tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post5350617072682498474..comments2023-10-28T03:14:44.519-07:00Comments on Calhouns Can(n)ons: NewsstandGreghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04099049885765768069noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-16640515481455324572008-02-29T20:09:00.000-08:002008-02-29T20:09:00.000-08:00What if 20 Million Illegal Aliens Vacated America?...What if 20 Million Illegal Aliens Vacated America?<BR/><BR/>Tina Griego, journalist for the Denver Rocky Mountain News wrote a <BR/>column titled, "Mexican Visitor's Lament" -- 10/25/07.<BR/><BR/> She interviewed Mexican journalist Evangelina Hernandez while <BR/>visiting Denver last week. Hernandez said, "They (illegal aliens) pay rent, <BR/>buy groceries, buy clothes...What Happens to your country's economy if 20<BR/>million people go away?" That's a good question - it deserves an answer. <BR/>Over 80 percent of Americans demand secured borders and illegal migration <BR/>stopped. But what would happen if all 20 million or more vacated America?<BR/>The answers may surprise you!<BR/><BR/> In California, if 3.5 million illegal aliens moved back to Mexico,<BR/>it would leave an extra $10.2 billion to spend on overloaded school systems, <BR/>bankrupt hospitals and overrun prisons. It would leave highways cleaner,<BR/>safer and less congested. Everyone could understand one another as English <BR/>became the dominant language again.<BR/><BR/> In Colorado, 500,000 illegal migrants, plus their 300,000 kids and <BR/>grand-kids - would move back 'home', mostly to Mexico. That would save<BR/>Coloradans an estimated $2 billion (other experts say $7 billion) annually <BR/>in taxes that pay for schooling, medical, social-services and incarceration <BR/>costs. It means 12,000 gang members would vanish out of Denver alone.<BR/><BR/> Colorado would save more than $20 million in prison costs, and the <BR/>terror that those 7,300 alien criminals set upon local citizens. Denver <BR/>Officer Don Young and hundreds of Colorado victims would not have suffered<BR/>death, accidents, rapes and other crimes by illegals.<BR/><BR/> Denver Public Schools would not suffer a 67 percent <BR/>drop-out/flunk-out rate because of thousands of illegal alien students <BR/>speaking 41 different languages. At least 200,000 vehicles would vanish from<BR/>our gridlocked cities in Colorado.<BR/><BR/> Denver's four percent unemployment rate would vanish as our working <BR/>poor would gain jobs at a living wage. <BR/><BR/> In Florida, 1.5 million illegals would return the Sunshine State<BR/>back to America, the rule of law, and English.<BR/><BR/> In Chicago, Illinois, 2.1 million illegals would free up hospitals, <BR/>schools, prisons and highways for a safer, cleaner and more crime-free <BR/>experience.<BR/><BR/> If 20 million illegal aliens returned 'home' --<BR/><BR/> If 20 million illegal aliens returned 'home', the U.S. Economy would<BR/>return to the rule of law. Employers would hire legal American citizens at a <BR/>living wage. Everyone would pay their fair share of taxes because they<BR/>wouldn't be working off the books. That would result in an additional $401 <BR/>Billion in IRS income taxes collected annually, and an equal amount for <BR/>local, state and city coffers.<BR/><BR/> No more push '1' for Spanish or '2' for English. No more confusion<BR/>in American schools that now must contend with over 100 languages that <BR/>degrade the educational system for American kids. Our overcrowded schools <BR/>would lose more than two million illegal alien kids at a cost of billions in<BR/>ESL and free breakfasts and lunches.<BR/><BR/> We would lose 500,000 illegal criminal alien inmates at a cost of <BR/>more than $1.6 billion annually. That includes 15,000 MS-13 gang members who <BR/>distribute $130 billion in drugs annually would vacate our country.<BR/><BR/> In cities like L.A., 20,000 members of the '18th Street Gang' would <BR/>vanish from our nation. No more Mexican forgery gangs for ID theft from <BR/>Americans! No more foreign rapists and child molesters!<BR/><BR/> Losing more than 20 million people would clear up our crowded<BR/>highways and gridlock. Cleaner air and less drinking and driving American <BR/>deaths by illegal aliens! <BR/><BR/> America's economy is drained. Taxpayers are harmed. Employers get<BR/>rich. Over $80 billion annually wouldn't return to the aliens' home<BR/>countries by cash transfers. Illegal migrants earned half that money <BR/>untaxed, which further drains America's economy - which currently suffers an<BR/>$8.7 trillion debt.<BR/><BR/> At least 400,000 anchor babies would not be born in our country,<BR/>costing us $109 billion per year per cycle. At least 86 hospitals in <BR/>California, Georgia and Florida would still be operating instead of being<BR/>bankrupt out of existence because illegals pay nothing via the EMTOLA Act.<BR/><BR/> Americans wouldn't suffer thousands of TB and hepatitis cases <BR/>rampant in our country-brought in by illegals unscreened at our borders.<BR/><BR/> Our cities would see 20 million less people driving, polluting and<BR/>grid locking our cities. It would also put the 'progressives' on the horns <BR/>of a dilemma; illegal aliens and their families cause 11 percent of our<BR/>greenhouse gases.<BR/><BR/> Over one million of Mexico's poorest citizens now live inside and<BR/>along our border from Brownsville, Texas to San Diego, California in what <BR/>the New York Times called, "colonias" or new neighborhoods. Trouble is,<BR/>those living areas resemble Bombay and Calcutta where grinding poverty,<BR/>filth, diseases, drugs, crimes, no sanitation and worse. They live without <BR/>sewage, clean water, streets, electricity, roads or any kind of sanitation.<BR/>The New York Times reported them to be America's new "Third World" inside<BR/>our own country. Within 20 years, at their current growth rate, they expect <BR/>20 million residents of those colonias. (I've seen them personally in Texas<BR/>and Arizona; it's sickening beyond anything you can imagine.) By enforcing<BR/>our laws, we could repatriate them back to Mexico.<BR/><BR/> We should invite 20 million aliens to go home, fix their own<BR/>countries and/or make a better life in Mexico. We already invite a million<BR/>people into our country legally more than all other countries combined <BR/>annually. We cannot and must not allow anarchy at our borders, more anarchy<BR/>within our borders and growing lawlessness at every level in our nation.<BR/>It's time to stand up for our country, our culture, our civilization and our <BR/>way of life.<BR/><BR/> Interesting Statistics. Here are 14 reasons illegal aliens should<BR/>vacate America, and I hope they are forwarded over and over again until they<BR/>are read so many times that the reader gets sick of reading them: <BR/><BR/> 1. $11 billion to $22 billion dollars are spent each year on welfare<BR/>to illegal aliens. http://tinyurl.com/zob77<BR/><BR/> 2. $2.2 billion dollars are spent each year on food assistance<BR/>programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal<BR/>aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html<BR/><BR/> 3. $2.5 billion dollars are spent each year on Medicaid for illegal<BR/>aliens. http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html<BR/><BR/> 4. $12 billion dollars are spent each year on primary and secondary<BR/>school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of<BR/>English! http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html <BR/><BR/> 5. $17 billion dollars are spent each year for education for the<BR/>American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.<BR/>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html<BR/><BR/> 6. $3 Million Dollars PER DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal<BR/>aliens. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html<BR/><BR/> 7. 30% percent of all federal prison inmates are illegal aliens.<BR/>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html<BR/><BR/> 8. $90 billion dollars are spent each year on illegal aliens for<BR/>welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.<BR/>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html<BR/><BR/> 9. $200 billion dollars per year in suppressed American wages are<BR/>caused by the illegal aliens.<BR/>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.html<BR/><BR/> 10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's<BR/>two and a half times that of white non-illegal aliens. In particular, their <BR/>children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US.<BR/>http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.html<BR/><BR/> 11. During the year 2005, there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens<BR/>that crossed our southern border with as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from <BR/>terrorist countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine,<BR/>and marijuana crossed into the U.S. from the southern border.<BR/>http://tinyurl.com/t9sht<BR/><BR/> 12. The National Policy Institute, estimates that the total cost of<BR/>mass deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion, or an average cost<BR/>of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period. <BR/>http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/publications.php?b=deportation <BR/><BR/> 13. In 2006, illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances<BR/>back to their countries of origin. http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm<BR/><BR/> 14. The dark side of illegal immigration: Nearly one million sex<BR/>crimes are committed by illegal immigrants in the United States!"<BR/>http://www.drdsk.com/articles.html<BR/><BR/> The total cost is a whopping $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR!!!Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12745418296700849040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-6362350183467940752008-02-29T11:25:00.000-08:002008-02-29T11:25:00.000-08:00Hungry for change? How about the 60's? How about R...Hungry for change? How about the 60's? How about Rosa Parks, how about the women's movement. And what was going on prior? Think change was in order then?<BR/><BR/>Take a poll in Europe. See how well we are liked. Compare now with 10 years ago. Think some change might be in order?<BR/><BR/>Ask the citizens of New Orleans how responsive the federal government was to them? Next time, might we not want a change of response to devastation?<BR/><BR/>Just because the people of America respond to each other in great ways doesn't mean there isn't need for change, or that Michelle Obama isn't aware of the wonderful things about America. She worked hard to get to where she is - she wasn't born into it.<BR/><BR/>How about this - one out of every one hundred persons in America is in jail. Think we might need to change that?<BR/><BR/>Ragging on Michelle Obama by Ms. Malkin seems driven by some other motive than pointing out how great America is. Change happens because change becomes a word spoken by enough people with enough conviction to make it actually happen. It happens when it becomes a popular word on everyone's mind. It comes in cycles and it is often inspired by the right person at the right time. How about keeping what is great about America and start CHANGING the parts we are now inspired enough to start fixing?<BR/><BR/>Isn't the fact that a mixed race person, living as a child in a foreign country, not growing up in the best of circumstances, now a front runner in the presidential race, proof of what is great about America?Sewertoons AKA Lynette Tornatzkyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04501351678541088868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13758431.post-79560571173005439102008-02-29T07:21:00.000-08:002008-02-29T07:21:00.000-08:00*Michelle Obama's America -- And Mine** *By Michel...*Michelle Obama's America -- And Mine** <BR/>*By Michelle Malkin February 20, 2008 Like Michelle Obama, I am a "woman of color." Like Michelle Obama, I am a working mother of two young children. Like Michelle Obama, I am a member of the 13th generation of Americans born since the founding of our great nation. Unlike Michelle Obama, I can't keep track of the number of times I've been proud -- really proud -- of my country since I was born and privileged to live in it. At a speech in Milwaukee this week on behalf of her husband's Democratic presidential campaign, Mrs. Obama remarked, "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country, and not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change." Mrs. Obama's statement was met with warm applause from other Barack supporters who have apparently also been devoid of pride in their country for their adult lifetimes. Or maybe it was just a Pavlovian response to the word "change." What a sad, empty, narcissistic, ungrateful, unthinking lot. I'm just seven years younger than Mrs. Obama. We've grown up and lived in the same era. And yet, her self-absorbed attitude is completely foreign to me. What planet is she living on? Since when was now the only time the American people have ever been "hungry for change"? Michelle, ma belle, Barack is not the center of the universe. Newsflash: The Obamas did not invent "change" any more than Hillary invented "leadership" or John McCain invented "straight talk." We were both adults when the Berlin Wall fell, Michelle. *That *was earth-shattering change. We've lived through two decades' worth of peaceful, if contentious election cycles under the rule of law, which have brought about "change" and upheaval, both good and bad. We were adults through several launches of the space shuttle, in case you were snoozing. And as adults, we've witnessed and benefited from dizzyingly rapid advances in technology, communications, science and medicine pioneered by American entrepreneurs who yearned to change the world and succeeded. You want "change"? Go ask the patients whose lives have been improved and extended by American pharmaceutical companies that have flourished under the best economic system in the world. If American ingenuity, a robust constitutional republic and the fall of communism don't do it for you, hon, then how about American heroism and sacrifice? How about every Memorial Day? Every Veterans Day? Every Independence Day? Every Medal of Honor ceremony? Has she never attended a welcome home ceremony for the troops? For me, there's the thrill of the Blue Angels roaring over cloudless skies. And the somber awe felt amid the hallowed waters that surround the sunken U.S.S. Arizona at the Pearl Harbor memorial. Every naturalization ceremony I've attended, where hundreds of new Americans raised their hands to swear an oath of allegiance to this land of liberty, has been a moment of pride for me. So have the awesome displays of American compassion at home and around the world. When millions of Americans rallied to help victims of the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia -- including members of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group that sped from Hong Kong to assist survivors -- my heart filled with pride. It did again when the citizens of Houston opened their arms to Hurricane Katrina victims and folks across the country rushed to their churches, and Salvation Army and Red Cross offices to volunteer. <BR/> <BR/>* How about American resilience? Does that not make you proud? Only a heart of stone could be unmoved by the strength, valor and determination displayed in New York, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pa., on September <BR/>11, 2001.* <BR/>*I believe it was Michael Kinsley who quipped that a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth. In this case, it's what happens when an elite Democratic politician's wife says what a significant portion of the party's base really believes to be the truth: America is more a source of shame than pride.* <BR/>*Michelle Obama has achieved enormous professional success, political influence and personal acclaim in America. Ivy League-educated, she's been lauded by Essence magazine as one of the 25 World's Most Inspiring Women; by Vanity Fair as one of the 10 World's Best-Dressed Women; and named one of "The Harvard 100" most influential alumni. She has had an amazingly blessed life. But you wouldn't know it from her campaign rhetoric and her griping about her and her husband's student loans.* <BR/>*For years, we've heard liberals get offended at any challenge to their patriotism. And so they are again aggrieved and rising to explain away Mrs. Obama's remarks.* <BR/>*Lady Michelle and her defenders protest too much.*Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12745418296700849040noreply@blogger.com