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<title><![CDATA[The Truth about Prop. 98 and why you should vote NO!]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[PLEASE VOTE NO ON 98.  If passed, it would be devastating to the elderly in our community of Santa Barbara.
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Reply to: comm-681138321@craigslist.org
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Date: 2008-05-14, 9:03PM PDT
<br>

<br>

<br>
Why Vote No On 98 and Yes on 99 
<br>
Prop 98 hurts renters, homeowners, & the environment. 
<br>
Proposition 98 is a deceptive measure that a group of wealthy landlords placed on California's June 3, 2008 ballot. These landlords want you to believe the measure is only about ‘eminent domain', but Prop. 98 is full of hidden provisions that would hurt Californians. A broad coalition of groups including AARP, League of Women Voters of California, California Professional Firefighters, California Teachers Association, National Wildlife Federation, and hundreds of other organizations who don't normally agree on the issues - all OPPOSE Prop. 98. 
<br>
Prop. 98 attacks renters by eliminating renter protections and rent control. 
<br>
Prop. 98 guts important environmental protections like laws we need to combat global warming, and protect our land, air, water and coasts. 
<br>
Prop. 98 will hurt our students by making it more difficult to relieve classroom overcrowding. 
<br>
Prop. 98 threatens our water supply by hindering long-range planning. 
<br>
Prop. 98 threatens California's businesses. 
<br>
Prop. 98 threatens California's public safety by making harder for law enforcement to address public safety issues. 
<br>
Prop. 98 hurts mobile home owners in many of California's mobile home parks. 
<br>
Why You Should Support Prop. 99 - The Homeowners Protection Act 
<br>
Proposition 99 is the straightforward solution we need to protect against eminent domain abuse. Prop. 99 prohibits government from using eminent domain to take a home to transfer to a private developer. Unlike the landlords’ Prop. 98, Prop. 99 is eminent domain reform with NO HIDDEN AGENDAS. 
<br>
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<title><![CDATA[Check Out  www.jorgensenforcongress.com (Santa Barbara County)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[On June 3 Primary, Please vote!<br>
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<title><![CDATA[RE: Thank you Exxon - sorry to hear about your disapointing Profit! (U]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It was an 8% profit. Hardly a windfall. I do have stock in oil and on the margin it is NOT alot. You must not have planned, studdied or even done a thing for yourself or your future. I think most people need to quit paying for cable and put that money to work. "Misinformation... the anti-everything." Try no internet access too. You might wind up with a couple of nickles to rub together.]]></description>
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<dc:date>2008-05-11T16:48:22-07:00</dc:date>
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<title><![CDATA[Please vote NO ON PROP 98]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Please read and understand Prop. 98.  It is not a home owners protection act.  85% of the funding for the yes on 98 campaign came from landlords and mobile home park owners (Fess Parker donated over $12,000, per the Secretary of State)<br>
<br>
Please review and vote no<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.no98yes99.com/go/get-the-facts/"  rel="nofollow">http://www.no98yes99.com/go/get-the-facts/</a><br>
<br>
I am posting this on behalf of my elderly grandmother who lives in a senior mobile home park.  Thank you.]]></description>
<dc:date>2008-05-09T21:57:13-07:00</dc:date>
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<dc:title><![CDATA[Please vote NO ON PROP 98]]></dc:title>
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<dcterms:issued>2008-05-09T21:57:13-07:00</dcterms:issued>
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<title><![CDATA[Thank you Exxon - Aww sorry to hear about your disapointing Profit! (US of A)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to say Thank you to the big oil Exxon. <br>
<br>
Thank you for raising gas prices so high, that you have made 75 BILLION dollars in profit in 2006-2007!<br>
<br>
AWW I'm so sorry to hear that you only made 10 BILLION in the first quarter of 2008, what a shame, I know I could never run my company on 10 BILLION Profit!!<br>
<br>
Please raise the prices so you can make 45 BILLION this year, you know all of America doesn't mind, it's not like we need to eat or live in housing, or buy Goods from retailers.  <br>
<br>
I'm sure those retailers will understand when we stop buying their goods, and their employees will understand when they get laid off because sales are down.<br>
<br>
I'm sure grocery stores won't mind if we start dumpster diving for our food instead of paying them cash we don't have (had to spend it on gas).  After all, they will be throwing out a lot more food seeing we won't be buying it.<br>
<br>
I'm sure banks are so thankful to you also, after all they now own a bunch of houses!! <br>
<br>
Please Exxon, don't worry about the pending recession, I'm sure the high fuel costs have nothing to do with it, after all, everyone has been raising prices also due to the gas prices, I'm sure the higher prices are making them 40 BILLION a year also!<br>
<br>
Oh, seeing America is such an overweight nation, I guess you are helping us all loose weight, seeing many go without 3 meals a day now, some are lucky to have 1 meal a day. Its the new EXXON DIET, COOL!<br>
<br>
I just wanted to also Thank Exxon for lining the pockets of our elected officials, yes must be nice that no one can sue you in a US court to try and correct the gas prices. ( I Don't think calling our elected official every day and complaining will work seeing we don't have all that money to give them as "donations")<br>
<br>
<br>
Exxon made 35 BILLION dollars in 2006<br>
Exxon made 40 BILLION dollars in 2007<br>
Exxon made 10 BILLION in the first 3 months of 2008<br>
<br>
Anyway, just wanted to say Thank you, after all the current US economy has nothing to do with your gas prices.  It's nice to see someone making a profit, 85 BILLION since Jan 2006, I should have bought oil stock, DOH!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Lower gas prices]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[I want lower gas prices!  Do you?<br>
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<title><![CDATA[Marxist Reading Group in Santa Barbara]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[Obama Adviser Suggests Up to 80,000 Troops Remain in Iraq By 2010 (Santa Barbara)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[As Barack Obama continues to criticize John McCain for saying he’s willing to keep a 100-year troop presence in Iraq, another Obama adviser has suggested U.S. forces could stay in Iraq longer than the Democratic candidate initially thought.<br>
<br>
Adviser Colin Kahl wrote in a policy paper for the Center for a New American Security that the United States should transition to an “over-watch” force of between 60,000 and 80,000 troops by the end of 2010, according to an article Friday in the New York Sun.<br>
<br>
That appears to be at odds with Obama’s public position of removing all combat brigades from the country within 16 months of taking office.<br>
<br>
Kahl told the Sun his plan would still keep the U.S. “out of the lead” and mainly in a “support role.” He said the plan had nothing to do with the campaign.<br>
<br>
The Obama campaign said in a statement: “The writing of Mr. Kahl, one of hundreds of outside advisers to the campaign, is not representative of Barack Obama’s consistent policy position on the Iraq war.”<br>
<br>
But Kahl’s plan seems to jibe with other advisers’ statements that Obama’s withdrawal timetables are more a goal than a firm policy commitment.<br>
<br>
Foreign policy adviser Susan Rice, for instance, told reporters in February that Obama’s plan to end the war in 2009 is not absolute, and that he reserves the right to revisit troop levels in Iraq upon taking the oath of office.<br>
<br>
Former foreign policy adviser Samantha Power told the BBC that Obama’s 16-month plan is a “best-scenario” and that the reality is he will try to withdraw troops “as quickly and responsibly as possible.”<br>
<br>
Power was the adviser who resigned in early March after calling Hillary Clinton a “monster” in an interview with a Scottish newspaper, but Clinton also tried to paint Obama an inconsistent for Power’s statements on Iraq.<br>
<br>
Obama later affirmed that he would bring the war “to an end in 2009.”<br>
<br>
Both Clinton and Obama have talked about keeping some U.S. presence in Iraq after withdrawing the bulk of American troops, but it’s unclear how broad that presence would be. Obama’s Web site states that “some troops” would stay in Iraq to protect U.S. embassies and diplomats and carry out targeted strikes on Al Qaeda if the organization tries to keep a base in Iraq after U.S. withdrawal.<br>
<br>
Obama talked about keeping a “strike force” in the region Monday. That drew questions from McCain who asked, “Where are they based? What do they do? Now I’m intrigued. He has said he will pull out all troops before. How do you reconcile those two?”<br>
<br>
Obama and McCain were in a war of words earlier this week over Iraq. Obama accused McCain of wanting to wage a 100-year war.<br>
<br>
That claim is originally based on McCain’s statement at a New Hampshire town hall meeting in January that he would be “fine” with staying in Iraq up to 100 years, “as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or killed.”<br>
<br>
McCain later explained that he meant American troops could keep a presence, much like they did in countries like Japan and Germany, and his campaign vigorously accused Obama of distorting his remarks.<br>
<br>
Obama’s not the only candidate whose public statements on Iraq have been in conflict with those of his confidants.<br>
<br>
The Sun reported in a separate article in early March that retired Gen. Jack Keane believes Clinton would hold off on an immediate troop withdrawal in Iraq. Keane, the Sun reported, was close with Clinton and declined an offer to join her campaign as an adviser. But the Clinton campaign told the Sun at the time that Keane’s statements don’t change her commitment to begin withdrawing troops within 60 days of taking office — that is the position on Iraq Clinton still has on her Web site.<br>
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<title><![CDATA[Respect Freedom of Speech]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[<span style="font-family: verdana;">Excerpts from a forum:</span>


<span style="font-family: verdana;">When a so called religious leader like Rev never Wright slanders the country he lives in he should be punished the same as if he slandered an individual.</span>
<span style="font-family: verdana;"> "THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT INVENTED THE HIV VIRUS TO KILL PEOPLE OF COLOR". Bullshit! That is a lie, a cannard, a prevarication, a falsehood, whatever you wish to call it. There are people in the ghettos of Chicago who will believe BS like that. Though their ignorance or that they wish to believe anything bad about white people (de govment be white). People could be hurt by such BS. I believe in free speech. But only if it is the truth.</span>
<span style="font-family: verdana;" class="byline"><span style="font-weight: bold;">              greyrooster</span> |         04.13.08 - 11:49 pm | <a href="http://www.haloscan.com/comments/mypetjawa/192201/?src=hsn#98934"  rel="nofollow">#</a> </span> <hr style="font-family: verdana;">       <a  rel="nofollow"></a>            <p style="font-family: verdana;"><img src="http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=7aae7756cdcb47eb5c62d6fd995e4f02&amp;default=http%3A%2F%2Fec1.images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2Fx-locale%2Fcommon%2Ftransparent-pixel.gif&amp;rating=PG&amp;size=32" class="gravatar"> Greyrooster: And how can "We The People" always determine, beyond any shadow of a doubt, what is truth? Are we to put the fear of fascism into the hearts of all, so that none will even dare speak the truth or what is known or believed to true, even if not acknowledged by the powers that be?

And who determines the truth? The corrupt government? A certain political party? A particular church or religion?

Look at the vile Israeli oligarchy  and that bloody vulture <a  href="http://www.davidbenariel.org/israel/shimon-peres-rabin-dead-body.htm"  rel="nofollow">Shimon Peres</a> who had <a  href="http://www.davidbenariel.org/israel/vatican-linked-assassination-yitzhak-rabin.htm"  rel="nofollow">Yitzhak Rabin</a> murdered and blamed it on the right; Look at Hitler's Germany who wouldn't have tolerated the "lie" that Jews aren't the enemy of all non-Jews.

Whether those in the ghettos, or those in the suburbs, those in the churches or synagogues, or anybody in your local bar, choose to believe this or that is their <b>personal prerogative and personal responsibility</b> - it is definitely <i>not</i> the government's business to think for them, and to "protect" them from real or imagined falsehoods, myths, propaganda, etc.

It's better to respect freedom of speech, especially something you strongly disagree with - and if and whenever somebody says something that can be proven WRONG, then let whoever is miffed, those whose feathers are ruffled, report it or take them to court and go from there - otherwise we'll all be enslaved.
<span class="byline"><span style="font-weight: bold;">              David Ben-Ariel</span> |       <a href="http://www.davidbenariel.org/"  rel="nofollow">Homepage</a> |   04.14.08 - 11:08 pm | <a href="http://www.haloscan.com/comments/mypetjawa/192201/?src=hsn#99299"  rel="nofollow">#</a> </span></p> ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Board of Supervisors to cut Mental Health Services - Help (Santa Barbara County)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[There is an issue looming in Santa Barbara County which affects the lives of thousands of individuals. Before last week, I had never signed a petition. I had never stood with the mayor, city council members, chamber of commerce members before cameras and made my position known. I had never attended a rally. I had never spoke before politicians and pleaded for a cause. But all that changed when I learned the Board of Supervisors will most likely make Santa Barbara County the worst funded county in California for mental health services; when I realized the Board of Supervisors could leave nearly 1,000 people without treatment and hundreds without a home. These are people who, for the most part, can’t advocate for themselves. I’m one of those thousand but I can and will advocate on my behalf and on the behalf of those who can’t. I’m asking for your help – for 60 seconds of your time to sign an online petition opposing these cuts. You don’t need to live in Santa Barbara or even California to participate. This petition is the only remaining option we have to persuade the Board of Supervisors to reconsider. Visit <a href="http://www.savementalhealth.org"  rel="nofollow">http://www.savementalhealth.org</a> to learn the details of the issue and sign the petition. If you’d prefer to bypass the details and go directly to the petition, visit <a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/poppy58/petition.html."  rel="nofollow">http://www.petitiononline.com/poppy58/petition.html.</a> If you haven’t signed yet, let me give you more details. <br>
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In 2003, I graduated from UC Santa Barbara at the top in my class and Phi Beta Kappa. I moved to Carmel, California, with my wife. I purchased a home and started a company.  A few years later, with life unfolding in a spectacular and promising way, I faced the onset of Bipolar Disorder. I lost my wife, my home, my company, and my dignity. I returned to Santa Barbara and the very services that the Board of Supervisors intend to cut are the same services that saved my life and put me on the path to recovery. Who, I wonder, is the next Roger? The Roger that hasn’t yet arrived or isn’t yet afflicted? What is his fate? For that matter, what is the fate of all those who have yet to need the services that might not exist? While that is an important question, the most pressing concern is the fate of those already using and needing the services that might not exist. How will 800 to 1,000 severely mentally ill individuals manage? All I am asking is that you sign a petition which will be symbolically presented to the Board of Supervisors on April 22nd. Again, the direct link is <a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/poppy58/petition.html."  rel="nofollow">http://www.petitiononline.com/poppy58/petition.html.</a><br>
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Still haven’t signed? I hate petitions as well. But the reality is that the demographic this is affecting is mostly too disabled to even understand the implications of this budget cut. Some paranoid schizophrenics won’t sign even though it affects them directly because, well, they’re paranoid. That leaves it up to me and to you and to those you know. If you don’t sign and you have a reason, please, share it. Let me know. My e-mail address is rogert.chess@gmail.com. I want to hear why you won’t sign a petition that takes 60 seconds to complete and is in the interests of those who mostly can’t defend themselves. Even if you sign the petition, it might not be enough. That’s why I’m attending news conferences, rallies, and board meetings. But I need your help as well. At the risk of sounding too repetitive, visit <a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/poppy58/petition.html"  rel="nofollow">http://www.petitiononline.com/poppy58/petition.html</a> and sign the petition. Perhaps you’re thinking that your single signature won’t make any difference – but it takes many, many single signatures to make that difference. <br>
Thank you for your time and attention. Please sign the petition and forward this posting to everyone you know! We only have a week!<br>
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Sincerely, <br>
Roger Thompson<br>
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<description><![CDATA[All of you who are smart and literate...take a look at this new website.  Its momentum is building and you can help it take its next leap forward.  It is part blog, part ezine...deals with politics, has feature articles and contributors, music, incredible pictures and more.  Feedback is definitely welcome.  If you like what you see, spread the word...don't let the tabloids take over the net!
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<description><![CDATA[The Clintons have been proven to be nothing more then Drug Running scum.<br>
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Hillary the movie<br>
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Clintons running Cocaine through Arkansas<br>
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THE CLINTON CHRONICLES<br>
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CIA CONFRONTED ABOUT DRUG RUNNING<br>
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ALL OF THESE MOVIES ARE FREE TO WATCH BECAUSE THIS IS ABOUT GETTING THE INFO OUT TO THE PUBLIC.<br>
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<description><![CDATA[I'm a Brooks student and a big Obama supporter.  I want to use my skills to support Obama.  I have a project and I need your help!  Come out to Summerland Beach Park this Saturday and show your face and play on a trampoline!  I would like to spell out the phrase 'Believe in Change, vote 4 Obama'  with people jumping on a trampoline and forming a letter with their bodies.  I have it all figured out how you can do that, so don't worry, no dancing are gymnastics experience needed!  Together, all of the individual 25 letters/people will spell my phrase. Come Support Change!<br>
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I will be at the Summerland Beach Park from 2pm to 6pm right across from the playground before going down the hill to the beach.  Come by and jump!  It should take only 5 mins of your time!  <br>
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Thanks<br>
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<title><![CDATA[McCain called his wife a CUNT!!! (SB)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[WTF! I know this may be old news but come on. He said it was a long day but that's no excuse to call you're wife a cunt in earshot of a reporter or anyone! Who else is he going to call a cunt, asshole, dickhead or fucking jerk when he has a long day, which I think the President always has plenty of! You know what I say? Fuck him.<br>
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<description><![CDATA[The ModernSquib-Your Brain Will Love It!<br>
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If you want Satire, Insightful Social Commentary...not to mention Sex, Violence, Naked Pics of your favorite Falling Stars...the latest "Idol" results...PLUS ALL the Political Punditry you can handle, THEN you need to read the latest ModernSquib.com <br>
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If you like what you see then by all means contribute an essay or two on your favorite subject. If you don't like what you see, then by all means send me an essay or two telling me why you are mindless Clone that thinks O'Reilly is for Real and not a creature of Satan! <br>
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<title><![CDATA[RE: Illegal Aliens Just A Thought... (Middle American Party)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Two wrongs don't make a right. The Republicans and Democrats who run our government obstructed the enforcement of our Immigration Laws. The Democrats see this issue as gaining special interest votes, and the Republicans are looking at cheap labor.  Neither benefits America, just the two Parties.<br>
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The American Heritage Foundation did a economic report on Illegal Alien contributions to the economy.  For every Illegal Alien dollar contributed, the cost to our infrastructure (social services, etc) was $2.78!!  While you hire an undocumented worker to do your landscape, you are aiding and abetting a federal crime, as well as, contributing to the Federal deficit.<br>
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One special interest group claimed Illegal (Immigrants) Aliens contributed one trillion dollars to the economy.  By AHF findings, that means Illegal Aliens took out of the economy $2,780,000,000,000.00.  Also, the Government Accountability Office came out last Summer with a report concerning the negative effects that Amnesty would have on our Social Security Program.  Upon approval of Amnesty our SSP would inherit $2.5 to 3.5 trillion deficit, which will be on top of the deficit now existing.  Since the total Illegal Alien contribution is less than $240 billion, how is the additional shortfall going to be covered?  Retired Comptroller, David Walker, reported on TV last month, that with current campaign promises, and Congress not doing anything different to cut expenditures, not only is the SSP in danger, but the Medicare program can not be maintained much longer, too.  Amnesty would be fatal on the SSP.<br>
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Last year, because of our lack of processing Illegal Aliens, over 5,300 Americans were murdered due to their presence within the United States. Another several hundred thousand Americans were victims of other Illegal Alien documented crimes, and another estimated two million Americans suffered ID theft due to the Illegal Alien demand for such forged papers. It is interesting how much more we hear about our casualties in the Iraq War, but the war we are losing on the home front is costing far more American lives and casualties. (Over five years, the death of over four thousand US service people is a huge personal and emotional loss for those Fallen Heroes' families.)  So are the thousands of American Citizens who lost their lives on the home front. Over four times the death rate in one year due to the lack of enforcement of our Immigration Laws.  Just so the Republicans and Democrats can pick up votes. And other Americans can save a buck.<br>
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So, while you rejoice in saving money on your lawn, or the addition on your house, or whatever, you are supporting through your misplaced (bogus) humanitarian excuse, massive personal and financial damage on millions of Americans.  Pretty Selfish!!<br>
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What about the legitimate people, those potential Immigrants that can not get into our Country, because we are overwhelmed with Illegal Aliens?  Basically, for every Illegal Alien tresspassing into our Country a actual Immigrant has been displaced.  Reward the law breaker and punish the law biding Immigrant - that makes real sense.<br>
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Illegal Aliens have moved up to own businesses, take over jobs in the 50K+ per year bracket, and artificially lowered pay for other jobs. Many legitimate business owners were forced out of business by Illegal Alien Employers cheating the system.  Landscapers and Gardeners in California were wiped out by Illegal Alien operations.  When you don't have to pay insurance, unemployment, and other associated costs, you can charge less, but the tax paying honest, hard working, American Citizen business person was put out of business.<br>
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In short, Illegal Aliens being here is not a victimless crime. Many Americans are paying the bill by losing their lives, their possessions, and their IDs.<br>
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Of course, if you are one of those wealthier individuals, who hire Illegal Aliens regularly, you will continue to turn a blind eye and deaf ear to all the negatives you are promoting by being an Illegal Alien Employer yourself.<br>
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You will defend yourself by calling your fellow Americans who oppose your illegal actions - Racists.  I for one would like to see those legitimate people waiting throughout the World be allowed to come into the United States. The real Immigrants can replace all the (Illegal Alien) criminals.<br>
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As far as moving millions of Illegals out of the Country, enforcing our laws against Illegal Alien Employers will do that through attrition. Already, States who have taken it upon themselves to enforce laws against Illegal Aliens have seen a significant reduction in Illegal Alien populations. And a corresponding significant reduction in all types of crimes.<br>
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Immigration YES!  Illegal Aliens NO!<br>
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www.midamericanparty.com<br>
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