Mexicans are going back to Mexico



Rosario Araujo and Jose Zavala returned to San Jose de Lourdes, Mexico, in October. They lived in Arizona as illegal immigrants.  (USA Today photo)

A bad American economy along with stronger immigration laws sees some Mexicans moving back to Mexico



Data from both sides of the border suggest that illegal immigration from Mexico is already in fast retreat, as U.S. job shortages, tighter border enforcement and the frightening presence of criminal gangs on the Mexican side dissuade many from making the trip.

Mexican census figures show that fewer Mexicans are setting out and many are returning — leaving net migration at close to zero, Mexican officials say. Arrests by the U.S. Border Patrol along the southwestern frontier, a common gauge of how many people try to cross without papers, tumbled to 304,755 during the 11 months ended in August, extending a nearly steady drop since a peak of 1.6 million in 2000, reports the Los Angeles Times.

"Our country is not experiencing the population loss due to migration that was seen for nearly 50 years," Rene Zenteno, a deputy Mexico interior secretary for migration matters, has said.

Video  -  Mexico's economic growth - one of the many reasons Google does business in Mexico.

Douglas Massey, an immigration scholar at Princeton University, said surveys of residents in Mexican migrant towns he has studied for many years found that the number of people making their first trip north had dwindled to near zero.

"We are at a new point in the history of migration between Mexico and the United States," Massey said in a Mexico City news conference in August hosted by Zenteno.

About 12.5 million Mexican immigrants live in the United States, slightly more than half without papers, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.

In Guanajuato, Mexico long one of the country's biggest migrant-sending states, thousands of Mexicans have come back, but "it hasn't been a massive return," said Susana Guerra, who heads the state's migrant affairs office. She calls the decline in northward migration a "spasm" — not a lasting reality.

Carlos Mireles, who lives in the town of Manuel Doblado, Guanajuato, said his two nephews moved to Mexico City after they lost their restaurant jobs in Chicago and spent six months without work.

While in Orange County, California

With the downturn in the economy, Mexicans residing in Santa Ana, California legally and illegally began to look south. In the city of about 325,000, this Mexican flight has manifested itself in a number of ways: Census data show a decline in the city's Latino population. Schools report plummeting enrollment. Foreclosed homes abound in historically Mexican immigrant neighborhoods.

In the past six years, Santa Ana Unified School District has reported a 10 percent drop in enrollment.

At least 10 students from the prestigious El Sol Science and Arts Academy have left in the past year to return with their families to Mexico, Children Learning Center coordinator Sara Flores said.

At the same time, the downtown Latino commercial district on Fourth Street is plagued with slumping sales and shuttered storefronts.

While analysts say it's a challenge to determine the number of migrants leaving the U.S. and where they are moving, anecdotal information suggests that legal and illegal immigrants are returning to their hometowns in Mexico, many to Guerrero state.   (Orange County Register)

Pastor Lee De Leon of Templo Calvario in Santa Ana, California says he has seen about 15 percent of his parishioners - some U.S. citizens and others in the country legally and illegally - leave the country, which led to a reduction in the tithings that had helped fund the food bank.

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Conservatives crush Spain's Socialists



Spanish election:  Mariano Rajoy of the conservative People's party celebrates victory with his wife, Elvira Fernandez, at the PP's headquarters in Madrid.   (Photograph: Chema Moya/EPA)


Socialism Fails Again . . .
Leftists rack up massive debt along with 23% unemployment

• The Socialists' 110 crop of seats in parliament was their worst result since democracy was restored to Spain at elections in 1977.

The conservative opposition People's party (PP) of Mariano Rajoy have won a clear majority in Spain's general election.

With over 90% of the votes from the election counted, the centre-right PP won 186 seats compared to 154 in the last legislature, while the Socialists plummeted from 169 to 110, their worst performance ever.

Although the 56-year-old is an apostle of deficit control and liberalization, he has been deliberately vague about his plans so as not to frighten off voters, reports the UK Guardian.

With yields on Spanish sovereign debt soaring to new highs at the end of last week, he takes over a country in crisis.

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PP spokeswoman Ana Mato confirmed that the party's own polling also gave them an clear majority. "The PP has won with an ample majority," she said. "Our only objective now will be to overcome unemployment and the crisis."

Rajoy is a former property registrar who held various ministerial posts in the governments of José María Aznar between 1996 and 2004.

Spaniards show little personal enthusiasm for the uncharismatic conservative, but they tired of Zapatero, who oversaw a dramatic economic slump that left growth at 0% and unemployment at 23%.

With Spain's sovereign debt yields last week approaching the levels at which Portugal and Greece needed bailouts, Socialist candidate Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba had little chance of extending the seven-and-a-half year period of leftwing government under Zapatero.

The Socialist prime minister had brought elections forward by six months and said he would not stand again.

The Socialists' 110 crop of seats in parliament was their worst result since democracy was restored to Spain at elections in 1977.

Among a series of smaller parties to benefit from the socialist collapse was the communist-led United Left party, which increased its number of deputies from two to eleven.


Spain's Conservatives cheer their election victory over the insanity of Socialism.


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Jesse Ventura wants Ron Paul for President

Governor Jesse Ventura says he would support Ron Paul if he runs as an independent or on the Libertarian Party ticket.

"The loose definition of Fascism is when corporations take over government, and I think here in the United States we're on the brink of that if we are not already there right now. . . . they are turning our country into East Berlin."
- - - Governor Jesse Ventura


Governor Jesse Ventura's (Independence Party of Minnesota) view of America.

Jesse has lived a life most of the worthless political hacks in Washington can only dream of.  Navy Seal, world famous professional wrestler, movie actor, radio talk show host, Mayor, Governor and New York Times best selling author.

Jesse is sickened by the corruption of the two party system.



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A Free Election in Minnesota.
For those Americans who have never seen a FREE election here is a county map by party of Jesse Ventura's winning election for Governor.  The winning Reform Party in tan, the 2nd place Republicans in red and the 3rd place Democrats in blue.  Free elections where your vote really matters.  What a radical concept. 

 

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Thank God the Balanced Budget Amendment is dead



President Andrew Jackson had no problem balancing the Federal budget and paying off the national debt at the same time.  But the modern political hacks do not have the guts to do either.  They are cowards. 


The truth is the truth . . .

"I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country."
--- President Andrew Jackson

"A constitutional amendment is not a path to a balanced budget.  It is only an excuse for members of this body failing to cast votes to achieve one."

--- Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas  (2011)

"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
--- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Consul of the Roman Republic

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The phony Balanced Budget Amendment is dead

By Gary;

The House voted 261-165 in favor of the measure to require annual balanced budgets, but that was 23 short of the two-thirds majority needed to advance a constitutional amendment.

In all, 235 Republicans and 25 Democrats voted for the amendment, four Republicans and 161 Democrats opposed it. The other two Republicans voting no were Justin Amash of Michigan and Louie Gohmert of Texas.

An amendment is not needed.  (Ask Andrew Jackson.)  Congress can balance the budget today if they wanted to.  All they have to do is adopt the U.S. Budget for 2006 when spending levels were lower.  How hard it that? 

Thank God this idiotic amendment is dead. 



Bo Diddley
"Don't let your mouth write no check that
your tail can't cash."



GET IT DONE NOW 

The Elite hacks and liars in the Beltway need to finally take responsibility for their actions.  Big Spending Socialist Government has to end.  They need to slash entitlements, slash spending and pay down the national debt. 

No more.  No less. 

No kicking the can down the road with a constitutional amendment that might, maybe, be approved by the states in 3 to 7 years.  They need to do the job they are paid for right now. 

DANGER TO THE REPUBLIC   

The Founding Fathers did not want a super majority to be needed to pass a budget or go into debt.  What that can do is create a dictatorship of the minority.

Power would no longer be in the hands of the people's representatives based on a majority vote.  Instead the power to bring the nation to its' knees would be held by a tiny minority.

For example, if a two-thirds vote was needed to pass an unbalanced budget.  The budget could pass the House 435 to 0 and die in the Senate with only 34 no votes.

A tiny minority of 34 Senators voting as a block could hold the entire nation hostage to their demands.  The  government would grind to a halt.

The answer is not to give an insane minority the power to block the business of a nation.  The answer is for the majority to do the job they are paid to do.  No more excuses.


Cowards on Parade
The Congressional Balanced Budget Amendment Caucus  -  a collect of total cowards who are afraid of personally casting the votes needed to cut spending and get a dirty job done.



Debate - Should Holocaust victims be able to sue France?



Jobs.  Who needs jobs?  Let's waste time debating Hitler.
Hitler was in Paris.  It appears members of Congress do not understand that fact, because they want Holocaust survivors to be able to sue France.  After all the Nazis used French railroad cars to transport Jews to the death camps. . . . like the French had any choice in the matter when they were ordered to comply.

Bull Shit Alert
Instead of working on jobs, moron Congressmen are pushing for a bill allowing Holocaust survivors to sue France.


It would not be a day on the internet without a Hitler story.  So here we go.

America is the laughing stock of the world.

The United States is totally bankrupt.  Millions of homes have been foreclosed on.  Businesses are closing left and right.  There are millions of under and unemployed Americans.  Joblessness among our youth and minority communities is through the roof.

And what is Congress debating?  World War II era ancient history.  What a fucking joke.

The French firm that may want a piece of California's high-speed rail project would face costly lawsuits from Holocaust survivors under a bill now trying to gain steam on Capitol Hill.

The bill would expose the state-owned rail giant SNCF to lawsuits from victims transported aboard its trains to World War II concentration camps. The legislation also provokes questions about SNCF's interest in California's multibillion-dollar high-speed rail future reports AFP news.

Costly lawsuits.  That is the key.  The proposed bill is yet another Attorney-Full-Employment-Act designed to line the pockets of scumbag lawyers in the name of "justice".

Carolyn Maloney, a Democratic congresswoman from New York and lead sponsor of the bill, said: "SNCF's role in the death and suffering of tens of thousands of innocent victims is an immeasurable failure of humanity."

"Yeah, there are complications, and there are ways to deal with that," said Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif.  "The answer is for the rail company and the French government to confront the issue and get that past them."

Technically, the so-called Holocaust Rail Justice Act discussed by lawmakers yesterday does not impinge on this California rail project. Practically speaking, though, the bill casts a shadow over one of the project's big potential players.

The legislation targets SNCF for its role in transporting an estimated 75,000 Jews and other victims from France to concentration camps.

SNCF officials say they were compelled by Nazi authorities to provide the rail transportation.

The SNCF's US affiliate has been awarded a contract to run commuter rail services in Virginia, and wants to bid for a similar contract to run Maryland's MARC commuter trains.

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Turkish intervention OK says Syria's Muslim Brotherhood



This cartoon is the image of Syria's government that the media wants you to hear.  It is certainly one point of view.  But life is not that simple.



A point of view you are not allowed to hear . . .

"I go every week, especially in areas where clashes are supposed to be taking place. But nothing happens! The media is lying.  About 95% of the population supports Bashar al-Assad." 

• The Muslim Brotherhood wants Islamist Turkey to invade Syria.
• The secular Baath Party of Syria has a good deal of support among the general population and Islamic and Christian minority groups.

Americans are grossly misinformed about the world. 

Americans are told by their hack leaders that the secular and Socialist Baath Parties of Syria and Iraq are bad and must go.  But not everything is that easy. 

THINK.  The Baathists are secular and Socialist and they are the enemies of the radical Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islam.  So if they are the enemies of radical Islam why do we oppose the Baathists? 

Now a leader of Syria’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood said the Syrian people would accept military intervention by Turkey, rather than Western countries, to protect them from President Bashar al-Assad’s security forces.

Mohammad Riad Shaqfa, who lives in exile in Saudi Arabia, told a news conference in Istanbul the international community should isolate Assad’s government to encourage people in their struggle to end more than four decades of Assad family rule says FRANCE 24 news.

Hundreds of people have been killed this month, one of the bloodiest periods in the revolt that began in March. The United Nations says more than 3,500 people have died in the unrest.

If Assad’s government refused to halt its repression, Shaqfa said Turkish intervention would be acceptable.

“If the international community procrastinates then more is required from Turkey as a neighbor to be more serious than other countries to handle this regime,” Shaqfa said.

After mobs attacked Turkey’s diplomatic missions in Syria at the weekend, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu hosted representatives of the Syrian opposition at dinner.
 

Saydnaya church, near Damascus, is second only to Jerusalem for Christian pilgrimage.
As an increasing number of Syrians take to the streets to demand sweeping government reforms, many Syrian Christians are still hesitant to do so – afraid of an uncertain future as a minority that has until now been safe under the current secular government.  (Orthodox Peace Fellowship)



A view you are not allowed to hear: 

"If Bashar al-Assad falls, there will be no more Alawites or Christians here.”


They hail from the same community as Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. Now Lebanon’s Alawite community is monitoring the situation across the Lebanon-Syrian border with trepidation.

A few kilometers from the Syrian border and there are growing fears that the current crisis in Syria, sparked by protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, could spill over into the region.

Anxiety levels are particularly high among the Alawites, a community that follows the same offshoot of Shiite Islam as the embattled Syrian leader.

In these parts, support for Assad – and his father, former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad – is strong.

"When Hafez al-Assad came to power [in the 1970s], the Alawite community finally obtained rights in Syria and Lebanon,” said Ali Ahmed Ali, a client at the Tal Abbas barbershop.

“We buy our medications, our gas, even our vegetables in Syria. Everything is cheap there. I hope the regime will not fall. If Bashar al-Assad [who succeeded his father in 2000] falls, there will be no more Alawites or Christians here,” he predicts, brandishing his cane.

In the impoverished Jabal Mohsen neighborhood of Tripoli, posters of Bashar and Hafez al-Assad adorn the walls of some of the buildings.

But in this neighborhood that is home to the majority of Lebanon’s estimated 100,000 Alawites, the residents are cagey and suspicious.

Tripoli has a history of sectarian tensions between the Alawites and their Sunni neighbors. The tensions stem from Syria’s longstanding involvement in Lebanese politics dating back to the country’s fratricidal civil war during the 1970s and the 1980s.

Clashes have frequently broken out between residents of Jabal Mohsen and Bab el-Tebbaneh, a predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Tripoli.

Saleh, the Arab Democratic Party spokesman, rarely goes to the center of Tripoli, a Sunni majority area. He leaves Jabal Mohsen only to go to Syria. "I go every week, especially in areas where clashes are supposed to be taking place. But nothing happens! The media is lying. About 95% of the population supports Bashar al-Assad."  (FRANCE 24)



It is not as simple as black and white.
Syria and Lebanon are a mixture of ethnic and religious groups.  About 10% of Syrians are Christians.  Some 1.1 million Greek Orthodox, 700,000 Syrian Orthodox, 200,000 Armenian Christians (Apostolics and Catholics), 400,000 Catholics of various rites and the Church of the East (Assyrian).



And the same mix of ethnic groups and religions for Lebanon.
About 40% of Lebanon is Christian, mostly Maronites, Greek Orthodox, Armenian Apostolic, Melkite Greek Catholics, Assyrian Church of the East, Syriac Orthodox, Chaldean Catholic, Syrian Catholics.

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Will the Bunker Buster target Iran?

Threat: USAF specialists stand under a mock-up of the new bunker busting Big Blu

The U.S. Air Force has unveiled the Massive Ordnance Penetrator - dubbed the Big Blu - and speculation is already mounting that it may be used in airstrikes on Iran or North Korea.

B-2 Stealth Bombers will use the six metre long GPS guided rocket, fitted with 2.5 tons of explosives, to smash open underground bunkers and tunnels suspected of containing weapons of mass destruction, says the UK Mail.

Bunker buster: The USAF's $32 million contract with aerospace firm Boeing will see eight of the devices delivered to 'fulfil the Air Force's operational needs'.

The delivery of the super bomb comes as U.S. President Barack Obama today said America would act firmly against any nuclear proliferation activities by North Korea.

And it is in the same week an International Atomic Energy Agency report renewed calls for a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities.

In a speech to the Australian Parliament, Obama said the transfer of nuclear material by North Korea to other nations would be 'considered a grave threat to the U.S. and our allies'.

Obama refused to rule out a military option to prevent the country from making nuclear weapons and said economic sanctions against the country, aimed at halting its nuclear threat, were having 'enormous bite'.

The new MOP is twice as heavy as the 'daisy cutter' bomb employed in Vietnam and in Tora Bora at the outset of the war in Afghanistan.

The 'daisy cutter' has since been retired and replaced with the MOAB, the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb or 'the Mother of All Bombs', which weighs less than the MOP bomb but contains more explosive power.


The delivery of the super bomb comes in the same week an International Atomic Energy Agency report renewed calls for a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear facilities

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SHOCK - Solar energy kills jobs



Federal solar panel subsidies will kill California jobs.
Federal "green energy" money will effectively pay California farmers NOT to grow food on their land but to put up solar panels instead.  The results:  less food for Americans to eat and more unemployment in the agriculture industry.



Socialist Triple Whammy  -  Bye Bye American Jobs

• #1  -  Government subsidies to take farm land out of production to put up solar panels.
• #2  -  Government use of the Endangered Species Act to kill California farms & jobs.
• #3  -  BONUS  -  The solar panels will be made in China creating jobs there & not in America.

By Gary;

In the real estate boom a few years ago California agriculture was in danger from the constant pressure of development.

But no more.

Instead of houses, now it's armies of Federally subsidized solar panels that are threatening to crowd out farming and eliminate real jobs in the agriculture industry.

There appears to be no end to the insanity of Socialist Democrats with or without the leadership of Comrade Obama.  Because, make no mistake, their insanity is not limited to Obama.  Killing the American Dream of free enterprise, jobs and wealth is deep in the Democratic Party itself. 

The conflict has been building throughout the Central Valley over the last year, even sparking a lawsuit against the Fresno County Board of Supervisors by the California Farm Bureau Federation last month.

Closer to home, the issue came to a head at the Kern County Board of Supervisor's meeting, reports Lois Henry of the Bakersfield Californian.


The solar industry will kill jobs
in California.


A slew of tax incentives and federal stimulus dollars have made solar energy production both increasingly attractive and feasible in recent years, igniting what had been the sleepy cousin of renewable energy.

Even more recently, Pacific Gas & Electric worked a deal with the California Public Utilities Commission to fast track large scale solar energy facilities that could plug directly into utility substations throughout the San Joaquin Valley.

Hence, the great Central Valley solar rush is on.

Kern County planners suddenly found themselves with 32 proposals for solar power generation facilities encompassing 17,000 acres of solar panels.

About 9,000 of those acres are considered prime farmland.

Productive farm land can churn $3,000 to $4,000 per acre back into the local economy via permanent jobs, seed, fertilizer, vehicle purchase and repairs, etc., according to local farmers.

After all who needs local jobs and locally grown food?  That is crazy talk to want those.  Let's just keep using tax dollars to pave over our farm land and eliminate jobs.  What could possibly go wrong?

For more about the insanity of job killing Socialism see our article THE FEDERALIST - "The People's Republic of California."


Sean Hannity - "Federal made dust bowl" (2009)

Save a fish  -  Kill a farm
Would France rip out its storied vineyards? Would Juan Valdez scorch Colombia's coffee crop? Sri Lanka its black pepper harvest? China its tea?  But the Socialist Government of the US is using the Endangered Species Act to "save" a fish and kill our agriculture industry.



Joe Marchini of Marchini Farms stands in front a water cutbacks sign on the flanks of
his field and highway 99 near Chowchilla, Calif.  “Man-made drought,” the signs
draped across fences or cotton trailers at the edge of fields proclaim in large,
bold letters. (AP Photo/GosiaWozniacka)


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Rick Perry: "We need a part-time Congress"



On paper Governor Rick Perry was the perfect candidate.  Oh well.  Such is life.  But many of his ideas are good.


The Perry plan is great, but it is too little, too late to save his campaign


Rick Perry has challenged House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to debate him next week about his plan for a part-time Congress.

In a letter to Pelosi (D-Calif.) obtained by The Hill, the Texas governor wrote: "I am in Washington Monday and would love to engage you in a public debate about my Overhaul Washington plan versus the congressional status quo.

"I think it would be a tremendous service to the American people to see a public airing of these differences," he continued. "Let the people decide. If Monday doesn't work, perhaps we could find a time in Iowa over the course of the next month to discuss these issues in front of the people of America's heartland."


 It is funny how Congressmen get
richer while in office.

 Yes to a Part-Time Congress

Publicity stunt or not the Perry plan for a part-time Congress is exactly the reform that this nation needs.

These "full-time" political hacks get into Congress and will not leave.  They are full of self importance and grow a God complex.  After a couple of terms Washington D.C. becomes their new home and those simpleton morons back home who keep calling are just irritants to be avoided at all costs.

The tradition of the early American Republic was for a local to serve a term or two in Congress and then return home and go to work for a living just like everyone else.  George Washington is the best example of this attitude of limited public service.

Today not only do they never leave the Beltway, but they enrich themselves by crooked deals with special interests.

REFORM  -  Slash Congressional pay by 75%.  No benefits.  No pension.

Have Congress meet for 90 days to update any laws and pass a budget.  That being done Congress should adjourn, the members return to their districts and go back to work for a living in their old professions.  Working for a living like ordinary people might give them a new look on America.

This can easily be done by a majority vote of either chamber.  In fact, if the Republicans really cared about small government they have the votes to do it to it today the House.

But short of a revolt and blood in the streets this will never happen.  Deep down Congressmen and Senators think you are an idiot and that only they are smart enough to rule over you.  Without massive public pressure for reform no action will ever be taken. 

Political hacks will never vote to eliminate their own jobs.


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