Friday, October 1, 2010

Are You Kidding Me?

Have you seen the one about the exploited maid that was in this country illegally and was making $21 a hour!
Poor thing, I really feel sorry for her!  I was born and worked here in America all my life and I don't make $21 a hour! But I am thinking of giving up my citizenship, leaving the country and coming back here illegally. If a person can get paid more for breaking the law instead of following it, I'm changing my ways! On a serious note, she is probably being paid a lot more by the Democrats to slam her former employee.

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

What a joke on America! This person is the ultimate crooked lying politician and she is suppose to be one of the best the Demos can come up with. Well if she is the best they have I would probably cringe at their worst. Have you heard that the democratic party has change their emblem and are trying to change their public image? Well why don't they just throw people like her out of the party and maybe, just maybe they might get one or two more votes!

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

GOP stars put Fox News in dicey spot

   With Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee all making moves indicating they may run for president, their common employer (FOX NEWS) is facing a question that hasn’t been asked before: How does a news organization cover White House hopefuls when so many are on the payroll? 
Bailey Comment:
Go to the link below to read more of what this leftest writer has to say about Fox News.                                                                                                     http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/42745

Monday, September 27, 2010

Nothing 'Free' About Obamacare

By: Betsy McCaughey
Whenever you hear the word “free,” you’re forewarned that someone is trying to play you for a fool. Supporters of Obamacare are telling us that the new law offers “free” preventive care. But read the fine print.

What the law actually says is you have to pay 100 percent upfront, in your premium, for any preventive care services such as mammograms, colonoscopies, and quit-smoking programs.

If you decide to get one of these services, insurance companies can’t charge you a copay. But that doesn’t mean you get it for free. You’ve already prepaid.

If you buy the $25 all-you-can eat buffet, the restaurant can’t claim dessert is free.

You may be one of the millions of Americans who just got a premium hike in the mail. One reason is “free” preventive care. Another reason is the ban on lifetime caps.

Until now, most health plans put a lifetime limit on what the insurer will pay. Obamacare outlaws that limit. That’s an attractive change for people with chronic illnesses. But it’s not a freebie either.

In fact, it is the single biggest reason your premium is going up. If you got rid of the cap in your auto insurance or your homeowner’s plan, those premiums would soar too.

Essentially the new law takes away your decision about how much insurance you’re willing to buy. You’re forced to buy the sky’s-the- limit policy and pay the higher premium, whether you want to or not.

When you get more, you have to pay more. There is no tooth fairy.

Premium hikes in the mail, and more down the pike. According to the administration’s own projections released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid on Sept. 9, your premium is going to be higher than if the law hadn’t passed every year through 2019. As far as the eye can see.

Don’t let your Congress member act surprised by this bad news. Members of Congress were warned by the Congressional Budget Office last March, before they voted for the Obama health law, that it would raise premiums.

They knew they were casting a vote to take money out of your pocket. That’s something to remember on Election Day. 

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Mexico Builds A Fence On Their Own Southern Border


Posted by Maggie On September - 21 - 2010

I am wondering where the American media and the ‘activists’ that carry “RACIST” signs in demonstrations inside this country are. Mexico, under the cover of all these people, is building a fence on their own southern border. A google search of this subject after I heard Glenn Beck mention it on his radio program this morning resulted in these two sources:
WRAL: 1.4 billion to help mexico build their southern border fence
Did anyone hear if this funding has been approved – the Merida Initiative – where the US provides the funding for Mexico to secure ITS southern border?
We can’t seem to get our own built, but we’re helping Mexico build THEIR border fence between them and Guatemala….
Seems Mexico doesn’t want illegals coming into their country, so the US taxpayers get to foot the bill!
This has been going on “behind closed doors” with the State Dept for over a year. Appears to be part of the plan for the North American Union…
“The plan is called “The Merida Initiative.” Seems that the White House has had this plan in the works for nearly a year with little congressional input on either side of the border.
We can’t finish our own border fence, properly supply our immigration agents and border patrol with all the equipment and resources they need, or get our house in order. Yet, the Bush administration wants to fork over $1.4 billion to Mexico and Central America–with much of it going into the hands of corrupt law enforcement officials and government bureaucrats who have worked tirelessly to undermine our immigration laws. The funding is tucked into the 2008 supplemental budget.
Naturally, the State Department has taken a lead role. They’ve held meetings in secret and cut out members of Congress from discussion. You’ll love the explanation for the secrecy: Mexico is “sensitive,” you see. Also, according to one expert, “Mexico is very protective of its sovereignty and very worried about any incursion of U.S. security forces or private contractors—like Blackwater—coming in to train Mexicans.” Yeah, they’re worried about incursions and sovereignty.
The State Dept. disclosed the first phase of the Merida Initiative last October, involving some $550 million in aid for inspection scanners, helicopters, surveillance tools, and case management software…”
Unfortunately, I suspect that Hillary, Obama AND McCain are probably all “on board” with this plan , since they all seem to support the open border philosophy…
Examiner: Hypocritical Mexico is now building their own wall on border with Guatemala…press ignores
The Inter-Press Sevice (IPS) is reporting that the head administrator of the Mexican Superintendency of Tax Administration, Raul Diaz, has confirmed that his government is building a wall in the state of Chiapas, along the Mexican/Guatemalan border.
The official reason is to stop contraband from coming into Mexico, but as Diaz admitted: “It could also prevent the free passage of illegal immigrants.”
According to Mexico’s National Commission on Human Rights, 500,000 people from Central America cross into Mexico illegally every year.
Just as Mexican authorities have opposed the construction of a fence by the U.S., along our border with their country, Mexico is now receiving a great deal of criticism from the Guatemalan government.
The executive coordinator of the National Bureau for Migration in Guatemala, Marila de Prince, told a local newspaper: “It is not a correct measure being taken by the Mexican government.”
Erick Maldonado, executive secretary of Guatemala’s National Council on Migrants said: “We are watching the Mexican government’s initiative with concern because the migrants are in a situation of highest vulnerability, as demonstrated by the massacre in Tamaulipas, where five Guatemalans died.”
Maldonado said the wall “is going to make the migrants’ situation worse, because to meet their needs they are always going to find blind points where there are no migration or security controls, which implies greater risks.”
Vice-President of Guatemala, Rafael Espada, said: “The walls are not the solution to the problems.”
The Catholic Church has been highly critical of U.S. treatment of illegal aliens, and one priest in Central America used the news of the Mexican wall to take another shot at the American people.
Father Francisco Pellizari, of the Casa del Migrante told IPS: “The dramatic increase in the cost of ‘polleros’ (human traffickers) and the corruption of the authorities is the result of the walls the United States plans to build and has built along the border. We can transpose the Guatemala case to this situation and the results will be the same.”
Peliizari said border walls “are supposedly intended to halt migration, but that hasn’t happened. Instead they have triggered an economic hemorrhage and a shift in the migratory flow to inhospitable routes that lead to thousands of deaths.”
Of course, the U.S. press has completely ignored the story…They excoriate Americans for their desire to simply defend their own borders, but give Mexico a pass for building a wall to keep out illegal aliens.
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    Bailey Comment:
    Give em hell Maggie!

Thursday, September 23, 2010

House Republicans Roll Out Their 'Pledge to America'

Led by Minority Leader John Boehner, House Republicans unveil sweeping conservative agenda that calls for reining in federal spending, permanently extending all Bush-era tax cuts, and repealing President Obama's signature health care law. Click link below to view pledge.

Ford's Big Comeback


Mired in debt, battered by the recession, its car lots stocked with vehicles, the Ford Motor Co.'s future seemed so bleak that the auto giant's long-term survivability was at stake.
Yet in 2008, Ford refused to accept the TARP federal bailout money that its rivals GM and Chrysler readily snapped up.
Two years down the road, Ford is humming: it's turning in profits and speeding past still-struggling GM and Chrysler as it produces vehicles consumers are clamoring to own.
The moral of the story: A smart U.S. auto builder can compete against any competitor, even GM, backed by Uncle Sam.
Bailey Comment:
What a shocker, businesses not needing government help? As if the average common sense person didn't already know that.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Ex-city manager among 8 arrested in Calif. scandal

LOS ANGELES – The mayor and ex-city manager of the Los Angeles suburb of Bell were among eight current and former city officials arrested Tuesday in a corruption scandal that authorities said cost the blue-collar city more than $5.5 million in excessive salaries and illegal personal loans.
The district attorney's office said several former and current City Council members were taken into custody along with ex-city manager Robert Rizzo and Mayor Oscar Hernandez.
"This, needless to say, is corruption on steroids," District Attorney Steve Cooley said at a news conference, standing next to a display of pictures of the suspects.
Rizzo, who was making nearly $800,000 a year, was booked on 53 counts of misappropriation of public funds and conflict of interest. He was expected to be arraigned Wednesday, with officials seeking bail of $3.2 million.
Rizzo could face several years in prison if convicted, Cooley said. Messages left at Rizzo's home and with his attorney were not immediately returned.
Others taken into custody were former assistant city manager Angela Spaccia, Vice Mayor Teresa Jacobo, council members George Mirabal and Luis Artiga, and former council members George Cole and Victor Bello.
Requested bail amounts ranged from $377,500 for Spaccia to $130,000 for Cole, based on the amounts each was accused of misappropriating in the city where one in six people live in poverty.
Former Police Chief Randy Adams, who was also scrutinized in the salary scandal, was not arrested.
Cooley, who knew Adams when he was the police chief in Glendale, said Adams was paid $457,000 a year but there was no evidence he obtained that salary illegally.
"Being paid excessive salaries is not a crime," Cooley said. "Illegally obtaining those salaries is a crime."
Prosecutors allege the suspects misappropriated more than $5.5 million.
The complaint said Rizzo made $4.3 million by paying himself through different employment contracts that were not approved by the City Council, and that council members paid themselves a combined $1.25 million for what Cooley called "phantom meetings" of various city boards and agencies.
Rizzo also was accused of giving $1.9 million in loans to himself, Spaccia, Hernandez, Artiga and dozens of others, authorities said.
Cooley said his office had been investigating the officials since March — four months before the public learned they were paying themselves huge salaries to run the city of 40,000 people.
"They used the taxes of the hardworking citizens of Bell as their own piggy bank, which they looted," the district attorney said.
He added that his investigators have pored over more than 60,000 pages of documents and more people could be charged.
Most of the arrests went smoothly, though police briefly used a battering ram at the home of Hernandez before he responded and opened the door. The door was not knocked down.
The suspects were booked into county facilities and will be kept away from other inmates for their protection, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said.
The arrests were the latest twist in a scandal that emerged in July with the disclosure that Rizzo was paid almost twice the salary of President Barack Obama.
It also was revealed that Adams was making $150,000 more than the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, and Spaccia was paid $376,288. Four of the five City Council members paid themselves nearly $100,000 a year for their part-time service.
Rizzo, Adams and Spaccia resigned and the council members reduced their salaries to about $8,000 following the disclosures and angry public reaction.
The four council members are currently the target of a recall.
Bell's interim chief administrative officer Pedro Carrillo said the arrests marked a sad day for the city.
"It is clear that Rizzo and Spaccia were at the root of the cancer that has afflicted the city," he said.
Last week, Attorney General Jerry Brown sued eight current and former officials of Bell, accusing them of defrauding taxpayers by granting themselves salaries he said were far higher than warranted for the jobs they were doing.
Artiga was not named in the lawsuit but Adams was.
Earlier this month Bell officials confirmed the city was also the target of a racial profiling investigation by the federal government for allegedly targeting young Hispanic drivers for traffic stops to raise revenue.
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Associated Press Writer Thomas Watkins contributed to this report.
Bailey Comment:
Come on people pull your heads out of the sand! Do you really think this is only happening in California? It is happening everywhere.  Everywhere you let politicians control your tax dollars. To them it is like letting a kid loose in a candy store with the understanding the kid can have as much of anything they want. What do you really expect that kid to say to you, no thanks. Yeah right! 

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