Saenz regularly hired illegal workers to work alongside him. He said exchanges with the governor on the property are rare.
“The one who talks to us is the wife,” said the legal immigrant. “She asks how we are.”
The issue of illegal immigrant laborers has been tricky and sometimes damaging to political figures. President Clinton’s first two nominees for attorney general, Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood, saw their chances dim after it was reported that they had employed illegal immigrants as nannies.
In 1994, Republican Michael Huffington lost his bid for the US Senate after acknowledging he had employed an illegal immigrant as a nanny for five years.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

William Bradford created capitalism

Pilgrims Lay Base for U.S. CapitalismDecember 19th, 2007
As all school children know, we celebrate Thanksgiving to honor the pioneers who colonized America. In particular, we honor the Pilgrims, who came over on the Mayflower seeking religious freedom and settled in Plymouth in 1620. Their first Thanksgiving feast in 1621 commemorated their first successful harvest in the New World. Wild turkey was a prominent feature of the menu that day. In 1789, George Washington made Thanksgiving a national holiday that has continued down to the present day. Less well known is the lesson about the importance of economic freedom that the Pilgrims learned in those early days.
In the beginning, the economic organization of the Plymouth Colony was based on communism, of the sort that had been advocated by Plato in ancient Greece. Land, food and clothing were shared equally, with the result that no one profited from hard work nor suffered from laziness. By 1623, the resulting low level of food production created a crisis.
According to William Bradford, governor of the colony, many colonists survived only by selling their clothes, bed covers and anything else they had to the Indians in return for food. Others simply starved.
“So they began to think about how they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop than they had done, that they might not still thus languish in misery,” Bradford wrote. This led the Pilgrims to reconsider their economic organization. After much debate, they decided that people should be responsible for themselves. The land, which previously had been farmed in common, was divided up among all the families, in proportion to their size. Henceforth, each colonist would farm his own land, reaping the rewards for himself.
According to Gov. Bradford, this new policy “had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.” The women, who previously had not farmed, “now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn; which before would allege weakness and inability; whom to have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression.”
The overwhelming triumph of the new private property regime ended the experiment in communism. In Bradford’s words, the experience showed the “vanity” and “conceit” of Plato’s view “that the taking away of property and bringing in community into a commonwealth would make them happy and flourishing.”
In reality, communism “was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort.” And it was an injustice that “the strong, or man of parts, had no more division of victuals and clothes than he that was weak and not able to do a quarter the other could.”
Subsequently, what became the Massachusetts colony prospered, although never as a pure free market. Prices and wages were often fixed down to the time of the Revolution. Flour mills and such were often state owned. Yet at the same time, unlike some other religious sects, the Puritans did not condemn profit or the pursuit of wealth. Saving and hard work were considered virtues.
Thus in many ways they were instrumental for establishing the moral and ethical basis of capitalism in America.
So we owe a great debt to the Pilgrims. Their trials and errors in those early years of the 17th century were essential to laying the foundation of the American economic system as one based on private property and capitalism. And these have been the fundamental bases for wealth and prosperity ever since. For this, we should all be grateful.

Saturday, December 8, 2007

Energy Independence

The first thing I will do as President is send Congress my comprehensive plan for energy independence. We will achieve energy independence by the end of my second term.
Achieving energy independence is vital to achieving success both in the war on terror and in globalization. Energy independence will help guarantee both our safety and our prosperity.
We have to explore, we have to conserve, and we have to pursue all avenues of alternative energy: nuclear, wind, solar, hydrogen, clean coal, biodiesel, and biomass.
Energy independence has been on our "to do" list for over thirty years, my whole adult life. In 1973, in response to OPEC's oil embargo against us, President Nixon established Project Independence, which promised independence in 1980. We could have been energy independent a generation ago! The truth is, we are so pathetically behind the curve right now that federal spending for energy research and development is only 40% of what it was in 1979. Our efforts are haphazard and often pointless: today we have six million flex-fuel vehicles built to run on biodiesel or on E85, which is 85% ethanol, but only 2,000 pumps for those fuels in a country with 170,000 gas stations.
When energy shocks and crises come, we take aspirin to deal with the pain, but we don't address the underlying symptoms. This oil addiction is killing us. We have to stop popping pain pills and get ourselves cured. For all these years, we've never lacked the means, just the will. We've never harnessed the real energy source that independence requires - the energy of the American people.
The first thing I will do as President is send Congress my comprehensive plan for energy independence. I'll use the bully pulpit to inform you about the plan and ask for your support. I'll use the bully conference table to meet with members of Congress until I have the votes. The plan will get underway during my first term, and we will achieve energy independence by the end of my second term. The Huckabee Administration will be remembered as the time when we finally, finally achieved energy independence.
We have to explore, we have to conserve, and we have to pursue all avenues of alternative energy: nuclear, wind, solar, hydrogen, clean coal, biodiesel, and biomass. Some will come from our farms and some will come from our laboratories. Dwindling supplies and increasing demand from newly-industrialized countries of fossil fuels are driving up prices. These price increases will facilitate innovation and the opportunity for independence. We will remove red tape that slows innovation. We will set aside a federal research and development budget that will be matched by the private sector to seek the best new products in alternative fuels. Our free market will sort out what makes the most sense economically and will reward consumer preferences.
We think of globalization as primarily an economic issue and the war on terror as primarily a military issue. Yet the same key unlocks the door to success in both, and that key is energy independence.
None of us would write a check to Osama bin Laden, slip it in a Hallmark card and send it off to him. But that's what we're doing every time we pull into a gas station. We're paying for both sides in the war on terror - our side with our tax dollars, the terrorists' side with our gas dollars.
Our dependence on foreign oil has forced us to support repressive regimes, to conduct our foreign policy with one hand tied behind our back. It's time, it's past time, to untie that hand and reach out to moderate Muslims with both hands. Oil has not just shaped our foreign policy, it has deformed it. When I make foreign policy, I want to treat Saudi Arabia the same way I treat Sweden, and that requires us to be energy independent. These folks have had us over a barrel - literally - for way too long.
Energy independence will ease the effects of globalization because the future energy demands of countries like India and China, as their middle class grows, are going to be tremendous. Even if Middle East supplies remain stable - a huge if - that increased demand will drive prices up dramatically, which will hurt our economy by making everything more expensive here. But if we are energy independent, we will be able not just to take care of our own needs and protect our economy, we will also create jobs and grow our economy by developing technologies that we can sell to the rest of the world to meet their needs.
Achieving energy independence will make us safer and more prosperous, and is yet another way that I intend to lift America up.

Agriculture

We must be able to feed ourselves as part of our national security.
We must help our farmers lead the way to energy independence.
As a percentage of national income, we spend only half as much on food as people in other developed countries. Subsidies help keep our food costs low by keeping production levels high.
We need subsidies to help our farmers compete with heavily subsidized farmers in Europe and Asia and to insulate them from the effects of natural disasters.
We need a counter cyclical revenue program that makes payments based on low yields as well as low prices, and we need a fully-funded crop insurance program.
Our agricultural policies must encourage young people to enter and stay in farming.
As President, I will watch out for our farmers because our national well-being depends on theirs.
A nation must provide its citizens freedom and security. To accomplish this, a nation must be able to defend itself and feed itself. We have learned how disastrous it is to be dependent on other countries for our energy needs – we must never be dependent for our food needs. Being able to feed ourselves is not just sound economic and agricultural policy, it is wise national security policy. Besides growing our food, our farmers are growing our energy and leading the way to energy independence. We need more ethanol, including cellulose-based ethanol from sources such as switch grass and agricultural residues. We need more bio-fuels and bio-diesel from food processing wastes, such as fat from processing plants and used cooking oils. We need methane gas from livestock and dairy operations. These alternative fuels will not only make us independent, they will also provide additional markets for our farmers’ products and create more jobs in rural areas. We take for granted that our food is not only plentiful and diverse, but also inexpensive. As a percentage of income, we spend about half what people in other developed countries do, which gives us an enormous economic advantage. We have so much more money to spend on discretionary items. Part of the reason prices are low is that subsidies keep production at high levels, so keeping American farmers in business is not just good for them but for all of us. We must continue subsidies because our farmers compete with highly subsidized farmers in Europe and Asia, and they face fixed costs (land, equipment, seed, supplies) whether or not they produce a crop. Subsidies insulate farmers from natural disasters like droughts, floods, hurricanes, and tornadoes, as well as from sudden spikes in the price of fuel, feed, and fertilizer. I also support a more flexible counter cyclical revenue program that makes payments based on low yields and/or low prices rather than the current program, which is based only on low prices. I support a fully-funded crop insurance program, so that Congress will not have to pass emergency assistance every time disaster strikes. We need agricultural policies that encourage our young people to enter and stay in farming. They face the high costs of starting and capitalizing a farm, plus the fears generated by onerous government regulations and rapid policy changes. We have to reduce their risks and increase their potential for profitability. We have to assure that they have outstanding rural schools, state-of-the-art health care, and first-rate infrastructure. As Governor of Arkansas, a state with about 47,000 farms growing 165 crops, I saw first hand how our farmers struggled to cope with the challenges of fluctuating prices, policies, and natural disasters, and I was constantly amazed that they would go back year after year. As President, I will always watch out for our farmers because our national well-being is inextricably interwoven with theirs.

Faith and Politics

The First Amendment requires that expressions of faith be neither prohibited nor preferred.
My faith is my life - it defines me. I don't separate my faith from my personal and professional lives.
Real faith makes us more humble and mindful, not of the faults of others, but of our own. It makes us less judgmental, as we see others with the same frailties we have.
Faith gives us strength in the face of injustice and motivates us to do our best for "the least of us."
Our nation was birthed in a spirit of faith - not a prescriptive faith telling us how or whether to believe, but acknowledging a providence that pervades our world.
The First Amendment requires that expressions of faith be neither prohibited nor preferred. We should not banish religion from the public square, but should guarantee access to all voices and views. We should share and debate our faith, but never seek to impose it. When discussing faith and politics, we should honor the "candid" in candidate - I have much more respect for an honest atheist than a disingenuous believer.
My faith is my life - it defines me. My faith doesn't influence my decisions, it drives them. For example, when it comes to the environment, I believe in being a good steward of the earth. I don't separate my faith from my personal and professional lives.
Real faith makes us humble and mindful, not of the faults of others, but of our own. It makes us less judgmental, as we see others with the same frailties we have. Faith gives us strength in the face of injustice and motivates us to do our best for "the least of us."
Our nation was birthed in a spirit of faith - not a prescriptive one telling us whether to believe, but one acknowledging that a providence pervades our world.

Marriage


I support and have consistently supported passage of a federal constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman.

As Governor of Arkansas, I led the successful effort to pass a similar state constitutional amendment in 2002.

As Governor of Arkansas, I led the successful effort to make our state only the third to adopt "covenant" marriage.

Our true strength comes from our families.

I support and have always supported passage of a federal constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a union between one man and one woman. As President, I will fight for passage of this amendment. My personal belief is that marriage is between one man and one woman, for life.

No other candidate has supported traditional marriage more consistently and steadfastly than I have. While Massachusetts was allowing homosexuals to marry, I got a constitutional amendment passed in Arkansas in 2002 defining marriage as between one man and one woman. I got Arkansas to become only the third state to adopt "covenant" marriage. My wife Janet and I upgraded our vows on Valentine's Day, 2005. Today, many churches in Arkansas will perform only covenant marriages, so I'm hoping we'll see a decline in our divorce rates.

The late Cardinal O'Connor decried a domestic partnership law (which provided that all couples who signed up, whether heterosexual or homosexual, would be treated the same as married couples) as legislating that "marriage doesn't matter." I agree with the Cardinal that marriage does matter, I would add that nothing in our society matters more. Our true strength doesn't come from our military or our gross national product, it comes from our families. What's the point of keeping the terrorists at bay in the Middle East if we can't keep decline and decadence at bay here at home? The growing number of children born out of wedlock and the rise in no-fault divorce have been a disaster for our society. They have pushed many women and children into poverty and onto the welfare, food stamp, and Medicaid rolls. These children are more likely to drop out of school and end up in low-paying, dead-end jobs, they are more likely to get involved with drugs and crime, they are more likely to have children out of wedlock or get divorced themselves someday, continuing the unhappy cycle.

My wife Janet and I celebrated our thirty-third wedding anniversary this past May. For us, every anniversary is a miracle. When we were both twenty and married just over a year, when I was in my last semester of college, Janet was diagnosed with cancer of the spine. I can't tell you what a stunning blow it was - two kids just starting out, you don't think something like that can happen when you're so young. Yet there we were, staring death in the face. At first, they told us that even if she lived, she might be paralyzed from the waist down, so I'd be a young man with an invalid wife. After I learned she wouldn't be paralyzed, I was told that because of the radiation she had to receive following surgery, we'd probably never have children. I wanted children very much, I couldn't imagine never being a father. During that time, a lot of things went through my mind. But one thing never did - the thought of leaving her. If Janet were in a wheelchair today, if we'd never had children, I can tell you this - she would still be my wife.

Mike Huckabee on The Secure America Plan

The Secure America Plan
A 9-Point Strategy for Immigration Enforcement and Border Security
Overview: Implement a broad-based strategy that commits the resources of the federal government to the enforcement of our immigration laws and results in the attrition of the illegal immigrant population.
1. Build the Fence
Ensure that an interlocking surveillance camera system is installed along the border by July 1, 2010.
Ensure that the border fence construction is completed by July 1, 2010.
2. Increase Border Patrol
Increase the number of border patrol agents.
Fully support all law enforcement personnel tasked with enforcing immigration law.
3. Prevent Amnesty
Policies that promote or tolerate amnesty will be rejected.
Propose to provide all illegal immigrants a 120-day window to register with the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services and leave the country. Those who register and return to their home country will face no penalty if they later apply to immigrate or visit; those who do not return home will be, when caught, barred from future reentry for a period of 10 years.
4. Enforce the Law on Employers
Employment is the chief draw for most illegal immigrants and denying them jobs is the centerpiece of an attrition strategy.
Impose steep fines and penalties on employers that violate the law.
Institute a universal, mandatory citizenship verification system as part of the normal hiring process.
Prevent the IRS and the Social Security Administration from accepting fraudulent Social Security numbers or numbers that don't match the employees' names.*
5. Establish an Economic Border
Move toward passage of the FairTax.
The FairTax provides an extra layer of security by creating an economic disincentive to immigrate to the U.S. illegally.

6. Empower Local Authorities
Promote better cooperation on enforcement by supporting legislative measures such as the CLEAR Act, which aims to systematize the relationship between local law and federal immigration officials.
Encourage immigration-law training for police. Local authorities must be provided the tools, training, and funding they need so local police can turn illegal immigrants over to the federal authorities.
7. Ensure Document Security
End exemptions for Mexicans and Canadians to the US-VISIT program, which tracks the arrival and departure of foreign visitors. Since these countries account for the vast majority of foreigners coming here (85 percent), such a policy clearly violates Congress' intent in mandating this check-in/check-out system.
Reject Mexico's "matricula consular" card, which functions as an illegal-immigrant identification card.
8. Discourage Dual Citizenship
Inform foreign governments when their former citizens become naturalized U.S. citizens.
Impose civil and/or criminal penalties on American citizens who illegitimately use their dual status (e.g., using a foreign passport, voting in elections in both a foreign country and the U.S.).
9. Modernize the Process of Legal Immigration
Eliminate the visa lottery system and the admission category for adult brothers and sisters of U.S. citizens.
Increase visas for highly-skilled and highly-educated applicants.
Expedite processing for those who serve honorably in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Improve our immigration process so that those patiently and responsibly seeking to come here legally will not have to wait decades to share in the American dream. Governor Huckabee has always been grateful to live in a country that people are trying to break into, rather than break out of.
*This policy will be drafted to comply with the final federal court decisions on this issue.

Note: This plan is partially modeled on a proposal by Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies. ("Re: Immigration: Ten Points for a Successful Presidential Candidate," National Review, May 23, 2005.)

Saturday, December 1, 2007

One more reasons to never shop at Walmart

Wal-Mart sues incapacitated employee -- Tell them what you think!
Posted Dec 1st 2007 4:40PM by Zac BissonnetteFiled under: Wal-Mart (WMT), Employees
On November 20th, I wrote about the tragic, and appalling, tale of Deborah Shank -- a Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) worker rendered severely brain damaged after a crash with a truck.
Her insurance, provided by Wal-Mart, paid for her medical needs, and Ms. Skank and her husband received $700 thousand in a settlement from the trucking company that crashed into her. Then Wal-Mart, a $190 billion company, sued for the money to recoup the amount it spent on her medical care.
The legality of the move aside, it's appalling on a moral level. WalMartWatch has more information avaiable, and also collecting donations to aid the family. That site sums it up well:
This holiday season, Wal-Mart rolled out a new slogan: "Save money. Live better."
But who lives better with Wal-Mart's low prices? Clearly, it isn't Wal-Mart employees like Deborah Shank.

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Thursday, November 29, 2007

CNN You Tube Republican debate

From what seen the over all winner of the You Tube CNN Republican debate by far was Mike Huckabee. Governor Huckabee seemed genuine, holds firm to his values, and has a sense about him the other candidates seem to fail on. Mike made the best advice I ever heard when He suggested that the first one to send to Mars should be Hilary Clinton.

Mitt Romney was to worried about defending himself and provoking other candidates then on facts and values. Mitt should learn what his believes are and stick to them good or bad. When he was Governor of Massachusetts he had the biggest explosion of homosexuality and liberalism.

Rudy Giuliani seems to lack the skills and experience that would be needed to run a federal government.

Ron Paul hmm? His ideals are for a perfect world, unfortunately we do not live in that world. Do I think his less government is a good for the everyday American"yes". Ron Paul should serve as an advisor to President Mike Huckabee and Vice President Duncan Hunter.


Duncan Hunter is second to Mike Huckabee He would make an excellent Vice President.

Thomson, Mccain, and the others should get bail out.

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Tuesday, November 27, 2007

A nation buys huge percent of Citi Corp.

I woke up this morning, turned on CMBC to watch the morning business news. What was the first thing I see a country buying 5% of Citi Corp. My stomach dropped that an American business was being bought up by a foreign nation.

Sean Taylor

Sean Taylor dies today, age 24. I give out my sympothy for his family. I can only hope that those involved get their justice.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

A smart Indian

Indian walks into a cafe with a shotgun in one hand pulling a male buffalo with the other. He says to the waiter,


"Want coffee."The waiter says, Sure, Chief. Coming right up."He gets the Indian a tall mug of coffee. The Indian drinks the coffee down in one gulp, turns and blasts the buffalo with the shotgun, causing parts of the animal to splatter everywhere and then just walks out. The next morning the Indian returns. He has his shotgun in one hand pulling another male buffalo with the other. He walks up to the counter and says to the waiter . "Want coffee."








The waiter says . "Whoa, Tonto! We're still cleaning up your mess from yesterday What was all that about, anyway?" The Indian smiles and proudly says



"Training for position in United States Congress: Come in, drink coffee, shoot the bull, leave mess for others to clean up, disappear for rest of day.





Are the supreme court judges Anti-Christian

This needed to be repeated..Did you see in the news last week where the supreme court doesn't want any crosses on Federal property? Crosses on Federal Property?Let them try and remove these.




At what point do we say, enough is enough? Some messages just need to be told This is one of them.

Anti-Christian

There is a time to stand up and be counted and I think this is one of those times:
There is an anti-Christian movie (written by an atheist, Philip Pullman of England ) called The Golden Compass coming out on December 7 (just in time for Christmas). It stars Nicole Kidman, so it will be getting a lot of publicity. Philip despises C.S Lewis and Narnia, and his goal is to “kill GOD in the minds of children”. An article written about him labels him “the most dangerous author in Britain !” He has written 3 books that all promote atheism, and the movie depicts his first book (which is the more watered-down of the 3). His goal is that you see the movie and then that your kids want his trilogy for Christmas…and then it REALLY gets offensive in the second 2 books!! But just to give you a tid-bit of what’s in Philip’s books…an ex-nun calling Christianity a convincing mistake, 2 characters representing Adam & Eve KILL God (called YAHWEH) in the end, and there’s a story about castration & female circumcision! It will be targeted toward children and advertised as a fun-holiday flick. Don’t fall for it! Here is the snopes article about it to back up what I’ve been saying… http://snopes.com/politics/religion/compass.aspPLEASE tell everyone you know and love NOT TO SEE THIS MOVIE!! Imagine how our children’s little minds would absorb these awful lies! Let’s get the word out and fight back!!! Boycott The Golden Compass!!
It's nothing but Christian bashing !

The Race Is On For Iowa

Who is leading the way for Iowa? Hilary and Barrack are neck and neck, while Mike Huckabee is beginning to pull ahead of Mitt Romney. Wow this can be a close one. I heard of late about Ron Paul, but can he get the support of the party?

We will find out soon. I have to give my vote for the Republican party in the primary ” it will go to Mike Huckabee”. I truly think Mike has what it takes to win the primary and the white house. The party better get behind him with allot of money soon or they may miss out on winning the White House.

The Buzz on Ron Paul

The buzz in on with Ron Paul.
I was listening to people in a chat room discuss Ron Paul, until then I really never took a look at him. I still wonder if the people realise that the Republican Party controls the Primary. Ron Paul would have to get allot of delegates on his side to even begin a surge toward the White House. I think he burned his bridges in that sense. His stance against a war that nobody wanted, yet we all have to deal with, has cost him any chance. Iraq in plain language "SUCKS", but we do need to change these wackos thinking process before a world war three started. I rather deal with it now then later, yet maybe we should of dealt with it years ago. Did William Clinton drop the ball. I wonder some times. I do know that I watched a debate with Ron Paul and He didn't impress me much with his demeanor.
The Republican front runner who has the best chance of winning the Republican primary is Mike Huckabee. Mike has the necessary elements together and out of them all is the most level honest man. If you do not know allot about Mike go to his website or listen to his debates. He has something special about him that can lead this country in the future. He has run a government already. He is not part of the currant problems in Washington unlike Ron Paul not part of the problem.
In leaving I ask you to think about the direction you want America to go and who has brought you to this point already. Personally I wish Ross Perot would of ran.
In closing have a great day and come check out my blog daily.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Mike Huckabee VS. Hilary Clinton

With the sudden surge of popularity for Mike Huckabee can Hilary Clinton hold off a true and honest man? If you take away the fact she is a women and a feminist, what is her character truely about? Hilary tends to flip flop on issues, side with Anti-American activist, have connections with Atheist's, she promotes relations with same sex, She promotes sending our jobs over seas and brokers deals to bring in cheap Anti-American labor ( through work visas and illegal immingration). Promotes spending tax dollars to support non-american peoples, who are also haters of Americans, She will spend tax dollars to promote any other religion except christainity, and much more horrible things.
To the women and poor I ask you this. Truely think for a minute. Do you think a rich women who came from wealth and greed, could really understand and help you? Or a man that came from a working class family who has earned and not abused monies understand and help out the middle and lower classes?

Can Mike Huckabee Win? "YES" I Think So


Mike Huckabee is looking like he can beat Mitt Romney in Iowa.
Why doesn't Fox News, ABC News, CNN, and other News, cover Mike Huckabee as much as they do Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thomson and the Democrats?
Is it because of money?
I think if Mike pumped out the same money, as the other candidates, Mike would be in every conversation. Mike is the working class candidates. The viewers of these news agencies really want to see him more.

Mike Huckabee

http://mikehuckabee.com/
Mike Huckabee is has gained strength in Iowa. It looks like he has a chance to take out Mitt Romney. I can remember Mitt Romney as Governor of Massachusetts, I think he gave the state to Senator Kennedy whims. A state where the true Christan base started, now is the home of the worst fornicators. What happen to the puritan base of Massachusetts. This was the home of the American Revolutionary War. The home of William Bradford a devoted Christan. I think New England needs a good man like Mike Huckabee to bring back some commonsense and moral.