Bloomberg, Murdoch, CEOs Push Comprehensive Immigration
Once again, Rupert Murdoch demonstrates he is is a capitalist, but not a conservative. Murdoch has the conservative cable channel, not because he believes in the conservative movement (he held a fund-raiserfor Hilliary Clinton in 2008), but rather because it lines his pockets. If he could make more money running the “Gay/Porn Channel,” Murdoch would be on the phone to Perez Hilton now.
Maybe it’s time conservatives stood up and vote with their remotes to let Murdoch know they don’t appreciate: 1) him turning on his audience on the amnesty issue and 2) the “same old, same old” crap FNC feeds its audience every night. There’s Bill O’Reilly’s “formula radio” programming (if it’s Wednesday, it’s “Smart Blonde, Dumb Blonde, etc.”), Hannitty’s “Great, Great Great American Panel” and nightly installments of Dick Morris, Karl Rove and Newt Gingrich. Falling audience numbers are one thing Murdoch will quickly understand.
With respect to the other CEOs: It’s nice to see that the CEOs of major corporations are thanking their customers by pushing for amnesty. The coalition includes the CEOs of Disney, Hewlett Packard, Marriott and Boeing.
As immigrant advocates continue to press Michael Bloomberg for more attention in the city budget negotiations, the mayor has gone national with the issue, following through on his inaugural pledge to make immigration a central theme of his third term.
With a coalition that includes News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch and Phoenix, Arizona Mayor Phil Gordon, Mayor Michael Bloomberg chose “Fox & Friends” as the venue to unveil his plans Thursday morning to pursue comprehensive immigration reform in Washington.
Bloomberg’s “Partnership for a New American Economy” will aim to reshape the national conversation around what it is calling the “economic case for sensible immigration reform,” citing statistics like immigrants generating more than 5 percent of the national gross domestic product and owning companies which have created 400,000 new American jobs since 1990.
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The rest of the Partnership co-chairs are the CEOs of Hewlett-Packard, the Walt Disney Company, Marriott International and Boeing, as well as the mayors of Los Angeles, Philadelphia and San Antonio.
Through paying for polls, forums and public education campaigns, the group will press an agenda in Congress that will balance tougher, more technologically adept enforcement of immigration laws with measures to facilitate paths for undocumented immigrants to attain legal status and become English-speaking, taxpaying citizens. The agenda will also include developing a system to increase opportunities for immigrants to enter the workforce, ease verification of employment eligibility and streamline the process for employers to fill vacancies with seasonal and permanent employees.
Hat tip: City Hall
Proponents claim immigrants have added 5% to the GNP. What have they cost Americans in terms of welfare, increased medical costs, education, incarceration and law enforcement and unpaid taxes?
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Murdoch leading the charge really bugs me. Can you picture the head of NBC, CBS, ABC or CNN coming out in favor of Gov. Brewer?
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Obama Taps ‘Sanctuary City’ Supporter as Immigration Chief
FNC
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“…statistics like immigrants generating more than 5 percent of the national gross domestic product and owning companies which have created 400,000 new American jobs since 1990”
I’m sure that stat is accurate. It is the NET effect on our economy AND on our society that is in question…and THAT is decidedly NEGATIVE.
Apparently Murdoch and the rest won’t be happy until America is just an asterisk in the history books under “Failed Experiments”
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Every Obama appointee has been radical left and as far from the mainstream as possible.
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“GDP REVISED DOWN TO 2.7%”
-H/A
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Brown to vote for 2000 pages monstrous power grabbing finance bill that nobody has even fully read yet. No surprise.
EPH – I wonder how much the second quarter will eventually be down graded by.
btw 850 rabbis just came out against Kagan.
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You have to wonder what is hidden in a 2,000 page bill.
Obviously, Obama has a plan – Release positive news at first, when it generates major headlines. Then “downgrade” it several times later, knowing it will receive little, if any scrutiny from the media.
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7 Dodd’s even admitted as much hilariously he said this morning or late last night that we’ll not know wtf is in the 2000 pages until they are implemented.
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About time to go Taliban only with the constitution as our Koran.
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KH…I’m amazed Dodd is claiming we’ll know then!
I like your “Taliban” plan. Instead of “Sharia Law” we could call it…I dunno…”Constitutional Law”. crazy, huh?
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10 – Yeah be a bunch of radical Constitutional Fundamentalists !
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YouGov / Economist 1000 adults
Obama Job Approval
44% Approve, 49% Disapprove (chart)
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Hey, things are looking up! The EPA is on the job! Yessireeee. EPA has made a move to classify dairy milk as an oil. So now farmers have to manage oil containment strategies (and costs) for its storage. Freaking unreal.
Oh that thing in the Gulf? Please don’t bother us with that ok??
PS: Were I a dairy farmer I would write up an ISO9001 certification that in the event of a spill I will rent a million cats from the SPCA.
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Hey folks, Dad is making the long journey back home, so the Price of Freedom will be postponed until tomorrow morning. His personal Price of Freedom from the crazy JustMary house is $3.05/gal 😆
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#13 Wow, just wow.
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13 – WTFO!
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#13 Everything is America either seems to fall under the Commerce Claus or the EPA. We need to get rid of both.
What’s next, nursing mothers required to tote around a haz mat bag? geez!
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tomorrows headline: lactating breasts ruled hazardous material
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The next day’s headline: men all over the world suddenly enrolling in classes to become certified in hazardous material cleanup.
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touché 🙂
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BOYCOTT HOME DEPOT!
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2010/06/home-depot-agai.html
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What have they cost Americans in terms of welfare, increased medical costs, education, incarceration and law enforcement and unpaid taxes?
Perhaps we should ask the folks in Maywood, CA: Maywood to lay off all city employees, dismantle Police Department
The problems of corruption and breakdown of civil services continues to flow across the border. The story describes the issue as being a problem of insuring the police department, but the problems run much, much deeper than that for the community.
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Not that I am profiling or anything, but did you notice that the end of the Maywood article, those that are being recalled all had hispanic sir names.
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I’m a lowe shopper usually.
In fact I just got back from there, picked up a new hose. 😉
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Off topic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMK9zxb5HyE&feature=player_embedded
good laugh, pretty shocking though.
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25 – ha ha hahahahah
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Nothing could ever be as bad as the Folsom street fair, and there were kids there in the midst of sex acts in the street, then again, cops were standing around watching as well! Amazing what some people will expose their children to, and that businesses will happily support it.
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#21- Where am I supposed to go now that I am already boycotting Lowes because of their SPANISH signs in the middle of NH (we have almost ZERO latinos here)???
True Value Hardware SUUUCKS
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LA Times article on the Tea Party movement:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-tea-party-20100625,0,4975074.story
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Lowes is the closest to us. 😀
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28. Pro-Mexican or pro -gay. hhhhhhhhhhmmmmm, that’s a tough one
I’ll stick with Lowes
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28 True value\ace is closer by actually but they sadly they are smaller and don’t always have what I’m looking for, plus their online shopping experience is horrible.
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Btw I just got back from grocery shopping, something I don’t do often.. maybe every 6-8 weeks, sometimes can even be longer. Anyway my normal place a big
Publix … puff gone, out of business, along with 2 other stores in the development.
So off to super walmart I went… they just replaced all the self-checkout counters will cashiers, a recent change cause I was there last month. Anyway I asked why they did that, and apparently theft loss was so high it was cheaper to just hire 10-15 more people
Recovery my ARSE!
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Entire strip malls are empty here, KH, and I live in a pretty nice area. I believe the cashier issue, people are so desperate right now. 🙁
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he’s baaaaaaaaaaaack!
good thread…and then I read that MILK is a hazardous substance or something. We are entering Regulatory Tyranny.
Rule 1: Everything not forbidden is required!
Rule 2: Everything not required is forbidden!
easy!