http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2001889591_navarrette28.html
The loss of jobs is horrible. I feel sorry for the families, and by extension, the communities
they live in.
It is time for a re-think:
1. Gasoline won’t be less than a dollar a gallon
any more.
2. We’re no longer a strictly Judeo-Christian
nation with Judeo-Christian values.
3. We’re as vulnerable to terrorism as every
other country.
4. High paying jobs with expensive benefits and
a large amount of union protection are yesterday.
5. With the computer and high-speed cargo transport
businesses no longer need to maintain large warehouses and administrative offices.
6. The American worker needs to think global
and live local.
7. We need to stop dumbing down our education
system.
8. We need to stop quota hiring for employers
so they can fairly compete in the global market.
9. Rather than give favored nation status to
countries we should provide tax benefits (proportional to size) to American companies that open businesses in those at risk
countries.
10. We need to give preferential status to American
Citizens in employment and education.
“Fox questions
why British military were in Mexico
Wednesday, March 24, 2004 Posted: 9:45 PM EST (0245 GMT)
(CNN) -- Mexican President Vicente Fox said Wednesday he wants to know why members of the British military were in
his country for a cave expedition, but never notified his government.
Fox said
the British team entered Mexico as tourists and didn't notify the government that some of them were members of the British
military and that they were going on an expedition.”
You have got to be kidding me! Any country that demands preferential treatment for their citizens who have illegally
entered another country has lost the "moral high ground". If the Mexican government weren't so inept and/or crooked
it could provide for it's own citizens rather than demanding other countries to do so.
It’s about trust – trust that is gone because
politicians broke faith with the electorate.
Politicians
that were put in place as keepers of the societal warp and woof who succumbed to the gratification of their personal agendas
and created the slippery slope toward anarchy. What works for some now can work against some
down the road.... when do we start rounding folks up and how soon do we become a 3rd world country under the rule of a not-so-benevolent
despot?
They've sown
the wind and we will reap the whirlwind; leaving a frightening lesson for
our children and a legacy that we all will suffer from.
I’m shocked; shocked
I tell you to learn that obesity is fast replacing tobacco as the leading cause of preventable deaths and our elected/selected
officials aren’t raising taxes on food to fund prevention and treatment and haven’t banned it in public places and private
establishments.
Where is the public
outcry, why aren’t concerned mothers marching in the streets, and why hasn’t there been a Senate investigation hauling food
companies up before them to
explain their perfidy?
Our state does not recognize same sex marriages.
How then can the Mayor of Seattle say he will validate
out of state same sex marriages.This has to be illegal.
For a local elected official to act on his personal agenda
in violation of the will of the electorate sends a very scary message.
If he decides to round up people by race, sex, or gender
what or who is to stop him?
