The Cost Of Cheap Tomatoes

This originated from an e-mail but the story is so telling I believe it needs to be wide spread public knowledge. The e-mail follows:


This one tells it like it really is..............Hope you read it all...........
THIS HAS GOT TO BE PASSED ALONG TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE OR WE WILL ALL GO DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE A FEW DON'T CARE.
This English teacher has phrased it the best I've seen yet
Tomatoes and Cheap Labor

CHEAP TOMATOES? This should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent

From a California school teacher - - -

"As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal Immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:
I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title
1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels. Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens, Huntington Park, etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.
Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll -- but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already substantial.. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the country less then 3 months who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them "Putas" whores and throwing things that the teachers were in tears.
Free medical, free education, free food, day care etc., etc, etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?
To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.
Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases etc., etc, etc. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.
We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won't have the guts to enforce it. Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?
There are many hardworking Hispanic/American citizens that contribute to our country and many that I consider my true friends. We should encourage and accept those Hispanics who have done it the right and legal way.
It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third- world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about "politically correctness" that we don't have the will to do anything about it.


CHEAP LABOR? Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about?
Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage.
Consumers don't want expensive produce.
Government will tell you Americans don't want the jobs.
But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase "cheap labor" is a myth, a farce, and a lie. there is no such thing as "cheap labor."

Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or $6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free.

He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI.
Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this is at
(our) taxpayer's expense.
He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.
Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills and his.

The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.

Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people.

THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR EITHER PARTY. 'AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON'T DO AS THEY SAY, WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM AT ONCE!'


THIS HAS GOT TO BE PASSED ALONG TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE OR WE WILL ALL GO DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE A FEW DON'T CARE.

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

An e-mail I recently received that really sums it all up!

You will not see this heart-stopping photo on the front
page of the NY Times or on the lead story of the major news networks.
The protesters put up the Mexican flag over the American flag flying
upside down at Montebello High School in California .
















I predict this stunt will be the nail in the coffin of
any guest-worker/amnesty plan on the table in Washington . The image of
the American flag subsumed to another and turned upside down on American
soil is already spreading on Internet forums and via e-mail.

Pass this along to every American citizen in your
address books and to every representative in the state and federal
government. If you choose to remain uninvolved, do not be amazed when
you no longer have a nation to call your own nor anything you have
worked for left since it will be "redistributed" to the activists while
you are so peacefully staying out of the "fray". Check history, it is
full of nations/empires that disappeared when its citizens no longer
held their core beliefs and values. One person CAN make a difference.
One plus one plus one plus one plus one plus one.........

The battle for our secure borders and immigration laws
that actually mean something, however, hasn't even begun.

American Children Pay The Price

I don't know about the rest of you but Illegal Immigration makes me mad and not just because it costs and inconveniences ME but because of the cost to my CHILDREN. There are towns in this area that you feel like an alien in your own country and the cost to the American children is the worst in these areas.
Many people don't think of the fact that our tax dollars that go to fund our schools aren't making it to OUR children.
We are still the same people paying the same taxes while illegal immigrants pay none. SO, where your child might have recieved 1/300 of the school budget allocated to students, NOW they receive 1/600 or worse.
When you think of the cost of bi-lingual education do any of you think of the different costs?
Time: The amount of time a teacher takes to teach in two differnt languages meaning the time they are actually being taught is now being cut in half.
The cost of bilingual teachers (you do have to pay more for this talent you know).
The cost of more teachers (more kids need more teachers).
The fact that almost every program available, the illegal alien children are in, food programs, after school programs etc.
The increase in the need for security personnel because whether it is PC or not to point this out, schools with an increased number of children from illegal families have an increase in discipline problems.
In addition to the loss of education dollars for our children there are other costs.
Lower pay for many of the parents due to the presence of illegals willing to work for less.
The strain on our law enforcement resources.
The cost of medical care that increases as we give free medical care to these criminals.
Need I even mention the fact that our fuel prices are skyrocketing due to high demand that could be lessened significantly if we weren't overburdened by millions of people who are here illegally. I don't know if it's a stereotype or just a keen observation but most of the illegals in my area drive $50,000 SUVs with $7000 worth of modifications and get about 15 miles to the gallon.
There are other expenses such as government expenses pertaining to paperwork, signs just about everything having to be printed in multiple languages (which is why I support making English the official language of the US).
Illegal aliens collect welfare and WIC because they do not claim their incomes which leaves fewer resources for low income American children whose paretns and grandparents fought for this country and paid their taxes dutifully to support these programs. What does it teach our children when those that break our laws benefit from it?
Don't forget the fact that our children are losing their culture. As more and more illegal immigrants enter our country and the ratio of illegal immigrants to Americans rises it is more difficult for us to assimilate the influx and thus we lose our culture.
As parents we have to start considering the detriment to our children our government is allowing by not enforcing our laws and our borders.
As parents we have to start recognizing the cost to our children and fighting for THEIR rights.

Should We have to SETTLE?

Am I the only one who feels like supporting any of the republican presidential candidates is just settling for the least liberal of the bunch? I really don't believe that this should be the case. Is there not one true conservative Republican available and ready to run for the highest office in the land? We have a few good men but none of them that really stand for what I, a true conservative republican, believe. I am looking for one candidate who is pro-life, small government, pro democracy, pro troops, anti illegal alien and is willing to stand up for those beliefs come hell or high water. I am looking for a tried and true conservative and I don't see one. A Reagan republican, strong, forthright, honest and without fear. I want a president who will stand up to liberals and who isn't afraid to reveal them for what they are. I want a president who would take the media out of the war so we can win it without a bunch of Benedict Arnolds giving away our strategy. I want a president who knows we have immigration laws and until our government does it's sworn duty and protects us from illegal intruders we don't need another law. We need a president who understands that those that paid $35000, learned English, and our history and waited years deserve to be Americans while those that don't respect our laws and who's first act in our country was to break our laws are not fit to be here. Is there no one candidate who is truly a Republican running for the Republican nominations? If so, where do I sign up. If not, do we have to settle for a mediocre shadow of a conservative candidate?

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Aztlan/La Raza

Just hard working people looking for a better life?????

Victims of Illegal Imigration

The cost of Illegal Immigration

Fred Thompson on Mexican border problems

Theodore Roosevelt and Immigration

Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Random Thought on Kennedy's Plan for Amnesty

Standing in line in th grocery store behind an illegal alien and her disorderly children as the cashier fills out their WIC and Food stamps. As you leave you see her entering her $50,000 SUV that gets about 15 mpg (imagine if they all went home what that would do for fuel consumption/prices) with $7000 worth of wheels and $3000 worth of modifications.

Her hubby works under the table paying no taxes.
She can apply for help because she doesn't claim her husband's earnings.
She can apply for help because all you have to to is give birth on US soil and your child is automatically an American. (One parent should have to be an American by birth or by law before a child can be an American. Now if one parent BECOMES an American before the child reaches 18 I see no problem with the child getting automatic status but 1 illegal plus 1 illegal does not produce a legal.)
Her children attend US schools at the expense of US citizens.
Her children cost our schools more than the average US child because of language barriers and the fact that they are usually on all of the 'programs'.
Schools with a high percentage of children belonging to illegal immigrants have more behavior problems, many times requiring intervention by law enforcement.
In many towns more than 60% of law enforcement manpower is used for problems dealing with illegal immigrants.
US hospitals (especially small ones) must treat these criminals (illegal is illegal sorry) and this causes financial hardship for them which they pass on to US citizens.
Kennedy is turning his fellow Americans into slaves forced to support illegal aliens and their children. He is sacrificing the citizens for the criminals. HE MUST BE STOPPED!!

Illegal Immigrants (Limbaugh Laws)

9/11

In the post 9/11 world it is hard to believe that anyone could even consider electing Hillary Clinton to office. The ABC documentary that they are protesting no doubt points out the fact that under the democrats we are vulnerable to the terrorists and I hope ABC stands by their documentary and doesn't let the liberal powers that be censor them. FOr a power that screams for freedom of speech, they sure change their tone when it might show them for what they really are. ABC show the documetary, let the people decide from all the facts. WHen the people have seen the danger of democrats in power the democrats can pack up and move somewhere more likely to buy their crap, maybe Canada or France.

A Day without illegal immigrants

I'm watching the news and getting more frustrated by the minute. What is with these immigrant protests? When did we stop differentiating between legal and illegal immigrants? What are legal immigrants doing taking the day off from school and work to support those who illegally came into our country? Why is anyone supporting someone who illegally came into our country AND are illegal immigrants really immigrants? Let's get this clear, America is a nation of immigrants and there is no threat to legal immigrants. There is no prejudice against immigrants. Therefore, there is no need for an immigrant to protest. The issue, illegal invaders, criminal aliens, not immigrants. So why are we having protests for immigrant rights. The people who's rights these people fear are being taken are not immigrants, they are invaders. Immigrants come legally, invaders make their first act on US soil a crime, their very presence. So, anyone who protests for the rights of these people missing work and school should lose their job and be suspended from school. They are supporting criminals, law breakers, alien invaders. So let's make this very clear. Immigrants are welcome in our country, therefore these protests are not for immigrant rights but for the rights of criminals and therefore these protests are not justified nor are they acceptable. When will our media start pointing out the difference between an immigrant and an illegal invader? When?

BUSY BUSY BUSY

Ok I have to apologize for my lack of posts BUT my time was tied up elsewhere calling, faxing and writing my senators and representatives TRYING to make them understand that they are out of touch with their constituents if they think because a bunch of illegals is louder, they should get their attention. Let me make something clear, illegals don't vote (or at least not LEGALLY) and if they become legal, they won't vote republican. These are welfare babies, opportunists, leeches, they'll vote democrat. So why is it that our republican leaders want to shoot themselves in the foot by legalizing millions of democrat, entitlement hungry Mexicans? Lets see if I can make this clear, your constituents (the ones who vote for you) want you to uphold the law and deport these criminals. We want a hard days work to pay fairly. The Mexicans that are flying our flag upside down under their Mexican rag? THEY have their loyalty elsewhere and should they get the right to vote, they'll vote your butts out and vote in the liberals!! I say if your senator votes for amnesty then YOU vote his ass out before the Mexicans can!! Why don't they understand that THEIR loyalty is to Americans and Americans only. They owe nothing to law breaking Mexicans and had BETTER wake up and realize that by selling out their fellow Americans, they sell out America and most likely themselves.

Down to the wire

If Senator Brownback and Senator Kennedy have anything to say about it, you and I, the American worker, will no longer be a commondity. Senator Brownback and his fellow Senate Judiciary Committee members have just sent up a proposal for Amnesty. Call it what they want it is a reward for illegal behavior. A reward for costing the American tax payer billions. A reward for driving the wages of your average everyday Joe down into the nether regions. What most people don't understand is that the American worker is a commodity and if we are in demand and needed we are worth something (a living wage). If illegals (falsely pc referred to as undocumented workers) are brought in to fill jobs (that Americans WILL do for a fair wage) then we are no longer a marketable commodity. Case in point, nurses in Kansas make peanuts in comparisson to nurses in other states and the hospitals and nursing homes are screaming nursing shortage. Increase the nursing pay to a fair wage for someone who has the education of a nurse and you will no longer have a nursing shortage BUT Senator Brownback of Kansas would rather bring in foreign workers then let the market do it's job and increase the pay to a fair wage for a nurse. Senator Brownback adds this little piece of legislation to a bill that harms all of us and in fact contributes to the low pay for nurses that is causing a nursing shortage. The fact that we are paying for the medical care of millions of illegal scum sucking aliens puts our medical establishments in financial jeopardy and they are unable to pay nurses a fair wage. The bill that Senator Brownback attached his little bit of legislation to and proceeded to vote for actually rewards these criminals AND hurts the nurse further. If we allow the system to work, the supply and demand of workers to balance out, we will all win.
I am not against all foreign help, don't get me wrong. I do not agree with President Bush that most of the jobs taken by these illegals are jobs Americans won't do. I believe many of the jobs are jobs that Americans won't do without being compensated fairly.
When I contacted Senator Brownback's office I got the "what about agriculture jobs' business. Seasonal agriculture jobs are one of those jobs that you will have to import labor for because they are temporary and most workers in the US need full time year round jobs. There are programs for importing this help and these programs work. Instead of trying to replace these programs with illegal aliens they need to make the system easier to use and less cumbersome for the employer NOT allow less than honest employers to use illegal labor at the expense of the US tax payer.
My husband has used the H2A visa system for about 8 years and it is expensive and cumbersome but it is legal. Change this system. make it easier and less expensive DON'T reward lawbreakers. Mr Brownback you should be ashamed for selling out your constituents!! If it talks like a liberal and it votes like a liberal...................................

Senator Brownback What are you thinking?

As a reluctant citizen of Kansas (I still consider myself a Washingtonian at heart) and a conservative Republican I am outraged with my Senator. Senator Brownback is a member of the judiciary committee. As we speak the judiciary committee is trying to reward criminals for ignoring our sovereignty. I don't know about all of you but I teach my children that you gain nothing by cheating or stealing but I will now have to tell them that if you are a Mexican, that doesn't count, at least not, here in the good old USA. You see there are two different kinds of just about every race. You can't pigeonhole people by their race because there is bad and good in all of them. With Mexicans there are the ones who come here legally, learn the language and really want to be Americans and then there are the law breaking scum who illegally cross our borders, lower our wages, milk our education funding, drain our medical system and sneer at our culture and THESE are the scum sucking vermin that Brownback and Kennedy want to reward. This reward will cost you and me dearly!!! Why is it that our constitution that swears that our government will protect us from invaders is last on our Senator's list? This is like those judges that legislate from the bench rather than supporting the constitution. Why is it that the welfare of a bunch of criminal non citizens is more important to our government then US citizens? These people bring diseases into our midst because they have no immunization for diseases that the US has not had to face in quite a while. They are a danger to every aspect of our lives. The fact is that there are legal ways of coming into our country and the kind of people who do that are welcome to do so (of course we must be selective) but the kind of people who ignore our laws and invade our country are not wanted by the American people (maybe by unscrupulous employers). People take a stand, call your senators, call mine, but somehow let them know that we do not want Amnesty for these leeches. We're tired of paying for the ones behind bars and having to let rapists loose due to overcrowding, they are President Fox's problem not ours. We're tired of paying for our children's education and our children not getting the full benefit because bunch of illegals are sucking the funding from our schools. We're tired of not being able to afford medical care while Mexicans get it for free driving up our costs. We're tired of making less because we are not a commodity when you can get an illegal (yes ILLEGAL not undocumented) to do it for slave wages and we are tired of feeling like aliens in our own country when we walk in the store and there are signs in Spanish and half of the people there can't or refuse to speak English! This is war and our senators want to aid and abet the invaders!! This is economic war, this is cultural war and this is a war for our sovereignty, for our borders!! People had better start paying attention!!

Colorado History Teacher-syllabus of US hatred

Sean Allen is a brave child. In an ultra liberal suburb of Denver he had the courage to 'out' a teacher who is teaching 'marxist' rhetoric and hatered of the US. Allen is the son of a conservative father and a liberal mother and obviously knows when what he is hearing is wrong. Jay Bennish seems to be running some sort of brainwashingt camp for future liberal Jihad of America. His hatered for America is obvious in the taped excerpts from Sean Allen's MP3.

Who would an America hating teacher hire to defend him, why the ACLU and not just any lawyer from the ACLU but the same lawyer who defended Ward Churchill, David Lane. Al though Mr Bennish has every right to speak his mind, he does not have the right to teach this rhetoric to a captive audience of public school kids who's parents sent them to school to learn not to be brainwashed.

The Mike Church show tonight has Sean on his show and I was very impressed by this young man and the other caller, a 2001 grad, who stated that he too had been a victim of this man's rants. So I ask you, who's civil rights have been robbed? The teacher or the kids who were force fed his anti american poison?


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