January 6, 2011

In so many states, such as California, illegals do not seem to value an education because they "earn" a living by getting welfare. In the Central Valley three-fourths are Hispanic, and all are on welfare. They see this as a right and expect payment every month.

I remember a high school graduation about eight years ago where they had four Valedictorians, representing each race... white, Asian, black and Hispanic. The Asian and white kids had 4.0 GPAs and the others 3 to 3.5 GPA's. The mostly Hispanic crowd booed the white and black kids.

One Hispanic kid was arrested even before the ceremonies started. Teachers were checking the undersides of every chair in the student seating area for weapons before the kids were seated. All exits of the stadium were literally locked down with padlocks on the gates just before things got started, I guess for protection. Police were all over. This is a normal thing there.

A couple of years ago, the police rounded up a lot of gang members in that city... this was just before school started in September. This caused a ripple effect in the high school where gang-banger wanna-bees and those looking to make it further started fights and threatened teachers to burnish their reps. They wanted to replace those arrested.

Did you know they have a special high school SWAT team there? They do, and it was at the high school almost every day for several weeks that year.

The situation is pitiful.

The whites in many neighborhoods aren't too much better than the Hispanics. They deal drugs, drive drunk, assault their neighbors and jack cars. And this is not only involves teens and 20-something's but adults in their 30's and up into their 70s.

“The Projects” have been spread out and are now whole neighborhoods and cities here in the West. We no longer confine them to big building complexes like we did back East.

California makes it too easy to get help. Nevada doesn't have that kind of welfare system. It's actually one of the stingiest in the country, but they do have gangs, drugs and slums like everyone else. So it's not just about welfare.

Again, and I talked about this before ... I put a lot of blame on business. The biggest employer of illegals in Nevada are casinos and nothing happens to them. Nothing. They can do what they want, some even charge illegals money to give them a job and then pay them less than minimum wage. Think about that when visiting Reno or Las Vegas. The ranches and farms there are the same way.

Agra-businesses pay little and even rip off their "employees" because Federal laws about labor don't apply to agriculture workers, including a minimum wage. I wonder who thought of that! It wasn't the worker!

Speaking of agriculture, I heard there are more farmers are living in Manhattan than anywhere in the US. It's those subsidies. Even Michele Bachmann the teabagger queen gets farm subsidies. Not that it is illegal or anything, but she complains about the very thing she gets each year. I think it's close to a quarter million a year.  I would like to sit on my fat tea-bagger ass and collect that for being a partner or part owner of  a company that owns a farming business or conglomerate. Where do I sign up?

It's like our drug problem ... there is a high demand for Mexican drugs, and they supply them to us. Supply and demand, pure Capitalism! The same goes for labor but it doesn't pay well but makes their employers rich.

The illegals problem exploded since the Reagan amnesty in the 1980's. It festered in the 1990's and exploded again when Dubya was in power. He just smirked and told people what they wanted to hear and did nothing.

There used to be enforcement under Clinton, I used to read about it in the papers, and I even saw some of it at a Tahoe casino. However, after he left, it went almost to zero but picked up in 2006 when Republicans wanted to be re-elected. Shameful.

We can discuss this all day but until we realize we have what illegals want, it won't change.

We need to start with employers who willfully and knowingly hire illegals. However, that won't happen no matter who is in the White House or Congress. Businesses rule. They make sure they get slave labor, make themselves exempt from rules, pay low taxes through loop-holes, get guaranteed farm subsidies and make the working guy pay the bill.

Again, where do I sign up?

And now with the Supreme Court ruling last year which said businesses have the same rights as a person to donate money to politicians, things will get worse for every one of us. Businesses, especially the big ones have no party affiliation or even an allegiance to a country.

I would like to see the Republicans and tea-baggers support a Constitutional amendment that says the Constitution only applies to human beings like it was intended to be. However, they won't... too much money out there they want.

Did you know Michele Bachmann recently said she still doesn't like earmarks but goes ahead as supports them for their state? She requested over $3 million in 2008, and this is right AFTER she signed the pledge not to take them!  Oh well ... she is just a poster child for tea-baggers. Do as I say and not as I do.

The Republicans have already backed off on their pledge to cut the budget like they said they would when they campaigned last year. And they don't plan to all eliminate pork. I guess they plan to cut a little of the federal budget and reduce some pork spending just for a show. And this is just a day after taking power!

New boss... the same as the old boss.