Jobs, Americans Won't Do?

Mr Bush, I thought illegals were doing the jobs that Americans didn't want to do. Some employers like illegals because they can pay them less, and they have less of an ability to quit if conditions are bad. Americans workers are just so troubling...they'll leave if they have a better offer somewhere else, and they demand safety equipment. How unfair!

However, if illegals only do the jobs Americans won't as Mr. Bush claimed, and I think a meat processing plant falls into that category, then there wouldn't be a line.

GREELEY - The line of applicants hoping to fill jobs vacated by undocumented workers taken away by immigration agents at the Swift & Co. meat-processing plant earlier this week was out the door Thursday.

Among them was Derrick Stegall, who carefully filled out paperwork he hoped would get him an interview and eventually land him a job as a slaughterer...

Bonifacio was hoping to get a job in production or fabrication. So was Nathan Korgan, a former construction worker whose company closed and moved to California.

"I feel bad for the kids, but good for me," said Korgan of Tuesday's raid.
Rocky Mountain News

Killer Escapes Britian as Muslim Woman in Niqab

The PC-establishment is so great in Britian that you can board an airplane wearing a hijab. I'm not whether to laugh or cry. Famed poet Robert Frost said "a liberal is someone too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel." This is extremely true here. The British are so concerned about offended fundamentalist Muslims that they'd rather let who-knows board an airline rather than have someone take off a veil.

A man who was being hunted for the murder of a policewoman is understood to have escaped from Britain by disguising himself as a veiled Muslim woman.

Mustaf Jama, a prime suspect in the fatal shooting of PC Sharon Beshenivsky, assumed his sister’s identity — wearing the niqab and using her passport — to evade supposedly stringent checks at Heathrow, according to police sources.

The use of the niqab, which leaves only a narrow slit for the eyes, highlights flaws in British airport security. At the time, Jama was Britain’s most wanted man, while Heathrow was on a heightened state of alert after the 7/7 terrorist atrocities in London five months previously.

The Times has learnt that British immigration officers rarely carry out a visual check to match a passport photograph with a departing female passenger’s veiled face.

Details of Jama’s disguise emerged yesterday as his younger brother, Yusuf, awaited a life sentence for the murder of the police officer, who died during an armed robbery at a Bradford travel agency in November last year.

Detectives believe that Jama, 26, was allowed to board an international flight from Heathrow because no attempt was made to uncover his face... Times of London

Grand Achievements in Socialized Medicine

Left wing politicians and their allies in the media have championed socialized medicine as being compassionate and "free." What is happening is that there is a serious reduction in the quality and availibility of healthcare. It might be nice to say that healthcare is free, but if you can't get an appointment for surgery, then what good is it?

If your cancer surgery gets delay for months and the cancer spreads to your lymph nodes, will you be happy that they government told you it was free?

Stuart Browning of onthefencefilms, does a great job in reporting news stories from Europe, Canada, and Australia, documenting some horrors.

Canada

Woman waits four days for surgery for broken leg

Susy Horna spent four pain-filled days in Surrey Memorial Hospital waiting for an operation on her broken leg.

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"You can't eat for 12 hours before surgery, so I didn't have anything to eat from Wednesday to Saturday," Horna said yesterday from her hospital bed, recovering from her Saturday operation. "The only thing they offer you is morphine."

Canadians fleeing long waitlists by going abroad

As waitlists grow ever longer, surgical tourism has become an option for many Canadians who are in pain and frustrated with the country's chronically overburdened medical system.

United Kingdom

Cancer Appointment Cancelled 48 Times

ANGRY cancer patient Dennis Burke yesterday branded the NHS a shambles after a hospital cancelled his appointment 48 times in a row.

Dennis, 68, who is in remission from bowel cancer, spent 14 months trying to get a consultation after his GP referred him to hospital. He said: "I am absolutely fed-up with them messing me around.

"What's the point in my GP telling me to go to hospital if I can't get an appointment?

"I have had to put up with 48 appointments with an NHS doctor being cancelled in a row. It is a disgrace."

U.K. Woman Goes to Norway to get an MRI

A WOMAN has spoken about why she opted for an MRI scan in Scandinavia rather than waiting for one in Wales

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The 55-year-old, ... travelled the 715 miles for a contrasting MRI scan after being told she faced an 18-month wait for the same diagnostic procedure on the NHS in Wales.

No One to Operate the MRI Scanner

The dire state of funding at our hospitals was laid bare today when it emerged a scanner designed to ease pressure on the N&N has not been used since it was installed six months ago.

The delay was today blamed on a lack of money to employ radiographers to operate it and the need to test it fully.

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North Norfolk MP Norman Lamb said: "It is not just lack of radiographers that is the problem - it is the lack of money to employ them."

"It has been excruciating and frustrating that the MRI scanner has sat there unused for so long, and even when it is used it will only be for one session a week. The hospital trust has had a bad deal from the Government. I will continue to encourage them to find ways to get the scanner in use full time and I know the hospital authority is keen to do that."

The scanner was moved from the N&N to Cromer and District Hospital in May to ease pressure at the N&N, where people were waiting up to 25 weeks for a scan.

Scottish Flee to India for Medical Procedures

When doctors told Stuart Shaw he needed a hip replacement he was faced with a six-month wait or a 9,000 [pound. bill from a private hospital. Suffering excruciating pain, the 67-year-old decided to travel to India instead. He paid less than 4,000 [pounds] for the operation, including his travel expenses and five weeks in hospital.

Breast Cancer Surgeries Delayed

Reports that 12 women have had vital breast cancer surgery delayed due to bed shortages at the Mater Hospital in Dublin are 'very disturbing', the Labour Party has said.

Australia

Triple Bypass Surgery Cancelled Four Times

Yesterday morning, 62-year-old Vincent Mays and his family were shattered to learn that his triple bypass surgery had been cancelled because of a lack of beds - for the fourth time in six weeks.

Woman with Cancer Told To Wait

"The recording said that the doctor had advised that my case wasn't urgent and that they would reschedule an appointment in the new year," she said.

Barack Obama: Race Baiting Poltics as Usual

Although many news organizations are running stories about Barack Obama, many are leaving out the below quote. In case you need help translating, that means that conservatives (those who won't vote for him due to his politics) are racists. Of course, it wasn't conservatives who pelted Michael Steele with oreo cookies.

“Are some voters not going to vote for me because I'm African-American? Those are the same voters who probably wouldn't vote for me because of my politics,” he said. theday

How Media Spins the Cost of Illegals

Here's a good example of media bias. Liberals (who run newspapers) love illegals. The article spins the negativity of the report, by presenting the existence of illegals as a wash to the government, instead of a negative drain.

The stand alone state government made $420M, but if you add in the county figures (+513 -1440), you are at a total of -$507M. Then the article says "that cities and school districts suffer as well" without estimating costs and which means the overall net affect of illegals is even lover. Illegals cost Harris County (Houston) almost $20M on police alone. That never made it into the other figures.

Of course, illegals raise the gross state product (GSP). GSP is the sum of all people's earnings. Any extra person with a job increases GSP. It doesn't mean they don't send it back to Mexico. Additionally, how does it affect the GSP/per person?

Imagine at raise time you get a $10,000 raise, but you lose your $8000/year car allowance, your contribution towards the Medical and dental plans goes up $5000/yr, and they are moving offices further away from your home, which will cost you an extra $1000/yr in gas. Are you going to be happy? Would anyone look at that like it was a "give and take?" Or would any sane person think they are getting the shaft?

Illegal immigration's give-and-take

Study: Their taxes lift state, but services drain counties

08:19 AM CST on Friday, December 8, 2006
By KAREN BROOKS / The Dallas Morning News

AUSTIN – Illegal immigration is draining hundreds of millions of dollars from local governments but bolstering the Texas economy by $17.7 billion a year, the state comptroller estimates in a new report.

And when it comes to taxes, illegal immigrants are a boon. They cost the state $1.16 billion in services, such as public health services and education, but they pay $1.58 billion every year in taxes and fees, according to the report, released Thursday.

That's a net profit to the state of $420 million.

But counties pay the price: They're taking in $513 million in local taxes and revenues – but spending $1.44 billion in indigent care and law-enforcement costs. Cities and school districts suffer as well, the report said.

While the debate on the impact of illegal immigrants has roiled the state and nation, the study represents the first time Texas has comprehensively looked at the costs and financial benefits. An estimated 1.4 million illegal immigrants live in Texas....

The report says the absence of the illegal immigrants would decrease the gross state product by $17.7 billion a year.