Obama gives a speech on immigration. Since a speech was given on immigration, Obama will not give a speech about unemployment and jobs? Interesting premise.

So if Obama gave a speech that emphasized jobs before he gave a speech on immigration, Desider would feel OK? There was something called the State of The Unio earlier this year. Some consider the SOTU to set the tone for the administration's agenda.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/State_of_the_Union/state-union-2011-obama...

It seems Obama has talked about jobs and the economy.

Obama mentioned alligators in the moat.

You think that would deter the illegal entry?

How many?

IMHO One alligator won't do it  

Why not just bring the armed troops home from Afghanistan,  and protect the border.

We don't need alligator teeth we just need teeth in our border enforcement, and please not just one soldier giving lip service.

According to Sheriff Paul Babeu, arrests are down on the border because the border patrol has been told not to arrest, but to redirect the illegals back across he border. 

How disengenious is that?

Obam doesnt like the Democrats he has to work with, so he'll just give the illegals ciizenship and tell long time Democrats I dont need you, We have replacement workers Democrats now.   

I thought this blogpost was about Obama's misuse of the immigration issue for political purposes, and in particular to avoid the issue of unemployment.  FWIW, I think immigration and unemployment are both really important issues, with unemployment being critical right now.  But I just don't believe that even a politically-motivated focus on immigration is inconsistent with the need to focus on unemployment.

Anyway, whatever.

WHY is the USA  BANKRUPT?

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 Informative,  and mind  boggling!
 You think the war in  Iraq is costing us too much?  Read this:
 
 Boy, was I confused.  I have been hammered with the propaganda that it is
 the  Iraq war and the war on terror that is bankrupting us.
 I now find that to be RIDICULOUS.

 I hope the following 14 reasons are forwarded over and over again until they
 are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them.  I also
 have included the URL's for verification of all the following facts...
 
 1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each
 year by state governments.
 
 Verify at:
 http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7f
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 2.  $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as
 food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.

 Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML

 3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
 Verify at: http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML

 4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school
 education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of
 English!
 Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt..0HTML

 5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born
 children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
 Verify at http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01HTML

 6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY(1.1 Billion a year) is spent to incarcerate
 illegal aliens.
 Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt01.HTML
 7.  30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
 Verify at:
 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01HTML<http://transcripts
 /..cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML>
 8.  $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare &
 social services by the American taxpayers.
 Verify at: http://premium.cnn/..com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.HTML
 9.  $200 Billion dollars a year in suppressed American wages are caused by
 the illegal aliens.
 Verify at: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSC%20RI%20PTS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
 10.  The illegal aliens in the United States  have a crime rate that's two
 and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens.  In particular, their
 children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US .
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 11.  During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens that
 crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from
 Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroin and
 marijuana, crossed into the   US  from the Southern border. They have
 improved on that, they now plant large swaths of land in the Sierrra Nevada
 Mts with marijuana. Protected by armed guards and worked by immigrants .They
 are in some of the most desolate areas  and the police are too  few to cause
 them any concerns!!  They keep the illegals working for them by keeping
 their families back in Mexico.
  
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  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt..01.HTML%3E> Verify at:
 Homeland Security Report:
 12.  The National policy Institute, estimated that the total cost of mass
 deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost of
 between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period.'

 Verify at: http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute/..org/PDF/deportation.PDF
 13.  In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances to their
 countries of origin.

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 <http://www.rense.com/general75/niht..htm%3E>
 <http://www.rense.com/general75/niht..htm%3E> 
 14..  'The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One million sex crimes
 Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States .'
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 The total cost is a whopping $ 338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR AND IF YOU'RE
 LIKE ME HAVING TROUBLE UNDERSTANDING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY; IT IS
 $338,300,000,000.00 WHICH WOULD BE ENOUGH TO STIMULATE THE ECONOMY FOR THE
 CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY. A Just one million dollars of this given to each

  <http://20w.drdsk.com/articleshtml%3E>  honest citizen of the USA would
 result in spending our way our of this mess we are in!

IMMIGRANT POEM

I cross ocean, poor and broke, Take bus, see employment folk.

Nice man treat me good in there, Say I need to see welfare.

Welfare say, "You come no more, We send cash right to your door."

Welfare checks, they make you wealthy, Medicaid it keep you healthy!

By and by, I got plenty money, Thanks to you, American dummy.

Write to friends in motherland, Tell them 'come fast as you can.'

They come in turbans and cheby Ford trucks, I buy big house with welfare bucks

They come here, we live together, More welfare checks, it gets better!

Fourteen families, they moving in, But neighbor's patience wearing thin.

Finally, white guy moves away, Now I buy his house, and then I
say,

"Find more aliens for house to rent." And in the yard I put a tent.

Send for family they just trash, But they, too, draw the welfare cash!

Everything is very good, And soon we own the neighbourhood.

We have hobby it's called breeding, Welfare pay for baby feeding.

Kids need dentist? Wife need pills? We get free! We got no bills!

American crazy! He pay all year, To keep welfare   running here.

We think America darn good place! Too darn good for the white man race.

 If they no like us, they can scram, Got lots of room in Pakistan.

It is interesting that the federal government provides a
single refugee with a monthly allowance of $1,890.00 and each can also
get  an additional $580.00 in social assistance for a total of $2,470.00.
This compares very well to a single pensioner who after contributing to the growth and development of America for 40 to 50  years can only receive a monthly maximum of $1,012.00 in old age pension and Guaranteed Income Supplement. 

 Maybe our pensioners should apply as refugees!

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Yesterday I'd been trying to think through why the argument that legalizing Mexican and other immigrants roughly in the paths to citizenship described by Obama would rob other Americans of jobs wasn't  altogether valid. (Wow; what an unwieldy sentence, and I can't seem to fix it) I had a lot of different stuff in my head yesterday, and I don't know all the economic terms that would make formulating a counter argument coherent.  I kept coming back to the notion that immigrant/native born employment isn't zero sum, and could actually create more jobs.  I'd read a piece from Bell Policy Institute years ago that described why that's true.  It's a non-partisan think tank in Colorado, and I've learned to trust their analyses.

Anyway, this morning I stuck 'not zero sum' into the Google with a few other terms, and found this article from The Hill., part of which says:

"A recent study conducted by Dr. Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda for the Immigration Policy Center and the Center for American Progress, estimates that immigration reform would add at least $1.5 trillion in cumulative Gross Domestic Product to the U.S. economy over 10 years. Over the first three years alone, the higher personal incomes of new and newly legalized immigrant workers would generate enough consumer spending to support 750,000 to 900,000 jobs in the United States, as well as increased tax revenues of $4.5 billion to $5.4 billion.

 A second study, by University of Southern California researchers, estimates that legalizing unauthorized immigrants would yield $16 billion in annual economic benefits to California alone when all the “multiplier effects” of higher wages, increased consumer spending and increased tax revenue are taken into account. The study estimates that “granted legal status, California’s unauthorized immigrants could strengthen our national social safety net by bolstering Social Security and Medicare taxes by an additional $2.2 billion annually.”

Before I stuck that 'not zero sum' in, I found lots of tirades like Resistance's in the hits, with some pretty ugly bias with purported facts to ballast them (as his do).  I dunno; around here, all the Mexican and Central American folks have been good additions to the community and the schools, save for the bias against the schoolkids and some of the more active bigots seeming to feel it's their duty to harass them.

The kids learn English, not always the adults, which does piss off some Anglos.  Though the practicalities involved in taking English classes (distance to travel, time, etc.) would need to be considered very fairly, IMO, before making it mandatory.

Employment is not a zero-sum game in which workers compete for some set number of jobs. Workers who earn higher wages also buy more goods and services from U.S. businesses, and pay more in taxes to federal and state governments, both of which create jobs.

We have had massive (mostly legal) immigration in Miami in the last 50 years and the place is basically uninhabitable and ungovernable. The poor have suffered the most. And the environment.