Cheap Labor?

This article highlights the hidden costs of those who arrive here illegally. My concern also includes the obvious security issues. I am pro legal immigration but we can not take everyone or just anyone.

WQYK.com
21 February, 2007
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, a lie…an oxymoron. 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 the 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. Kind of scary, isn’t it.

Britain’s Royal Dhimmi’s visit Kuwait’s Grand Mosque

In the past I have said some harsh things about the Brit’s. I meant them all. There is little hope for them.
2/21/2007 10:02 AM
Pravda/AP
Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, visited Kuwait’s largest mosque Wednesday where they listened to kindergarten children recite a verse of the Quran.
The royal couple stood shoeless on the Grand Mosque’s carpeted floor, smiling to the children who squatted in horseshoe shape.
Prince Charles wore a gray suit, and the Duchess of Cornwall was dressed in a cream-color pants suit. Before stepping into the mosque, she covered her hair with a white scarf, and the two took their shoes off, as is required to enter a mosque. They were offered Arabic coffee in gold-rimmed cups before their tour.
Prince Charles and his wife then sat with officials in a lavishly furnished tent where they held discussions with Kuwait’s minister of justice endowments and Islamic affairs and other officials about the country’s efforts to promote moderation and religious understanding.
The press did not have access to the meeting, but the British Press Association quoted a royal spokesman as saying the couple talked about ways to combat extremism and how to promote an understanding of Islam as a peaceful religion, reports. Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall are on a tour of Gulf countries and arrived in Kuwait Monday.

Moderate Muslim Cleric Kills Pakistan minister.

This murdering scumbag at least he did it himself and didn’t send someone else to do his dirty work. It is a good thing he held no affiliation to any extremist group, not telling what a radical Muslim would have done. The nerve of women wanting to better themselves and their community. More moderates will naturally demand his release. May she Rest in Peace, her only crime-attempting to change Islam

21 February, 2007, AFP
ISLAMABAD, February 21: A Muslim cleric arrested for killing a female minister in Pakistan told interrogators he was fired by a passion to purge society of women who defy Islamic customs, police said today.
Mohammad Sarwar was detained minutes after shooting Punjab provincial minister and women’s rights campaigner Zil-e-Huma Usman, 35, at a public meeting yesterday in the central city of Gujranwala.
“I have no regrets. I killed her out of the conviction that she was leading an un-Islamic life and spreading an evil influence on other women,” he told police interrogators in custody, according to a police source.
Witnesses said Sarwar approached the minister as she was about to give a speech to party activists then took out his pistol and blasted her in the head.
Officials described him after the killing as a “fanatic” with no affiliation to any extremist group. Police said in a statement on Tuesday that he was opposed to the involvement of women in politics.
He was previously held in 2002 in connection with the killing of four prostitutes, but was acquitted due to lack of evidence. Police said he gave Koran lessons to children at a local mosque.
Usman was a supporter of President Pervez Musharraf, and backed the pro-US ruler’s policy of “enlightened moderation” designed to tackle extremism in Pakistani society.