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Instead of hot dogs, beer, and firecrackers, today would be a great day to celebrate by reading the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution. Both of them are very short but they are the two most effective documents on the planet. Most people have actually never read them. Many people have read the Bill of Rights but never the entire Constitution. Now would be a good time to do so.

Take a pad and pen and, as you read them, jot down the things that we are dealing with today that resulted in the Declaration of Independence and the things in the Constitution that are being violated. You will then have a list of the things that are causing the problems that we are now facing.

It is said that only 5% of a population will fight for their country. At this point, you still don’t have to fight. You only have to vote.

Declaration of Independence

The Constitution of the United States of America

Pelosi states that electing McCain will mean four more years of job losses .

In the mean time, she is working feverishly to and using her position as Speaker to bully Congress into attaching millions of foreign worker visa increases to the SAVE ACT. She also support the immigration lottery where 50,000 immigrants win a chance to come to the country without regard to their situation. After they are here, they are eligible and can apply for public services.

This after the failure of Feinstein and Craig to get amnesty and visa increases attached to the Iraq supplemental war bill in the Senate. You get the idea that Craig is playing along with the diva so he will get to stay.

Why would they do this you must ask. Are they trying to change this country’s demographics? What would happen 10 years from now if there are 80 million Mexican immigrants who want this to be Mexico and they wanted to move forward with the North American Union?

You can listen to Charlie Rose listen to the idiot Pelosi talking about Congress doing everything that Congress doesn’t have the Constitutional authority to do here.

They certainly do keep things interesting in New York.

New York’s black governor has given a black violent convicted felon, who happens to be an English citizen and now rapper and slum lord, a full pardon in hopes that deportation proceedings will be halted. Pardon to Slick Rick.

While some liberal people will consider that Slick Rick appears to have proved that he is at least on the mend if not rehabilitated, many will now vote for McCain. The law’s the law.

Not only has the AgJOBS amnesty beemn stripped from the Iraq Supplemental Bill but, the employment-based permanent H-2B worker increases were stripped as well!

The public outcry against Feinstein’s sneaky move to attach illegal and legal immigration increases to continued war funding may have put a knife through the heart of her amnesty bill permanently.

Apparently Reid and other Senators don’t want to have this fight during an election. Perhaps they now have a measure of the people against this.

You have to wonder what the Senate Committee was thinking. You also have to wonder why Feinstein is still running around loose, let alone still in office. This criminal has done much worse things than tap her foot in a bathroom.

Here are some of the worst things that the Feinstein Amnesty bill attached to the emergency Iraq War funding bill will do:

The AgJOBS amendment would require the Department of Homeland Security to grant “emergency agricultural worker status” (i.e., amnesty) for up to five years to as many as 1.35 million illegal aliens, plus their spouses and children, if the illegal alien:

· Can show that he/she worked 863 hours or 150 work days ( 5.75 hours of work per day), or earned at least $7,000 in agricultural employment between January1, 2004, and December 31, 2007. In other words, if the illegal alien can show that he was illegally employed in agriculture for a grand total of less than 22 weeks during a four-year period!

· Filed an amnesty application with a “qualified designated entity,” or with DHS directly if he is represented by an attorney or a nonprofit organization, during an 18-month application period that would begin six months after enactment of the amnesty.

· Was not a known terrorist or convicted criminal who has been convicted of one or more felonies or three or more misdemeanors. So, a couple of convictions for domestic violence or drunk and disorderly are fine, since those are generally misdemeanor offenses. Mahmud Abouhalima, an illegal-alien cab driver in New York, qualified for the 1986 agricultural amnesty before going on to drive a bomb into the World Trade Center in 1993.

· Paid a “fine” of $250.

Once an illegal passes these requirements, he will be entitled to:

· Bring his spouse and children here to join him, or legalize their status, if they are already here illegally.

· Official U.S. government identification documents, including a valid social security number—with which he would be able to apply for a driver’s license—and a work permit for him and his spouse.

· Immunity from prosecution for committing social security fraud if he had been working illegally with a false or stolen social security number.

Last Thursday, the Senate Appropriations Committee added these immigration amendments to the version of the Iraq Supplemental they were marking up.

· First was the Feinstein AgJOBS-lite amendment, which passed by a recorded vote of 17-12;

· A Mikulski H-2B amendment--for the next three years, it would exempt from the annual cap of 66,000 any H-2B workers who were admitted during the previous three years. (The impact on the numbers could be exponential--they could rise from 66,000 in FY 2008 to over 400,000 by FY2011.) This passed by a recorded vote of 23-6!

· Third was an amendment by Sens. Murray and Gregg to “recapture unused” employment-based visas from the past couple of decades. Since any employment-based visas that are not used in one year are added to the number of available family-based visas for the following year, there are no “unused” employment-based visas, and so there are none to “recapture.” However, Murray and Gregg’s deceptive manipulation of visa numbers would add an estimated 218,000 (total) employment-based visas to the annual cap of 140,000, until they are all used (again!). This amendment passed by voice vote.

The Democrats are obviously playing games with our soldiers’ lives. While they defeated the Iraq spending bill in Congress, they were busy adding these amnesty items in the Senate Committee. This is about as blatantly anti-American and against American Citizens’ wishes as you can get. They want to let our soldiers die protecting our country while they give away our nation and refuse to protect our borders in the legislature.

If you’ve never sent your Congressman or Senator an email, now would be the time to do it. 186,000 faxes were sent yesterday.

On a 17-12 vote this afternoon, the Senate Appropriations Committee added Sen. Feinstein’s ag amnesty to the Iraq supplemental spending bill. This bill could come up for a vote before the full Senate tomorrow. They have done this in total disregard of the overwhelming majority of the people.

This is an outrageous act of disrespect for our men and women in uniform and to the citizens of this country by attaching an illegal-alien amnesty to the Iraq spending bill. Senators should be encouraged to vote and work to strip the amnesty from the Iraq spending bill on the floor.

Your Senator can still vote NO and send the bill back to committee if the amnesty is NOT stripped. This is typical of how the Democratic Congress has traded lives for their pet projects. Every phone of every Senator should be ringing off the hook. 202-224-3121

There is no need for an amnesty to provide growers with workers. There already is an H-2A foreign ag worker program that provides growers with an unlimited number of temporary workers if the growers agree to pay a decent wage and ensure that they go home at the end of the season. Feinstein is just trying to protect the abysmally low wages and bad working conditions that farm workers labor under.

Sen. Diane Feinstein is set to try this afternoon to add an amnesty for illegal-alien ag workers to the Iraq supplemental spending bill.

The details of the amnesty are not known. There is some chance she may try to slip it through by not including permanent legalization but just giving one or two million illegal ag workers a 5-year amnesty that allows them to work and live here while further sinking roots. The open-borders champions hope that the longer illegal aliens stay the more difficult it will ever be to deny them U.S. citizenship.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has strong-armed anti-illegal-immigration Democrats to withhold their support for enforcement and is in the process of killing the SAVE Act for the year.

You can call the offices of members of the Senate Appropriations Committee and voice your objections. 202-224-3121

Here are the Appropriations Senators:

Alexander (R-Tenn.)
Allard (R-Colo.)
Byrd (D-West Va.)
Bennett (R-Utah)
Bond (R-Mo.)
Brownback (R-Kan.)
Cochran (R-Miss.)
Craig (R-Idaho)
Domenici (R-N.M.)
Dorgan (D-N.D.)
Durbin (D-Ill.)
Feinstein (D-Calif.)
Gregg (R-N.H.)
Harkin (D-Iowa)
Hutchison (R-Texas)
Inouye (D-Hawaii)
Johnson (D-S.D.)
Kohl (D-Wis.)
Landrieu (D-La.)
Lautenberg (D-N.J.)
Leahy (D-Vt.)
McConnell (R-Ky.)
Mikulski (D-Md.)
Murray (D-Wash)
Nelson (D-Neb.)
Reed (D-R.I.)
Shelby (R-Ala.)
Specter (R-Pa.)
Stevens (R-Alaska)

You can point out that there is no excuse for growers hiring illegal aliens. North Carolina growers, for example, have set up a North Carolina Growers Association that meets all of the ag labor needs through local workers and through legal foreign workers brought through the H-2A visa which ensures that the guest workers go home.

There is a good chance that Feinstein will decide not to introduce her amnesty Thursday afternoon if she feels there is a major move against it. Let every member of the committee know just how worked up citizens get as soon as they hear of a possibility of an amnesty.

Worse yet, Mexican President Calderon subtly bragged about having family members who are in the U.S. illegally. He chuckled and smiled as he said that he would not divulge their names or locations until after immigration reform legislation was passed giving them amnesty. Who’s he laughing at?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLkgBV0rSDo

After the Fed caused the .com and housing bubbles, the Bush administration wants to give the Federal Reserve Wall Street.

There is no government oversight on the Federal Reserve Bank. It is a private banking institution. No body in the federal government has the legal Constitutional authority to regulate or give oversight of Wall Street corporations, or anyone/anything else for that matter, to anyone.

Just give these guys the whole country. That’s what they want. There can be no doubt now about who is pulling Bush’s strings.

The Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s ruling upholding the state of Texas’s refusal to grant a Mexican national who was convicted of murder a new trial because he did not have access to his embassy.

In announcing the decision, Roberts said that the, “president’s authority, as with the exercise of any governmental power, stemmed from an act of Congress or the Constitution.”

There goes the kingdom.

in Egypt.

We can’t get one built here for some reason but we sure can in Egypt.

Congress also let the Bush tax cuts expire so starting in 2010, you will be paying 10-15% more in taxes and over 100,000 more of you will be out of work thanks to 3 times the number of H1-B visas

At a time of growing economic crisis with many states reporting increasing unemployment, Congress is attempting to run an end-around the public’s demand to curtail illegal immigration.

While a bill to reduce illegal immigration (H.R. 4088) remains in limbo, Members of the House are rushing to expand the H-1B visa program, which imports foreign workers to take American jobs, many of whom overstay their visas and become illegal aliens.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz) has introduced the Innovation Employment Act (H.R. 5630), which would DOUBLE the current H-1B visa cap to 130,000 per fiscal year. H.R. 5630 would further raise the cap to 180,000, for five years beginning in 2010, if the 130,000 cap is reached during the 2009 fiscal year.

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) has introduced the Strengthening United States Technology and Innovation Act (H.R. 5642), which would TRIPLE the current H-1B visa cap to 195,000 in 2008 and 2009.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) is calling for a bill that would make Rep. Smith’s increases permanent.

House Chief Deputy Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) recently made the erroneous statement that H-1B visas are “not tied up to the larger issue of illegal immigration.” Nearly half of all illegal immigrants are people who’s H-1B visa expired and stayed illegally.

Representatives Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas) have introduced a bill that would practically staple a green card to the diploma of every foreign student who gets their Ph.D. from an American University.

You can check to see if your Congressman is supporting HR4088 here.  http://www.numbersusa.com/interests/attrition.html

Here’s Lou Dobbs on this issue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsp2V3ifZjM

Adding a tax to your retirement is simply another way of saying to the American people, you’re so stupid that we’re going to keep doing this until we drain every cent from you. That’s what the Speaker of the House is saying.

Nancy Pelosi wants a Windfall Tax on Retirement Income. You aren’t going to believe this.  Madam speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to put a Windfall Tax
on all stock market profits (including Retirement funds, 401Ks and Mutual Funds to help the 12 Million Illegal Immigrants and other unemployed Minorities!

She says, “ We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income in our country and at the same time limiting the amount the rich can invest.”

When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied: “We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long ways to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as Americans”

This woman is out of her mind.

A fourth underwater telecommunications cable between Iran and OPEC countries has been cut in about a week. The cables carry both Internet and regular telephone traffic and TelCos have started using IP to transmit long distance calls because it’s cheaper. The odds of this happening accidentally are greater than winning the lotto. Most telecom people would say that this is impossible.

The thing that immediately comes to mind is that, like Saddam did prior to the invasion and Chavez is currently doing, Iran has started demanding oil payments in Euros. OPEC monarchs agreed, in exchange for protection from external forces and internal coupes, to hedge the dollar by pricing oil in U.S. currency. As the dollar continues to fall, the Euro is a more attractive form of payment.

If Iran is able to talk a couple of OPEC kings into following suit, no amount of interest rate cutting or tax rebates could stop the fall.

Cable Cuts!

It seems that making our economy available to Mexico through illegal immigration may have had some benefits. Now that the steady flow of cash and jobs south of the border has caused a better economic climate there, perhaps we won’t be seeing as many illegals as Mexico, economically, becomes a better place to live. Even CalPERS is taking 300 million of the tax dollars that were used to pay them south.  A relative and her husband who actually run California’s Democratic party are planning on retiring there as are many of their CalPERS friends. Look for the FRB to print more dollars to pump into the growing economy.

CalPERS