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Flap’s Links and Comments for July 31st on 14:29
These are my links for July 31st from 14:29 to 15:02:
- Flap’s Links and Comments for July 31st on 06:01 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for July 31st on 06:01 #tcot #catcot
- Live Blog on the Deficit Fight – Washington Wire – WSJ – RT @WSJ: On the live blog, we just posted an outline of the debt-ceiling deal as it currently stands: #tcot
- First Market Reaction: The Dollar Is Up On Glimmer Of A Debt Deal – RT @businessinsider: First Market Reaction: The Dollar Is Up On Glimmer Of A Debt Deal
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Flap’s Links and Comments for July 31st on 14:29
These are my links for July 31st from 14:29 to 15:02:
- Flap’s Links and Comments for July 31st on 06:01 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for July 31st on 06:01 #tcot #catcot
- Live Blog on the Deficit Fight – Washington Wire – WSJ – RT @WSJ: On the live blog, we just posted an outline of the debt-ceiling deal as it currently stands: #tcot
- First Market Reaction: The Dollar Is Up On Glimmer Of A Debt Deal – RT @businessinsider: First Market Reaction: The Dollar Is Up On Glimmer Of A Debt Deal
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Flap’s Links and Comments for July 31st on 06:01
These are my links for July 31st from 06:01 to 11:16:
- Day By Day July 31, 2011 – Workin’ at the Car Wash | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Day By Day July 31, 2011 – Workin’ at the Car Wash #tcot #catcot
- Flap’s Links and Comments for July 30th through July 31st | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for July 30th through July 31st #tcot #catcot
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Day By Day July 31, 2011 – Workin’ at the Car Wash
I will reserve judgment on the White House – GOP debit limit compromise until I see a finalized, written down DEAL.But, you know, the damage has been done to the Obama re-election effort. The President has showed little or no leadership and voters are paying attention.
All of the machinations in Congress by Boehner, Reid and McConnell are lost on the average person. However, they realize someone is NOT doing their job and that is Obama.
Stay tuned and remember the Asian credit markets open this afternoon.
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Flap’s Links and Comments for July 30th through July 31st
These are my links for July 30th through July 31st:
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-07-31 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-07-31 #tcot #catcot
- Flap’s Links and Comments for July 30th on 14:01 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for July 30th on 14:01 #tcot #catcot
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@Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-07-31
- RT @fivethirtyeight: If the deal is as @jonkarl outlines, the main source of pushback is likely to be from Democrats. http://abcn.ws/n4GfB7 #
- White House, Republicans Strike Tenative Deal To Raise Debt Ceiling http://abcn.ws/oHVmW5 #tcot #teaparty #
- Farmers Opposing GOP Sponsored E-Verify Legislation http://bit.ly/onYP6i #tcot #catcot #
- Day By Day July 30, 2011 – Principles Balance http://bit.ly/qpCzze #tcot #catcot #
- Flap’s Links and Comments for July 30th on 05:00 http://bit.ly/n127IO #tcot #catcot #
- foursquare http://4sq.com/ozwhjM #
- foursquare http://4sq.com/nxLj8H #
- Flap’s Links and Comments for July 29th through July 30th | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://bit.ly/nWnV4I #
- Stupid foursquare had me at different location (@ Ronnie's Diner) http://4sq.com/nXCUxU #
- Post nine mile run at the beach with the gang (@ Ronnie's Diner) http://4sq.com/r1j31l #
- Flap’s Links and Comments for July 29th through July 30th http://bit.ly/pBfpwt #tcot #catcot #
- RE: @nyscof Please come back with cited quotes that ARE actually published in a peer-reviewed journal. A letter to th… http://disq.us/2tnddy #
- Off soon to Santa Monica to run an easy 9 miles with LA Running Club. Temps in the 60's/70's. Ronnie's after with Alice, Tara,Mary,Nancy #
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-07-30 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://bit.ly/oycO66 #
- Flap’s Links and Comments for July 29th on 12:01 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://bit.ly/pkGbm8 #
- @Flap Twitter Updates for 2011-07-30 http://bit.ly/nUtCsB #tcot #catcot #
- Flap’s Links and Comments for July 29th on 12:01 http://bit.ly/n6bqnX #tcot #catcot #
- Flap's Dentistry Blog: Heartland Dental Care Grows to 305 Offices Nationwide http://bit.ly/ojy8Hp #
- California Citizen’s Redistricting Commission Releases Final Ventura County Congressional District Map | Flap's … http://bit.ly/rdUEpQ #
- Flap’s Links and Comments for July 29th on 07:59 | Flap's Blog – FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog http://bit.ly/q3azEW #
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Flap’s Links and Comments for July 30th on 14:01
These are my links for July 30th from 14:01 to 21:24:
- Ugandan Little Leaguers denied visas – The Washington Post – Come on Hillary! RT @washingtonpost: Ugandan Little Leaguers denied visas to play in World Series
- A deal comes together – Right Turn – The Washington Post – More on the tentative debt-limit deal between WH and GOP #tcot #teaparty The Tea Party Caucus do not get BBA
- White House, Republicans Strike Tentative Deal To Raise Debt Ceiling – The Note – Doesn't the debt limit tentative deal between Obama and GOP look like the one the Dems rejected a week ago ? #tcot
- The White House and GOP Have Reached a Tentative Deal on the Debt Limit | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – The White House and GOP Have Reached a Tentative Deal on the Debt Limit #tcot #catcot
- Log In – The New York Times – Only in the NYT Dreams – yeah right RT @nytimespolitics: Rightward Tilt Leaves Obama With Party Rift #tcot #teaparty
- Senate Delays Vote as Debt Talks Progress – NYTimes.com – The Senate will delay a crucial vote on the Democratic debt ceiling bill until 1 p.m. Sunday #tcot #teaparty
- Farmers Opposing GOP Sponsored E-Verify Legislation | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Farmers Opposing GOP Sponsored E-Verify Legislation #tcot #catcot
- Day By Day July 30, 2011 – Principles Balance | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Day By Day July 30, 2011 – Principles Balance #tcot #catcot
- Flap’s Links and Comments for July 30th on 05:00 | Flap’s Blog – FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog – Flap’s Links and Comments for July 30th on 05:00 #tcot #catcot
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The White House and GOP Have Reached a Tentative Deal on the Debt Limit
ABC News has learned that Republicans and the White House have struck a tenative deal to raise the debt ceiling before the Aug. 2 deadline. It’s not done yet, but here is the framework of the tentative deal they have worked out, according to a source familiar with the negotiations:
Debt ceiling increase of up to $2.8 trillion
Spending cuts of roughly $1 trillion
Vote on the Balanced Budget Amendment
Special committee to recommend cuts of $1.8 trillion (or whatever it takes to add up to the total of the debt ceiling increase)
Committee must make recommendations before Thanksgiving recess
If Congress does not approve those cuts by late December, automatic across-the-board cuts go into effect, including cuts to Defense and Medicare.A senior White House aide pushed back against the idea that a deal was struck.
“Talks continue, but there is no deal to report,” the aide said.
There is some push back from Democrats and Republicans on Twitter.
Senate majority leader Harry Reid has postponed a vote on his plan in the Senate until 1 PM (EDT) tomorrow.
Stay tuned…..
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Farmers Opposing GOP Sponsored E-Verify Legislation
Mexican-American farm workers harvest broccoli March 12, 2009 near El Centro, California
This is NOT really a shocker.Farmers across the country are rallying to fight a Republican-sponsored bill that would force them and all other employers to verify the legal immigration status of their workers, a move some say could imperil not only future harvests but also the agricultural community’s traditional support for conservative candidates.
The bill was proposed by Representative Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican who is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. It would require farmers — who have long relied on a labor force of immigrants, a majority here without legal documents — to check all new hires through E-Verify, a federal database run by the Department of Homeland Security devised to ferret out illegal immigrants.
Farm laborers, required like other workers to show that they are authorized to take jobs in the United States, often present Social Security numbers and some form of picture ID. Employers, many of them labor contractors providing crews to farms, have not been required to check the information and are discouraged by antidiscrimination laws from looking at it too closely. But it is an open secret that many farmworkers’ documents are false.
Supporters of E-Verify, an electronic system that is currently mandatory for most federal contractors but voluntary for other employers, argue that it would eliminate any doubt about workers’ legal status. But farmers say it could cripple a $390 billion industry that relies on hundreds of thousands of willing, low-wage immigrant workers to pick, sort and package everything from avocados to zucchini.
“This would be an emergency, a dire, dire situation,” said Nancy Foster, president of the U.S. Apple Association, adding that the prospect of an E-Verify check would most likely mean that many immigrant workers would simply not show up. “We will end up closing down.”
You know, California agricultural interests have been getting a subsidized ride for decades in using illegal immigrations, primarily from Mexico, for harvesting their crops. Crops which pay them BIG MONEY.
Here is how it works.
The illegal immigrations who are migrant and with no papers are allowed to use either forged “Green Card” documents or NO documents in order to work in the fields for below market wages or at least really low wages for back-breaking hard manual labor. They receive in some cases housing and very little in the way of employee benefits that most of us receive. This all to the benefit of the wealth land owners and often corporate agricutural interests.
They can sell their crops for a cheaper price but, of course, their profit is good – very good.
When these illegal folks need health care or education for their children (who are born here as American citizens), the government provides them – not the employer.
In a May letter to the members of the Judiciary Committee, Bob Stallman, the president of the American Farm Bureau, cited a Labor Department survey placing the percentage of illegal workers in the fields at more than 50 percent. Other groups say the figure is closer to 70 percent. Denying farmers that labor supply, Mr. Stallman wrote, would cost them $5 billion to $9 billion annually.
Mr. Smith’s bill has attracted more solid support from nonagricultural business leaders, opening a divide between them and agricultural interests. Many nonfarm businesses have concluded that some form of employee verification is inevitable.
National organizations of restaurant owners and home builders gave their backing. The San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, which unites Latino businesses in Mr. Smith’s district that have often been at odds with him, is leaning toward endorsing the bill, said Ramiro A. Cavazos, the president of the chamber.
It is time for the Congress to pass E-Verify and end the BIG subsidy to the agricultural interests. If they cannot staff their fields with LEGAL workers, then they have some remedies.
One remedy would be increased mechanism and efficiency in the fields. Maybe if illegal immigrants did not work in the fields at such low wages, the AG interests would invest in machines to do the harvesting without the back-breaking labor.
Also, the Agricultural folks could seek Guest-Worker legislation in the Congress that identifies and returns workers to their country of origin after a period of time of working in the United States. Costs associated by these workers would be paid up front by the AG interests. Children born of these workers in the United States would NOT be considered native born citizens (although there might be a time consuming Constituional issue here) and would have to return with their parents after a period of time.
The prospects of a E-Verify mandate passing in the House this year is good. In the Democrat controlled Senate, not so good and I am positive President Obama would veto the legislation anyway.
Then, there is the pressure from the AG interests on the Republicans.
Mr. Smith’s E-Verify bill also includes a three-year grace period before growers would have to comply. But such caveats have done little to quell opposition from farm groups, who have been pleading for years for an overhaul to allow a legal immigrant work force.
And that discontent could manifest itself in elections, farm representatives warn.
“Most of our folks are Republicans,” said Paul Wenger, the president of the California Farm Bureau. “But if the Republicans do this to them without a workable worker program, it will change their voting patterns or at very least their involvement in politics.”
Democrat and Republican Members of Congress have turned a blind eye to illegal immigration and agriculture for decades, since before World War II. Money talks in politics and the AG folks spread their money around and have donated a lot to Republicans.
But, American voters understand that these farming companies are prospering to the detriment of the taxpayer and we now have huge social/financial costs dealing with the generations of illegal immigrants that have been allowed to come into this country.
The time to enforce immigration law is long past.
Unfortunately, it will not occur with mandatory E-Verify until after the 2012 Presidential election or even 2016, if Obama is re-elected President.
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Day By Day July 30, 2011 – Principles Balance
Day By Day by Chris MuirThe American public are sick of the discourse coming from DC on the debt-limit crisis. They are saying a POX to all of the incumbents – both Democrats and Republicans.Americans are finally understanding that the POLS in Washington and their state Capitols are addicted to spending. They also understand that the debt is ruining this country.
The 2012 election WILL be the intervention.
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