Immigrants of Today and Yesterday

This was written by Rosemary LaBonte to the editors of a California newspaper in response to an article written by Ernie Lujan who suggests we should tear down the Statue of Liberty because the immigrants of today aren't being treated the same as those who passed Ellis Island and other ports of entry. The paper never printed this response, so her husband sent it out via internet.

Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people like Mr. Lujan why today's American is not willing to accept this new kind of immigrant any longer. Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to the United States, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in New York and be documented.

Some would even get down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in good and bad times. They made learning English a primary rule in their new American households and some even changed their names to blend in with their new home.

They had waved goodbye to their birth place to give their children a new life and did everything in their power to help their children assimilate into one culture. Nothing was handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect them. All they had were the skills and craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade for a future of prosperity.

Most of their children came of age when World War II broke out. My father fought alongside men whose parents had come straight over from Germany , Italy , France and Japan None of these 1st generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country their parents had come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan . They were defending the United States of America as one people.

When we liberated France , no one in those villages were looking for the French American, the German American or the Irish American. The people of France saw only Americans. And we carried one flag that represented one country. Not one of those immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another country's flag and waving it to represent who they were. It would have been a disgrace to their parents who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants truly knew what it meant to be an American. They stirred the melting pot into one red, white and blue bowl.

And here we are with a new kind of immigrant who wants the same rights and privileges. Only they want to achieve it by playing with a different set of rules, one that includes the entitlement card and a guarantee of being faithful to their mother country.

I'm sorry, that's not what being an American is all about. I believe that the immigrants who landed on Ellis Island in the early 1900's deserve better than that for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising future generations to create a land that has become a beacon for those legally searching for a better life. I think they would be appalled that they are being used as an example by those waving foreign country flags.

And for that suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty , it happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on the immigration bill.
I wouldn't start talking about dismantling the United States just yet.

Just One More Thing...

• Just one more thing... on Obama Care Repeal.

Since only 8 million people have Obama Care, how will 24 million people die if it is repealed? Will 16 million people be randomly shot?

• Just one more thing... on Donald Trump.

If Donald Trump deleted all of his emails, wiped his server with Bleach bit and destroyed all of his phones with a hammer, would the Mainstream Media suddenly lose all interest in the story and declare him innocent?

• Just one more thing... on equal pay.

If women do the same job for less money, why do companies hire men to do the same job for more money?

• Just one more thing... on Sanctuary Cities.

If you rob a bank in a Sanctuary City, is it illegal or is it just an Undocumented Withdrawal?

• Just one more thing... on ISIS.

Each ISIS attack now is a reaction to Trump policies, but all ISIS attacks during Obama's term were due to Climate Change and a plea for jobs.

• Just one more thing... on the London 'Lone Wolf' terror attack.

After the London 'Lone Wolf' terrorist attack government officials have arrested at least eight other 'Lone Wolves' who had conspired with the original 'Lone Wolf' in planning the 'Lone Wolf' attack. Even though all involved are Muslims, you can be assured, the 'Lone Wolf' attack has nothing at all to do with Islam, just like the other 1000 plus 'Lone Wolf' attacks by Muslims, are completely dissociated with Islam.

• Just one more thing... on Entitlements.

We should stop calling them all 'Entitlements'.

Welfare, Food Stamps, WIC, ad nauseum are not entitlements. They are taxpayer-funded handouts, and shouldn't be called entitlements at all.

Social Security and Veterans Benefits are Entitlements because the people receiving them are entitled to them. They were earned and paid for by the recipients.

• Just one more thing... on the Muslim Refugees.

If Muslims want to run away from a Muslim country, does that mean they're Islamophobic?

• Just one more thing... on The Women's March.

If Liberals don't believe in biological gender then why did they march for women's rights?

• Just one more thing... on the Russians hacking the election.

How did the Russians get Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DNC to steal the Primary from Bernie Sanders? How did Russia get Donna Brazile to leak debate questions to Hillary Clinton in advance of the debates?

• Just one more thing... on Democrats and the Electoral College.

Why is it that Democrats think Superdelegates are fine, but they have a problem with the Electoral College?

• Just one more thing... on the FBI and elections.

If you don't want the FBI involved in elections, don't nominate someone who's being investigated by the FBI.

• Just one more thing... on Hillary's speeches.

If Hillary's speeches cost $250,000 an hour, how come no one showed up to her free ones?

• Just one more thing... on Russia manipulating our election.

The DNC is mad at Russia because they 'think' they were trying to manipulate our election by exposing that the DNC was manipulating our election?

Partisan Chasm Like Never Before?

The difference between our nation's two political parties seems to be separated farther apart today than it ever has been in my lifetime. Just watching the news analysis of the President's State of the Union address to Congress last night illustrates this point in glaring fashion. I wish to share my observations about why we as a country find ourselves at such an ideological difference today. (In case you didn't watch or listen to it, here's the transcript; thanks to the "fake news" N.Y. Times and its petty points of difference in the margin.)

I heard and saw so much last night that I really wonder how the Democrats will survive the next three years of Trump's administration; let alone his second term. Trump gave example after example of the ways our nation has taken a 180 degree turn since he came into office. Tax cuts, repatriation of corporate assets coming back into the country, jobs by the millions, unemployment dropping for both the black and brown communities, ISIS decimated, new construction of manufacturing plants by companies in the upper mid-west, people and families getting off of food stamps and unemployment subsidies, introductions of multiple individuals or families who's circumstance or actions revealed the spirit of our American values of honor, bravery,  duty and desire - with one North Korean who managed to escape from that incredibly oppressive regime on crutches into China, and managed through his intense desire to make it into the the United States - is a perfect example of why our nation remains a beacon of freedom and liberty to the world.

Yet, during the whole speech the vast majority of Democrats remained seated, rather than standing to join the rest of the chamber in clapping, during the mention of nearly everything he spoke about. They sat and didn't clap when Rep. Steve Scalis, one of their own, who survived the terrible shooting by a Bernie Sanders supporter at a congressional baseball game in Virginia. They sat on their hands when President Trump introduced and told the tragic story about the two families who lost their daughters to MS-13 gang members, or soldiers and policemen who helped their brothers or sisters in need. Do they no longer feel virtuous actions of our citizens deserve recognition and praise? They sat long faced when President Trump introduce the boy from Redding, CA who took on the project of putting American flags on veteran's graves. Time after time, when President Trump spoke of the positive changes he's implemented during his first year, they refused to applaud or join in celebration of his plans to restore America to its greatness. Commentator Joy Reid on CNN actually tweeted during the post-SOTU address coverage last night, "Church... family... police... military... the national anthem... Trump trying to call on the tropes of 1950s-era nationalism. The goal of this speech appears to be to force the normalization of Trump on the terms of the bygone era his supporters are nostalgic for. #SOTU" Another CNN commentator, Tom Brokaw, actually said the bigger missing person within the congressional chamber was the absence of Robert Mueller who's investigating the Russian collusion to rig the election in Trump's favor! They just won't let it go! What a joke! (Here's Ann Coulter's article and Dick Morris's video about the SOTUS.)

And why were liberals sitting on their hands? In my honest opinion, because it does not allow them - liberals in general - to continue dictating the 13 year old middle-school adolescent mentality of trendy group attitude to the nation through their poor choice for a presidential candidate who had sickened the nation so badly that they couldn't stomach a continuation of the previous eight years. The decent, hard working people of this country saw right through the mountain of lies and corruption going on, with Comey exonerating Hillary before an investigation was ever conducted about her clear disregard for the national security of sensitive information on her private - and very lawless - server as SOS. Because liberals have gotten their way with their social experiments of more than two genders, threats from those who have demanded that someone running a business do what they tell them to do against their religious beliefs, while at the same time defending the culture of those who treat women worse than their dogs, throw homosexuals off of rooftops, and cut off the heads of Christians for heresy to their "religion".

No, the people of this country aren't that stupid Ms. Reid. We know that we'll never be able to return to an era that rebounded from wiping out the twin global threats to liberty and freedom in World War II. They're just tired of the dismissive excuses you've made about those in our society who want to do their children harm, are tired of living pay-check-to-pay-check, and wonder what the future will be for their children as they become adults in circumstances that only increased dependence on the government for those who managed to have a job that allowed them to survive while paying increased taxes year after year. And yet, you seem to now believe that such desires are "deplorable". I can't help but get the impression that your elitist attitude sees us who wish to maintain our freedoms and liberties for our posterity as just "cattle" for maintaining your modern reservations and plantations.

No thanks! We made that clear a little over a year ago. Oh, and by the way, the time is fast approaching, and seems to have arrived, that your poor decisions during the last election are now coming home to roost; like the chickens that you are!

Survey Raises Hackels of Tax Payers

This local story, an extra from The American (see bottom of article), is on how taxes in Tacoma, WA are climbing every year. (You'll want to see this brief video about what's happening in Olympia now that the Democrats are in power.)

Volume 7, Number 2.1 February, 2018

In This Issue. . .

I'm Angry and I'm Not Keeping Quiet About It! By Paula Lonergan

Today, I received a very pleasant email from our editor, Richard, and was very nice hear from him. After reading his email and while still sitting at the computer, I received a phone call about 10:25 AM from a professional surveying company and you'll never guess what it was about (or, maybe you can guess).

 

After I was invited to participate in the survey, I learned the 

caller wanted to know my receptivity to a new 0.1% of a city 

sales tax, and boy did I let the caller have it. Here's the 

premise for this year's early request. You see, we have a 

new mayor. One that isn't real sure if she has a BA or an AA 

degree, but she promised to do more for the poor of our city 

so those who support the arts that believe I should too, want 

to make an absurd case that the poor need to increase their 

exposure to the arts and someone needs to cough up 

another tenth of one percent to help pay for it! 

 

I heard the caller's rationale for the proposed tax increase 

and the need to increase the exposure of the poor, 

especially poor students, to the arts. The caller wanted me 

to feel a moral obligation to voluntarily vote for another sales 

tax increase, in spite of the fact that I'm still reeling from the 

last set of tax increases, to include now having an 

outrageous 10.4% sales tax thanks to ST3! I distinctly 

remember getting angrier and angrier, speaking a little more 

tight-lipped as usual, as the caller continued his line of 

questioning. He almost seemed to project a sense that if he 

could only somehow appeal to sense of duty to help the poor 

that I would be unable to see through the 'bull crap' and 

finally agree that if the newly formed city council could 

somehow wrap another smelly, repugnant tax package in 

shiny Christmas paper that it would never occur to me that of 

all the things a poor person might want me to pay for, the 

arts are the very last thing a poor kid might ask for!

 

Now, I can believe that the arts community may want to glom 

on to more tax dollars to help pay for stupid art projects and 

programs, or to support museums that cannot make it on 

their own as well as upgrades to the Pantages, Chihuly's 

Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum and/or the LeMay [Car]

Museum (that was, now that I think about it, specifically 

mentioned), nevertheless, I was still able to hold my ground 

and say that no matter what the answer is still, “No.”

 

All of a sudden, in the midst of the call, I remembered my 

friends, the Sims. I could see quite clearly why they may 

have felt compelled to sever ties with this city and state, sell 

their home, pack up and leave everything they've known and 

loved behind. As the song goes, “I can [see] clearly now, the 

rain is gone...” Well, that's it! I don't usually do this but now 

that my son, Joe, is off of the city council I may actually have 

to go down to the next open forum and let them know I know 

what they're up to and I'm not going to stand still for it! 

What's so reprehensible to me is that the new mayor is 

already trying to placate her financial constituency by 

promising to use more of my resources--competing with cars 

tabs, increased sales tax as well as the increased property 

taxes, too.

 

Before closing out this article, I invite you to give a great deal 

of thought to what's coming down the pike and channel your 

anger wisely to make your thoughts known about increased 

taxes for the arts--oh, yeah, and let's not forget, this is for the 

poor and you can certainly take that to the bank (or, rather, 

someone wants to dip into your account for that).

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“The American” is published before the first week of every month aimed at the voters of the 27^th Legislative District and Tacoma, WA. The focus of the publication is to identify some of the issues that affect our district mixed with opinion, commentary and humor. The subscription is free. To subscribe to this newsletter, please send your email address with a request to Richard Sims ragsims 1544@gmail.com. Those who contribute articles will receive full credit for their contribution.

I'm Voting Democrat because...

• I'm voting Democrat because I believe the government will do a better job of spending the money I earn than I would.
• I'm voting Democrat because freedom of speech is fine, as long as nobody is offended by it.
• I'm voting Democrat because when we pull out of Iraq I trust that the bad guys will stop what they're doing because they now think we're good people.
• I'm voting Democrat because I believe that people who can't tell us if it will rain on Friday CAN tell us that the polar ice caps will melt away in ten years if I don't start driving a Prius.
• I'm voting Democrat because I'm not concerned about the slaughter of millions of babies, so long as we keep all death row inmates alive.
• I'm voting Democrat because I believe business should not be allowed to make profits for themselves. They need to break even and give the rest away to government for redistribution as THEY see fit.
• I'm voting Democrat because I believe those who come into our country illegally aren't breaking federal law, they just don't have the proper documentation yet so they can vote Democrat.
• I'm voting Democrat because I believe that when the terrorists don't have to hide from us over there, when they come over here I don't want to have any guns in the house to fight them off with.
• I'm voting Democrat because I love the fact that I can now marry whatever I want. I've decided to marry my lama.
• I'm voting Democrat because I want everyone else who drives a car to pay 4Xs their normal renewal tab fees and an average of $100/month on property taxes to support building a 19th century technology rapid transit system that will take 30 years to build in order to solve a 21st century problem of congestion that will only impact 3% of the drivers, when we'll have driverless cars in another 5 years.
• I'm voting Democrat because I believe oil companies' profit of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon of gas at 15% isn't.
• I'm voting Democrat because California wants to make a business owner's waiter/waitress who gives a customer in a restaurant a straw without their asking for it, punishable as a crime to either pay $1,000 or spend 6 months in jail.

Makes ya wonder why anyone would EVER vote Republican, now doesn't it?

A Few Interesting Facts About "Dreamers"

• 792,000 dreamers are over 25 years old (88%)
• 900 dreamers serve in our military (Less than 1%)
• 743,000 dreamers do not have a college degree (83%)
• 189, 000 dreamers dropped out of High School early (That's roughly 21%)
• 9,000 dreamers are incarcerated (1%)
• 657,000 dreamers receive some form of welfare (73%)

Please tell me... exactly what positive impact are these "Dreamers" having on our communities and society? What type of scam is our government running against us?

This Is What Socialism Looks Like!

If there's a way to understand just how socialism works in our modern society, California's government is a prime example.

Don't believe me? Read this article, and watch the video contained within it to learn just how socialists' view business versus the homeless in their state. While the socialist has complete sympathy for the homeless by making excuses for them and their littering of garbage, they view the way to get businesses to comply with their desire to reduce plastic garbage generated by their business is to consider passing a law which would fine and imprison a business owner for allowing their waiters/waitresses to give out plastic straws without the customer requesting one!

Oh, the irony of it all! While they espouse caring for the environment, they promote the ability of the homeless to turn the landscape around their encampments into mini-landfills of their left-over plastic and paper garbage!

I wonder what excuse the state is going to give when asked why their state no longer has any economic viability in the future after all the residents who are willing to work leave the state for elsewhere because they grew tired of supporting the majority of homeless and illegal immigrants who are now squatting while collecting subsidies from the government.