By Brian Darling, 6/18/2012
The left wants us to believe that paying for teachers, firefighters and police is a federal responsibility. Not so. Such services have traditionally been the responsibility of state and local governments.
In Federalist 45, James Madison wrote that the powers of the federal government are “few and defined.” Madison argued that state power extends to issues that “concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.” Nowhere in the Constitution is the federal government given the explicit power to supplant the traditional police powers of the states.
Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution enumerates powers granted to the federal government. Nowhere does it list the power to “bail out the states who come up short in paying for firefighters, police and teachers.” Furthermore, when the feds “give” lesser governments money to pay for local responsibilities, they often attach conditions to funding that may be unconstitutional.
The 10th Amendment states “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” The educating of children, the protection of the populace from crime and the suppression of fires are clearly powers reserved to the states.
Last week, the Left hit Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney with the supposedly shaming accusation that he wants to cut funding for these state and local functions. They went into a tizzy when Romney remarked that “teachers and firemen and policemen are hired at the local level and also by states. The federal government doesn’t pay for teachers, firefighters or policemen.”
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH FOLKS...
This was submitted by one of our members, and you may have seen this or something similar before. FIRST OF ALL, we are not racist, nor do we have any problem with brave people who come here legally and WANT to assimilate and become Americans! But this is certainly another issue! ~ Lynn
Subject: Free Lunch - An Area That Looms Large over California's Educational Crisis
Free Lunch....
900 teachers just got laid off from the Los Angeles Unified School District ... They are $650,000 over their annual budget.
The following English teacher helps to explain one area that looms large over California 's educational crisis. This English teacher has phrased it the best I've seen yet. This should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent
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 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. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
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. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
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 .. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
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, day care, etc, etc, etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled not only to 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 etc., etc, etc. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.
Americans, We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won't have the guts to enforce it. Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?
It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A 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 anAmerican 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 including your Congressmen and Senators.
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 alien 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. Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare.. 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.
The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.
Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people!
THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR EITHER PARTY. 'AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON'T DO AS THEY SAY, WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM AT ONCE!'
Subject: Free Lunch - An Area That Looms Large over California's Educational Crisis
Free Lunch....
900 teachers just got laid off from the Los Angeles Unified School District ... They are $650,000 over their annual budget.
The following English teacher helps to explain one area that looms large over California 's educational crisis. This English teacher has phrased it the best I've seen yet. This should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent
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 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. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
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. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
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 .. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
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, day care, etc, etc, etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled not only to 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 etc., etc, etc. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.
Americans, We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because we won't have the guts to enforce it. Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?
It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A 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 anAmerican 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 including your Congressmen and Senators.
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 alien 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. Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare.. 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.
The American taxpayers also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.
Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people!
THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FOR EITHER PARTY. 'AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON'T DO AS THEY SAY, WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM AT ONCE!'
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Sun Journal Letter to the Editor by CCTA Vice Chairman, Nancy Murdoch
Unions
March 02, 2011 10:13 PM
I saw “Norma Rae,” read “How Green Was My Valley” and a number of other books about unions and the abuses workers suffered in the history of our country and the world. Unions have played an instrumental part in leveling the playing field for workers, especially in the United States. However, the unions played their part in creating the “Rust Belt,” empty textile mills, and outsourcing of jobs. As often is the case, those with the most power overuse that power and the pendulum swings in the opposite direction. Union bosses often have become wealthy, corrupt, powerful, and wield that power politically. Often the worker still loses.
With many states (and the nation) in debt up to their eyeballs, the rubber has met the road. Unions are fighting for their very survival in the Midwest. But is survival, especially public service unions, in the best interest of the American taxpayer in this point in history? Or is only in the best interest of the unions and their cronies?
Public service union members make about 45 percent more money than the private sector, get better benefits, have greater job security and retire earlier than their private counterparts — all on the taxpayers’ dime. Even FDR (certainly no one’s idea of a right winger) said that public service unions were “unthinkable and intolerable.”
The state of Wisconsin’s proposals seems reasonable: employees’ contribution to health care to rise from 6 percent to 12 percent, plus some contribution to their own pension plans, and unions will collect their own dues (instead of the state deducting them from paychecks). Wages could still be negotiated, and most other workplace grievances are part of law (Civil Service and Equal Employment Laws) and will protect the workers.
In 2008 the federal government provided over $600 million to Wisconsin for education. But according to 2009 records, only 32 percent of Wisconsin 8th graders earned a “proficient” reading rate (2 percent were advanced readers) and the other 66 percent were rated basic or below basic. But because of the power of the union, poor teachers are almost impossible to fire as seniority has more value than merit. Even though Wisconsin spends a huge amount per student, the results are a sorry return on the dollar. I don’t expect the scores to improve this year as in the last several weeks, many students have had a substitute teacher or none at all, as rallying at the state House and grounds was more important than teaching.
The demands of the unions and their workers are spreading to many other states, as the states find themselves slaves to a political system that has failed to see where their selfishness and greed are leading. The laws of economics are always true: you can’t spend more than you earn, whether you are an individual, county, state, or federal government.
I, as most Americans, value our police, firefighters and teachers. I want them to make a decent wage, and have fair benefits. However, we are all in this together, or at least should be. United we stand, divided we fall. Are the unions and their strong arm tactics going to divide this country once and for all?
Nancy Murdoch
Havelock
http://www.newbernsj.com/articles/saw-95363-unions-.html
March 02, 2011 10:13 PM
I saw “Norma Rae,” read “How Green Was My Valley” and a number of other books about unions and the abuses workers suffered in the history of our country and the world. Unions have played an instrumental part in leveling the playing field for workers, especially in the United States. However, the unions played their part in creating the “Rust Belt,” empty textile mills, and outsourcing of jobs. As often is the case, those with the most power overuse that power and the pendulum swings in the opposite direction. Union bosses often have become wealthy, corrupt, powerful, and wield that power politically. Often the worker still loses.
With many states (and the nation) in debt up to their eyeballs, the rubber has met the road. Unions are fighting for their very survival in the Midwest. But is survival, especially public service unions, in the best interest of the American taxpayer in this point in history? Or is only in the best interest of the unions and their cronies?
Public service union members make about 45 percent more money than the private sector, get better benefits, have greater job security and retire earlier than their private counterparts — all on the taxpayers’ dime. Even FDR (certainly no one’s idea of a right winger) said that public service unions were “unthinkable and intolerable.”
The state of Wisconsin’s proposals seems reasonable: employees’ contribution to health care to rise from 6 percent to 12 percent, plus some contribution to their own pension plans, and unions will collect their own dues (instead of the state deducting them from paychecks). Wages could still be negotiated, and most other workplace grievances are part of law (Civil Service and Equal Employment Laws) and will protect the workers.
In 2008 the federal government provided over $600 million to Wisconsin for education. But according to 2009 records, only 32 percent of Wisconsin 8th graders earned a “proficient” reading rate (2 percent were advanced readers) and the other 66 percent were rated basic or below basic. But because of the power of the union, poor teachers are almost impossible to fire as seniority has more value than merit. Even though Wisconsin spends a huge amount per student, the results are a sorry return on the dollar. I don’t expect the scores to improve this year as in the last several weeks, many students have had a substitute teacher or none at all, as rallying at the state House and grounds was more important than teaching.
The demands of the unions and their workers are spreading to many other states, as the states find themselves slaves to a political system that has failed to see where their selfishness and greed are leading. The laws of economics are always true: you can’t spend more than you earn, whether you are an individual, county, state, or federal government.
I, as most Americans, value our police, firefighters and teachers. I want them to make a decent wage, and have fair benefits. However, we are all in this together, or at least should be. United we stand, divided we fall. Are the unions and their strong arm tactics going to divide this country once and for all?
Nancy Murdoch
Havelock
http://www.newbernsj.com/articles/saw-95363-unions-.html
Monday, August 30, 2010
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