UPDATE: Sens. Mikulski & Specter push to break cap on H-2B low-skill workers -- keeping more Americans unemployed
The federal government released the numbers for jobless claims from the first week of February on Thursday and the numbers jumped another 170,000. Yet, as American workers continue to lose their jobs, Senators Barbara Mikulski, Arlen Specter and 23 other cosponsors have proposed legislation exempting tens of thousands of former H-2B holders from the current cap of 66,000. If passed, S. 388 could triple the number of less-educated foreign workers in the country taking jobs away from less-educated American workers. (thanks for the tip, Pris)
ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE MORE RIGHTS THAN U.S. CITIZENS??
The federal government released the numbers for jobless claims from the first week of February on Thursday and the numbers jumped another 170,000. Yet, as American workers continue to lose their jobs, Senators Barbara Mikulski, Arlen Specter and 23 other cosponsors have proposed legislation exempting tens of thousands of former H-2B holders from the current cap of 66,000. If passed, S. 388 could triple the number of less-educated foreign workers in the country taking jobs away from less-educated American workers. (thanks for the tip, Pris)
ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE MORE RIGHTS THAN U.S. CITIZENS??
Phoenix, AZ) -- An Arizona rancher has been ordered to pay more than 73-thousand dollars in damages to a group of illegal immigrants he allegedly detained at gunpoint after finding them on his property in March 2004. The Mexican nationals claim Roger Barnett yelled threats and obscenities at them, threatened to turn his dog loose, and kicked one of the women before turning them over to the U.S. Border Patrol. A jury at the U.S. District Court in Tucson found the 64-year-old liable Tuesday for assault and inflicting emotional distress. He was not found liable on claims of battery, false imprisonment and civil rights violations. Barnett lives on a 22-thousand-acre ranch near Douglas that is frequently traversed by people entering the United States illegally. (Z: nobody advocates kicking anybody, but can you imagine how this rancher feels seeing thousands use his land to sneak into America? Think this was the first and only bunch to do this and he's just a nut with a gun? I don't)
AND THEN THERE IS THIS!! Yes, Mr. Obama has signed an Executive Order pushing federal construction projects to favor union workers. Michael Steele says this about it and he is SO right: “President Obama’s executive order will drive up the cost of government at a time when we should be doing everything possible to save taxpayer dollars. Federal contracts should go to the businesses that can offer taxpayers the best value - not just the unions who supported the Democrats’ campaigns last year. Quietly signing executive orders to payback campaign backers undermines Obama promise to change Washington. It is a disappointment for Americans hoping for more transparency and less politics as usual in Washington.”
Z: So...there you go! A rancher wasn't nice to people breaking our laws on his land and has to pay thousands of dollars to them (What a COUNTRY!) and we have a president who doesn't understand that being Machiavellian for his agenda doesn't help this country.
Always on Watch alerts geeeeeZ to this video which you MUST watch. ACORN on foreclosures and how home ownership is a RIGHT. wow. Thanks, Always
z
AND THEN THERE IS THIS!! Yes, Mr. Obama has signed an Executive Order pushing federal construction projects to favor union workers. Michael Steele says this about it and he is SO right: “President Obama’s executive order will drive up the cost of government at a time when we should be doing everything possible to save taxpayer dollars. Federal contracts should go to the businesses that can offer taxpayers the best value - not just the unions who supported the Democrats’ campaigns last year. Quietly signing executive orders to payback campaign backers undermines Obama promise to change Washington. It is a disappointment for Americans hoping for more transparency and less politics as usual in Washington.”
Z: So...there you go! A rancher wasn't nice to people breaking our laws on his land and has to pay thousands of dollars to them (What a COUNTRY!) and we have a president who doesn't understand that being Machiavellian for his agenda doesn't help this country.
Always on Watch alerts geeeeeZ to this video which you MUST watch. ACORN on foreclosures and how home ownership is a RIGHT. wow. Thanks, Always
z
18 comments:
In the first revelation, I would advice teh rancher to appeal. In the second, I'm psychologically preparing myself for a Secretary of ACORN in the Obama administration.
What's happening to that rancher is an outrage! Loss of the right to protect one's own property is a sign that our country has strayed so far from the principles of our Founders as to be unrecognizable to them.
My question is how can a group of lawbreakers be abused by a private property owner? Isn't it interesting that the Homeland Secretary Napolitano was the governor of Arizona?
Z,
You might want to check out this story about ACORN's disrespect for private property.
As for Obama signing an Executive Order to push governmnet business to unions, did you expect anything else? It's only beginning. Before long BO will payback everyone who got him elected. In sunshine or shade, it'll get done, you can be sure.
Always, I just added your video link to my post..thanks..EVERYONE should see that.
The woman's so wrong; but, you see, this is part of the LIBERAL MESSAGE LANGUAGE BLITZ. ANYTHING to make the BIG BAD BANKS look WORSE and the people to be innocent victims. The truth matters NOT, it's what Americans hear..THAT is the new leftist motivation and goal.
How can ANYONE argue with her (she's a very lovely person and seemingly caring person!) when she says people shouldn't be thrown out of their homes, right? But, they're not paying their bills!
And demonizing the people who REALLY own the home, the bank which had been (in many cases) forced to give the loan, is SO WRONG.
WHY doesn't ACORN do something like using their MILLIONS to HELP with the loans! To HELP the homeowner? THAT's the Republican way...not making them feel like victims and taking away their responsibilities!!
The grim truth of what this rancher case teaches is that he would have been better from a legal standpoint by taking the lives of these people. He detained them and had to pay them money. If he would have shot them then the castle law would step in and he would be okay.
Pops, is that a "a man's castle..." kind of thing...I've never heard of your reference.
WHAT a thing THAT is.
But, then, we're now a country which sometimes punishes for killing animals more than we punish for killing humans, so...
You got your wish, mustang.
Thanks, FJ. You are now the morale officer for the conservative base.
Aaaarrrrggggghhhhhh!
Here's a summary of the "castle law."
A Castle Doctrine (also known as a Castle Law or a Defense of Habitation Law) is an American legal concept derived from English Common Law, which designates one's place of residence (or, in some states, any place legally occupied, such as one's car or place of work) as a place in which one enjoys protection from illegal trespassing and violent attack. It then goes on to give a person the legal right to use deadly force to defend that place (his/her "castle"), and/or any other innocent persons legally inside it, from violent attack or an intrusion which may lead to violent attack. In a legal context, therefore, use of deadly force which actually results in death may be defended as justifiable homicide under the Castle Doctrine.
Z, If I'm not mistaken, I think Acorn got two billion in the stimulus deal. That's our money, paying for this anarchy.
This is what Obama would call "community organizing". Obama's "army".
I call it thuggery, not unlike Chavez in Venezuela. Same mentality. We're past nice passive terms like "entitlement", it's becoming something else.
If we are a country of laws, the police should be called and remove the squatters. Instead an Acorn representative is on TV behaving as though her group has a right to co-opt property which is owned by a bank. Why? Because they want to, legal or not. Anarchy.
Concerning Specter's and Mikulski's bill S.388. Makes me think the power brokers are in a march to the world being one big Banana Republic.
If that's not it, then it's just sheer insanity. I don't think we matter anymore as Americans, something is afoot, and I think has been for a long time.
The signs are everywhere and can't be ignored.
Pris
Pops, I thought that wasn't okay anymore...am glad it IS. (for now)
Pris...It's so ODD that really ridiculous things are being perpetrated by ACORN, Obama and his henchmen, etc., but when the Right complains, WE are the nuts. And, of course, WHO on the Right's REALLY said anything effective against what's going on? ANYBODY? Oh, big deal..McCain postured and whined about the bill, then what? Gone with the darned wind.
Cameras are off the subject... nobody's watching the posturing, so America be damned.
Z -- there are many states with a castle law. Actually, Missouri just passed one two years ago. Before that you were bound by law to ONLY use what force you deemed necessary to be able to FLEE from your own home if you were being robbed or assaulted. Now we have the right to use whatever force we deem necessary, including lethal force, to protect ourselves, our families, AND our possessions. We still have a few good politicians here in Missouri that are working for us and our families and our rights instead of against us. I wish every state was so lucky.
Ya, I'm pretty sure CA doesn't have this. I'm pretty sure that, in California, there have been burglars who've come through a hole in the roof and sued the owner of the house and won. Ya, sort of like how illegals have sued the border states for not having had food and water along the way because they knew the illegals would need them.
I'm not kidding.
We don't fix this idiot thinking and we're so done!
Roger Barnett was only doing what any landowner has a right to do, protect what is his. They (the trespassers) are lucky they are still breathing. They may not be had that been MY land!
Regarding the second half Z, I have a lot less problem with the Unions getting the work than having it go to illegals, and that IS what would happen normally. Also, the work won't all go union. The Davis-Bacon act provides for "prevailing wages" to be paid on projects where federal dollars are paying the tab. This is a good thing in many parts of the country, but many areas where the "prevailing wage" is ridiculously low, it doesn't help. As example, a federal prison being built 6 miles from my house has Davis-Bacon guidelines. This requires the wage for "unskilled labor" to be $12.00 per hour. This is the total package. Any benefits plus paycheck= $12.00. Try to live on that. Add to this, the fact that the sleezebag contractors are calling most all of their employees "unskilled" and getting away with it. That is the other side of the coin! Being a union construction worker, I know both sides. I agree that the unions often times use strong-arm tactics, but they and especially most members are not the enemy. Trade unions are no wheres near the same as the unions for teachers, public employees, etc.
Average, thanks for that info, it's important.
Yes, better that American workers get the work than illegals (oh, and you can't believe the intimidation the illegals give AMerican-born white construction workers here....some of us think a friend's heart attack was because he'd been threatened so long with guns, at his home, etc., and this is NOT a one-off story)...but how could this not drive OUR COSTS (tax dollars) WAY UP for these Fed projects?
I swear I'd be surprised if Davis-Bacon isn't overturned in one of those pages of package nobody read...really.
I am telling you, lawful ladies and gentlemen of the United States, as Bastiat said and emphasized, once we lose our private property rights, we have lost everything. EVERYTHING.
BZ
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