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TIME TO END THE IMMIGRATION HYSTERIA PROMOTED BY REPUBICANS

July 31, 2010 By: admin Category: immigration

An article reported in yesterday’s Time Magazine titled “The ‘Dangerous’ Border is Actually one of America’s Safest Place.

LOWEST VIOLENT CRIME RATES IN USA BORDER CITIES

According to the FBI, the four large U.S. cities (with populations of at least 500,000) with the lowest violent crime rates — San Diego, Phoenix and the Texas cities of El Paso and Austin — are all in border states.

An even more telling example is El Paso. Its cross-border Mexican sister city, Ciudad Juárez, suffered almost 2,700 murders last year, most of them drug-related, making it possibly the world’s most violent town. But El Paso, a stone’s throw across the Rio Grande, had just one murder.

ARIZONA’S CRIME RATE HAS DROPPED CONSIDERABLY THE PAST FEW YEARS

Consider Arizona itself — whose illegal-immigrant population is believed to be second only to California’s. The state’s overall crime rate dropped 12% last year; between 2004 and 2008 it plunged 23%. In the metro area of its largest city, Phoenix, violent crime — encompassing murder, rape, assault and robbery — fell by a third during the past decade and by 17% last year. The border city of Nogales, an area rife with illegal immigration and drug trafficking, hasn’t logged a single murder in the past two years.

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Arizona law-enforcement officials say they believe the Cochise County rancher, Robert Krentz, was killed by an illegal immigrant — perhaps a coyote, or migrant smuggler — or a drug trafficker. His last radio transmission home as he inspected his property indicated he was helping a struggling person he believed to be one of the migrants who regularly trespass private land while crossing into the U.S. But while such assaults are hardly unheard of along the border — and while it’s hardly irrational to worry about Mexico’s violence eventually spilling into the U.S. — they have hardly risen to a level that justified the draconian Arizona bill. (In fact, if an illegal immigrant did murder Krentz, it would be the first time in more than a decade that a migrant has killed an American along the border’s Tucson, Ariz.)

END SAM JOHNSON’S 20 YEAR PARTISANSHIP IN NOVEMBER

July 30, 2010 By: admin Category: Campaigning, class war

H.R.847: To amend the Public Health Service Act to extend and improve protections and services to individuals directly impacted by the terrorist attack in New York City on September 11, 2001, and for other purposes.

and how did Sam Johnson vote?

Did he vote for the Heroes of 9/11?

Hell no.  Sam Johnson voted party line just like he has for the past 20 years.

If you think that it is right to use 9/11 as the reason for declaring war on Iraq, a country that had absolutely NOTHING to do with the destruction of the Twin Towers.

If you like all the flag waving and phony patriotism over 9/11.

If you think that is is right for our nation and our elected officials to turn their backs on the brave men and women who responded to this disaster.  If you don’t give a damn for the American workers, then you go ahead and vote for Sam Johnson this November because he and 158 of his good ole boys, just like his good ole boy Collin County Commissioners who gave Johnson’s son a  multimillion dollar no bid contract in 2006, agree with you.

If  you want obstructionism politics, if you want continued handouts to the rich, then you go ahead and vote for Sam Johnson. If you are in Joe Barton’s district [ the  corporate apologetic weasel],  or Pete Session’s district and believe that we should turn our backs on these heroes, then you go ahead and vote for those good ole boys too.  Sam Johnson, Pete Sessions and Joe Barton are all three disgusting peas in the same pod for the rich who believe that heroes are to be used–not supported.  Of course, Sam Johnson appears to be suffering from memory loss because he has had his way paid by the American taxpayer his entire long life of 80 years.

Don’t take my word for it GO HERE TO SEE HOW THESE TRES AMIGOS VOTED.

H.R.  847

Tea Party Darlings like Michele Bachmann also turned their backs on the heroes of 9/11.

KICK THEM ALL OUT!

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A STORY OF TWO YACHTS–ONE OWNED BY A Republican and one owned by a Democrat

July 30, 2010 By: admin Category: class war

Nothing quite illustrates the plutocrats that we have running our country than the stories of two yachts.

I ask  you–how much do you think that you have in common with either of these multimillionaires.  Do  you think they even have a clue regarding your daily life on main street?

REPUBLICAN YACHT STORY

Jeff Greene Multimillionaire Florida [Republican Libertarian posing as a Democrat] running for the senate pledged to spend $40 million just to run a primary campaign against Kendrick Meek for a shot at the Florida Senate seat.  Greene might consider using some of that money to pay the country of Belize for the damage his yacht did to their coral reefs.  His 145-foot yacht destroyed a coral reef five years ago, and he owes $1.87 million in fines.

DEMOCRAT YACHT STORY

Senator John Kerry Multimillionaire Democratic Senator says that he intended to pay Massachusetts Taxes on his $7 million yacht but concedes he mishandled the public furor over his decision to dock the vessel in tax-free Rhode Island.  The Democrat moved to end the controversy this week by saying he would write Massachusetts a check for about $500,000, whether he owed the money or not.

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Then there are other Republicans like Sam Johnson of the House of Representatives who, while  not a multimillionaire, has received in excess of $2 million in salary from the taxpayers for the past 20 years and has no doubt been influential in assisting his son in becoming a  multimillionaire. In 2006 the Collin County Commissioners awarded Bob Johnson, his son, a multimillion dollar no-bid contract to manage the North Central Texas Fusion Center.  Bob Johnson does not even live in the state, much less the region.  He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Sam likes yachts just as well as any multimillionaire and he proves it with his votes time and again.  For example: Sam Johnson doesn’t think that pe0ple who live on Main Street deserve to have their homes saved and he proved it by voting against H.R. 1106 “Helping Families Save their Homes Act.”  This bill authorizes bankruptcy courts to modify the terms of mortgages made on homeowners’ primary residences, a practice which is barred by current law.  However the current Bankruptcy law permits such restructuring for vacation home and yachts.

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“I don’t have to worry. As long as Sam Johnson is in office, my yacht and vacation homes are protected.

CITIZENS NEED TO BE REMINDED THAT THEY HAVE THE MOST POWER TO EXERT INFLUENCE AT A LOCAL LEVEL

July 29, 2010 By: admin Category: class war

For one specific example, the citizens of Plano Texas could contact their local council members in person and let them know how penny wise and pound foolish they  are in bending over for Wall Street Corporations.

In November of 2009, we saw reported on WFFA that Pizza Hut is now poised to move from Addison to Plano. the company will likely build its new headquarters at the Legacy business park, alongside other corporate giants like JC Penney, Frito Lay and Hewlett-Packard.  “Any time you can get a national or multi-national corporation to call your city its home base or headquarters, it’s a huge thing for a community, a very positive signal to people that this is a great place to do business,” said Plano Mayor Phil Dyer.  Another council member referred to is as a “jewel in Plano’s crown.”

Those incentives were approved by the Plano City Council in November of 2009, including a $1,350,000 tax break, $500,000 in relocation expenses and $250,000 cash for building inspection and permit fees. –Did any interested citizen ask if the $1,350,000 tax break was a one time event, or an ongoing gift from the taxpayers of Plano?  Did anyone ask if the $250,000 waiver of permit fees  was a one time event or another annual gift?

The Pizza Hut, a Wall Street corporation moved from Addision, a nearby community to Plano.  Does anyone really think that people from Addison and nearby communities are going to sell their homes and move to Plano because of this move of the corporate headquarters?

Does anyone think that these employees will do any more shopping in Plano that they did before–not likely.  The real beneficiary of this largess provided by the elected officials of Plano was not its citizens.  It was Pizza Hut.

And those local conservatives of Plano who love to yammer about lowering property taxes would do well to remember there property taxes were raised in 2006 to the tune of $40 a year per $244,000 homes (and more or less according to value of home) in 2006–just to provide for such nonsensical shell games as communities competing against each other for the “honor” of a Wall Street corporation in their midst.

“CONSERVATIVE” REPUBLICANS NEED TO START CONNECTING THE DOTS

Plano City Council members got their first look at the proposed 2011 budget on Wednesday that calls for a property tax rate increase for a second straight year.

The annual tax bill on a house valued at $245,802, the city average, would rise $14 to $990 under the recommended budget from City Manager Tom Muehlenbeck.

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Perhaps if the Plano City Council would stop giving away the taxpayers money to Wall Street corporations like Pizza Hut.  Perhaps if they asked that Pizza Hut like all the other corporate freeloaders in Plano to pay their fair share of local taxes that the citizens would not be stuck paying the freeloaders bill.

SMALL LOCAL GOVERNMENTS WITH GUMPTION ARE TAKING ACTION

July 29, 2010 By: admin Category: class war

EDUCATE  YOUR CONSERVATIVE FRIENDS THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS–SUCH AS PUBLIC UTILITIES–THAT SHOULD BE HELD IN PUBLIC–NOT PRIVATE TRUST.

It is up to local governments to see that the citizens, not Wall Street’s, best interests are represented. Enough of local government and their pimping for Wall Street Corporations.

This is NOT socialism.  This is protection of citizens from corporate greed.  There are plenty of markets left for the capitalists to compete in.  Just keep them the hell our of healthcare insurance, utilties, education k through 12, management of the nation’s infrastructure and prisons.

YES  magazine reports that the city of Fenton California took back control of their water supply from a private industry.

In 2002, when Citizen Utilities, the small company that ran the water system for Fenton, California  was acquired by American Water Works Co. Its subsidiary, California-American Water (Cal-Am), took over Felton’s water utility. American Water was acquired shortly afterward by London-based Thames Water.

In November 2002, Cal-Am proposed a 74 percent rate increase over three years, subject to approval by the California Public Utilities Commission. Felton residents formed Friends of Locally Owned Water (FLOW), and with legal help from Santa Cruz County, fought the rate increase, which the utilities commission knocked down to 44 percent. But the threat of escalating costs loomed, so FLOW began working on a plan to buy the water system and turn it over to the nearby San Lorenzo Valley Water District (SLVWD), a public utility

Their efforts were successful, and the ballot initiative won with nearly 75 percent of the vote. SLVWD then proposed to buy the water system for $7.6 million, but Cal-Am/RWE refused to sell. So SLVWD pursued eminent domain to force a buyout. Just before the case was to go to jury trial, the company settled with SLVWD. Today, with Felton’s water back in the hands of a public utility, the average resident’s bill has dropped by at least 50 percent. FLOW has calculated that even with the tax increase, most residents are already saving as much as $400 per year

At what point do we demand that our local governments stop making concessions to Wall Street Corporations?

July 29, 2010 By: admin Category: class war

At what point do our local Governments stop treating Wall Street Polluters as if they have a right to destroy the environment and force people to work for slave wages?

Perhaps we should say no when we can no longer even go to our beaches, lake shores and river banks, much less swim in the water that has been polluted by industrial discharge and oil spills.
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Perhaps we should say no when  the majority of all animal species have become extinct because of industrial pollution.

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Perhaps we should say no, you can’t have a free ride  when we realize that there may not be another generation because slave wages paid by Wall Street corporations, combined with the high prices for food are not sufficient to sustain life.  We already see evidences of this all over the world and the USA is no exception.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that in 2008:

  • Of the 49.1 million people living in food insecure households (up from 36.2 million in 2007), 32.4 million are adults (14.4 percent of all adults) and 16.7 million are children (22.5 percent of all children).
  • 17.3 million people lived in households that were considered to have “very low food security,” a USDA term (previously denominated “food insecure with hunger”) that means one or more people in the household were hungry over the course of the year because of the inability to afford enough food. This was up from 11.9 million in 2007 and 8.5 million in 2000.

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Are American Voters going change the false notion that it is necessary to “sell the farm” to Wall Street to have jobs?

July 29, 2010 By: admin Category: class war

If so, it will have to begin with people in  local governments and local Chamber of Commerce’s who stop making any kind of a deal with Wall Street corporations to attract business to their communities.

In Texas, we see this at a state level with our governor who is willing to allow industry to pollute our air and our water.

This faulty logic of an “either/or” mentality must end if we are sustain life on our planet. We have been hoodwinked for years by special interests into thinking that either they must have their way and be allowed to pollute and take unnecessary risks with worker safety and all without paying their fair share of taxes or they won’t bring their business to town.  We must have local leaders who have the courage and insight to say no.  No it is YOU who must be responsible and pay your taxes to the community that you use.  It is YOU who must reduce YOUR profits.  It is YOU who must not put our community at risk for your profits.

OTHERWISE, we will use our tax dollars to create community corporations.  Every community in America should have at least two community corporations that are owned by shareholders who live in the community.  This is the only way to stabilize local economies.  Wall Street corporations do not own their alliance to the communities that they pollute.  They owe their alliance to their global shareholders.

If local communities don’t start making them behave–no one will.

DEMAND THAT YOUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT STOP HANDING OVER YOUR COMMUNITY TO WALL STREET.

Another area where local communities are vulnerable is with food security.  To the extent possible, all food consumed locally should be grown locally and/or in the nearby region.

In Rick Perry’s Texas, no sacrifice is too great to make for Wall Street.

July 27, 2010 By: admin Category: Texas and Texans

In Rick Perry’s Texas, no sacrifice is too great for a job–and that includes giving up the air you breathe.

Perry’s commission over the years has granted over 140 pollution permits to large petrochemical companies and other large industries in an attempt to skirt the Clean Air Act.  That is why we have an orange alert OZONE alert several times a month in Texas.

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More Dog Whistle Politics from Fox News, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin and the NRA

July 27, 2010 By: admin Category: Liars and Nuts

If you don’t know what “Dog Whistle Politics” are, then get an education.

If you think that it is any accident that Glenn Beck chose August 28 as the day for his “non-political”  ,  “Restoring the Honor” rally, then you don’t understand dog whistle politics and you don’t realize that August 28th marks the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream speech” which was delivered at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial.

Although Glenn Beck has told attendees that his “Restoring Honor” rally will be a “nonpolitical rally,” it will feature speeches by Sarah Palin and Ted Nugent and is partially sponsored by the National Rifle Association.

The latest edition of the NRA’s magazine First Freedom features a full-page front cover ad for the rally.

In other words, these nuts could not be more direct than if they were sending the message to the criminally insane that it is acceptable to put a bullet in Obama’s head.

STOP YOUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT FROM GIVING AWAY YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO WALL STREET!

July 27, 2010 By: admin Category: class war

Time for a Larry Loophole refresher. Wall Street corporations do not give a damn about your community. This cartoon illustrates not only how private equity firms operate, but in fact how all Wall Street Corporations act. They will shut down factories and stores in your community–even if they are turning a profit–provided that it serves their global model. Wall Street is precisely what is wrong with our economy today. There is money to be lent. It is not being lent because the banks are saving it for Brazil, India and China. Wall Street does not give a damn about anything but their investors.

That is why it is critical for local governments to stop giving away the farm to entice these crooks into our communities. Local governments need to diversify and establish at least two locally owned and managed corporations for their communities to stabilize their economies to hedge against the scenario shown in Loophole Larry.