What is it about illegal immigration that has made it grow over the past decades?

• Is it the welfare benefits? 
  
• No more than yes -- seems lots of these immigrants are very hard workers willing to do most anything.  
• Sure, some are on welfare, but as a whole, illegal immigrants provide a lot of productive activity to our economy.  Yes, a lot of it's paid under the table...
  
• It is to escape their own country?  
• Nah, many of them send money back home...  A little money here can be a lot of money at home...
  
• Is it to become US citizens --
• Uh, maybe, or maybe not.   If they become citizens, they have to become regular employees, pay taxes, follow regulations...
  

Anyone notice a common thread here?  The success of the illegal immigrant movement is not that it's illegal, it's that illegals don't pay taxes and is under the radar of employer regulations.   If it's been so good for them, why can't the same be good for the average Bubba? 

• Let's get rid of the income tax and replace it with a VAT tax that takes effect upon repeal of the 17th Amendment.  This way everyone pays into the system -- no more under the table work.  You just work, get paid and that's it. 
  
• Let's cut back on the regulations that make it harder for employers to offer work. Yes, this means changing the notion that employers should be paying for employee's health care, social security, unemployment insurance, and disability coverage.  If this stuff is so important, promote the development of private sector individually based coverage of these 'benefits'.  Bubbas need to have a gut check on reality -- FEW IF ANY OF THESE PROGRAMS ARE SOLVENT! 
  
• Let's evolve the minimum wage to something that is market sensitive.  If unemployment is high in an area, the MW needs to adjust down to allow people to offer other's jobs. 
  
• If getting rid of the income tax is deemed impossible, lets make all home owner maintenance expenses tax deductible.  Painting, cleaning and landscaping a business is tax deductible -- but not for home owners...   Why? 
  

Bottomline -- it's time to think out of the box for solutions that are based upon objective analysis of the issue. 

Welcome to Hope & Change -- Obama's New Class Order.  Obama's New Class Order has 3 basic classes -- the Privileged, Collectors, and Peasants. 

The Privileged are the unions (especially public unions), greens, attorneys, left wing politicians, and assorted others. They generally live by their own set of rules outside of the normal dynamics of market forces, derive most of their benefits from other's life energy, and are protected by various self constructed legal firewalls from common sense behavior.  After they've prettied themselves with other people's life energy, they pass any trickle of life energy that's left back to the Serfs to keep them happy. 

The Collectors are the successful folks in the private sector economy whose life energy creates, supports, and/or manages much of the private marketplace.  They've been selected by the Privileged to collect and pass on the necessary life energy from the private sector to support the Privileged.  Currently, the magic number defining oneself as a Collector appears to be $250,000 of income a year.

The Peasants are basically everyone else struggling along in the private sector, with or without a job.  They spend most of their life energy toiling away so they can buy the basics of the private sector from the Collectors, who in turn pass the collected Peasant life energy  revenue to support the Privileged.  The Privileged return a trickle of the Peasants's own life energy back to the Peasants so the Peasants can appear to afford various essential benefits of a civilized society.  The Privileged use this trickle of the Peasant's own energy back to the Peasants to buy the votes and continued loyalty of enough ignorant Peasants to keep the New Class Order moving along to the general benefit of the Privileged.  

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Privileged's hope is that no one will notice the fatal flaw in the New Class Order.  Everything adds up just fine when it comes to counting votes, but not so well when counting money.  Obama's New Class Order is a quick multi-trillion dollar lined path to moral and fiscal bankruptcy for our freedom and liberty loving society. 

Be not worried, the Privileged have secured their golden parachute of benefits and retirments when the crash comes.

Has Obambi taken renting the Lincoln bedroom up a notch — renting out TOTUS?

Obambi invites the Mexican President Calderon to use TOTUS to intimidate Congress and the US not to let AZs immigration reform spread AND to reinstitute the assult weapons ban. (Cheers from the Dems)…

Huh? What’s all this about? Why the H is the President Calderon acting like the MPOTUS? What’s this MPOTUS all about anyway? What’s in it for Calderon anyway? Perhaps some sort of Soros payoff?  As best as I can figure, the translation of the MPOTUS message to Congress into Bubbaspeak is simple — Don’t go to Mexico. It’s a mess…

What’s next on Bambi agenda? Osama Bin Ladin gets a OBLOTUS skit of his own? Or perhaps Chinese President Hu Jintao as CPOTUS?

Or is this just another way for the TOTUS to say what the TOTUS really wants to say without having the POTUS say it himself? 

Get a CLUE you WHIMPY Senate RINOs!

When the PRESSSident sticks a microphone or camera in your face as asks you a question about some Obamacrat bill, this doesn't mean you start by saying "NO", so the PRESSSident can cut that short clip into the 6 o'clock news to re-enforce the Obamacrat mantra that the GOP is the party of NO! 

All to often, the GOP RINOs come across as the party of NO CLUE! 

Don't start by saying "NO".   Start by stating first what you stand for in clear concise BUMPER STICKER SLOGAN that every BUBBA can understand and easily repeat. 

Yes, "Oh my God", this means before jumping in front of the nearest PRESSSidential camera, the GOP will have to do a little research and put some thought into consolidating it's conservative positions on issues into incredibly concise and small packages that everyone (including RINOs) can agree and use.  After you've made your position clear, then feel free to say "NO -- the Democrat bill doesn't meet your standards".  Then REPEAT your BUBBA MESSAGE.  It's even better if you never even get to the NO part of the message...

This doesn't mean you start by saying "NO" because the Democrats are not adhering to normal procedure and protocols.  Get over the procedures and protocol crapola already!  The Obamacrats and Bubbas don't care about anything but results.

This doesn't mean you start by saying "NO" when the bill goes through a committee, subcommittee, or comes to the floor.  Again, Bubbas don't care about that crap -- Bubbas want to know WHAT DO YOU STAND FOR!   You've only got 5 or ten seconds -- Don't say NO, say what you stand for...

This doesn't mean you start by saying "NO", and then ramble on and on and on with 'wonk' talk that no Bubba will ever understand.   If you must go wonkish, consolidate the wonk talk into simple conservative constitutional positions -- preserve liberty, preserve liberty for our kids, promote (not provide) general welfare, illegally taking property, state's rights, free speech, unreasonable search and seizure, etc...  USE the Constitution as your BUMBER STICKER backstop -- force the Obamacrats to play the constitutional game.  The Constitution is the best player on your team...!  USE IT!  and USE IT OFTEN!

Here's a thought to get pass current and future deficit budgeting messes -- when the US is running a deficit, all legislative leadership and committee chairs should be limited to the most frugal top quarter representatives according to their budget votes during the previous session -- REGARDLESS of party affiliation. 

It's long past time to put so called 'leaders', who generally earn their stature through buying votes with other people's money, out of power.  It's time to give power to the frugal who understand they shouldn't be selling our posterity's future earnings to buy their seat in Congress...  Ditto for State Legislatures or other elective bodies that can't figure out how to balance their budgets... 

FYI, if in effect over the past decade, so called 'leaders' of both parties would be warming the benches while those willing to make the tough choices would be getting a chance to lead.

On the brink of his winning election, the Dow Jones takes off -- going down, down, down, BassAckwards. 

Barack O'Button enters office, the market continues it's reverse progress down and further down, with no end in sight.  

Does this movie have a good ending?

Can I get my money back at the ticket booth?

    Forget the "October Surprise", it's been replaced by the October Handout (starting late September with the Bank Bailout).  Pretty soon there was a constant parade -- Bail me out for this, bail me out for that to the tune of almost 1 TRILLION dollars.  In the future, look for requests for October Handouts to get more and more outlandish.

    There are a couple obvious solutions to this 

• Require the legislature to finish it's business for the year before they can start campaigning.  The problem here is one is just likely to move the October Handout to earlier in the year when legislature is in session.
  
• "You can't run for office while you hold office". 
  
• This would include setting up any sort of funding or organization for such a run while in office.  
  
• Force legislators and executives to do their job -- run the country, not run for re-election. 
• Unlike term limits, this would allow multiple terms -- they just couldn't be consecutive. 
  

   Is such a reform likely to happen?  Probably not.  However, the cost of continuing to the October Handouts the way they were done this year is going to be in the trillions over the next couple election cycles.  Ideally, someday the taxpayers will wake up and figure this isn't the proper way to run a fiscally responsible country.   It likely to end up costing every single taxpayer thousands and thousands of dollars for every election cycle with the only visible result being a lot of the same old same old face in office. 

Today's date : January, 2012.

Well, it's been quite a ride. 

• Unemployment is hovering around twice as high as when Barry took office.  Good news, there's plenty of benefits to not working.  See Bill of Lefts article 1.
  
• Tax revenues are down, deficits are up -- This is because the rich have been using loopholes to avoid paying taxes.  But deficits are only a problem for those with money.  See Bill of Lefts article 3.
• Health care is finally 'free' so long as you don't count the inflation and taxes that are mixed into everything you buy and do.  See Bill of Lefts article 2. 
  
• Energy -- Gas is only $8 per gallon!  Home heating -- buy a sweater or two. 
  
• Military -- still short on bullets.  Star Wars gone.  Meals on wheels up...  
  
• Protection Racket Agreements.   The US was attacked early on -- details don't matter -- predictable.   Result -- Draft.  Kids either have a choice to go into the military or an assortment of feel good programs...  Sent a pile of money somewhere to buy a couple more years of 'peace' until the next attack.  
  
• Medicare & Social Security -- Going down faster than predicted, problem for next President.  
• Environment -- Global Warming -- gone.  It's now Global Cooling.  No big -- the Cap and Tax system is being used to help pay energy bills for the poor.  
  
• Stock Market -- up.  Companies that donate to Dems get preferential treatment in all sorts of fashions and do well.  Small businesses, suffering...  
  
• Unions -- Can't seem to keep track of who is on strike right now...   Get back to you tomorrow...
  
• Minimum wage -- $10 and climbing.   
• In God We Trust -- collector's item.  Replaced by "Working For All" 
  

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1. Thou shall be secure in the faith that government will take care of you. Everything is free as long as you don't work for it. So you are best off not working at all or as little as possible.

2. Government shall never take away anything it gives you. However, it may take away anything you earn on your own.

3. There shall be plenty of mandates on the other guy. You are safe as long as you choose do as little as possible -- then government will not ask you to do anything in return. Whatever you do, don't ever think about employing someone.

4. Bubbas who hang out together can get most anything they want as long as they promise to vote for left wing Democrats.

5. Government can always raise taxes on the rich because success is just not fair no matter what the tax rate.

6. Deficits are a part of life, but that is only a problem for those with money.  If the government gives you a credit card for health care or anything, use it as much as you want.  The more you use it, the more free things you can expect to get with it in the future.

7. The PRESSident is protected by the freedom of the press.  It reinterprets and ignores the Constitution to meet any desired PRESSidential goal or specification. The PRESSident is defined as the collective will of the liberal PRESSSSSS.

8. The PRESSident only report the views that the PRESSident feels are useful propaganda for their intended audience.  Conflicting reports are fine as long as the conclusion by promises new programs.

9. Most laws are best written by judges and regulatory agencies, so it is best to make any legislation as vague and contradictory as possible.

10. All rights reserved to the States and individuals are subject to the previous rule.

11. When your position can't be substantiated by logic or facts, divert the issue to another topic that defames or attacks your opposition's credibility.  It is good if there is little justification to do so, and even better if your spin is full of falsehoods and logical gaps.  If you are guilty of something, defend yourself by saying your opponent is guilty of the same crime, even if it there is no truth in the accusation.

12. Unquestioning faith in Big Government shall be a promoted and protected right.  The goal is for non-secular faith, its welfare programs and worship of liberal politicians to eventually replace religion.  Conservatives who have little faith in big government secularism shall be persecuted and scorned as radical right wing extremist unbelievers of the worse kind.

13. The goal of feel good government programs isn't to fix problems.  The primary intention of government programs is to create more opportunites for new feel good programs to fix the problems other feel good programs create.

14. Political Bigotry is promoted so long as it expresses all sorts of ridiculous bias against Conservatives. The more ridiculous the political bigotry, the better.

Stealth Reparations -- that's what the 2008 TARP/Bailout Bill is all about.  It's time to start calling a spade a spade, pig a pig, a TARP a TARP and free houses for minorities as reparations.   

Fact : There is specific wording in the Crapola Bailout bill that states one focus of the bill will be for taxpayers to buy up failing "minority" mortgages -- reparations by reasonable label... 

  How did it happen -- Congress passed regulations that forced banks to hand out mortgages to minorities who can't pay for their mortgages.  Presumably, the original hope was the mortgage industry and general marketplace would be able to absorb these mandated stealth reparation houses without it coming to the surface and attention of the taxpayer.  It worked for a while.  But if a little is good, more is better -- Democrat Congress Critters and regulators got impatient with the slow pace and expanded the percent of reparation house mortgages that must be included in bundled mortgage resales until it brought down the mortgage industry.

Fine print -- anyone who publicly labels the crapola bailout bill as reparations will be vehemently called racist by the Obamist's and far left.  The force of their anger about this racist accusation will be validation that reparations is really what this is all about.  

ref:  http://www.webloggin.com/carp-congressional-asset-ripoff-program/

Let's not waste over 400,000 lifetimes per year by federaling mandating 55 MPH. It was stupid last time it was done.  It will be just as stupid now.  

300,000,000	People	300,000,000	People
55	MPH	70	MPH
10,000	Miles/year	10,000	Miles/year
54,545,454,545	Hours	42,857,142,857	Hours
149,439,601	Hours/year	117,416,830	Hours/year
1,992,528	Lifetimes on the road	1,565,557	Lifetimes on the road
		426,970	Wasted lifetimes per year

Congress and the President could easily solve the problem of judicial activism by passing a law that any rule of law decided upon by the Supreme Court sunsets in 5 years times the number of justices in the majority and 5 years for any lower court as a maximum. One might also consider a retroactive provision where previous judicial decisions would sunset in a similarly organized fashion related to # of judges in majority and age of ruling. 

After a ruling sunsets, the Legislative branch could take up these issues legislatively, or it could be reviewed again by the Courts. 

Eventually, the piles of steaming judicial compose that have warped the nature of our Constitution would be replaced by properly executed legislative process. Jefferson talked about each generation have the right to revolution. This would provide each generation a tool to reconsider important and unsettled issues in an organized predictable fashion.

The Judicial Branch could complain all it wants, but there isn't any clearly defined right in the Constitution for them to have the right to declare laws for all time that they have declared for themselves.  With two branches of government passing a law to Sunset Judicial Activism, it seems one has two branches defining law within the reasonable exercise of the powers clearly delineated in the Constitution. 

Personally, passing something along the same lines for sunsetting all laws Congress passes by the size of the majority the law was passed might be worth considering to keep Congressional Compost from getting too deep.  However, such a law may need to be a Constitutional Amendment since messing with the rules for passing laws is clearly defined in the Constitution.  However, the fine print here would be Congress would soon come to rely upon 'bureaucratic regulations' to be the new source of compost to perpetually cover the Constitution, denying the people's right for each generation to define the important issues from their own perspectives.  

Minimally, it's all something that may be worth occasional comtemplation.  Replace the notion of "Living Constitution" with "Living Body of Law".