A CALIFORNIA SCHOOL TEACHER SPEAKS

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Shared on Facebook by a teacher in California who sees firsthand the destruction of America.

“Nine hundred teachers just got laid off from the Los Angeles Unified School District. They are $650,000 over their annual budget. The following comments by an English teacher help to explain one area that looms large over California’s educational crisis. I hope each person receiving this mail will read it carefully, all the way to the end.

It is sad what is happening to our great country, all because our politicians are afraid they will miss out on a vote. What a travesty!

This English teacher has phrased it the best I’ve seen yet and it 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 in the lower socio-economic and income levels.

Most of the schools you are hearing about are Compton, South Gate High, Bell Gardens, Huntington Park, etc., where their students are protesting – these 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 about a glass of milk and a roll. But a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make the 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 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 (More of 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, but I ended up buying new computers for the Computer Learning Center, half of which, one month later, were carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America. (More and more of our tax dollars at work!)

I have had to intervene several times for young 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 care, free education, free food, free day care, etc., etc., etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled not only to be in this country, but also to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?

To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society, because they happen to like their gardener and/or housekeeper, and they like to pay less for tomatoes, I say:
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 age 15, and that refuses to assimilate, plus an American culture that has become so weak and worried about “political correctness”, that we don’t have the will to do what is needed.

If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone you know including your Congressman 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.

Also….
1- He qualifies for Section-8 housing and subsidized rent;

2- He qualifies for food stamps;

3- He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care;

4- His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school;

5- He requires bilingual teachers and books;

6- He qualifies for relief from high energy bills;

7- If they are, or become aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI;

8- Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare (All of this at taxpayer’s {our} expense);

9- He doesn’t worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowner’s insurance;

10- Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material;

11- He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits;

12- Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00/hour left after paying their bills and his;

13- The American taxpayers also pays for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.

14- Free Child Care (i.e., free babysitting from 6 AM – 6 PM

15- Free ‘mommy makeovers’ after having their children ( includes: tummy tuck and breast lift)

Cheap labor? Yeah right! Wake up people!

These are the questions we should be addressing to the Presidential candidates for either party. We must take action or we will all go down the drain because a few don’t care.

And if you think this is bad, just wait until a Democrat becomes President and the redistribution of wealth becomes the norm in this ex-Democracy. The estimated annual cost now, for state, local and federal, is nearly $400 billion dollars a year.

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anarchyst
anarchyst
February 12, 2019 11:27 am

Author unknown, but a good read:
You have two families: “Joe Legal” and “Jose Illegal”. Both families have two parents, two children, and live in California .
Joe Legal works in construction, has a Social Security Number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted.
Jose Illegal also works in construction, has NO Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash “under the table”.
Ready? Now pay attention. . ..
Joe Legal: $25.00 per hour x 40 hours = $1000.00 per week, or $52,000.00 per year. Now take 30% away for state and federal tax;
Joe Legal now has $31,231.00.
Jose Illegal: $15.00 per hour x 40 hours = $600.00 per week, or $31,200.0 0 per year. Jose Illegal pays no taxes.
Jose Illegal now has $31,200.00.
Joe Legal pays medical and dental insurance with limited coverage for his family at $600.00 per month, or $7,200.00 per year.
Joe Legal now has $24,031.00.
Jose Illegal has full medical and dental coverage through the state and local clinics and emergency hospitals at a cost of $0.00 per year.
Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.
Joe Legal makes too much money and is not eligible for food stamps or welfare. Joe Legal pays $500.00 per month for food,
or $6,000.00 per year.
Joe Legal now has $18,031.00.
Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for food stamps, WIC and welfare.
Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00.
Joe Legal pays rent of $1,200.00 per month, or $14,400.00 per year. Joe Legal now has 9,631 .00.
Jose Illegal receives a $500.00 per month Federal Rent Subsidy. Jose Illegal pays out that $500.00 per month, or $6,000.00 per year.
Jose Illegal still has $ 31,200.00.
Joe Legal pays $200.00 per month, or $2,400.00 for car insurance. Some of that is uninsured motorist insurance.
Joe Legal now has $7,231.00.
Jose Illegal says, “We don’t need no stinkin’ insurance!” and still has $31,200.00.
Joe Legal has to make his $7,231.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, etc..
Jose Illegal has to make his $31,200.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline, and what he sends out of the country every month..
Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.
Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.
Joe Legal’s and Jose Illegal’s children both attend the same elementary school. Joe Legal pays for his children’s lunches, while Jose Illegal’s children get a government sponsored lunch. Jose Illegal’s children have an after school ESL program. Joe Legal’s children go home.
Now, when they reach college age, Joe Legal’s kids may not get into a State School and may not qualify for scholarships, grants or other tuition help, even though Joe has been paying for State Schools through his taxes, while Jose Illegal’s kids “go to the head of the class” because they are a minority.
Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same police and fire services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.
Do you get it, now?
If you vote for or support any politician that supports illegal aliens. . . You are part of the problem!
We need to keep this going–we need to make changes ASAP!
It’s way PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!

Ned
Ned
  anarchyst
February 12, 2019 12:30 pm

BIG FUCKIN WALL!!

Captain Willard
Captain Willard
  anarchyst
February 12, 2019 12:57 pm

You win the comment of the month!

The naivete of liberal whites who don’t speak Spanish and don’t spend any time in the real world is just mind-boggling. Our grandparents and great-grandparents came here to work. 90% of today’s immigrants come for subsidies. The current open-borders policy will destroy this country within 25 years.

The amazing thing to me is that the African Americans haven’t wised up enough to oppose open borders. Hispanics generally hate them. When they outnumber Blacks and displace them from political power, the Blacks will freak out completely. But it will be too late for them.

Bilco
Bilco
  anarchyst
February 12, 2019 1:19 pm

As I have said here before. 25 years ago I tried to tell as many people as I could that we as a country better get a handle on this Liberal/Progressive BS. I was ridiculed,laughed at,and called a nut by even members of my own family. Now all I here is them complain,about what has happened. The people of this country(the ones that can not think for themselves,which is the majority) Have allowed this to happen through their own ignorance and apathy. This was the plan all along by the Progressives. It is to late to just end it.Even though that would be the simplest method. Now it must go on till it can’t,and make no mistake that day will eventually arrive.When it does I shudder to think what it will be like in the cities and suburbs. Still I never tell those same folks I told you so. I now tell them as graphic as possible what it will look like when the day it ends arrives. But….just like 25 years ago. I get ridiculed,laughed at and called nuts.

Boat Guy
Boat Guy
  anarchyst
February 12, 2019 2:21 pm

All you list between the Joe verses Jose is true so somebody is hiring Jose , track down that back stabbing treasonous prick and fine and confiscate every thing he and his wife have and put their asses in the street .

anarchyst
anarchyst
  Boat Guy
February 12, 2019 4:07 pm

Fine the employers $10,000 per illegal with subsequent offenses ending in jail time for the business owners. When the employment of illegals gets too expensive, they will stop coming…

Dances with Coyotes
Dances with Coyotes
  anarchyst
February 12, 2019 3:35 pm

Anal Cyst, that, in a nutshell, has been my argument with my buddy John. I said, it would pay to legalize them because when you refuse to do so, you keep them in the shadows.

Of course, there are two sides to the tortilla; my nephew argues that they don’t want to be legalized. Some find it more profitable to work for cash under the table and some are well aware that they lose marketability when the employer is forced to pay SS for them.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  anarchyst
February 12, 2019 5:29 pm

Remember the ” Day Without Mexicans”? Neither do I but what we need is a “Day Without Americans” and I bet that would be memorable.

Kevin
Kevin
  anarchyst
February 12, 2019 9:51 pm

years ago I did an interview with a guy that was a tile setter. He had been in the trades for 30 years. He started as a kid digging ditches and eventually became an apprentice and after a number of years became a master at his trade. He lived in the Pasadena area and couldn’t make ends meet. He simply couldn’t find jobs that would pay enough for him to support his wife and daughter with special needs. He eventually left Pasadena, CA for the Northwest and now has plenty of work that pays enough to support him and his family. I haven’t spoken to him for a while. My guess is his current location is thick with illegals and is probably once more in trouble. Without enforcement of our immigration laws, it is only a matter of time before all members of the productive class are displaced.

CCRider
CCRider
February 12, 2019 11:33 am

Never fear. Trump is going to build 55 miles of ‘wall’ satisfying his pledge to ‘finish the wall’. I imagine it’ll also have a several “big beautiful gates”. Also, he’s going to end chain migration and install e verify any minute now. Just be patient. Any minute.

Fucking pathetic.

Ned
Ned
  CCRider
February 12, 2019 12:28 pm

Symbolic walls really do work /s

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
  CCRider
February 12, 2019 1:03 pm

55 miles of fence would be enough if we could handle the rest with snipers.

WestcoastDeplorable
WestcoastDeplorable
  Iska Waran
February 12, 2019 10:24 pm

And a 50 yard no-man’s land on the border with anti-personnel devices. Big signs too, come on in! Free stuff ahead!
It wouldn’t take too many for them to get the idea.

Platoplubius
Platoplubius
  WestcoastDeplorable
February 12, 2019 10:28 pm

Make sure the signs are in 50 different languages too!

musket
musket
  Iska Waran
February 13, 2019 10:18 am

Command detonated claymores leave a larger and more memorable impression……..

TheBurningTruth-get rite or get left. Behind.....
TheBurningTruth-get rite or get left. Behind.....
  Iska Waran
February 15, 2019 8:47 am

Need to get the Cyberdyne systems model 101 and the T1000 to monitor the border. Then we can all rest easy. Until they get reprogrammed.

TampaRed
TampaRed
  CCRider
February 12, 2019 1:12 pm

the 9th circuit just upheld trump’s environmental waivers 4 the wall–

CCRider
CCRider
  CCRider
February 12, 2019 1:45 pm

I love to listen to Rush Limbaugh on occasions like this. It’s obvious that he’s humping for trump on how the base will take his capitulation (again) on this bullshit dummo and repo agreed upon deal of $1.4bil from the conference ‘compromise’. One caller told him he will be disgusted if trump takes the deal. Limbaugh’s answer: So what are you going to do? Where are you going to go? In other-truer-words-you have no other alternative-this is the best you can hope for. Then he went on a long bullshit rant about how he always said it wouldn’t happen with just one election. It’s going to take more. How many? He didn’t say. It’s just “Get back in the herd you wildebeests”.

Damn his listeners are stupid.

Dances with Coyotes
Dances with Coyotes
  CCRider
February 12, 2019 2:02 pm

They make him rich. Like rap “musicians” all you need is a bunch of listeners and you can make money. Dumb listeners are better cause they like to cluster, plus there’s more of them, so it makes sense to dumb the message down. Smart people are too smart to get into crowds.

EC's Brother from Another Mother
EC's Brother from Another Mother
  Dances with Coyotes
February 12, 2019 3:04 pm

I up-voted for the perceptive comment, not the Rap Video.

Listened out of idle curiosity to one or two Rap compositions back in the mid 80’s. That was more than enough for me.

When I wandered into a 7-11 about 6 months later, the store had some White rap playing. Had thought no music could possibly be worse than Black rap. Learned quickly that I had been wrong.

Dances with Coyotes
Dances with Coyotes
  EC's Brother from Another Mother
February 12, 2019 3:11 pm

It was for Uncola, the germane lyrics being:

And then you call your friend two weeks later
To see how he has been
And he says I understand about the [Jews]
Baby bubbah but we’re still friends

Platoplubius
Platoplubius
  Dances with Coyotes
February 12, 2019 11:09 pm

Too funny!

DD NM
DD NM
  Dances with Coyotes
February 12, 2019 8:36 pm

My friend has an office in a little strip mall close to Limbaugh Towers in Cape Girardeau. She said everyone knew “Rush” was in town when the Lamborghini roared into town.

Before I moved here, I liked Rush.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote
  DD NM
February 12, 2019 8:55 pm

Limbaughini

TampaRed
TampaRed
  DD NM
February 12, 2019 9:34 pm

i still do,he’s just not hard core enough,at least on the radio–

It just doesn’tmatter
It just doesn’tmatter
  TampaRed
February 13, 2019 10:28 pm

Rush is fine.

WestcoastDeplorable
WestcoastDeplorable
  CCRider
February 12, 2019 10:26 pm

One thing I’ve noticed about all these talk-show guys; it’s always all about them personally, something they said or allegedly predicted, or how someone has wronged them. Rush is especially bad about this.

DDragons
DDragons
  CCRider
February 13, 2019 7:42 am

$5 billion was for all 1100 miles. Now they are saying 1.3 billion for 55 miles. That would be corruption. Something is afoot with this. But Trump has not agreed to anything yet, so don’t panic.

P2
P2
  DDragons
February 13, 2019 9:43 am

$5B was for about 265 miles.

john prokovich
john prokovich
February 12, 2019 11:49 am

Get rid of all the left wing liberals and democrats ASAP,,,,,,,,,

overthecliff
overthecliff
  john prokovich
February 12, 2019 12:40 pm

I have the same opinion of left wingers. However don’t forget the left wing Republicans. Most recently they had control of Congress from 2016 to 2018 and didn’t do shit. Before that they had control of Congress from 2002 50 2006 and didn’t do shit In both cases they had the Presidency as well. They have no intention of building a wall or fixing the immigration laws to stop the abuses.

splurge
splurge
  john prokovich
February 12, 2019 1:55 pm

Republicans too!

robert h siddell jr
robert h siddell jr
  splurge
February 12, 2019 3:38 pm

Please discern the Black vs White difference between the NWO Rockefeller-Bush Republicans vs the Reagan-Trump Republicans who are in a life-death struggle at the moment.

TheBurningTruth-get rite or get left. Behind.....
TheBurningTruth-get rite or get left. Behind.....
  splurge
February 15, 2019 8:50 am

RepubliCANT’S… There I fixed it for you.

Old Shoe
Old Shoe
February 12, 2019 11:56 am

One of the few blessings of old age is the memory of first world America; white America. A place where systems worked, people were responsible and common courtesy was the order of the day. I moved to California in ’72 and in every election cycle, without exception the rallying cry has been “It’s for the children”. Every freakin’ time. And you know what? It was never about the children. It was about the teachers’ union and the other public sector unions. California is FUBAR.

Unreconstructed
Unreconstructed
  Old Shoe
February 13, 2019 12:14 am

I read a story several years ago about Governor George Wallace. It seems the state of Alabama was having an election and one hot and heavy thing on the ballot was raising taxes for some school issue and the main selling point was that it was “for the children.”
Someone asked governor Wallace about the hotly debated subject and he supposedly commented; You know on the news tonight there’s gonna be some guy in a three piece suit talking about how badly we need to pass the tax because after all, “it’s for the little school children”, and also somewhere there’s gonna be a voter watching that man in the three piece suit begging for money for the “little school children.” That voter has been out working in the hot sun all day, he’s got a beer in one hand and a bologna sandwich in the other and he’s saying “Fuck the little school children.”

Old Shoe
Old Shoe
  Unreconstructed
February 13, 2019 12:56 am

Thx. Got a good chuckle out of it.

mygirl
mygirl
February 12, 2019 12:14 pm

Old news. I watched this happening many years ago and realized that by working and paying taxes I was a consummate ennabler. So, I went Galt as much as was humanly possible and continue to do so. I make enough to support myself and live a decent life with a tiny bit put aside. I do the minimum that I must do to prevent the PTB from harassing or harming me and I most certainly don’t even think about keeping up with anyone named Jones.

The Cloward Piven plan is alive and well, driven by fools who don’t even know what that is. Piss poor education coupled with intense indoctrination and brainwashing of the youth of several generations has created this travesty and there won’t be an end to it until and unless the system collapses.

Ammo
Ammo
February 12, 2019 12:21 pm

As a retired teacher in Ca I can attest to the validity of this letter…last week a close friend attended the Elk Grove Unified School District to voice his objection to the districts new LGBT curriculum that was to be introduced into their K-8 curriculum. There were several who spoke against it, but he remembers the pleading of a black pastor and Hispanic man for the board to reject this proposal of teaching this sexual life style to children….the board, with the support of superintendent, Mr Chris Hoffman voted unanimously to inject this evil into the curriculum….it was another sad day in the halls of education. The point being to all this….the government has infused itself into being usurpers, educators, parents, and custodial watch dogs of your parenting and your babies…and it won’t be long until they (all things evil)have totally flipped the moral compass of this country upside down.

Nathan B Quantrell
Nathan B Quantrell
  Ammo
February 12, 2019 3:08 pm

How do you teach English to someone who not only doesn’t want to learn English, but doesn’t want to learn proper Spanish?

Dances with Coyotes
Dances with Coyotes
  Nathan B Quantrell
February 12, 2019 3:18 pm

What say you get a proper English name, Quantrell, then you can criticize. What is proper Spanish? There is a big difference between the Spanish spoken in Mexico and that spoken in Central America and South America, not to mention the motherland of Spanish – Spain.

BL
BL
  Dances with Coyotes
February 13, 2019 10:55 pm

EC- Quantrell’s Raiders-guerrilla fighters CW1, southerners know this.

TheBurningTruth-get rite or get left. Behind.....
TheBurningTruth-get rite or get left. Behind.....
  Dances with Coyotes
February 15, 2019 8:55 am

Dancing with coons, just speak English and the problem is solved. No habla Espanol, mmmkkayy?

WestcoastDeplorable
WestcoastDeplorable
  Ammo
February 12, 2019 10:56 pm

Enough opposition from parents can force the Super to resign. Go for it, I would!

22winmag - The South was Right!
22winmag - The South was Right!
February 12, 2019 12:23 pm

Search: teachers unions – NO RESULTS

The spic earning $6/hr and getting a $3,200 EIC at tax time isn’t earning $6/hr. He’s selling drugs and fencing stolen shit for $100,000+ and sending the cash to Mexico or Brazil.

Dances with Coyotes
Dances with Coyotes
  22winmag - The South was Right!
February 12, 2019 12:47 pm

My god! I have been too lazy to get that extra income. Thanks for the advice, Winnie!

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
  Dances with Coyotes
February 12, 2019 1:04 pm

You’re an American, buddy. Don’t conflate things.

TampaRed
TampaRed
  Iska Waran
February 12, 2019 1:13 pm

butt she don wanna be american–

Dances with Coyotes
Dances with Coyotes
  TampaRed
February 12, 2019 2:03 pm

You mis-gendering me, Tampo?

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs
  Dances with Coyotes
February 12, 2019 2:42 pm

nobody wants #500 so I’m going for it El C.

TampaRed
TampaRed
  Dances with Coyotes
February 12, 2019 9:30 pm

ain’t you fluid?

Enrique Covarrubias EC
Enrique Covarrubias EC
  TampaRed
February 13, 2019 10:04 am

Sorry to disappoint you, gender-bender, I’m a cis-male.

TampaRed
TampaRed
  Enrique Covarrubias EC
February 13, 2019 1:34 pm

damn,
i thought maybe when i needed a change up from shenita you might be available–
btw,i did not downvote you,looks like someone has a crush on you–

Enrique Covarrubias EC
Enrique Covarrubias EC
  TampaRed
February 13, 2019 1:39 pm

Maggie’s been pissed at me forever. It’s nice to know she cares, though.
https://youtu.be/wqGRZ0SInVY

Dances with Coyotes
Dances with Coyotes
  Iska Waran
February 12, 2019 2:08 pm
Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
  Dances with Coyotes
February 12, 2019 1:29 pm

You are either one of us or one of them, and you do get to choose. Choose wisely because the day is coming.

Dances with Coyotes
Dances with Coyotes
  Harrington Richardson
February 12, 2019 2:05 pm

Harry, Winnie didn’t say ‘illegal’ – he said spic and I took it personal.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Dances with Coyotes
February 12, 2019 4:14 pm

I hope you understand that “spic” is short for “Spanish person in custody”. Does that describe you?

EL Coyote
EL Coyote
  Anonymous
February 13, 2019 10:33 pm

I would be a BIC, beaner in custody.

Donkey Balls
Donkey Balls
February 12, 2019 12:42 pm

Greed.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
February 12, 2019 12:58 pm

The author points to the illegals, but the darker demographic (and to some extent the white demographic), ALL take advantage of the government run-theft from taxpayer-funded welfare system. It begins with “free” schools, and every other handout mentioned in this letter. We are incentivizing and encouraging folks to flood over our borders will all of these freebies, but we are ENCOURAGING sub-human, parasitic behavior RIGHT HERE AT HOME among those who can claim citizenship going back multiple generations.

When one has to rely on the VOLUNTARY charity of others, one knows that its existence is tenuous at best, and can be withdrawn at any point. One does not become reliant (if one is actually physically/mentally able to do otherwise).

Since at least 1934, we have set up our nation for failure….this failure….by not demanding that people take personal responsibility for themselves, or by allowing ONLY voluntary charities to exist.

Until we dismantle the welfare state (for ALL), we are doomed as a society and a nation. No wall will truly fix this problem, as the cancer is now deeply internal, multi-generational, and deeply infects the minds of most of the middle class and both major political parties.

Platoplubius
Platoplubius
  MrLiberty
February 12, 2019 9:59 pm

Mr. Liberty,

You have your finger on the pulse and understand the crux of the situation. I just was having a conversation at dinner about aspects of your rant.

I mentioned to my dinner partners, both in their late 60s, that at certain schools in my hometown, if you qualify for free lunch, you can get breakfast, nutrition break, lunch, then bring any student 18 years or younger back to these designated school sites and get them supper.

I have had an instance in class when I was teaching an after-school program remedial math class for 7th and 8th graders where 2 male students were high-fiving one another because they found out both mother’s got SNAP benefits. Bragging bout their EBT card.. I was horrified. I told them a story about a young boy growing up in the poor side of town with no street lights or sidewalks (still to this day), who had to sometimes (at one point in my childhood) tear out the food stamp dollars from the packet my mom got and hand the cashier it while everyone around me watched and judged. No fun. No fun indeed. I definitely wasn’t bragging about it. Some might chalk this behavior up to youthful ignorance but as you mention it is a symptom of a much bigger problem…

Fantastic!!

No wall will truly fix this problem, as the cancer is now deeply internal, multi-generational, and deeply infects the minds of most of the middle class and both major political parties.

I went on to teach some Math with hypothetical monthly budget at current prices and rates….the class quickly learned they couldn’t afford the things they thought they had to have for whatever reason.

Pretty soon, free WI FI will be an inherent human right!

My story reminded me of this guy

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
  Platoplubius
February 12, 2019 11:39 pm

Thanks. And it used to be that food stamps were ONLY useful at a supermarket to purchase REAL or sort of real food. Now, EVERY “quick-e-mart” attached to ever gas station, every prepared food counter in every market, and so much more, accepts EBT cards. So nobody has to learn how to prepare food, eat better food, etc. It is truly a multi-generational cancer, and making it all nice and “concealed” at the checkout (versus the old, very visible, food stamps), has truly made it so much worse. Gone is the day where dad would say “we are NOT going to beg for charity…if this family is to be fed, I’ll figure something out.” Now its “got my EBT, got my EBT, got my EBT.” Its not even seen as a charitable hand out anymore, but simply an “entitlement” for being alive.

DD nm
DD nm
  MrLiberty
February 13, 2019 3:46 am

When I was a young girl, 1960s, my grandmother received a booklet of food stamps each month to supplement her Social Security check, which arrived the same day, I think, in the mail. Sometimes, she would give me one of the singles to spend on candies or snacks and the cashiers gave “real change” in return, including silver dimes and quarters.

I remember the sense of “shame” attached to the use of those bills, but that was then.

This isn’t.

downdatubes
downdatubes
February 12, 2019 1:11 pm

They still spent the $700,000. Until, someone gets the guts to stop spending the money, it won’t matter how much truth they speak. I know if that person didn’t spend it, the money would have been spent somewhere else and given to someone else’s budget for the next year.

Platoplubius
Platoplubius
  downdatubes
February 12, 2019 10:07 pm

Downdatubes,

I guarantee it is a federal grant….i know that the after school programs in California are federally funded along with the breakfast lunch and supper public school campuses…

No Child Left Behind created a bunch of competing public school district fiefdoms…all competing against one another for new students from other district’s territory…The district fiefdoms hire grant writers to qualify for additional programs in which the additional jobs looks good for the cities and the schools….just as the police departments have been coerced and enticed by federal money to pay for additional officer positions or community service officers so have the school districts…

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson
February 12, 2019 1:33 pm

I only disagree with the “ex-democracy” comment. Ex-Republic is the more correct term. Fucking degenerate democracy is what she is seeing where the uninvested mob calls the tune with zero skin in the game.

card802
card802
February 12, 2019 1:54 pm

I always think back to the story of an old vet with dementia that lived on the east side of Michigan. He fought for his country, paid his taxes, and his own way.
The winter he died was cold and he died alone. Seems he forgot to pay his utility bill one month so the power company put a device on his meter that would turn off his power and he would have to go outside to reset it. Problem was nobody from the power company told the old man what to do, so when the heat went off, as it happens from time to time in the winter, he put on his coat waiting for the power to come back on.
His nephew stopped over a few days later and found him fully clothed and froze to death in his bed, an envelope with cash paper clipped to the electric company bill was on the kitchen table.

If this man had been an illegal his bills would simply have been taken care off. This county is Fucked up and bullshit.

Kayjay
Kayjay
February 12, 2019 2:15 pm

“Cheap Labor” is exactly what it’s all about. Companies get the cheap work force and the taxpayer gets to subsidize the “Cheap Labor”. The beneficiaries of this whole scam are big businesses along with our compliant greedy politicians. This explains why neither party has any interest in fixing the border or stopping welfare payments to illegals . If you follow the money you can always figure out who is screwing you, and in the case of the taxpayer it’s the “Only One Party” that masquerades as “Two Different Parties”.

Boat Guy
Boat Guy
February 12, 2019 2:34 pm

Round up all those here illegally and deport . Trial fine one question are you in the US illegally yes get on the bus to the border . No , explain ! Interperter , bull shit you have resided in the US illegally for how long and don’t speak English , get on the bus . What you have children here , so you are an irresponsible parent along with being here illegally fine balif contact the children and they can either be deported with the parents or stay in a facility waiting for foster care .
Who has been paying you to work illegally name address phone number and company name issue a bench warrant and freeze their bank accounts till this court has and adequate explanation and I don’t or didn’t know will not flush !

Dances with Coyotes
Dances with Coyotes
  Boat Guy
February 12, 2019 3:25 pm

You Just slip out the back, Cuauhtémoc
Make a new plan, Chon
You don’t need to be coy, Chamoy
Just get yourself free
Hop on the bus, Gustavo
You don’t need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Frijole
And get yourself free

Grog
Grog
  Dances with Coyotes
February 12, 2019 4:57 pm

Ain’t the same is it?
Kinna like: libertad.

yahsure
yahsure
February 12, 2019 7:20 pm

I would like to see an article about the second amendment and what it was meant for. the folks offering free shit will most likely gain power. The right offers? Hard work and a failing country? No plan for affordable healthcare.?

Jojo
Jojo
February 12, 2019 9:50 pm

That email is at least 12 years old and no one has ever ID’ed the author.

P2
P2
  Jojo
February 13, 2019 1:17 am

Does that make it a lie?

gm
gm
February 12, 2019 9:52 pm

i read every single comment .
All I got was privately owned central banks .
all over the world
wake the fuck up people . please .
just a cook ,be well

DD NM
DD NM
  gm
February 13, 2019 3:37 am

am just a gardener and goat tender now, be well

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 12, 2019 10:52 pm

This “e-rumor” has been circulating for over a decade. Google it.

P2
P2
  Anonymous
February 13, 2019 1:16 am

Does that make it untrue? Here in the rust belt, our local high school offers free breakfast & lunch to any & all comers during the summer (non-school) months. Taxpayers are paying for it. So, whether or not your family receives SNAP or EBT subsidies, you can also get free breakfast & lunch on the taxpayer dime. Actually, they’ll feed you if you just show up. No need to prove finances, job, income, etc. You aren’t responsible for you anymore. Taxpayers are.

Hollow man
Hollow man
February 13, 2019 7:39 am

As she trots off to vote democract again. Then, due to how bad it has become, moves to Texas to destroy it and then bitch about that too.

Anonymous
Anonymous
February 13, 2019 7:48 am

We passed the tipping point some time ago. There is no turning back, because demoKKKrats have worked overtime to flood the country with illegals. They are near-term future voters and immediately count as citizens as part of the census to determine representation in Congress.

The time for torches and pitchforks has arrived. Don’t hold your breath waiting for them. DemoKKKrats have trashed your country.

Cal
Cal
February 13, 2019 10:11 am

“And if you think this is bad, just wait until a Democrat becomes President and the redistribution of wealth becomes the norm in this ex-Democracy.”

While I agree with your comments on illegal immigration, heck even on immigration done in a lawful manner.

Those additional “benefits” are never (or very rarely) made known to the American people. Few, if any, Americans get those handouts you listed yet we all pay for them. Which is something we need to remedy.

But, the thing that bothered me most, especially since you are purporting to be a “teacher”, is that you do not know that America is NOT a “democracy”, nor has she ever been one since her creation. America is a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC, and there is a reason that she is that most Americans today are ignorant of, not taught in American schools, etc.

A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC has in writing EXACTLY what powers and authority those who SERVE WITHIN our governments have, how that power must be executed, etc. It is in writing so that the American people can KNOW exactly what is allowed of their representatives and hold them accountable. It is in writing so that anyone who was not knowledgeable in governmental workings (LAWFULLY) can know exactly what that persson is allowed/required to do by the position within government they occupy. That is so they can be held accountable by the American people.

It is important that you know that and TEACH that concept to your students. That they are taught and understand these words by…

Dr. Edwin Vieira: “From the constitutional perspective, “the government” is that set of actions by individuals in public office which is consistent with their lawful powers and disabilities. No “government” in this country [USA] is empowered to set up a police state, to “devise[ ] and instigate[ ]” a “civil war” amongst its own people, to enforce “compliance and control”, or to “clamp down on the nation” for any reason. To be sure, rogue public officials may attempt to engage in such usurpation and tyranny—but in the perpetration of such misbehavior they are acting not in the capacity of “the government”, but in the capacity of lawbreakers. …
… Most perplexing to me is why “the chattering class” seems incapable of comprehending that under the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution no dichotomy can possibly exist between the American people, on the one side, and “the government”, on the other. We the People are not outside of “the government” and subject to its unfettered control. Rather, We the People are the very source of “the government”, and are (or should be) direct participants in “the government”, day in and day out, through the most puissant force of “government” imaginable: the entire community exercising the Power of the Sword through the Militia.
So, were the Militia functioning as they should, no one would be worried about “the government’s” setting up a national para-militarized police state, because—pursuant to the constitutional authority and responsibility of the Militia “to execute the Laws of the Union” (and of their own States as well)—the Militia would perform or supervise all “police” functions at every level of the federal system. We the People would no longer distrust, let alone fear, the police, because We the People would be the police.
… it would hardly amount to any sort of “revolt” for Americans to revitalize the very institutions of government which, from the foundation of this country, the Constitution has declared to be “necessary to the security of a free State”. The “revolt”, if any there were, would be on the part of rogue public officials who attempted to prevent We the People from asserting their supreme governmental authority through the Militia. “ (end quote)

And this…
John Locke; The Non-Delegation Doctrine: The legislators cannot share, trade, give, etc the legislative power herein granted. That power is granted exclusively to the Congress, House of Reps/Senate.
Basically, if it is legislative and it is granted to the federal government by the US Constitution, it must be vested in Congress, and Congress alone. Congress shall have power to make Laws that are necessary and proper to carry out the powers delegated to the Congress. (end)

Because the people who serve within those governmental “agencies”, etc do NOT have the LAWFUL authority to make any type of legislation that is binding on the American people. It is actually at least one felony, plus perjury for them to do so.

This is why it is critical for the American people to understand our government. Borders MUST be protected. Those who “immigrated” here MUST be assimilated and LEARN English because that is the language spolen here before any others are ALLOWED to enter for any reason other then a visit or vacation.

Any who serve within our governments -state and federal (and we are NOT a “central” government), are REQUIRED to do those things or are committing felonies, Perjury. This is all in writing, people. Why do you not know this? Because in our nation, We the PEOPLE are the highest order, and it WE are required to not only know our governments and what they are allowed to do as OUR REPRESENTATIVES, but have our own duties to perform as well.

Ammo
Ammo
  Cal
February 13, 2019 10:26 am

Cal..I’m going to archive your essay / manifesto with others that reflect great magnitude of constitutional understanding and expression…Ammo

Enrique Covarrubias EC
Enrique Covarrubias EC
February 13, 2019 12:46 pm

Nobody chose to memorialize the conviction of El Chapo in NYC this week. I wonder why?

El Perico said kids in Mexico today pay homage to a man less deserving than Pancho Villa or Zapata. A maniacal mass murderer responsible for the violence that gripped Mexico (and the USA) since 2000. His treachery was boundless as he tried to capture the narco trafficking business all for himself. He had presidents in his pocket, there was that report of having paid EPN $10 or $100 Million. Calderon conducted his war on drugs against enemies of El Chapo, at one time placing the military in Juarez to quell the Juarez cartel.

It’s no secret drug trafickers have enjoyed the protection of Mexico’s government. Most presidents have managed to keep a reputation but there was that scandal with Salinas-Gortari’s brother.. It was no surprise to anybody that El Chapo’s territory was never under any danger from government assaults. It was reported that El Chapo walked around in the open in his hometown.

Now he will be an honored guest in Florence, CO’s supermax prison. P re-extradition agreements insured his wife and mistresses will live comfortably on his money and properties while he serves several life sentences in round the clock isolation. The agreement being necessary to protect the innocent officials who might have unwittingly conducted business for years with a known thug.

David Mende
David Mende
February 16, 2019 7:40 am

Keep your powder dry.