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US Gave 957,000 Illegal Aliens Work Permits Under Obama

In the first six years of President Barack Obama's term in office, the U.S. government has issued 5.46 million new work permits to immigrants, including nearly 1 million to illegal aliens.

That is in addition to the 1.1 million legal immigrants and 700,000 guest workers admitted to the country each year.

The immigrants receiving the new work permits form "a huge parallel immigrant work authorization system outside the limits set by Congress that inevitably impacts opportunities for U.S. workers, damages the integrity of the immigration system, and encourages illegal immigration," according to the Center for Immigration Studies.

The CIS obtained the figures from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) following a Freedom of Information Act request.

The USCIS data reveal that about 1.8 million new work permits, or Employment Authorization Documents, were issued to aliens with temporary visas or those who entered under the Visa Waiver Program, including about 1.2 million who had a visa status for which employment is not authorized by law.

For example, 470,028 work permits were issued to aliens on tourist visas and 531,691 to foreign students.

About 982,000 new work permits were issued during the Obama administration to illegal aliens or aliens unqualified for admission, including 957,000 aliens who crossed the border illegally and were listed as Entered Without Inspection.

The United States comes in at only No. 12 in the latest Index of Economic Freedom, due in part to high taxes, corruption, and the regulatory burden.

Rankings are compiled by measuring 10 freedoms in four broad categories: Rule of Law (property rights, freedom from corruption), Limited Government (fiscal freedom, government spending), Regulatory Efficiency (business freedom, labor freedom, monetary freedom), and Open Markets (trade freedom, investment freedom, financial freedom).

The top five nations/territories for economic freedom are Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, and Switzerland.

The index observes that "corruption in government and the political process remains a concern" in the U.S., and "the regulatory burden has been mounting. Since 2009, over 150 new major regulations have been imposed at an annual cost of more than $70 billion."

Other countries that place higher than the United States, beginning with No. 6, are Canada, Chile, Estonia, Ireland, Mauritius, and Denmark.

The St. Louis police chief has asked for the FBI's help investigating what he believes was a hate crime attack against a woman in the same Bosnian neighborhood where a man was beaten to death days earlier by hammer-wielding teens, and where assaults have spiked dramatically in recent months.

The 26-year-old Bosnian-American woman told police she was stopped in her car by three African-American teens early Friday morning in the city's Bevo Mill section, where tens of thousands of Bosnians settled following the civil war in the former Yugoslavia 20 years ago. The incident occurred just blocks from where Zemir Begic, a 32-year-old Bosnian-American, was beaten to death by teenagers with hammers a week earlier.

One of the assailants flashed a gun and ordered the woman out of her vehicle and another hit the woman's windshield with what police believe was a crowbar, authorities said.

"You're Bosnian," one of the suspects allegedly said. "I should just kill you now."

The woman, who was pulled from the car and then beaten, was found unconscious by a passerby, police said. The alleged statement prompted St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson to present the case to the FBI.

The CBO has determined that most Americans get more benefits from the gov then the so called rich elites, who are paying the price for these benefits.

Most American households receive more in government benefits than they pay in taxes — while only the top earners pay a significant amount to fund federal spending.

That's the finding of the Congressional Budget Office's newly released annual report on "The Distribution of Household Income and Federal Taxes," which compiles data through 2011.

The CBO divides U.S. households into five quintiles according to their income, and discloses how much they receive from the government and what they pay in taxes.

The first quintile has the lowest payments, and receives the most in benefits.

The second slightly less benefits, and more payments, the third less benefits and more paymentz still. But the rich receive minimal benefits and pay the most.

"We hear all the time from President Obama, Warren Buffett, Robert Reich, and various other Democrats and liberal pundits that 'the rich' aren't paying their fair share and need to be taxed more," the AEI observes.

"The CBO study provides ample evidence that the richest Americans are paying their 'fair share' in federal taxes."

Households in the lowest quintile receive $18.20 in transfers per dollar paid in taxes. The second quintile receives $4.91, the middle quintile gets $2.23, the fourth quintile receives 95 cents, and the top quintile gets just 19 cents.

Every time I turn on CNN or Fox, ABC, NBC, CBC or MSNBC all you get is OPINIONS. Why cant we just get the news and let us make decisions based on that?

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is expected to accept a recommendation by Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to quarantine for 21 days all U.S. troops returning from Ebola-stricken countries, The New York Times reported.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now advising that civilian health workers coming back from Africa after helping Ebola patients be actively monitored for symptoms, though not quarantined. In contrast to the civilians, the soldiers, who are not likely to come into direct contact with infected patients, will be quarantined, the Times reported.

An unofficial "controlled monitoring" period of 21 days for soldiers returning from Liberia is already in place on the orders of Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army chief of staff.

Feds Go Spend-Crazy at Year's End

Due to wasteful spending regulations, federal agencies are not permitted to carry over surplus funds from one fiscal year to the next.

So as the year's end approaches, the agencies go on a wild spending spree to use up any unspent funds before they are forfeited to the Treasury.

"Agencies are encouraged to spend every last dime in their budgets to justify their current funding levels, in an attempt to avoid becoming a target for future spending cuts in Congress," said Diana Furchtgott-Roth, former chief economist of the U.S. Department of Labor and current director of Economics21 at the Manhattan Institute.

As the Sept. 30 end of the 2013-2014 fiscal year approached, the IRS suddenly found the need to spend $2.41 million on "toner products."

The Department of Homeland Security felt compelled to pay $251,016 for "Aeron Mesh Task Chairs," and $15,198 for two pianos.

The U.S. embassy in New Delhi, India, spent $20,362 on alcoholic beverages, bringing the outlay for booze by the State Department to nearly $100,000 in September. The department also spent nearly $25,000 for 50-inch LED HD televisions for the embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The Department of Veterans Affairs spent more than $1.8 million on artwork.

Last year, Veterans Affairs allocated $562,000 for artwork as the end of the fiscal year approached in September, the Fiscal Times reported.

And there is a lot more I could not fit here!!

There has been "no significant warming trend in surface average temperature" in those 18 years, said Patrick Michaels, director of the Cato Institute's Center for the Study of Science.

Al Gore and other climate change alarmists will have to concede that their predictions of catastrophic global warming were off by a long shot, Michaels, who has a doctorate in ecological climatology, told CNS News.

"It has to be admitted eventually that too much warming was forecast too fast," he said. "This just has to happen. You can't go on and on and on.

"If the surface temperature resumed the warming rate that we observed from, say 1977 through 1998, we would still go close to a quarter of a century without significant net warming because there's such a long flat period built into the record now."

Michaels pointed to findings by the University of Illinois' Polar Ice Research Center that Antarctic ice "is at its highest extent measured by the current microwave satellite sounding system" since 1978.

"And if you take a close look at the Arctic data, it appears the decline [in polar ice] stopped around 2005/2006, which means we've almost had 10 years without any net loss in Arctic ice."

Michaels spent three decades as a research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and was a contributing editor to the United Nations' second Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.

When is a hate crime not a hate crime? This happened at a shopping mall in Washington State. So called Moms against guns! You cant find this on any main stream media site.

The Mom’s launched their campaign against Kroger Aug. 18, so as this fake group of mothers, funded and scripted by former NYC mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was ranted about guns making Kroger supermarkets more dangerous, a mob of black teenagers beat a white Kroger worker to a pulp as he walked in the parking lot of his Memphis store.

The black female shooting video off her phone called out: “They got a white dude!”

The incident has all the markings of what liberals call a hate crime and if it were 11 white kids attacking a black kids—you might have even heard about this incident in the mainstream media.

http://toprightnews.com/?p=5688

It's Pot for the Poor in California

In my experience with California’s lower income neighborhoods there is one item that is never reported to be in short supply.

Fathers are absent. Stable homes are absent. Jobs are absent. Education is absent. And due to state government incompetence, even water is absent.

But I’ve never heard anything about a shortage of marijuana.

And although I am unable to verify this from personal experience, those in the know say most consumers begin their search for wacky tobaccy in our less fortunate areas where local entrepreneurs are ready and able to meet demand.

This is why it was surprising when Fox News reported the Berkeley City Council unanimously passed an ordinance “ordering medical marijuana dispensaries to donate 2 percent of their stash to patients making less than $32,000 a year.”

Meaning Berkeley becomes the first city in the nation to offer dope stamps along with food stamps. It also makes one wonder if the no smoking rules in council chambers also apply to marijuana?

I’ve long contended that the left’s main goal is to encourage dependency and increase support for big government’s big giveaways. Providing free pot is the example that says it all. The only way to add to it is by also distributing free munchies at a city-sponsored Harold & Kumar film festival.

A record 92.26 million Americans ages 16 and over did not have a job last month and the labor force participation rate stood at 62.8 percent, matching a 36-year low.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) employment figures are based on the "civilian noninstitutional population," which consists of all Americans 16 or older who are not in the military or an institution such as a prison, mental hospital, or nursing home.

Those who did not have a job and did not actively seek one in August are not considered to be in the labor force, along with retirees, students, and Americans collecting disability benefits.

Of the 155.9 million who did participate in the labor force, 146.3 million had a job and 9.5 million were out of work but actively sought a job.

The labor force participation rate has been as low as 62.8 percent in six of the past 12 months, but before October 2013 it had not dipped that low since 1978.

Liberals, if we could make it happen that you get everything you want, total control. What exactly would you like done? What would the society look like if you had complete control? Would you send your children to war to protect that society? Is it a world thing, or just our country, either Canada or the USA? Just the major issues, I guess, nothing too detailed. But what would life be like if you had complete control of the laws and regulations? What would taxes be? Your answer should be something possible, not something like world peace or eternal life. I am sincerely curious what you would like done.

The trial of a Philadelphia abortion provider accused of murdering seven infants has been going on for four weeks -- until recently, critics say, outside the focus of the national media.

Dr. Kermit Gosnell is accused of killing seven infants delivered live during late-term abortions performed at the Women's Medical Society, his West Philadelphia abortion clinic. Gosnell allegedly killed the infants by using a scissors to sever their spinal cords.

Why would the main source of news in America ignore this issue. NBC-nothing, MSNBC-nothing, ABC-nothing, CBS-nothing. Not one single story. CNN had one announcement.

Kids were shot in Conn, and the whole world knew, stories on every news channel, yet this compelling story gets basically no coverage.

Is America that callous it does not care about a man that has been murdering live children for twenty years?

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/04/ker...

I don't know about you, but typically people get raises if they did well. I understand they have been on hold for awhile, and it is not that much, but really, what an insult to the tax payers, no?

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obama-gives-raise...

You can tell immediately they simply try to put the EXACT question from their teacher in the question.

I don't mind helping out, but most of the time you could just as easily find the answer by a web search.

Seems to me they are getting pretty lazy, and also you see they have never learned to use spell check.

The fiscal cliff includes:

1) The expiration of George W. Bush-era tax cuts on income, investments, married couples and families with children and inheritances. In addition, some 26 million additional face the alternative minimum tax next filing season, which would raise their taxes by an average of $3,700. Cost through September: $330 billion.

2) A $55 billion, 9 percent cut in the defense budget next year and another $55 billion in cuts to domestic programs, including a 2 percent cut to Medicare providers.

3) The expiration of unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless. Cost: $26 billion.

4) A sharp cut in reimbursements for doctors participating in Medicare. Cost: $11 billion.

5) The expiration of Obama's temporary 2 percentage point cut in payroll taxes. Cost: $95 billion.

6) A variety of smaller taxes cuts for both businesses and individuals collectively known as tax "extenders." They include a tax credit for research and development and a deduction for sales taxes in states that don't have an income tax. Cost: about $65 billion.

7) A need to increase the government's borrowing cap (the so-called debt limit) of $16.4 trillion. The government is expected to hit the cap late this year but the Treasury Department has the authority to juggle certain accounts to buy several more weeks of time so that Congress won't he to act until early next year.

Obama has been attacking the wealthy since he took office. Is this the result?

Wealthy Americans aren’t just leaving tax-heavy states like New York and California, they’re leaving the country.

U.S. citizens are defecting at record levels in order to escape high taxes, the New York Post reported. About 8,000 U.S. citizens are projected to renounce their citizenship in 2012, or about 154 a week — versus 3,805 in 2011, or about 73 per week, according to immigration officials, the Post reported.

They want to avoid tax bills resulting from the proposed 55-percent hike on the wealthy and the anticipated expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts at the end of the year, the Post reported.

“High-net-worth individuals are making decisions that having a US passport just isn’t worth the cost anymore,” Jim Duggan, a lawyer at Duggan Bertsch, which specializes in protecting assets of the wealthy, told the Post.

“They’re able to do what they do from any place in the world, and they’re choosing to do it from places with much lower tax rates," he said. "Some are philosophically disgusted at the course our country is taking in all kinds of ways. They’re making a strong protest of, ‘Enough is enough.’ But largely it’s an economic decision.”

But to leave means finding a new country and obtaining citizenship and there are many that are eager to welcome wealthy Americans, such as Australia, Norway, Singapore, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, and Antigua, according to the Post.

These countries tend to offer a fast track to citizenship and protections from the Justice Department and IRS.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/wealthy-Americans...

One of the first things Stalin, Hitler, Mao and other totalitarians did during their reign was rewrite the histories of their nations, remaking the past to foster their control of the present.

Is this what the left is doing right now?

http://www.theblogmocracy.com/2010/04/07/rewriting...

The United States Congress has a very low rating in the polls. But when they ask the question on Congress, do Americans know who Congress is?

I think it is a bogus question to ask Americans if you think Congress is doing its job, because I would bet that most do not know who they are talking about.

I am curious to find out how many answer correctly.