Saving his Base, Obama’s 180 on Gay Marriages & More New Polls Highly Favor GOP/Republican Battles over Public Sector Unions; Obama’s Job Approvals Sinking in Most States/Fewer Americans Describe Themselves as Democrats:

Saving his Base, Obama’s 180 on Gay Marriages & More New Polls Highly Favor GOP/Republican Battles over Public Sector Unions; Obama’s Job Approvals Sinking in Most States/Fewer Americans Describe Themselves as Democrats:

By Marc Chamot

It’s not very hard to understand why all the anti-unions onslaughts; Democrats and government employee unions have finally showed their TRUE colors to the American people, GREED.

It’s business logic 101, a no brainer. Everyone who has studied business knows employee costs take away most of the profits, and employee costs for most businesses are the number one cost next to production costs. Translating that towards government, who has no production assets, they mostly survive on taxpayer moneys, which can be astronomical strains on taxpayers.

Knowing all this; the beginning of “free loading” days are pretty much over for most government employee unions.

For years the public sector, government employees have used their influences to elect their OWN bosses in U.S. politics, and then turn around demanding costly lavish, “sweetheart” deals in healthcare and pension benefits for their just rewards.

As Examiner’s Matt Patterson says, “the unfunded obligations piled up, as pliant politicians, Democrats, PAID-OFF their union masters and KICKED the can (Obama) down the road, leaving a disastrous MESS for future taxpayers and governments to clean up. That time has finally arrived!”

Polls towards government unions and their employees are beginning to show,  48% Back GOP Governor in Wisconsin Spat, 38% Side With Unions “A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of Likely U.S. Voters agree more with the Republican governor in his dispute with union workers. Thirty-eight percent (38%) agree more with the unionized public employees, while 14% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)”

But the real truths of the matter, Examiner’s Timothy P. Carney says it right, the war against government unions are all about backroom deals to divvy up spoils of a CROOKED racket. 

Public sector unions, aka, government employees are the most entrenched special interests in American politics today. The Wisconsin wars against public sector unions are more about public angers towards Democratic groups who are benefiting and profiting, through cronyism and their connections.

Obama approval falls in all states “President Barack Obama’s approval ratings during his second year in office was highest in the state where he grew up, and the city where he now spends most of his time, Gallup found in an analysis of its 2010 polling.

In Hawaii, Obama’s overall approval rating for the year was 65.9 percent in Gallup’s daily tracking polls, while in the District of Columbia it was even higher, averaging 84.4 percent for the year. Both the island state and the capital city are more liberal than most of the country, and both had the highest Obama approval ratings for 2009 as well.

Obama’s approval rating in Illinois, the state he served for four years in the U.S. Senate, was 53.4 percent, making it the state with the 10th-highest approval rating for the president’s 2010 performance. Obama’s approval rating was between 57.6 percent and 54.0 percent in Maryland, New York, Delaware, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, California and Connecticut.

While Obama did especially well in the Northeast, his approval ratings were lowest in the South and West. His lowest rating was in Wyoming, where it was 27.6 percent. Next was Idaho, at 31.6 percent. He had approval ratings higher than 33 percent and below 40 percent in West Virginia, Utah, Oklahoma, Alaska, Kentucky, Montana, Arkansas and Kansas.

Overall, Obama’s nationwide approval rating was 47 percent in 2010, down from 58 percent in 2009, and, throughout the country, the president’s approval ratings declined — even in states where he registered above-average marks. 

The sharpest drop came in Vermont, where his approval dropped more than 15 percentage points to 52.6 percent in 2010. Between 2009 and 2010, Obama’s approval ratings fell more than 10 points in more than 30 states.”

Fewer Americans describe themselves as Democrats “A new Gallup Poll finds fewer Americans self-identify as Democrats today than did in 2008. That's potentially bad news for President Obama's 2012 re-election bid, as many of the declines occurred in states he carried in 2008.

According to Gallup, in 2010 every state and the District of Columbia had fewer residents describing themselves as Democrats or identifying as independent voters who leaned Democratic. Some of the biggest declines occurred in swing states that helped Obama claim the presidency in 2008, including Nevada, New Hampshire, Wisconsin, Colorado and Indiana.

According to Gallup, a total of 12 states--including Tennessee, Virginia and Missouri--that were "solidly" or leaned Democratic in 2008 have now shifted to "competitive." At the same time, no states have moved in a more Democratic direction in the last three years.

In New Hampshire, a state Obama carried in '08, the number of voters identifying as Democrats dipped more than 11 percent--a turnover second only to Rhode Island, where Democratic identification declined just over 12 points.

But as Gallup notes, voters aren't exactly rushing to the GOP either. Rather, there are simply more competitive states ahead of 2012. And the news isn't entirely bad for Obama's party. According to Gallup, Democratic states still outnumbered Republican states by 23 to 10 in 2010, and there were 14 solidly Democratic states compared with 5 solidly GOP states.”

So President Obama is losing the public relation’s battles on all fronts. With recent dismal job approval ratings, Obama is scrambling to keep his defragmented base intact by, “Obama: Paving the Way for Same Sex Marriage? "The Obama administration has now formally put the weight and authority of the Executive Branch behind the proposition that government discrimination against gays and lesbians is unconstitutional under the equal protection principles of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.

Since marriage between two people of the same sex, whether unrecognized by the federal government under DOMA or barred by the states under their own marriage laws, discriminates against gays and lesbians and cannot survive heightened scrutiny, it follows that the laws of 45 states barring gay marriage are unconstitutional.

While the DOJ won't formally be attacking state marriage laws in federal courts, its views do carry some persuasive heft."

This American president can’t seem to get back on track. 

He’s still following Wall Street “Elite’s” and environmentalists’ ways towards job killings and LACK of job creations, and thereof, rather than using his executive powers and his party, to take matters in his OWN hands, to help make the necessary changes to get unemployed Americans back to work. Instead, he and his party totally wasted two years on many useless policies that benefited special interests than majority of Americans.

This  is a great opportunity for GOP/Republicans to capitalize on FAILED Democratic policies, and now with huge deficits, shrinking tax bases, all because of so many unemployed, and businesses who aren’t making their usual profit, so who are we going after? Bingo, costly taxpayer Public sector employees!  

As I’ve said before, folks, President Obama and his Democrats missed the boat, big time, they had the POWER to get tougher on outsourcing jobs abroad, keeping U.S. industries in America, and getting tougher on failed policies of NAFTA and WTO’s, but they slept through the ordeals, because they didn’t give a HOOT.

But the ONUS will be on the GOP/Republicans soon, if they fail in U.S. jobs creations, they too will be getting the “Hoot Boot to shoot!”

America Not so Beautiful; Just Gone & Lost Forever! Census: 1 in 4 U.S. Counties are dying-off at Alarming Rate & Financially Distressed Cities Have Fallen into State’s Oversight Controls:

America Not so Beautiful; Just Gone & Lost Forever! Census: 1 in 4 U.S. Counties are dying-off at Alarming Rate & Financially Distressed Cities Have Fallen into State’s Oversight Controls:

By Marc Chamot

American counties are dying at alarming rate says new Census. It’s happening now, just like third rate world countries, American rural areas are dying-off, while younger folks are flocking to big cities looking for work.

"In all, roughly 760 of the nation's 3,142 counties are fading away, stretching from industrial areas near Pittsburgh and Cleveland to the vineyards outside San Francisco to the rural areas of east Texas and the Great Plains. Once-booming housing areas, such as retirement communities in Florida, have not been immune.

Hit by an aging population and a poor economy, a near-record number of U.S. counties are experiencing more deaths than births in their communities, a phenomenon demographers call "natural decrease."

Years in the making, the problem is spreading amid a prolonged job slump and a push by Republicans in Congress to downsize government and federal spending.

“Johnson said common threads among the dying counties are older whites who are no longer having children and an exodus of young adults who find little promise in the region and seek jobs elsewhere.

There's no reason for you to come to Welch," says Shepard, wearing a Union 76 cap at a makeshift auto shop he still runs after six decades. "This is nothing but a damn ghost town in a welfare county."

No folks, unfortunately it's not that change we were looking for after all. This is systematic destructions of our nation, piece by piece, by those inept and incompetent politicians we've elected throughout the years, and they have left this beautiful country pretty destitute.

I thought we were going to see some action from both parties of U.S. congress and along with this president, on creating JOBS for unemployed Americans, mainly for unemployed rural Americans, whose counties are disappearing, becoming non-existent; apparently those politicians, are all sitting on their FAT duffs doing nothing about it. But, Viva Mejico! And long live China! Do you get my drift?

Globalization and outsourcing of jobs abroad has become such a disaster for this country, while we've been outsourcing JOBS abroad, we've become one BIG welfare state. After all, why then isn’t this president declaring this whole nation as big disaster zone? If we KEEP allowing Wall Street to dictate our LIVES and futures over their profit margins, we’re totally doomed as a nation.

U.S. politicians are being bought and sold daily, and we the people are the BIGGEST losers. 

More from source: Census estimates show 1 in 4 US counties are dying “Local businesses in Welch began to shutter after U.S. Steel departed McDowell County, which sits near Interstate 77, once referred to as the "Hillbilly Highway" because it promised a way to jobs in the South. Young adults who manage to attend college — the high-school dropout rate is 28 percent, compared with about 8 percent nationwide — can't wait to leave. For some reason, the fish in nearby Elkhorn Creek left too.

West Virginia was the first to experience natural decrease statewide over the last decade, with Maine, Pennsylvania and Vermont close to following suit, according to the latest census figures. As a nation, the U.S. population grew by just 9.7 percent since 2000, the lowest decennial rate since the Great Depression.

"Natural decrease is an important but not widely appreciated demographic phenomenon that is reshaping our communities in both rural and urban cores of large metro areas," said Kenneth Johnson, a sociology professor and demographer at the University of New Hampshire's Carsey Institute who analyzed the census numbers.”

And “across the nation, cities and states are trying myriad ways of righting their fiscal ships as the recession plods on. But locking the mayor out of City Hall is generally not one of them.

A number of local governments are so financially distressed that states have assumed an oversight role.

Several cities in Michigan have emergency financial managers appointed by the state, for example, and in New York, a state board seized control of Nassau County’s finances last month. But in those cases and others, local elected officials have retained some role.

“The circumstances that have led to the difficulties in Central Falls may actually be widespread,” said Christopher W. Hoene, director of research for the National League of Cities. “But not very many cities are in those dire straits.”

Read more; One More Job Lost in the Recession: The Mayor’s “These are trying times for the people of Central Falls, a city so close to fiscal collapse that the state seized control of City Hall last summer. 

Taxes have risen nearly 20 percent to help solve the immediate crisis, unions have agreed to givebacks and the city of 19,000 — all 1.29 square miles of it — seem tinged with defeat.

But to hear Mayor Charles D. Moreau tell it, his suffering may be worst of all.

Mr. Moreau, a Democrat serving his fourth term, has not set foot in City Hall since July 19, the day that a state-appointed receiver took control. The state police knocked on his door that morning, he said, demanded his city-owned car and cell phone and keys to City Hall and handed him a letter announcing that his salary of $71,736 was being cut to $26,000. His role was now advisory, he was informed.

“I was told they’d call if they needed me,” Mr. Moreau said recently in a rare interview. “They haven’t called since.”

On the Madison Wisconsin public employees and their unions’ frays, I saw photos with protestors carrying large signs. On those signs, they had “stop attacking American workers” and “stop attacking the middleclass.” I stopped to think a little bit about it, and just wait a minute! It all suddenly dawned on me, where were they when we were losing 15 million JOBS in the private sectors?

And Oh yeah, where were those posters and signs when we were losing our jobs left and right? Nowhere to be seen, that’s where, they didn’t give one IOTA for our jobs, nor for us. After reading the above stories, do they really think that we can keep up that free cash cow flowing forever in this economy? Me, don’t think so.

Obama's 2012 Battle Lines Drawn; Siding With Unpopular/Unionized Government Sector Employees, Rather than Mainstreams Taxpayers; Suing Arizona Over its Illegal Immigrations Enforcements, Favor GOP Latest Polls Show:

Obama's 2012 Battle Lines Drawn; Siding With Unpopular/Unionized Government Sector Employees, Rather than Mainstreams Taxpayers; Suing Arizona Over its Illegal Immigrations Enforcements, Favor GOP Latest Polls Show:

By Marc Chamot

WISCONSIN only proves what taxpayers already know, when they are being fleeced by public sector unions.  

It’s a war between the haves and the have NOTS’, where government employee unions get pampered with taxpayer moneys, whereas private sector workers got decimated financially and without any worker's UNION support.  

New poll shows that 64% of voters oppose government employee unions and according to Gallup, 50 to 33% oppose Obama's lawsuit, prohibiting Arizona from enforcing failed illegal federal immigration policies and border controls.

Obama still has a big hearing problem, and it's going to get tougher for this sitting president and his Democratic cohorts, getting back into the groove of things, politic wise in 2012.

A wrong side of the fences president; Obama is steadfast going against the grains of public opinions, pertaining to government employees, their unions, and on illegal immigrations border enforcements.

New Poll show most American VOTERS, are still livid with this president for suing Arizona over its illegal immigration policies. And Arizona who tried to right a wrong that was being done by the Feds, on rampant illegal immigrations plaguing Arizona and other U.S. states, is being blasted by this administration.

Obama is quickly becoming public opinions nightmares and a big liability towards the future of America and for financial reforms, there's no question this President centrist moves are only an illusion, and a figment of his own imagination. His own job approval poll ratings are still low, even though slightly higher, since the GOP took over the house; he's still unable to break above the 50% mark with his idiotic policies.

"Across the board, public sector unions in the United States have developed an unholy symbiosis with a governmental apparatus steeped in mediocrity and non-performance.

The common perception is that the fruits of hard work and industry are somehow to be regarded as rights for the egalitarian masses. Bureaucratic looters have purloined the wealth of the nation on the local, state and national level and arbitrarily awarded it for substandard performance to union bosses and members.

These sycophants, unlike their counterparts in industry are judged not on the superlatives of excellence and achievement, but rather on their ability to lower the expectations of their client populace.”

Wisconsin is showing the power and deep influences, government labor unions have over Democrats and the “people” don’t like it one bit. With President Obama persistence in supporting those costly public sector employee unions; shows his total scorn and dissonance towards American taxpayers at large, mainly the majority who have to foot the bills for these costly privileged groups.

His total commitment and support for powerful and influential minority groups, like government unions and illegal immigrants, is going to be top issues for 2012 and most likely, it will be his downfall for re-elections.

Here are new polls this president is facing against as he finishes his first term. Besides the upcoming budget battles, the GOP/Republicans are in the driver's seat for more gains in 2012, no doubt.

Clarus Poll: 64% of Voters Oppose Government Employee Unions “Wisconsin Fight Spotlights Issue As President Obama has joined the political battle in Wisconsin that pits Republican Gov. Scott Walker against public employee unions, a nationwide Clarus Poll finds that a substantial majority of Americans believe government employees should not be able to belong to labor unions.

In the Clarus Poll, sixty-four percent of voters polled said government employees should not be represented by unions. Twenty-nine percent of voters said government employees should be represented by labor unions that bargain for higher pay, benefits and pensions.

The survey, conducted by the nonpartisan Clarus Research Group, found that There is a deep partisan divide on the issue. Republicans and independents oppose government employee unionization.

Only 10% of Republicans and 23% of independents think public employees should be represented by unions. On the other hand, 49% of Democrats do so.

Voters in the Northeast were most supportive of public employee unionization (42%) and the South was least favorable (24%).

"As pressures to cut state and federal budgets intensify, government employee unions are likely to become a major issue in the 2012 election," said Ron Faucheux, President of Clarus Research Group.

The survey was taken by Clarus Research Group, a nonpartisan polling firm based in Washington, D.C., Feb. 4-8, 2011 of a representative, nationwide sample of 1,001 registered voters. Interviewing was conducted by live telephone calls. The margin of error is +/-3.1 percent.”

More from Kyle Wingfield: “There are many lessons to be learned from the protests and outright abdication of duty by public labor unions and Democrats (but I repeat myself) in Wisconsin. One of them is that there can no longer be any doubts that President Obama has radical ideas about the proper balance and relationship between the federal and state governments.

From the Washington Post: President Obama thrust himself and his political operation this week into Wisconsin’s broiling budget battle, mobilizing opposition Thursday to a Republican bill that would curb public-worker benefits and planning similar protests in other state capitals.

Obama accused Scott Walker, the state’s new Republican governor, of unleashing an “assault” on unions in pushing emergency legislation that would change future collective-bargaining agreements that affect most public employees, including teachers.

The president’s political machine worked in close coordination Thursday with state and national union officials to get thousands of protesters to gather in Madison and to plan similar demonstrations in other state capitals.

Their efforts began to spread, as thousands of labor supporters turned out for a hearing in Columbus, Ohio, to protest a measure from Gov. John Kasich (R) that would cut collective-bargaining rights.

By the end of the day, Democratic Party officials were organizing additional demonstrations in Ohio and Indiana, where an effort is underway to trim benefits for public workers. Some union activists predicted similar protests in Missouri, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Let me make my position perfectly clear: The president of the United States has no business whatsoever interfering, especially by using his campaign apparatus, with a state government’s dealings with its employees.”

Obama's immigration lawsuit doesn't poll well “Americans oppose the suit against Arizona's anti-illegal immigration by 50% to 33%, according to a new Gallup Poll.

"Emotions run high on both sides of the issue," Gallup reported. "The substantial majority of those in favor and those opposed to the lawsuit say they feel strongly about their position."

The poll also reflects "a partisan divergence," according to the Gallup report: "Almost 8 out of 10 Republicans are opposed, while 56% of Democrats are in favor. Independents tilt toward opposition."

The Arizona law basically gives law enforcement officers more authority to ask people about their citizenship.

Obama said the measure could encourage racial profiling, though the lawsuit filed by his Justice Department argues only that Arizona infringed on federal responsibility for policing the border.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, said her state had to act because the federal government has failed to stop illegal immigration.

This is Gallup's "bottom line" on the immigration poll: The fact that Americans are more likely to oppose than favor the federal government's lawsuit against Arizona's controversial immigration law is in line with previous polling showing that Americans generally favor the Arizona bill.

This means the Obama administration is sailing against the tide of public opinion in its efforts to block the law, although members of Obama's own party certainly support the administration.

The political implications of the lawsuit are difficult to predict with precision at this juncture. 

Republican leaders will hope that reaction against the lawsuit generates more support for GOP candidates running on an anti-administration platform, while Democrats may hope that the lawsuit solidifies support among Hispanic voters in key congressional districts and states with close Senate and gubernatorial races.”

I can't think of anybody or any political party has ever succeeded in winning elections when they are dead against majorities of public opinions. It destroyed Bush's Republicans in 2006, 2008 and Democrats in 2010. They still haven't learned a DAMN thing about what Americans want done in this country!

Battle of Wisconsin; Battling Deeply Entrenched Public Employees and Unions; Polls Show Most Americans Support Cuts to Pensions & Benefits of ALL Government Workers:

Battle of Wisconsin; Battling Deeply Entrenched Public Employees and Unions; Polls Show Most Americans Support Cuts to Pensions & Benefits of ALL Government Workers:

By Marc Chamot

One of the annoying and most aggravating rags to read is the San Francisco Bay Guardian. 

If anybody wants to know what twisted Liberals are all about, this is one piece of San Francisco’s pride to read. With Liberals, it’s always creating policies with other people’s money, not their own.

In a recent editorial by former San Francisco city Supervisor Chris Daly, in No sweetheart deal for Twitter, “but a diverse and dynamic coalition of San Franciscans responded to save the soul of this Left Coast city.

It was an epic battle against displacement, gentrification, and institutionalized racism. We marched, took arrests in the streets, righteously raged at City Hall, and fiercely forged a movement. No longer faking the funk, progressive activists reframed the civil rights debate for the next decade by asking: whose city?

Would San Francisco become only a playground for the rich, white, and powerful while real estate interests and new technology companies prevailed over the poor, people of color, and working-class folks?” 

Again, playground of the Rich, White and Powerful Americans is all being stacked into one sentence, eh? 

But never mind that Chris Daly is a rich SPOILED white boy himself through inheritances. This is that same guy who once prided himself to be the champion for city’s homeless and for San Francisco renters. 

And oh, this is the same guy who pushed for so many pro-rentals and anti-landlord policies; he himself got caught into his own anti-landlord’s trap, and went to Fairfield to buy two houses to become exactly what he despised, a landlord with no rent controls.

This is all coming from the very hypocrite Chris Daly, who also opened up a bar called Daly's Dive Bar and Grill at the Buck Tavern on 1655 Market Street in San Francisco.

The same hypocritical supervisor and tightwad, who NEVER gave a penny of his own money to anybody or anyone, to the homeless or to anything else, but a few hundred dollars for politics, and his piece and voice the San Francisco Bay Guardian, likewise, it’s owned by another rich white American, one who just won multi-million dollars lawsuits against the San Francisco Weekly, his rag, the Bay Guardian has only one person of color on his staff.

They both like to talk the talk about the hated rich white man and support for people of color, but they never truly carry out what they like to preach about. Hey….? If I were truly EVIL, I would print out a couple thousand flyers, and hand them out to all San Francisco homeless; offering "free food" and "drinks" at Chris Daly’s new bar. If someone does that, well heck, it wasn’t me Chris!  

Who cares about those GREEDY government employees and their unions? It's the people elected officials have to please. And it’s the very deficit stupid! “Some national polls, have suggested that many people would back cuts to pensions and benefits of government workers.”

What President Obama doesn’t get with his proposed 3 plus trillion dollars budget, and with gutless Washington House GOP/Republicans who still aren’t getting it...VOTER's mandates in recent elections was never about taking money away from the most vulnerable people in America.

Our mandates were to reform out of control military spending, costly pork barrels shenanigans, rising government wastes and fraud and runaway government employees’ salaries, medical costs and pensions.

According to the Examiner, more than half of all union members are government public employees. Big labor and unions spent more than $50 billion dollars combined in campaign donations between 1889 and 2009, with Democratic Party as its benefactors.

Taking on these deeply entrenched public employees and their unions, is going to be tough, as what is happening right now in Wisconsin. The battle has just begun between taxpayers vs. state employees and their unions. It’s definitely a great start towards reining in those excessive public employee’s costs to taxpayers all over America.  

“To the average citizen — to middle class, working class families — they’re paying a whole lot more right now,” Governor Walker said. As recently as Wednesday morning, Mr. Walker spoke with Gov. John Kasich of Ohio — to “commiserate” a bit, he said.”

Angry Demonstrations in Wisconsin as Cuts Loom “As four game wardens awkwardly stood guard, protesters, scores deep, crushed into a corridor leading to the governor’s office here on Wednesday, their screams echoing through the Capitol: “Come out, come out, wherever you are!”

Behind closed doors, Scott Walker, the Republican who has been governor for about six weeks, calmly described his intent to forge ahead with the plans that had set off the uprising: He wants to require public workers to pay more for their health insurance and pensions, effectively cutting the take-home pay of many by around 7 percent.

He also wants to weaken most public-sector unions by sharply curtailing their collective bargaining rights, limiting talks to the subject of basic wages.

Mr. Walker said he had no other options, since he is facing a deficit of $137 million in the current state budget and the prospect of a $3.6 billion hole in the coming two-year budget.

“For us, it’s simple,” said Mr. Walker, whose family home was surrounded by angry workers this week, prompting the police to close the street. “We’re broke.”

Events in Wisconsin this week, though, are a sign of something new: No more apologies, no half-measures. Given the dire straits of budgets around the country, other state leaders may take similarly drastic steps with state workers, pensions and unions.

“I’m sure we’re going to hear more from other states where Republican governors are trying to heap the entire burden of the financial crisis on public employees and public employees’ unions,” said William B. Gould IV, a labor law professor at Stanford University and a former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board.

“I think it’s quite possible that if they’re successful in doing this, a lot of other Republican governors will emulate this,” Mr. Gould added.

Here, in a state with a long history of powerful unions, Mr. Walker’s plan was upending life in the capital city.”  

Upon Ignoring 2002 Deportation Orders, Illegal Immigrant from El Salvador, Kills Three & Wounds Three in Manassas Virginia Shooting Sprees:

Upon Ignoring 2002 Deportation Orders, Illegal Immigrant from El Salvador, Kills Three & Wounds Three in Manassas Virginia Shooting Sprees:

By Marc Chamot

While we’ve got disastrous failures on immigrations enforcements and policies coming from the Obama Feds, Arizona is suing U.S. Gov't for failing to enforce immigration laws, “Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced the filing of a lawsuit against the U.S. government for its "failure" to enforce immigration laws.

The suit is a response to the Justice Department's efforts to overturn Arizona state law SB1070, a measure aimed at criminalizing undocumented immigrants. The legislation's most controversial provisions remain on hold pending a ruling by the federal courts.

"Our message for the federal government is simple," the Republican governor said Thursday at a press conference. "Use federal resources to attack the cartels that are breaking federal law. Don't attack Arizona which is helping to enforce federal law."

State Attorney General Tom Horne, who accompanied Brewer during the announcement, said Arizona's countersuit is based on five points.

The first is the federal government's failure to gain "operational control" of the border; second, its failure to enforce multiple immigrations laws and third, for not protecting Arizona from the economic damage and violence associated with illegal immigration, as ordered by the U.S. Constitution.

And fourth, the federal government's negligence in not paying the state of Arizona more than $760 million in expenses for jailing undocumented criminals, finally, for impeding Arizona from exercising its constitutional right to protect the health and well-being of its citizens.

Besides battling the Justice Department suit over SB1070 and filing a countersuit, Arizona has joined other states in trying to take to the U.S. Supreme Court the debate on the interpretation of Amendment 14 of the Constitution, which grants citizenship to everyone born on U.S. soil, whatever their parents' immigration status might be.

Arizona is estimated to have close to 460,000 undocumented immigrants, most of them Hispanics. Some 12 million undocumented aliens are estimated to live in the United States nationwide.”

It wasn’t long ago, when on January 8, 2011, a mass shooting occurred near Tucson, Arizona.

“Nineteen people were shot, six of them fatally, with one other person injured at the scene[3][5] during an open meeting that U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was holding with members of her constituency in a Casas Adobes supermarket parking lot.”

Liberal left-wing Medias all over pounced on this story like a mountain lion on his prey, and thinking that they have just nailed anti-immigrants Tea Party or Right-Winger, but as it turned out; it was the work of a mentally ill and very disturbed lunatic, Jared Lee Loughner who was infatuated with House Representative Giffords.

But then an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, who has a history of domestic abuse, and who was on orders of deportations back in 2002, goes berserk, killing three people and wounding three more Americans in Manassas Virginia.

“The man suspected of killing three people and wounding three others in Manassas Thursday evening is a native of El Salvador who was in the country illegally and ordered deported in 2002, police said Friday.”

"It's another abject failure of the federal government," said state Delegate Jackson Miller, R-Manassas, a former city council member and police officer. "Now we have three innocent victims in my city, about a mile from my house there's a murderous rampage. I am furious. ...”

“Yet it happens (illegal immigrants murdering Americans), over and over and over again, and then we have to hear all of these apologetic excuses as to why we shouldn't be addressing criminal illegal aliens on the state or local level. It's just disgusting."

But most Liberal Medias like the San Francisco Chronicle chose to ignore this story, just as the New York Times, who buried it deep inside their website.

You see folks; the Jared Lee Loughner stories was a “gotcha” moment for left-wing Medias against the right, but while the story of an illegal alien killing three Americans and injuring three, is something they’d rather soon want to forget, by hiding it under the rug as quickly as possible.

But now, Jose Oswaldo Reyes Alfaro, an illegal immigrant from El Salvador is putting President Obama and his Democratic cohort’s insane immigration policies, of just going after illegal alien felons and of ignoring the rest of illegal’s, on a proverbial hold.

Rather than going after the undocumented’s as a whole, they were concentrating on criminal illegal alien felons, and then when someone like under the radars Jose Reyes, comes along and murders three Americans, changes the whole outlook on how Americans see illegal immigrants.  

Jose Oswaldo Reyes Alfaro has just lit the “proverbial” fuses in national outcries for more border security and removal of illegal’s in this country. There will be no doubt that Jose Reyes will become the new poster child for states to create their own illegal immigration’s enforcements, and with Arizona taking the lead on this issue.

The biggest answer we’re all waiting to hear is why and how, this illegal alien and killer, EVADED 2002 deportation orders for about nine years being on the lam, who was arrested in between those times, but the Feds never got hold of him. There is a total breakdown between local and states law enforcements, judicial and the Feds on illegal immigration policies in America.

Where are President Obama’s I’m sorry speeches on this? MIA, that’s where, illegal aliens are his buddies. What Arizona is doing, is the right thing.  

There’s an absolute urgency that the new GOP majority in the U.S. house, to act urgently in securing the porous Mexican borders and begin strict enforcements of immigration laws in this country.

 The Full story: “Brenda Ashcraft's niece, Melissa King, said Friday that her aunt had been a victim of domestic violence by her boyfriend, whom she only knew as "Jose."

"He'd been causing trouble but she was too afraid to call police," King said, standing a few doors outside Ashcraft's home.

"They were good, good family, just full of love and support. This was not drug-related. This was not gang-related ... It was just domestic violence."

Jose Oswaldo Reyes Alfaro, 37, is charged with three counts of first-degree murder. Additional charges are pending, authorities said.

The attacks occurred Thursday evening in two homes within blocks of each other in the city's Georgetown South neighborhood.

Police would not comment on a motive, but said Alfaro and all the victims knew each other and there is no remaining threat to the community.

The violence was first reported at 7:19 p.m. when police received a report of a shooting at a home in the 9200 block of Hood Road. Officers found 56-year-old Brenda Ashcraft dead in the front yard.

Three additional shooting victims were found inside the home. 

William Ashbey, 37, died on the way to the hospital. A 34-year-old woman is being treated at an area hospital, and a 15-year-old girl was treated and has been released.

About 7:45 police were called to a home only blocks away in the 9600 block of Brent Street. Julio Cesar Ulloa, 48, was found shot to death. A 77-year-old woman at the home had been cut in the head with a large knife.

Manassas Police Chief Doug Keen said witnesses provided a description of the shooter's car and an alert went out to local law enforcement. Prince William police pulled Alfaro over shortly after 8 p.m.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Cori Bassett said Friday that Reyes entered the country illegally in February 2001. At some point after that, he was encountered by either immigration authorities or local law enforcement, determined to be in the country illegally, and ordered to appear before an immigration judge.

As is typical when an illegal immigrant is encountered but not under arrest for a crime, they are not held in jail and are given a hearing with the opportunity to prove that they have legal status -- either a work permit, a student visa, a permanent resident "green card," or other immigration exemption.

Reyes did not appear at his immigration hearing in August 2002, Bassett said, and a judge ordered him to be deported.”

Who’s Footing the Bill Jerry? Brown’s Budget Proposal Ignores Illegal Immigrants Costing California Billions in Taxpayer Dollars & as Benefits Dwindle, Immigrants compete with Citizens for Highly Coveted HUD/Section 8’s Vouchers:

Who’s Footing the Bill Jerry? Brown’s Budget Proposal Ignores Illegal Immigrants Costing California Billions in Taxpayer Dollars & as Benefits Dwindle, Immigrants compete with Citizens for Highly Coveted HUD/Section 8’s Vouchers:

By Marc Chamot

After the DREAM Act’s sound defeat, it brought about anxieties and sadness to approximately 1.2 million undocumented immigrants, who would have benefited from the DREAM Act.

At first when the Democratic congress proposed the DREAM Act, they swore up and down that it would help about 140,000 illegal immigrant youths mainly in the nation’s universities. But in reality it was going to legalize 1.2 million of the nation’s illegal immigrant youths, right under our nose.

“Obama says he still supports their causes and immigration officials say illegal immigrant students with no criminal record are not among their priorities for deportation.”

When will illegal immigrants learn that it’s the American people who decide on illegal immigration policies, not our politicians in state houses and Washington D.C.?

Now it’s high time to tell pro-immigrants and their pro-illegal immigrants groups to stop running OUR nation’s immigrations policies. We’re getting tired of PAYING for it.

Here are the high costs of illegal immigrations; “A report by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) cited several interesting statistics based on census data. Some of these facts may be familiar to long-time readers… but I wanted each of you to know the enormous costs placed on the United States…

Our government continues to claim that the war on terror is bankrupting us. But what about these numbers? You do the math…

$11 billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.

Illegal households only pay about one-third the amount of federal taxes that non-illegal households pay.

Illegal households create a net fiscal deficit at the federal level of more than $10 billion a year. If given amnesty, this number could grow to more than $29 billion.

$1.9 billion dollars a year is spent on food-assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC and free school lunches for illegal aliens.

$1.6 billion is spent on the federal prison and court system for illegal aliens.

$2.5 billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.

About 21 percent of the population of U.S. prisons is classified as “noncitizens” from Mexico, Colombia, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. About 5 percent is listed as “unknown.”

But in California, one thing’s for sure. In Governor Jerry Brown’s budget proposal to help close 25.4 Billion Dollars deficit; not only he’s ignoring the plight of escalating costs of state employee’s pensions, he’s also ignoring the high costs of the state’s illegal immigrants.

Here's the actual breakdowns: for California taxpayer’s costs to keep and maintain undocumented aliens in the state.

• Education – No state estimate is available for the cost of educating undocumented children, who cannot be barred from schools in accordance with a U.S. Supreme Court decision. Schools do not inquire about status. Regardless of this, an estimated education costs for illegal immigrants is between 2-3 Billion dollars.

• Health – California has budgeted $1.3 billion in Medi-Cal costs for illegal immigrants. The state also provides optional, non-emergency prenatal care that is estimated at $56 million, and the federal government chips in another $103 million for prenatal care as a match that would be lost if California cut its share. The state also spends $49 million on long-term and nursing care for undocumented immigrants.

• Welfare – The state spends $500 million a year for cash aid to low-income U.S. citizen children of illegal immigrants.

• Prisons – California anticipates spending about $939 million a year on prison costs for illegal immigrants, an expenditure for which the state has long requested and been denied full federal reimbursement.”

Jerry Brown also wants to cut 12 Billion Dollars from social services, which could affect main stream citizens of the state, and he wants to increase 14 Billion in taxes, which the state’s GOP is putting a big stop to.

Before Brown embarks on big tax cuts and tax increases, he needs to look where the bulk of taxpayer’s money is going to. Just because he doesn’t want to target illegal immigrants directly, WE the people don’t have to suffer seeing our benefits dwindle down to nothing.

I am a U.S. Veteran and I go by the San Francisco VA often, and there’s never a day that goes by when a vet is criticizing GOP/Republicans and the Tea Party, they think they want to take away their benefits. It’s all over the VA, but in reality, it’s the Democrats that are throwing the money away at costly government employee’s pensions and supporting illegal immigrants.

The fact is, without those safety nets, we're all one step away from being destitute. 

Too many vets are damaged both mentally and with substance abuse. American politicians start these wars and expect our men to go fight them, but when they get home they need the best care around. It wasn’t us who started these wars, get it?

However in San Francisco, where we’ve got about 1,700 homeless veterans on the street in any given night, in their pledge to eradicate homeless veterans in the country through HUD VASH (Veteran Affairs Supportive Housing)Section 8’s, President Obama and Democrats passed in 2009, they are too slow in coming to help veterans.

But sadly, out of 1,700 San Francisco homeless Vets, and about 400 were qualified to receive HUD VASH, but only 100 got them this time around.

After all the sorry plight’s going on with vets, there is one thing that boils my blood hot. At the San Francisco HUD office, I witnessed transport vans bringing none English speaking Asian Chinese, right off the boat, with their translator at hand; to help finalize receipt of this highly coveted taxpayer financed housing vouchers. You were required to be a U.S. citizen to qualify for HUD section 8 vouchers, however there are exceptions for political asylum cases and for some green card holders.

This is disgraceful! What’s going on with inept Washington? We’ve got homeless U.S. Veterans on San Francisco streets that can’t get any of the standard HUD/Section 8 vouchers, but we’re bringing in foreign immigrants, who can’t find work, a state wanting to cut social welfare funding and they go around and give it to immigrants instead! This is another prime example of screwed-up American immigration policies run amuck folks!

I also talked to some VA employees; I asked them this question, if U.S. jobs weren’t being outsourced abroad, and with so many unemployed, added in with lower tax bases for states and the nation, do you think the high cost of your pensions would have been questioned? The answer was NO.  

More on After a False Dawn, Anxiety for Illegal Immigrant Students “There’s an estimated 1.2 million nationwide — in a legal twilight.

But federal immigration authorities removed a record number of immigrants from the country last year, nearly 393,000, while the local police are rapidly expanding their role in immigration enforcement. Students often get caught.

Republicans who will lead their party in the House on immigration issues say illegal immigrant students should not be spared from deportation. Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, led the opposition to the Dream Act, calling it “an American nightmare” that would allow illegal immigrants to displace American students from public colleges.

Mr. Smith and other Republicans on the Judiciary Committee have pledged to block any legislation giving legal status to illegal immigrants, which they reject as amnesty for lawbreakers. Still, as Politico first reported on Monday, Senators Charles E. Schumer of New York, a Democrat, and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Republican, have begun preliminary talks to see whether there is enough support in Congress to try to pass a comprehensive immigration overhaul in coming months.

In the weeks since the Senate vote, many young illegal immigrants are grappling with the letdown after a campaign that mobilized thousands of them for sit-in protests and text message blitzes of Congressional lawmakers.

“Many have become extremely frustrated, sad, confused and without a lot of answers as to how to move forward,” said Roberto G. Gonzales, a sociologist at the University of Washington who has surveyed young illegal immigrants. “They had a lot of hope that their activities were going to change the minds of the country. Having the door slammed in their face hit many of them really hard.”

A moment of truth, Mr. Gonzales said, comes when the students graduate from college. Many excel academically, but without work authorization, they cannot be legally employed. Some immigrants with bachelor’s degrees end up busing restaurant dishes and cleaning offices, falling back on the jobs of their less educated parents, who often struggled to put them through college.

Hostility toward illegal immigrants has grown in many states. Lawmakers in Georgia and Virginia are considering measures to ban illegal immigrants from all public colleges.

Bills to deny state resident tuition rates to illegal immigrants are under consideration here in Wisconsin, as well as in Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska and Indiana. Only a few states, like Colorado and Maryland, are going the opposite direction, debating measures to allow illegal immigrants to pay the lower in-state tuition rates.

In the absence of a student bill in Congress, Obama administration officials are doing little to assist illegal immigrants who might be eligible for legal status if it passed. Department of Homeland Security officials said they would continue to reject any broad moratorium on deportations for those students.

Immigration agents have been instructed to focus on arresting immigrants who are convicted criminals, implicitly steering away from students without criminal records. When students do get caught, officials are using executive powers to postpone or cancel their deportations, they said.

Brian P. Hale, the senior spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said the agency “uses discretion on a case by case basis, as appropriate.”

But senior administration officials said they did not want to make wider use of those powers for fear of deepening the conflict with Mr. Smith and other Republicans, who might try to limit the authority granted by immigration law and further stiffen their opposition to measures like the Dream Act. The officials spoke anonymously, saying they could discuss policy more freely that way.

“It failed and we were all like super bummed out,” she said. “So we came out of there crying, but defiant. We were like, one day we’re going to pass this, don’t even worry about it.”

That pluck is not shared by José Varible, 19, another illegal immigrant from Mexico, who was brought to the United States at age 9 by his parents. A student in business management at Gateway Technical College, a community college in Kenosha, Wis., Mr. Varible also held a formal coming out ceremony last summer.

Since he is not eligible for any financial aid, Mr. Varible struggles to pay his tuition. 

He cannot drive, since Wisconsin does not issue licenses without proof of legal United States residence. With a knack for technology hardware, he taught himself to repair computers. But without a Social Security number, he can take only odd jobs doing that work.

Combined with his new exposure as an illegal immigrant, he said, those limitations sometimes sink him into depression. He has even considered moving to Australia.

“You know, the thing is, I just don’t feel welcome here,” he said. “You cannot live as an undocumented immigrant.”