Showing posts with label citizenship. Show all posts
Showing posts with label citizenship. Show all posts

Thursday, December 17, 2015

The REAL "Job Creators" Are Not the Wealthy--They're YOU!


Don't be deceived by the verbal gymnastics that refer to the rich as "Job Creators." The fact is, there is only one true creator of jobs and that is: CONSUMER DEMAND!

One writer defined "Job Creators" this way:

"In Republican/Tea Party political theory, 'Job Creators' are wealthy because they are industrious, virtuous, hard working people and can use their vast wealth to create jobs by hiring people to work for them. The idea that this euphemism is trying to convey is that taxing these people would hurt the economy because then their money would be going to the government...which will only waste tax money on things like social services." (*1)

Of course, only the rich have the money to build factories, but the only time they ever would build one is when they anticipate consumer demand for the product!

Monday, October 12, 2015

My Body, My Choice: One Man's Perspective


A civil right cannot be guaranteed to ANY citizen, until that civil right is guaranteed to EVERY citizen.

Many who are pro-choice are worried about women losing their reproductive rights. Perhaps they should be. After all, if the right "to do what one wants with their own body" is so basic and important, why should it be confined to the uterus only?

Perhaps if it were women who had abortions that were being piled into for-profit prisons instead of marijuana smokers, one might quickly understand this thesis.

Monday, September 14, 2015

Arizona Refuses Federal Money for the Disabled


What if there was a program that equipped disabled individuals to leave the welfare rolls and enter into gainful, tax-paying employment?

In fact, there is one and it's very popular.  Many disabled people come to Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) wanting to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, get off the welfare rolls and become tax-paying citizens instead.

So successful is the program that the federal government offers to pay three-quarters of the cost.  Yet die-hard tea-partiers in the Arizona Legislature have refused this "dirty Obama money" for several years.  As a result, people who are genuinely motivated to get off of welfare have been sitting on waiting lists, still collecting government checks, for years.

Monday, August 17, 2015

The Immigration Solution: A Market Based Approach


One of the main problems with America's immigration policy is that it tries to set numbers regardless of the country's current economic condition.  There are times when our economy is soaring and we need immigrant workers.  There are also times when our economy slows down and we don't need as much immigrant help.

If the US could devise a market-based policy for immigration that would naturally ride with these ebbs and flows, it would be fair, adaptable, and could last for generations.

Following is one such plan:

Monday, June 29, 2015

Is Jesus a Republican or a Democrat?



Either way, He'd probably have to stand in-line somewhere to get a government photo ID in order to vote!

It is often asked: Is Jesus a republican or a democrat?  This question always boils down to a matter of prideful self-identification--even in its premiss.

Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Immigration Issues: The Penalty For Not Learning English


 



When it comes to immigration reform, some are demanding that people learn english before they can earn US citizenship, but is this really necessary?

Millions of people from all around the world are learning english as a second language because english has become the business language of the world:

*   Foreign countries and their corporations use different native tongues and most of the larger businesses sell to the american market.  So when these companies talk to each other, they use english because it's the one language that they have in common.

*   Whenever airline pilots and flight controllers talk over the radio, they are required to use english no matter where on earth they are...