Tuesday - May 22, 2007
DO YOU REMEMBER ME? Just watch this, would you? Memorial Day is this coming Monday. Please. (These are the people John Murtha called "cold blooded killers.") |
 THE HIDDEN COST OF THE AMNESTY BILL
 Robert Rector stirred up the puddin' inside the beltway yesterday.
Who is Robert Rector? He is the Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation specializing in welfare, poverty and marriage. He is a leading and respected authority in Washington on poverty and the U.S. welfare system. Yesterday Heritage released a special report written by Rector and Christine Kim titled "The Fiscal Cost of Low-Skill Immigrants to the U.S. Taxpayer." You can read the entire report right here [pdf], or you can click here for the executive summary. You aren't going to hear very much about this report from the mainstream media. John McCain and Ted Kennedy, the architects of the amnesty bill, are going to do their best to ignore it. So ... we'll tell you right here. What we don't tell you can be learned by clicking on the links above. First .... There may be a common perception out there that these illegal aliens actually contribute to our economy by "doing the jobs that Americans won't do." Not so. Illegal alien households cost the American taxpayers billions of dollars a year. Try $89 billion. The Heritage report points out that at least 50 percent and maybe as much as 60 percent of illegal alien households lack a high school education. This makes them low-skill households. Here's where the numbers start to get interesting --- or depressing, if you will. Do you know what a "distributional deficit" is? That's the difference between what you pay in taxes to government and what government spends on you and your household. The paper will give you the details, but low-skilled immigrant households in the U.S. received about $10,000 more in government benefits than does the average U.S. household. What's the figure? About $30,160 every year in immediate benefits and services for every low-skill immigrant household. To compound the distributional deficit, low-skill immigrant households pay less in taxes than do the average U.S. Households. These low-skill immigrant households pay about $10,573 a year in taxes. Subtract this from the amount government spends on them and you have a deficit of $19,588. Let's carry these numbers for our wonderful illegal -- soon to be legal -- households out a few years. Rector says that the average adult lifespan for each head of household is about 60 years. The research shows that this distributional deficit will continue throughout this life span for low-skill immigrant households. The total? About $1.2 million for each low-skill immigrant household. In 2004 there were 4.5 million low-skill immigrant households in the U.S. More math: Multiply the average net distributional deficit of $19,588 per household and you get a total deficit of $89.1 billion .... per year! Ask yourself .. can this country afford this? Can we afford an amnesty bill that will legitimize and legalize these illegal-alien households, and millions more to come? No. The costs are financially unsustainable. Why isn't this more of a part of the immigration debate? FUNNY HOW YOU DON'T HEAR THE PHRASE "GLOBAL WARMING" SO MUCH ANY MORE There is a new phrase, you know. Perhaps you didn't get the memo .. but what was once continually referred to as "global warming" is now just becoming "climate change." Why? Well, I suppose a few record cold winters around the world have made it a bit harder for the left and the eco-cultists to push the "warming" bit. Besides, as more and more is written more people come to understand that we're in a period of increased solar activity, and even those educated in government schools understand that increased solar activity might somehow cause a bit of warming here on Earth. So ... now it's "climate change," a much more vague term and thus harder to refute. Of course the climate is changing. The climate has been changing in one direction or another since there was a climate. Here's a couple of "climate change" news bits you might not have heard somewhere else. Glaciers are retreating! Did you know that! Yup, retreating! It's that pesky climate change thing. But something rather odd is happening as the glaciers retreat. We finding evidence of civilization where those glaciers once stood! In Switzerland they're finding silver mines. That's right, silver mines. As the glacier retreats they're finding the mine shafts and the mining tools stacked up and waiting ... waiting for the mine workers to return as the winter snows melted. It seems that one year those winter snows didn't actually melt. Then year upon year passed and the snows grew deeper. Finally, a glacier. It was the little ice age! Now the little ice age is ending, the glaciers retreating, and evidence of civilization emerging where we've known nothing but ice. We're also finding water management structures built by man where glaciers are retreating elsewhere. In other words .. yes, it's warmer. One whole degree in the last 100 years. But we've been there before. Warmer than this. And we did it without SUVs and the industrial revolution. Maybe ... just maybe .. the tide of hysteria is turning. Thank the new media. While mainstream newspapers and media outlets regurgitate the global warming and climate change mantra, people remain free to log on to the Internet (for now) where they'll find more than enough to read from scientists who were once global warming alarmists but who are now skeptics. Take Dr. Nir Shaviv, an Astrophysicist. has recently recanted his belief that man was warming up the earth. He recently wrote: "Like many others, I was personally sure that CO2 is the bad culprit in the story of global warming. But after carefully digging into the evidence, I realized that things are far more complicated than the story sold to us by many climate scientists or the stories regurgitated by the media. In fact, there is much more than meets the eye." Shaviv adds that "Solar activity can explain a large part of the 20th-century global warming." Dr. David Evans is a mathematician and engineer. This is the man who did the carbon accounting for the government of Australia. He spent six years building models for the Australian government to estimate carbon emissions. He's now a global warming skeptic. Evans says that "By the late 1990s lots of jobs depended on the idea that carbon emissions caused global warming." He adds: "The science of global warming has become a partisan political issue, so positions become more entrenched." And there's the curious question. Global warming, or climate change, if you will, has indeed become a partisan political issue. But there's more to it. It's an issue for the left; for the world's anti-capitalists and socialists. And just why would that be? Could it possibly be because these anti-capitalists and leftists see the religion of climate change as a way to bring down or harm powerful nations with economies based on capitalism and free enterprise? Just something to think about. 
THEY MAY PROMISE TO KEEP YOUR INFORMATION PRIVATE ... BUT ...... MySpace.com, the popular online social network, is giving in. They have agreed to turn over private user information to the state government in order to track sex offenders. At least 14 states now have subpoenas for the information, and MySpace is willing to comply. Let's think about this for a minute. Now, can you blame MySpace for complying with the requests? Not really. Because their public image would plummet if they were made out to be defenders of sex offenders. So in a way, their decision makes sense. But where does the government get the right to request such information? And why from MySpace? There are other ways in which sex offenders contact their targets. Once it starts with MySpace, what is to stop the government from requesting information from your doctor, your bank, your employer, or any other social networking service. Is anyone else thinking "Big Brother" here, because I know I certainly am. The nature of MySpace has created a new level of connectedness amongst us all. Even more that with email or internet chat rooms, MySpace is a living, breathing entity in which you can depict yourself in any way conceivable, and there is no way for anyone to control that information other than yourself. It's the next level of personal freedom of expression. Do I believe that personal expression should extend to child molestation or anything of that nature? Absolutely not. But that is not the point of what is happening. Law enforcement will be able to use the software to cross-reference with a database of known offenders. But then what? What stops anyone from creating a new persona on MySpace? After all, in cyberspace, one can never be 100% sure. REDNECK SCRAP BOOK Add a little bit of challenge to your next Easter egg hunt with these eggs. More in the Redneck Scrap Book. READING ASSIGNMENTS Democrats will finally draft an Iraq war funding bill without an explicit time-line. The bill also includes an increase in the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 per hour, the first increase in more than a decade. Why do we allow our congress to piggy-back legislation like this? Will George Bush have the guts to veto the bill? Does he even want to? There's nothing quite so satisfying to a politician as being able to use force to compel an employer to pay an employee more than that employee is worth ... especially when the employee is more likely to vote Democrat. The battle continues in the Senate over the Immigration "reform" bill. FOX's 24 wraps up another season. I taped last night's episodes ... so we won't talk about it today. School vouchers and your the right to choose where you want your child to be educated is so important. Nothing improves the product like competition. Nothing frightens the teacher's union like competition. Hey ... it's working in D.C.!  Liberals back on the airwaves on Air America.
Dear Mitt Romney, on the matter of illegal immigration: "Maybe his solution will be to get out his small varmint gun and drive those Guatemalans off his lawn." Sincerely, John McCain. If Hillary Clinton had a theme song, what would you choose? Apparently she is in the market for one. I don't think she would like the ones I am thinking of! Environmentalists say that building a fence at the Mexican border will cut off water supply for tortoises and big cats, relying on the Rio Grande. Google Bombing? What's that? Not sure ... but they're bombing the Amnesty Bill. Today's web toy a warning label generator. Thanks Bill! | 
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