THE
SLOW DEATH of the AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS and the RISE of the MEXICAN FASCIST
WELFARE STATE in AMERICA
THE AMERICAN DREAM IS DEAD. IT WAS MAULED BY WALL STREET
BANKSTERS THAT NOT ONLY GOT AWAY WITH IT BUT ARE STILL MAKING MASSIVE PROFITS.
CAN AMERICAN AFFORD TO BE MEXICO’S WELFARE and JOBS STATE?
MEXICO’S BIGGEST EXPORTS NEXT TO DRUGS ARE CRIMINALS,
POVERTY, JOBLESS, AND PREGNANT WOMEN.
CA ALONE PUTS OUT $22 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL SERVICES TO
ILLEGALS… not one legal voted to be looted by NARCOMEX.
COUNTIES PAY OUT EVEN MORE ON TOP OF THIS WITH LOS ANGELES
COUNTY LEADING PAYING OUT $600 MILLION TO ILLEGALS PRIMARILY ANCHOR BABY
BREEDERS.
ACCORDING TO CA ATTORNEY GEN KAMALA HARRIS, NEARLY HALF THE
MURDERS IN CA ARE NOW BY MEXICAN GANGS.
THE LA RAZA “THE RACE” MEXICAN OCCUPATION HAS NOW SPREAD TO
ALL STATES. ALIPAC HAS ANNOUNCED THAT THE 10 MILLION LEGALS IN MICHICAGN ARE
NOW PAYING OUT A BILLION PER YEAR IN WELFARE AND PRISON RELATED TO THE MEX
INVASION.
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BOOK
MEXIFORNIA: The Shattering of the American Dream
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WHILE OBAMA HAS SQUANDERED
BILLIONS PROTECTING THE BORDERS OF MUSLIM DICTATORS, WHILE HE HAS PUSHED
AMERICAN BORDERS OPEN WIDER TO HELP EASE MORE ILLEGALS INTO OUR JOBS AND VOTING
BOOTHS.
WIKILEAKS
EXPOSES OBAMA'S AGENDA OF LA RAZA SUPREMACY AND AN ILLEGAL IN EVERY AMERICAN
JOB TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED. THE LEGALS GET THE TAX BILLS FOR THE MEX WELFARE
AND CRIME TIDAL WAVE.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/05/illegals-obama-promises-his-la-raza.html
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/05/illegals-obama-promises-his-la-raza.html
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The Obama administration has also cut worksite enforcement efforts by 70%, allowing illegal immigrants to continue working in jobs that rightfully belong to citizens and legal workers.
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Obama Quietly Erasing Borders
(Article)
THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE SPREAD
TO MICHIGAN. NOT ONE LEGAL VOTED TO BE LOOTED BY MEXICANS!
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OBAMA’S AMERICA: A FAILED NATION
OVERRUN BY LOOTING ILLEGALS!
An uneasy economy, and those living through it
Here was Chas
Kaufmann's life before the Great Recession: $28,000 in restaurant tabs in a
year, cruises, house parties with fireworks. His Mr. Gutter business was
booming in the Pennsylvania Poconos.
Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C. —
Here was Chas
Kaufmann's life before the Great Recession: $28,000 in restaurant tabs in a
year, cruises, house parties with fireworks. His Mr. Gutter business was
booming in the Pennsylvania Poconos.
Now: "We mainly
shop at Sam's Club and portion out our meals. We spend $4 to $5 a night on
eating." He and his wife use space heaters in their elegant house and
leave parts of it cold. The Hummer is gone, and he drives a 2005 pickup. On
Nov. 6, Kaufman is voting for Mitt Romney.
Lower down the
ladder, the recession put Simone Ludlow's life in a full circle. Laid off by an
Atlanta hotel company in 2009, Ludlow, 32, bounced from job to job for two
years, got by with a "very generous mother," still makes do by
renting a room in a house owned by friends, and is back working for the company
that had let her go. She's voting for President Barack Obama.
For four years, the
bumpy economy cut an uneasy path. It raked small towns and big cities, knocked
liberals and conservatives on their backs, plagued Republicans and Democrats
alike.
It was the worst
economic setback since the Depression, and it didn't take sides.
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Across the country,
Associated Press reporters asked people to talk about their livelihoods before
and after the December 2007-June 2009 recession and how those experiences have
shaped their politics in the presidential election just days away. Their
answers help illuminate why the race is so close. In this time of great
polarization, their stories bridge the partisan divide, showing that resilience
and optimism are shared traits, too, and that no one seems to think either
candidate can work miracles.
"Our potential
doesn't rely on an election and one man or even a ballot," said Ben McCoy,
35, of Wilmington, N.C., creative director for 101 Mobility, a company that
sells, installs and services handicapped access equipment. "I don't think
either candidate for president has the conviction to go as far as we need to go
to really get back to stability."
Economic well-being,
for him, will come from personal decisions by his wife and himself, not
Washington. "We will roll up our sleeves and cut the family budget down to
the core if we have to, where we know we're going to eat and we know the lights
are going to stay on, and that's it. We'll do it. We won't laugh and dance
about it, but we'll do it."
In the Charlotte
area, the recession played a cruel trick on Obama supporter Tamala Harris,
wrecking the Charlotte housing market just after she quit a job to go into
selling real estate. It drove Romney supporter Ray Arvin out of business
selling industrial equipment from North Carolina and cleaned out his retirement
savings with not that many years left to start from scratch. Both have more
hope than you might think.
Harris, 38, is back
in Charlotte after getting her master's in business from the University of
Rochester in New York. During the worst of the calamity, she used loans and
scholarships to advance her education, and looks back on it all as a time that
made her dig deep.
"It made me
realize what was important," she said. "It's just not the material
things and having things to improve your status. I know that people are in such
a rush to have things. They feel that is a validation - `Oh I have this, I have
that.' I was one of them. So, for me, I found it was a time to reflect on your
character - and rebuild again. It was a wonderful time to realize when you
don't have certain things - money is not coming, or houses are not selling -
who's really in your corner. "
Arvin, 47, is
starting over, too.
In 2001, he and his
wife bought a small company that sold equipment to power utilities and the
aviation industry. Business hummed until 2007, when five big customers filed
for bankruptcy and the couple raided their retirement and savings accounts to
keep the enterprise afloat. It sank in 2009. Now he travels five states in a
2005 Suburban as sales representative for a business supplying equipment to
electric and gas companies, bringing home $50,000 to $60,000 after taxes and
travel expenses.
"Am I doing
better? Yes. But I've lost so much. I'm starting new. I'm confident in my
ability to work hard and do well with what I do."
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Polls consistently
find that the economy is the top concern of voters, and Romney tends to get an
edge over Obama when people are asked who might do better with it. Whether that
truly drives how Americans vote is a crucial question for Election Day.
Other factors often
came into play with the people who talked to AP. Republicans didn't buy the
Romney campaign's portrayal of Obama as a one-man wrecking crew in economic
affairs. Democrats didn't see him as a savior. They all realize life is more
complicated than that.
Beth Ashby, 38, an
artist and freelance photographer in North Hollywood, Calif., is a registered
Democrat who thinks Obama is bad for her savings. If he's re-elected, she said,
"I think I'm going to be less likely to set money aside in my investments.
I might be safer just storing it in the shoe box under the bed."
Romney, she said,
"seems to have a head for business." But he's turned her off on
environmental issues, abortion and "some of his comments involving
women." Obama or a third-party unknown will get her vote.
Dave Hinnaland, 51, a
fourth-generation sheep and cattle rancher who co-owns the family's 17,000
working acres outside Circle, Mont., simply seems hard-wired to vote for a
Republican president. As the national economy sank, the local economy shot
ahead thanks to booming oil production in the Bakken oil fields to the east.
The days of $300-a-month house rentals, when people's pickups were more
expensive than their homes, are over.
"When this area
was settled 100 or more years ago, there were people who took a chance and
moved out here," he said. "They worked hard and were able to build
something for themselves and their families."
So his message to all
in Washington: "Let us have the means and options to chart our own path.
Don't hamstring us with rules and regulations. And let people that are willing
to go out to work take a chance, let them have the opportunity to do it. We
don't need a big hand hovering over our head telling us what we can and cannot
do."
If the recession
spared oil and gas lands, Kaufmann, of Kunkletown, Pa., saw it coming in the
gutter trade, specifically when he started noticing that nearly all of his
customers' checks were drawn on home equity credit lines.
"How long do you
think this is going to last?" he recalled asking his wife. "I said,
`I just did a homeowner, the wife lost her job, and without her job, he can't
afford the mortgage.' That's when we started buckling down. I said, `You know
what? It's time.'
"What happened
is, the banks overextended all these people. People were buying clothes,
putting in in-ground pools, putting gutters up where they didn't need to be
replaced. I was putting gutters up when people didn't need gutters. I would
tell them. But they wanted to change the colors. You ride by those houses now
and they either have three feet of grass or the windows are boarded up."
His gross income has
been halved since 2006 and 2007. No cruises since he turned 60 five years ago.
Cruises aren't on the
horizon for Cristian Eusebio, 20, either. He makes $10.50 an hour as a bank
teller in Springdale, Ark. He lives at home with a father who works at a
food-packaging plant that's been cutting staff and a mother who found work at a
warehouse store. The family refinanced before their home mortgage ballooned,
skipped a vacation to pay down a debt and pinched pennies.
"It could have
gotten worse, but it got better because my mom got a job, my sister got a job
and then later in high school, I got a job," he said. "It has gotten
better, but I think it's just because more of us are working. Some of us pay
one bill. The other one pays another."
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In Atlanta, where she
serves as event manager for her hotel, Ludlow puts no faith in Romney's ability
to make the economy sound and offers less than ringing praise for the candidate
she supports. "He may not personally be the smartest guy about the
economy," she says of Obama, "but what I do appreciate is the fact
that he knows when to listen to smarter people."
Her economic worries
transcend politics of the moment. She ticks them off: "The long shift that
we've had with the globalizing world, going from a manufacturing to a service
economy. From a service economy to just a consumer economy, period, that buys
more than it produces. And everybody having a job that can be done by a human
being, but it's just more cost-effective to do it with a computer.
"All of those
factors float around my head and keep me up some nights," she said.
"The economy is (in) an incredible state of transition that we've never
seen before. And nobody has any idea what it's going to look like. When the
smoke clears, what are we going to be living in? And nobody seems to have an
answer to that. Nobody knows. All you can do is put on a couple of Band-Aids
here and try something there, and see what happens. And that makes me
nervous."
If the recession
played no favorites among the rich, the poor and those in between, the recovery
did. Lost jobs and homes may not have come back but the stock market did,
favoring those whose wealth resided in investments.
Carol Clemens, a
66-year-old retiree from Edmond, Okla., and member of the local chapter of an
investing club, put money into Ford shares near the bottom of the market in
2009, sold some and has seen the value of the rest grow fivefold. That eased
her rough patch. "In short, we're not better off than we were in 2007, but
neither are we destitute, for which we give thanks," she said. She's
leaning toward Romney.
But investments and
politics ebb and flow. Of more concern is the nation's future. She's the mother
of grown children who "are not as conscious of saving as we were at their
ages," and of grandchildren who are entering higher education. She laments
class divisions played up in the campaign - the stigmatization of the poor, the
dissing of the rich - and thinks the country needs a deeper fix than any one
leader can achieve.
"Americans have
got to start taking full responsibility for our messes," she said.
"We vote in ineffective politicians, we tolerate second-rate educational
systems, we envy those who have worked to have more and resent those who burden
our social services because they have great needs.
"I would hope
that the next president would have the guts to call us on our blindness and
narrow visions," said Clemens. "We have to regain our ability to stop,
consider and give a damn if we are going to change things."
Woodward reported
from Washington. Associated Press writers Michael Rubinkam, Dave Carpenter in
Chicago, Matt Sedensky in West Palm Beach, Fla., Michael Sandler in Richmond,
Va., Tom Krisher and Dee-Ann Durbin in Detroit, Alex Veiga in Los Angeles,
Matthew Brown in Billings, Mont., Jeannie Nuss in Little Rock, Ark., and Mark
Jewell in Boston contributed to this report.
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ONE MEXICO’S LARGEST
EXPORTS IS PREGNANT WOMEN. THESE WOMEN KNOW THEY CAN HOP OUR BORDERS FOR “FREE”
ANCHOR BABY BIRTHING = 18 YEARS OF WELFARE. THIS CHILD BORN IN OUR BORDERS WILL
BE RAISED AS A MEXICAN AND STILL BE A CITIZEN OF MEXICO!
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