This was one time where I have to agree to disagree…

As to the idea that illegal aliens won’t go home, this is just wishful thinking on the part of the left. More raids, prosecutions of employers (the right insists), new state laws denying benefits, and driver’s licenses, can result in a slow repatriation. The plutocracy that is Mexico may finally be overthrown by an army of retreating immigrants. The citizens of Mexico who haven’t migrated may have a chance to get out of poverty, something that hasn’t concerned the sorry left bent on changing the American demographic at the expense of our citizens.

Diane Feinstein told her staff to ignore the callers protesting the bill, Trent Lott was infuriated people dared ring his office phone off the wall and stated something “would have to be done”. Is that a threat, considering Feinstein now wants to bring back the law that put a chill on news stations years ago ? If they don’t like the message, they try to find another way to silence the majority of Americans who are now demanding the current immigration laws being enforced.

We’re tired, fed up.

Alabama does have an income tax. I believe you’re thinking of Tennessee which doesn’t.

All Alabamians care about is being slightly better than Missississippi and then they’re happy as hogs.

Only the besotted give a rat’s ass about pigskin! And that Tide ain’t exactly bowling them over these days.

(hate to clue you in Woody but the Bear is dead!)

I am proud to be a liberal, but I am tired of the immigrants bleeding our country dry. I have no problem with someone trying to better themselves, but you do it the right way. The right right way means going home and starting from scratch not being handed amnesty.

These people are breaking the law and as such shouldn’t be rewarded for it. Maybe if all of our tax dollars wasn’t going to sustain people who are here illegally, we would have enough money to take care of the people who are citizens.

Hell, Kansas used to be a hot bed for guerrilla warfare…

John Brown, et. al. !!!

Today he is a regular print and radio personality in the state, and one of the few reasons to pick up the Topeka Capital Journal newspaper. In fact, his column’s criticism of the proposed sale of KS Blue Cross Blue Shield to an Indiana conglomerate effectively killed the deal. He spends his days now trying to convince Kansans of the need for national health care, and frankly I think he is slowly succeeding.

That’s right. Kansas used to be a hot bed for progressive populism…Our slogan around here used to be, “Let’s start raising less corn and more hell.”

The AMA has artificially held down the number of doctors in the United States to drive up doctor’s compensation.

Isn’t anyone here old enough to remember that doctors used to make house calls?

For the SAME MEDICAL SERVICE costs many times more than it did 50 years ago in constant dollars.

What do you attribute this huge increase in costs?

- More Tests
- Higher wages for doctors
- More administrative staff
- High insurance
- Lots of uninsured

Bullshit. Alabama has one of the most regressive tax policies in the US. Alabama is one of two states that has a sales tax on groceries, Mississippi being the other. They also have a sales tax on over-the-counter medicines. If you believe that is progressive, God help you.

What Alperovitz praised and rightly so was The Retirement Systems of Alabama, the state employee pension fund , managed by David Bronner. RSA has been a model for pension finds throughout the USA and I would gladly have Dr. Bronner manage my money.

Woody Says:
June 28th, 2007 at 7:30 am
Jobs for Illegal Immigrants:

I…suggested that when we send the illegal aliens back home we could consider the idea of sending each illegal Mexican home with a small bag of nuclear waste. This way we could be disposing of two problems at once.

What you don’t see is that comparing the South to other parts of the nation is like comparing an inner city to the suburbs. The socio-economic situation makes the difference.

Where I live, we’re miles ahead of most of the U.S. and are quite happy. We have about as many golf cart paths as highways.

But, for those who are in poverty, the rest of the country is just as responsible as any area, and this goes back over 135 years. The northern armies destroyed the infra-structures that the South needed to rebuild, but, unlike other conquered lands who received aid from us, the U.S. did nothing to help the South. Homes destroyed, farms burned, factories blown up, railroads ruined, and the best of its men dead or wounded…. It takes a long time and many generations to correct that. Where’s your compassion?

Last weekend, I was in Tuscaloosa, AL and we took a ride in the boat and remarked where the Union forces crossed the river on its way to burn down The University of Alabama with only one week left in the war. Of course, they looted the town, too. Justify that.

Oh, and don’t give me the slavery bit and the South deserved it. This was an economic war in which the populus states dictated tariffs and restrictions on the rural states. Discrimination continued against the South with actions such as “*Pittsburgh Plus.”

And, for your information, half of my family is from the north and half is from the south. I’m just an observer and recount history.

*An important effect of the corporation’s dominance was its imposition of the Pittsburgh Plus pricing system upon the entire industry. This system dictated that all steel prices be based upon the costs of production and transportation from Pittsburgh, no matter where the steel was originally produced. This allowed producers based in Pittsburgh to compete with local producers all around the country, since these producers were unable to undersell steel made in markets that U.S. Steel dominated. Although its origins are obscure, Pittsburgh Plus was firmly in place by 1901 and U.S. Steel championed its continued existence. Despite losing a suit by the Federal Trade Commission in 1924, U.S. Steel fought to keep the Pittsburgh Plus system in place in a modified form until it lost a U.S. Supreme Court decision on the matter in 1948.