Since this country stopped manufacturing many goods, much of our export side of the trade balance has dropped off precipitously. The other side, imports have risen to new heights.
One of our major imports is poverty; this we import daily through immigration, both legal and illegal.

Ted Kennedy screwed the pooch in ‘86 with the Amnesty program. It didn’t solve the problem; the poverty stayed and more illegals came looking for the same treatment. So much for feel good knee jerk actions, it is really just JERK actions; as useful as sitting in the corner giving himself penis blisters. Actually that would have been preferable.

. . . 53% of immigrant households with children collected welfare from at least one government program in 2008.

These programs include food stamps, Medicaid, and free school lunches. Most assuredly, that huge number includes legal immigrants too.
The immigrants America is attracting these days are mostly poor and badly educated. These are not people doing “jobs Americans won’t do.”

These people receive benefits for which Americans often don’t qualify.

However, for these benefits, American can pay, and pay, and pay.

The next time you want to complain about the cost of health care, schools, welfare, lack of jobs and crappy neighborhoods, think about not importing POVERTY.

Or if your all squishy, sensitive and think it’s the thing to do, move them in next door to you!

This works WITHOUT spending all the money he’ll waste!

Send California
inmates to Mexico,
says Schwarzenegger

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger suggested California could ease its crowded prison system by sending thousands of undocumented inmates to specially built jails in Mexico.

Speaking to reporters at the Sacramento Press Club, Schwarzenegger said California could ease its strained finances by a billion dollars if 20,000 illegal immigrants currently held in the state were housed across the border.

“I think that we can do so much better in the prison system alone if we can go and take, inmates for instance, the 20,000 inmates that are illegal immigrants that are here and get them to Mexico,” Schwarzenegger said.

“Think about it — if California gives Mexico the money. Not ‘Hey, you take care of them, these are your citizens’. No. Not at all. [snip]

All those steroids solidified his brain.

‘Hey, Mexico, you take care of them, these ARE your citizens’. No, we’re not giving Mexico any money! These pests already cost this country millions in lost American jobs, taxes, higher hospitalization insurance rates, auto deaths from DUI and increased drug trafficking.

Yank them out of the prisons and frog march them across the border. Let Mexico jail them, shoot them or work them. They’re Mexican citizens entitled to the full “rights” of Mexican law.

I’m compassionate, if they have family here, find out where they are and round them up; families should be kept together.

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Pick up as many ballots as you need from your local ACoRN Rep. They’re here to serve!

Now that the MSM’s Kennedy hagiographies are petering out, here are 2 thoughts on the other side of the ledger:

1.  Being generous with other people’s money is pretty easy.  Ted’s “vaunted legacy” was built on the backs of the American taxpayer, which is really saying something when you consider he was worth a couple hundred million squirreled away in tax evading trusts.
2. The Kennedy family was exactly what the Founders had in mind when they prohibited titles in the Constitution in an effort to curb the excesses of royalty.  Try killing someone and see if you can get a suspended sentence and retain your job.

You can do this for your family, friends and for the returning National Guard.

Sign the electronic petition at this website.  http://www.NumbersUSA.com

It might be your job next!

Until the AIG fiasco, most Americans couldn’t pick Senator Christopher Dodd (D-AIG) out of a police lineup.  Last year, he made a fatuous run for president, even establishing a residence in Iowa for himself, his wife and child during the caucuses.  Before that, his media image was of just another grovelling Donk shill in the liberals’ clown posse, indistinguishable from his true archetype - the suet-faced,  serpent-eyed Soviet apparatchik who will bleat the party line forever rather than pull himself off his knees. 

Before he got mixed up in some DNC funding mischief, he was half of the damp libertine, bar crawling, waitress-abusing odysseys of Ted Kennedy.  Jump ahead a few years from his face on the bar room floor, and Dodd secures two Friends of Angelo VIP mortgages from Countrywide (everyone knows about this).  We learn also that his “cottage” in Ireland was purchased and valued in questionable ways.

Then, amidst the Donk’s brownshirt derangement over the AIG bonuses, we learn that their legality was written into the Stimulus Bill by Dodd, who then denied to CNN his having included such a provision.  This, of course, was a lie, and Dodd subsequently “admitted” to authorship, and like a true coward, he put responsibility for his words on some Treasury Department underling.  Nauseating. 

A video of this burlesque can be seen here.  Note the body-language, the eyes, the shoulders, the negative shaking of the head.  Bring some Lysol for your monitor!  Anyone left wondering about how much dirt can sink to the bottom of elected legislatures, look no further.

After all this, five will get you ten that the precious leftards in my state will re-elect this sleazebag.

UPDATE:  Dodd was worth almost $104,000 to AIG.  Pelosi was worth only $500.  Go figure.

Seems one of the liberal bloggers in MA just posted that the right wing wing drowns people and of course the military leads the way. Not true!

Here’s the leading user of the method!

Democrat National Convention Schedule

2008

7:00 p.m. Opening Ceremony, Burning of U.S. Flag by the UN Synchronized Flag Burning Team –Photo supplied

7:15 p.m. Pledge of Allegiance to the United Nations

7:16 p.m. John Kerry proposes a toast to Ted Kennedy.

7:30 - 8 p.m. Nonreligious prayer and worship: Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton

7:31 p.m.John Kerry proposes a toast to Ted Kennedy.

8:05 p.m. Ceremonial Tree Hugging in the “Garden of Sybaritic Pleasures”

8:15-8:30 p.m. Gay Wedding: Barney Frank, officiating; Reception follows in the Eastern Bathhouse
Barney Frank proposes a toast to the newly joined

8:45 p.m. Separation of the reception attendees and newly joined using 2X4 as prybars

8:46 p.m. Joe Biden proposes a toast to the newly separated

9:00 p.m. Keynote Speech: ‘The Proper Etiquette for Surrender’ delivered by Harry Reid

9:26 p.m. John Murtha proposes a toast to cut & run.

9:28 p.m. John Kerry toasts his Purple Hearts.

9:30 p.m. ACLU collection to benefit the Taliban’s Memorial to Fallen Freedom Fighters.

9:35 p.m. Giving you gas: the Pelosi/Reid five year plan for drilling everywhere but in the U.S.

9:36 p.m. John Kerry’s speech: We can still shorten this war by losing it.

9:45 p.m. The New Economy: The Military as a home occupation force using Obamanomics

9:46 p.m. Joe Biden proposes a toast to Truth.

9:50 p.m. Dan Rather receives ‘Truth in Broadcasting’ award presented by Michael Moore.

9:53 p.m.Michael Moore proposes a toast to truth and ethics.

10:00 p.m. Anointing of Barack Obama for President by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

10:20 p.m. Mookie Sadr proposes a toast to Barack Hussein Obama with sherbet.

11:05 p.m. Al Gore melts on the carpet to protest the convention’s carbon footprint, then leaves because his SUV is running.

11:06 p.m. The Vermont Progressive Party creates a memorial to Al Gore’s melted form.

11:07 p.m. Ted Kennedy proposes a toast to ice cubes.

11:15 p.m. ‘Our Troops are War Criminals’ presented by Dick Durbin with video

11:29 p.m. Ted Kennedy proposes a toast to John Kerry.

11:30 p.m. Acceptance of the halo by Obama and the paper roll to Messianic throne.

11:45 p.m. Departure of Obama via Carpet to Ivesco Field–Photo supplied

12:00 a.m. Ted Kennedy is toast.

12:05 a.m. Bill tells Ted to drive Hillary home.

Taliban Committee to elect Obama; M. Ahmadinejad Treas.

Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi (HT: Redstate):

The leader of the Massachusetts House says he will support giving Gov. Deval Patrick the power to appoint an interim successor to U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy if that becomes necessary.

The Democratic-controlled Legislature stripped Republican Gov. Mitt Romney of that authority in 2004 because of fears he would name a Republican to replace U.S. Sen. John Kerry if he had been elected president.

Instead, state law now requires a special election for the seat no sooner than 145 days and no later than 160 days after the vacancy occurs.

But House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi said yesterday if Kennedy should step aside or have to be replaced because of his brain tumor diagnosis, he’d be in favor of a gubernatorial appointment.

“That was a good political reason (then),” DiMasi said of taking the power away from Romney. “It’s a good political reason to change it back.”

I don’t know why they would bother with this. It isn’t like Republicans have any chance of picking up Kennedy’s seat.

Universal health care for the elite

I suspect Ted Kennedy will be going to either England, Canada or Cuba for his health care treatment. He’s touted them as the best of all programs. According to him our system is a disaster.

OK, blowhard, put your beliefs up and hop that G-5 to…I’ll bet fat boy, Mike Moore, can get you in to a fine hospital in Cuba.

Be a leader, show us the way!

Via Boston.com:

Doctors investigating the cause of a seizure that led to Kennedy’s hospitalization this weekend said that preliminary results from a brain biopsy indicated the cause of the seizure was a tumor in the top left portion of his brain.

The usual course of treatment for the tumor — a “malignant glioma” — includes combinations of various forms of radiation and chemotherapy, Dr. Lee Schwamm, vice chairman of the neurology department at Massahusetts General Hospital, and Dr. Larry Ronan, Kennedy’s primary care physician, said in a statement.

The doctors said decisions regarding the best course of treatment for the 76-year-old senator would be determined after further testing and analysis. [snip]

Malignant gliomas are a type of brain cancer diagnosed in about 9,000 Americans a year and are the most common type among adults. It’s a starting diagnosis: How well patients fare depends on what specific tumor type is discovered.

Average survival can range from less than a year for very advanced and aggressive types — such as glioblastomas — to about five years for different types that are slower-growing.

One expert, Dr. Joseph Madsen, a neurosurgeon at Children’s Hospital Boston, said the diagnosis was “very sad news.”

“High-grade glio-malignancies” such as Sen. Kennedy has “are unfortunately the most common kind of brain tumor in this age group, and they have a poor prognosis for long-term survival,” he said.

They can also be very debilitating during treatment, Madsen said, and Kennedy’s tumor is in an area where it may well eventually affect his speech.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the Kennedy family.

Via Boston.com

Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts suffered symptoms of a stroke or seizure in Hyannis Port and was transported by helicopter this morning from Cape Cod Hospital to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, according to a leading political source.

Family members have been summoned to Boston, the source said.

Unlike some moonbats on the left, I would never wish illness on my political adversaries. My thoughts go out to Senator Kennedy and his family.

One needs the awareness that the Constitution is silent on education. Since most schools at the time were church run with some private, the need for public education did not exist. Looking at what passes for education today, proves all those white men had smarts.
Catholic schools demand scholarship, ethics, parental involvement and student disipline, or else. The greatest lack in the Catholic schools is the lack of victimhood and the PC ethos.
Which is why they work.
Incidently, non-catholics are not required to take religious instruction.
Viewed this way, the demise of Parochial education is desired by the Left.

‘Crisis’ with loss of Catholic schools

[snip]
Since 1999, a total of 1,267 Catholic schools have closed and 374 have opened, according to the National Catholic Educational Association. The number of Catholic elementary and high schools fell from 8,719 in the 1989-1990 school year to 7,378 in the current year, according to NCEA data.

According to Fordham researchers, the NCEA data translates into about 300,000 students who have been displaced from Catholic schools, at a cost to taxpayers of about $20 billion as public schools absorb the students. In an interview last month with The Washington Times, Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl of Washington predicted that this trend would continue without government vouchers, saying the church faced continued challenges to “sustain all of these schools, particularly in the poorest, urban areas.”

As Catholic families increasingly moved to suburbs in the 1960s and ’70s, urban Catholic schools increasingly began educating poor, non-Catholic students, the report noted. There were solid academic results, it argued, citing evidence like Andrew Greeley’s 1982 findings, which showed achievement of minority students was higher in Catholic schools than in public schools. [snip](emphasis added)

The report authors also argued that private-school vouchers “are no panacea” — noting that programs in Milwaukee and the District have not really helped the Catholic urban schools there and the Archdiocese of Washington is turning seven of its schools into public charter schools. [snip]

Private school vouchers cannot be used at Catholic schools; that is forbidden by law thanks to the ACLU and the Donks.

As part of the study, Fordham also commissioned a survey of 800 adults. The majority of adults surveyed chose Catholic schools as the best to offer a disciplined learning environment and instill moral values, and public schools as the best to work with economically disadvantaged students. [snip] (emphasis added)

Raise your hand if you really care about political endorsements.  Politicians still fight for them.  The media still chatters about them.  But aren’t they the ghosts of a bygone era?  Before the Internet, databases, and almost instant access to information, an endorsement from a respected figure carried some heft.  Today, I just don’t see the value.  Nor do I know many people waiting breathlessly for their marching orders from George Clooney or Rush Limbaugh.

All of this brings us to the big political endorsement of the day—the Kennedy clan’s endorsement of Barack Obama.  Yes, Ted put the whiskey bottle down long enough to endorse Mr. Obama.  And don’t forget Caroline Kennedy (What has she done that’s noteworthy?) harkening back some 4 decades to Camelot by comparing Barack to JFK.  After all, they’re young, photogenic, and both used drugs although Barack used for recreational and not medicinal purposes.  With all those “wonderfully” similar qualifications, why not make Barack president?

But like I said before, I don’t think endorsements carry the weight they once did.  And I could care less what Ted Kennedy, a drunk with no character at all, has to say about anything.

McCain won the South Carolina Primary, but I could care less because he won’t get my vote. Ordinarily, I would vote for and support the Republican candidate as the lesser of 2 evils. However, John McCain’s beliefs run so counter to my own, that voting for him isn’t much different than a vote for Hillary Clinton. Consider these little gems when you’re picking a Republican candidate:

• McCain is for amnesty.
• McCain is against tax cuts.
• McCain is BFFs with Ted Kennedy.
• McCain is against freedom of speech.
• McCain is anti-2^nd Amendment.

McCain would actually be worse than Hillary because he’d drag Congressional Republicans with him in supporting these disastrous policies. Just say no to John McCain.