Immigration Anger? Losing the bigger picture..

We do have a serious problem with illegal immigration. I know. I work in a public school system where my elementary school kids cannot always remember the name by which they were enrolled. They don't have addresses or phone numbers, (which constantly change by the way) because parents don't want to be found. Families move around the city frequently to avoid detection. Many live with legal relatives or friends-two or three families may live together, sleeping in shifts, waiting in the Kmart parking lot for an employer looking for cheap labor.


We can't have it both ways. Large employers hire illegal immigrants because the deal is good. Immigrants are hard workers, the pay it worth fourfold in Mexico, the employer pays no taxes, social security and below minimum wage. Many times laborers are cheated in the agreement, but employers know they can't do anything about it.
Employers need to feel the consequences of hiring illegal immigrants. Ignorance is no excuse. Neither is the greed employers harbor when hiring illegals.  Americans need to ask themselves-"At what point do we acknowledge the need for fair and equitable treatment for workers, a fair profit for employers, and a just employment system?
At the present time the greed in our country is so rampant and blatant, citizens have a right to be angry.
But they seem to be killing the wrong messenger.
Illegal immigration isn't the biggest problem we have right now.
It is our willingness to forfeit our own freedoms to address a problem which could be easily dealt with.
George Bush made the invasion of our privacy quite palatable to us. We still haven't made a peep about the fact we can be arrested under the guise of terrorist, placed in confinement, refused the right to be told of our
crimes, refused a trial, and held indefinitely. In addition, our phone calls, emails and any other correspondence can be monitored without our knowledge at any time.
US citizens, forget the wired and bugged White House of the Nixon Administration. History is not exactly a priority of standardized testing, so we seem doomed to repeat our mistakes.
The McCarthy era spread the same paranoia, anger, and ignorance as the Rush Limbaughs of the present day craziness.
When an entire state legislator votes to required a birth certificate prior to placement on a ballot, all based on the bizarro birth certificate fairy tale concocted by crazy media, we are out of control.
These are frightning times for Americans. Misdirected anger , fueled mostly by ignorance, is leading us down a cliff, lemming like, and the obviousness of it is seen by the entire world, except for those it will impact the most-us.
Profiling of any sort leads to the era of "armbands"-shall we continue to lead to our destiny?-Hitlerish choices, to segregate and isolate our nation?
The simplistic philosophy, "You don't have anything to worry about if you haven't done anything wrong" is a great and deadly fallacy.
Not all Hispanics have carmel colored skin and dark hair.
It could be you-picked up because you don't carry your social security card, or "proof" of citizenship by some disgruntled cop, locked up, unjustly, until you can prove your citizenship.
Of course, you don't believe it. 
Therein lies the frightning prospect of making laws which oppress rather than fixing a problem.
I wish I could understand better how perfectly reasonable people , some of whom I love dearly, fueled by fear and anger, are willing to give up the liberty and freedoms we all hold so dearly just to feel like they have a modicum of control. 
Vengeance does not steer well, my comrades.It moves full boar ahead into any obstacle, ignoring the helpless and the innocent. 
Anger is a dangerous engine to drive any decision. 
Think about that. When was the last time you made an excellent decision in the midst of rage?

Time, Useless Time

Oh if it were so! Large, falling chunks of time, spilling into the spaces of humanity, wasted.
Even smaller, tiny slivers of time, tinkling in richness of feeling and sound, drift quietly, ignored . The boisterous clamoring of wasted time invites us, seduces us to pay attention-like spoiled petulant children, feet stomping, wailing, gimmee-gimmee-I want, can't help but look at the wreckage -kind of time..
Adding the hours-thousands, no perhaps millions of people hours added together, feeding off the carcass of wasted time.
Perhaps it isn't wasted. Perhaps time is meant to be wasted on nothingness-like twinkies-empty on the inside with a scant touch of sugar to fool the mind.

Sweet time, time rushing into eternity, time lost only by regrets yet treasured and rewarded with sweet moments,
that time lives as well,
lightly,
honeyed moments
quietly,
without fanfare,
without media
feathered by thoughtfulness
tasted in awareness.

Lest we Point Fingers

Cheatin seems to be in vogue this season.
In fact, whole families seem to be "condonin" it lately. Act like freedom comes from being dishonest to someone near and dear for years-now useless to the "newfound individual".
Yep, Christianity has come a long ways these past twenty years. All those church goin, prayerful people, asking for forgiveness after tearing hearts out.
umm hmm umm hmm

When The Angry Fuel Anger with More Angry

I glance at the news and try to avoid a full on confrontation with the details. Tired of wincing from the pain of the stupidity, ignorance and anger, avoidance has become my coping mechanism.
If ignorance is bliss, perhaps I ought to try more of it.
Being responsible, feeling responsible and acting responsible seems to be the mantra of the angry-yet how responsible can one be when irrationality leads the argument?

Yeah. I'm getting old. Not diaper old but old enough to have lived the cycles and recognize the craziness of this one.

Did you know the desert flowers are in bloom?

ummhmmm-as the old ladies comment.
ummhmm  ummhmm

Media's Responsibility and the Lunatic Fringe

You need to change your spin. The Glen Becks and Rush Limbaughs used to be the lunatic fringe.
Now it's CNN, CNBC, ABC and CBS. Small newspapers across the nation have entered the lunacy.
Radio Talk show hosts increase ratings by ranting.
Greed and irresponsible media become synonomous.
The GOP isn't the party of "NO" any longer. They are the party of  "No Nation Under God"
They will destroy our country rather than accept the will of constituents.
It is a dangerous tactic, leading our nation to physical violence and death.
Hopefully, civility still lives in the heart of those who identify with the "Tea Party"  and they realize it no longer represents those who believe the government should be run differently-peacefully-and they get out.
History repeats itself.
McCarthy led the nation by the nose stirring up fear with his communism rhetoric. Lives were destroyed.
The US locked up its own citizens in internment camps during world war two.
We are distinguished by a war in which half our country wanted to continue owning black human beings.
Are we destined to continue  on this destructive and ignorant path?
I would not be surprised if enough crazies descend on little Searchlight Nevada to create harm.
Media creates its own news by egging on the crazies and the violent.
It also needs to be held accountable.

Yahoo! Health Care Reform for Grandma Ginny!

Grandma Ginny will not have to pay those high prescription bills anymore.
All those temps hired by  by Workforce and offered 600$ per month insurance coverage by Manpower? You have an opportunity to purchase affordable insurance.
All those kicked off policies for "pre existing conditions"-you can buy health care as well.
Still attending college but kicked off your parents policy because you turned 18-you get to stay on until you finish graduate school!

It ain't universal but it is a start!

What ARE the Tea Party Principals?

I haven't attacked the "Tea Party"  in theory but only because I haven't had a clue about what they stand for.
I have however, shaken my head in disgust as news reports show racist signs depicting President Obama, cite "Death Panels" and continue to ask President Obama for his "real birth certificate".
Do I did a google search looking for the principals of the "Tea Party". I found a lot of information on what they consider themselves NOT to be.
There does not seem to be any ONE mouthpiece for the Baggers-
but these are the ideas that seem to seep into the blogesphere-and I ask-do these seem like over all national goals for our country?
There seems to be an awful lot "Male rights". God insertions and white guy kinds of privledge-in addition to the same arrogant, "manifest destiny" we seem to think our entitled asses can just reach out and grab.
I am not in any mood to return to "white male model of living.
Doesn't it seem a little creepy? Like the nations who can stone a woman to death for showing her ankle? Just plain creepy.. 

•Voting out each and every single incumbent up for re-election in 2010 who voted for the Stimulus Package and/or the 2008 Wall Street Bailout/



Electing to office only candidates who promise to support a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution (without any exceptions -e.g. in the case of war, emergency, or a 3/5ths vote in Congress) in an act that also requires spending reductions only (no raising taxes) for the first four years to balance the budget, as well as:

•The transition of Social Security from a mandatory pay-as-you go system to an optional system of private pensions.


A permanent repeal of the payroll tax.

1. The only reliable basis for sound government and just human relations is natural law.

2. A free people cannot survive under a republican constitution unless they remain virtuous and morally strong
3. The most promising method of securing a virtuous and morally stable people is to elect virtuous leaders
4. Without religion the government of a free people cannot be maintained
5. All things were created by God, and therefore upon him Him all mankind are equally dependent, and to Him they are equally responsible.

6. All men are created equal.

7. The proper role of government is to protect equal rights, not provide equal things.

8. Men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.


9. To protect man’s rights, God has revealed certain principles of divine law.



10. The God given right to govern is vested in the sovereign authority of the whole people.



11. The majority of the people may alter or abolish a government which has become tyrannical.



12. The United States of America shall be a republic.



13. A Constitution should be structured to permanently protect the people from the human frailties of their rulers.



14. Life and liberty are secure only as long as the right of property is secure.



15. The highest level of prosperity occurs when there is a free market economy and a minimum of government regulations.



16. The government should be separated into three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial.



17. A system of checks and balances should be adopted to prevent the abuse of power.



18. The unalienable rights of the people are most likely to be preserved if the principles of government are set forth in a written Constitution.



19. Only limited and carefully defined powers should be delegated to the government, all others being retained by the people.



20. Efficiency and dispatch require government to operate according to the will of the majority, but Constitutional provisions should protect the rights of the minority.



21. Strong local self-government is the keystone to preserving human freedoms.



22. A free people should be governed by law and not the whims of men.



23. A free society cannot survive as a republic without a broad program of general education.



24. A free people will not survive unless they remain strong.



25. Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.



26. The core unit which determines the strength of any society is the family; therefore, the government should foster and protect its integrity.



27. The burden of debt is as destructive to freedom as the subjugation of conquest.



28. The United States of America has a manifest destiny to be an example and a blessing to the entire human race.




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