I am from WI and I am so proud of my fellow citizens, this song is such a great dedication to all of the citizens protesting for our rights.

NPR (National Public Radio) has published an article about the Gulf fishing industry and how much is operating as cash only. Full article here:

Cash Business In Gulf Makes Compensation Difficult

Being that A LOT of businesses operate on a cash basis only and do not and have not file Tax forms or payed Taxes should these Businesses be compensated by BP, I say no Income tax papers no money. Where is Bobby Jindals explanation as to why his state government has allowed this to go on forever? Were not talking about a couple fisherman, it is the fishing Industry, lawn workers, mechanics who repair the boats, the dock buyers, unreal. Come on Jindal start making these people pay their fair share of the taxes for your state and the country.

How do these people buy a car, the Boat, homes, they make that much cash that they can do like the drug dealers and buy everything out right with cash? If I buy a car or home first thing they want are my Tax returns and some in Louisiana are calling for a Tax Amnesty for these Tax Cheaters, if they get it, give us all the taxes we have payed back and then give us a Tax Amnesty from ever having to pay Taxes again, everyone that plays by the rules deserves it more then Tax Cheaters do. I feel very bad for the people in the Gulf, but if you are a Tax Cheater, not so much, no tax returns no payments, you knew the consequences when you did it, live with those consequences.

Here is a little about what I experienced in Colorado Springs, Illegals and Homelessness:

Years ago I moved to Colorado Springs to look for a construction job and possibly relocate from Arizona. I lived in a large motel complex that rented rooms by the month, after moving in I noticed that 80% of the people living there were Mexican men who would wait in the main parking lot in groups every day waiting for some one to pull up and offer them work for the day. I had seen something like this before when I was homeless in Arizona, other homeless people I met at county parks, would go to certain spots around Mesa to get what they called day labor (basically employers preying on cheap cash labor) , (Note: I was living out of my van, most were living out of their cars ) these were not illegals but Americans that could not find work. People need to realize that once you become homeless getting a job is not really an option, not because they do not want a job, but in order to be hired by a legitimate company you need a Phone Number and Permanent Address, once you loss those you are in a bad way, it cost at least $1,500.00 up front to get an Apartment and another $90.00 to $120.00 down to get a Phone. Off note I had met a lot of women that would come to Phoenix to get and Apartment and a new job to find that $500.00 was not going to get them an Apartment, Phone, Electric, etc, a lot of them danced at Strip Clubs until they earned enough money to get the essentials and be able to apply for a regular job. I was lucky after a month or two a friend allowed me to park at their house and use their address and phone number to get a full time job.

Back to CS so here I was living with illegals and looking for work, I had my van and it had over $10,000.00 worth of tools in it so I was very concerned about it being broken into, but after meeting some of the folks there I did not worry any more, everyone looked out for each other. But the point is there were a lot of illegals in that city, this was in 1981. I did find a framing job with a local construction company in just a few days, but after working 2 weeks for the guy he up and tells me he doesn’t have the money to pay me, but he could give me drugs instead, I was floored and said NO, after doing more checking I unfortunately found out his main thing was dealing drugs, I thought about turning him in but decided that might lead to bad things so just dropped it, actually that had happened before, in Arizona, you never know. Illegals were every where in Arizona, at the time they mostly worked doing Farm and Landscaping jobs and a lot of them were allowed to live in the nearby Orchards or there were certain landlords that would rent to them. I never saw any illegal Mexicans working in Framing you need to have the proper tools, a van or truck and have good math skills, we did have to contend with snowbirds coming down for the winter months and working for half the price, problem was the snowbirds were slow, framing in Arizona is VERY different then the Midwest.

Back to Colorado Springs, I ended up staying there for a couple months and did find legit contractors to work for, but the wages were low and decided to head back to Arizona where the wages were better. When I was in CS it was a very nice community it reminded me of a town in the Midwest, really nice parks and a well kept clean city. So fast forward to now, Colorado Springs is cutting taxes and local government services because the voters have voted for it and the recession is cutting into the tax revenues, so if you would like an idea about what it is like to live in a city whose services are being cut right and left, (Smaller Government) read these articles at the DenverPost.com:

Colorado Springs cuts into Services 02/03/2010
Colorado Springs experimenting with loss of services 07/04/2010

Quote from second: article

“These medians and parks that are being adopted are in wealthy neighborhoods,” she said. “We are seeing the creation of a community of haves and have nots.”

To those people who want smaller Government be careful of what you wish for, unless of course you are one of the top 2% then hell yes. To the rest of us it means a wider gap in the class structure, America works because the 98% were receiving enough income to buy a Home, a new car or two, nice furniture and some toys, plus for some the ability to send your children to College. It has been undermined for the last 10 years and our bottom lines have been going down or flat not up like some would like us to believe. The America we love and remember needs to change and change fast or we are going to be a two class nation, cheap labor is great for those that reap the rewards but does nothing to keep America strong. The 98% need a decent income so the American dream survives, right now the top 20% own most of the wealth in this country.

Check out the information in this article at sociology.ucsc.edu; Who Rules America? for the data of wealth distribution from 1983 to 2007. Come on America Wake Up, money is power but so are your choices, buy American made products and vote for people who are behind the 98% not the top 2%, I am for people making money but not because they prey off or want cheap labor, Americans have fought hard for a better life, but that is being taken away by a very small majority, Greed can be good, but not when it hurts 98% of Americans. Just my 2 cents, lol, well .05 cents now.

If a Jamaican agricultural worker receives $10.00 per hour here in the United States, in Jamaica that is $854.30 JMD.
So 40 hours X $10.00 = $400.00 US in Jamaica he is bringing home $34,170.00 JMD, nice income.

If a Mexican makes $10.00 per hour that is $130.60 Mexican Peso.
If an Illegal Mexican makes $400.00 for 40 hours he brings home $5,224.00 pesos, nice income.

Plus if these people work for a farmer/Grower he or she gets room and board, they live on-site, so their expenses are minimal.

Where as an American worker earning $400.00, out of that comes:
Federal and State Taxes
Social Security
Medicare
Rent or House payments
Automobile costs to get to work
Insurance
Property taxes if they own a Home
Child care if they have children
food and clothing
Electricity
Heat/cooling costs
Garbage
Phone
On and on…

Gee and you wonder why Americans avoid Farm/Growers jobs, who in America could afford to work for them on a seasonal basis, the Jamaicans and Mexicans are making a killing, why wouldn’t they want to work here and send all that money home.

The conversion rates came from Coinmill.com

The worlds largest oil skimmer is ready to start skimming oil in the gulf. Full story at The Huffington Post, it is named A Whale. It is just waiting for approval to start skimming, it needs 1/2 mile to turn and 1/2 mile clearance around it. A whale can capture 300,000 to 400,00 barrels of oil a day.

Why in the world are oil platforms burning off all that Natural Gas. We need more energy and here they are wasting our Natural Gas, make them capture the gas and add it to our inventories for free, they are just burning it now. BP has already quoted that they have flared “22 million standard cubic feet of natural gas was flared” excuse me but if you can figure out how to burn it you can figure out how to capture it.
If you figure there are 3800 to 4000 oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico alone and BP has burned off 22 million cubic feet of natural gas up to June 5 2010 at the Horizon well, how much of our Natural Gas is burned off in one year by all these Oil Companies/Energy Companies – Oil Platforms. If BP burned up 22 million cubic feet in a month x 12 = 264,000,000 cubic feet of gas in 1 year x 4000 = 1,056,000,000,000 cubic feet of gas wasted in one year. Corporate waste, it never ends!
The BP quote comes from their website on the camera feeds of the spill, here is the link:
BP Website camera feed
Quote:Subsea operational update:
• On June 5, a total of 10,500 barrels of oil was collected and 22 million standard cubic feet of natural gas was flared.
• Optimization continues and improvement in oil collection is expected over the next few days.
Unreal!

This a Quote from Wikipedia about Natural Gas flaring:
Quote:

Flaring and venting of natural gas from oil & gas wells is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions. Its contribution to greenhouse gases has declined by three-quarters in absolute terms since a peak in the 1970s of approximately 110 million metric tons/year and now accounts for 0.5% of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions.[4] The World Bank estimates that over 150 billion cubic metres of natural gas are flared or vented annually, an amount worth approximately 30.6 billion dollars, equivalent to 25 percent of the United States’ gas consumption or 30 percent of the European Union’s gas consumption per year.[5] This flaring is highly concentrated: 10 countries account for 75% of emissions, and twenty for 90%. The largest flaring operations occur in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The leading contributors to gas flaring are (in declining order): Nigeria, Russia, Iran, Algeria, Mexico, Venezuela, Indonesia, and the United States.[6] In spite of a ruling by the Federal High Court of Nigeria (that forbade flaring) in 2005, 43% of the gas retrieval was still being flared in 2006. It will be prohibited by law as of 2008.

Here is the link to the Wikipedia article: Gas flare

Louisiana and other affected states should try turning this oil spill into a positive. I know that sounds crazy, but I am sure there are a lot of people who care about what is going on in the gulf coast states and would like to see for themselves the devastation. Car accident on the freeway what do people do, slow down and look. So use the disaster to bring tourist to see what is happening. The fishing boats could take tourist out to see the devastation up close. They could have bus tours to affected beaches and wildlife areas, not to be lib, but you could create new food dishes like The Tar Ball Sandwich, Dispersant Soup the BP Gumbo ( without all the sea food ), BP Jambalaya ( again without the sea food ). Set up games with BP Executive life size figures as Dart Boards or throw Tar Balls at them. Setup up an Oil Barrel in a restaurant with chocolate syrup pouring out the bottom. Make a desert that looks like Oil floating on it or a soup with a Oil Shine, Top Hat something. Not trying to make light of the situation but it is a reality, try turning it into a positive marketing tool, people are curious by nature and care about our ocean front states and I am sure would love to experience this up close, what do you have to lose. Make BP pay for all the Advertising and Marketing, be creative, be positive and use this to keep the state thriving. Just my two cents!

There is a scare tactic circulating about a Death Panel in the Heath Reform Bills being crafted. It is not true check at FactCheck.org, but there are Death Panels right now that decide whether we live or die. It is the Health Insurance Companies, they cap your lifetime benefits and decide what tests and treatments your Doctor can order for you. If we reach our lifetime cap, tough you gonna die, if they decide you cannot have treatments that could save your life, “the Health Insurance Panel”, tough you gonna die and they could care less. They are corporations that deal in profits, PERIOD. They are not in the business of making sure you get well, they are in it for GREED show me the money baby.

Just like the Pharmaceutical Companies are not in the business to find cures for illnesses, they are in the business to make drugs that you will pay for every month and it just maintains the illness, great revenue, record profits in that industry. If they find the cure for an illness you get cured and they lose all that revenue, think about it, where is their motivation to find a cure for cancer or any disease, there is no motivation, they are making huge profits selling “drugs” not cures.

Doctors are caught in the middle, they want to make us well and cure our illnesses but it is the Health Insurance Panels that decide what they can do and cannot do to treat you and the Pharmaceutical Companies are giving them all kinds of perks to push their drugs. There is no motivation for the Doctor to cure you, unless they need to cut down on their patience load and they are willing to play hardball with your Insurance Company, they would have to be fools to get on the wrong side of either one of those entities. If we and our Doctors want the power to decide what “we” need for our treatments and what drugs we REALLY NEED then we need Health Insurance Reform, we need the power over our own health care decisions with the information coming from our Doctors and the power to decide for ourselves what is best for our illness. Our Doctors should be able to order any “necessary” tests and treatments according to best practices that have worked for other patients with that illness.

This is just my 2 cents, but I know that there are a lot of folks that have no health insurance and people that would love to start a small business but cannot do it because of health care. We need this for Americans, we work hard and should be able to be Healed by our Physician, with no Health Insurance Company deciding to approve or deny the Doctors decisions. We spent 1.3 Trillion dollars on Iraq and Afghanistan, a lot of that money went into rebuilding their country, when Americans are without Health Care, are Homeless, No Jobs, being foreclosed on, shame on us for allowing things like this to happen in America, but Whoopy we are helping people that “HATE” us, while America is falling apart.

12 million illegal immigrants in this country, that is a lot of people. What is bad about that?

1. One of the biggest problems is that they use your counties Emergency Services and do not pay their bills, why is that bad, it has to be payed, so your Health Insurance cost more, MUCH more to pay for those costs.
2. They are also taking jobs legal citizens should have.
3. The next, they send most of the money back home, it is not spent here.

How can we stop this, we could round them all up and send them back, lol, that is not going to solve the problem. Lets figure out what brings them here, Jobs, right! If they are illegally here then make it illegal for employers to hire those workers and there are laws against it, make those laws tougher and enforce them. Arrest the employers that hire them, that will start drying up those jobs. If they cannot get hired there will be no reason for them to come here. We should also make sure that if you are not a citizen of America the ER’s can turn you away, but, also contact the Police to have you Medevaed to the border where an ambulance from your country picks you up.

We are all immigrants, Native Americans are the only real natives of this country, some of our Ancestors came here legally, some were forced to come here and some came here according to the laws of the day. All people should be welcomed here, but if you are only here to make some money and then send that money to another country, use our medical services knowing full well that you will never pay for those services, work here for cheaper wages, hurting everyone that is legally here and trying to support their families. Then you should not be here, you are hurting other hard working families, that choose to live here legally and pay their fair share.

Again, if the Employers that hire these people face jail time, things will change, bad Employers hire them for one reason, GREED, pay low wages and sell your products at high prices. I ran my own Businesses and paid good wages, pulled taxes, SS, Medicare and paid Worker’s Comp, you have 2 choices when you start a Business

• 1.Work by yourself stay small and make all the money
• 2.Hire folks to work for you

If you choose number 2, once you hire someone, you are at that point working for your Employees not yourself. With Illegal Employee’s, they do not exist on the Books so these Employers are doing number 1 and could care less about the folks that are doing their work, nor do they care about the effects on you, your Family or your country. They are building Wealth and that is their only concern, there is only so much money in a Town or City, {green backs, cash) and for them to get most of that money, they have to take it from someone else. That is where we all start paying for their wealth.

They hire illegals and make all the money.
• cheap labor, while your pay checks gets smaller
• no medical costs to them it falls on us and our communities
• no income taxes paid out
• no SS paid
• no Medicare paid
• no Worker’s Comp paid
• no property taxes paid, the illegals camp out, where possible.

Building Wealth is not bad thing, building Wealth at the expense of your neighbors and your Country is. Americans work hard for their money and good Business people know that and reward them for that hard work and these Employers care about your Family as much as they care about their own.

It is the Employer that only cares about GREED and WEALTH and how to use everyone around them to create that wealth that are a Black Eye on America’s Business Community and should be punished. Hold them accountable and we will no longer have illegal workers.