This is from an email floating around lately. I live in California and I can attest to the fact it’s true. In fact, I used to work in South Gate.
From a California school teacher – - -
“As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of.
I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels.
Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens , Huntington Park , etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.
Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I’m not talking a glass of milk and a roll — but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten.
I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids.
I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America …
I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students, here in the country less than 3 months, who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them “Putas” (whores) and throwing things, that the teachers were in tears.
Free medical, free education, free food, free day care etc., etc, etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?
To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.
Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases. For me, I’ll pay more for tomatoes.
Americans, We need to wake up.
It does, however, have everything to do with culture: It involves an American third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about “political correctness” that we don’t have the will to do anything about it.
If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone you know.
CHEAP LABOR? Isn’t that what the whole immigration issue is about?
Business doesn’t want to pay a decent wage.
Consumers don’t want expensive produce.
Government will tell you Americans don’t want the jobs.
But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase “cheap labor” is a myth, a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as “cheap labor.”
Take, for example, an illegal with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an “earned income credit” of up to $3,200 free.
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are, or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI. If qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicaid. All of this is at (our) taxpayer’s expense.
He doesn’t worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.
Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills and his.
Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT!
THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO THE CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS OF EITHER PARTY. AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON’T DO AS THEY SAY (or what we ask?), WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM .
THIS is why I support Arizona’s SB1070, cause of bullshit like this.
You think you despise him now?
Read this Politico article where he blames Republicans (and Tea Party) for oil spill. The logic is that, IF he had, hypothetically gone to Congress six months ago and asked for drilling restrictions, then a HYPOTHETICAL Congress would have denied him, so it’s THEIR fault.
No, I’m not making this up.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/38447.html
I seriously think President Queeg is becoming unhinged from the pressure.
Today we found out that top officials in the Obama Administration had no idea there was a company in Maine that produced oil booms and had miles of boom waiting in a warehouse waiting to be picked up.
Meanwhile, as the disaster continues, there are at least 18 US beaches that may be ruined forever.
Plaquemines Parish, La.
Business Insider has photos from the 18 threatened beaches.
"Not to worry! President Zero and his entourage of clowns, jesters and blowhard buffoons are focused on this like a laser (well, at least in between their parties, rock concerts, family vacations, and rafting trips that is) and will soon simply wave his magic wand and make this all disappear. "
FYI, FWIW:
My friends, it’s far worse then you think. All the information in the following links is what you need to know.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G0e1f8RBBI&feature=related
http://69.84.25.250/blogger/post/FAA-has-put-flight-ban-on-Gulf-only-authorized-aircraft-allowed.aspx
http://69.84.25.250/blogger/post/National-Guard-Going-Door-to-Door-in-Alabama-as-Oil-Enters-Pensacola-Bay-Florida.aspx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fCro8FlhfY
"So, what are Obama’s golfing plans for this weekend?"
The most damning thing about Obama’s response to the Gulf Crisis (the other Gulf Crisis) is not what it reveals about his lack of competence, but what it reveals about his lack of interest. And it has forced many liberals to recognize, what so many conservatives knew all along. That Obama just doesn’t care.
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2010/06/friday-afternoon-roundup-he-knows-he.html