[Wash Examiner via American Thinker] Anyone who thinks illegal aliens and "asylum" applicants are coming here to work is living on another planet.
New data from the Census show that 63% of non-citizens are helping themselves to the welfare. They get it legally, and sometimes illegally, through food programs, general assistance programs, Medicaid, and the earned income tax credit for low-income workers, just for starters. They get even more when benefits derived from their U.S.-born children are thrown in, though bringing in a kid born elsewhere is also an asset.
A majority of "non-citizens," including those with legal green card rights, are tapping into welfare programs set up to help poor and ailing Americans, a Census Bureau finding that bolsters President Trump's concern about immigrants costing the nation.
In a new analysis of the latest numbers, from 2014, 63 percent of non-citizens are using a welfare program, and it grows to 70 percent for those here 10 years or more, confirming another concern that once immigrants tap into welfare, they don't get off it.
So no, it's not a temporary little safety net for those who just arrive here until they get their sea legs on the vast ship of America ‐ the percentage of non-citizens on welfare expands as such people stay a while, meaning welfare is preferable to work. Why work when Uncle Sam is giving it away for free? That's a great deal for someone otherwise condemned to living in a tin shack out in Tegucigalpa but not a benefit to our country. In fact, it's a drain, and Democrats, based on their policy positions, seem desperate to import more of it.
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How much does the state spend on physical and social infrastructure etc per worker etc? How much do migrants raise rents? How much do migrants suppress wages?
Any migration should be filtered such that they earn a wage that will have only positive effects on the economy and not just fund the establishment. Anything below this number is a hidden subsidy.
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The subsidy is not hidden if the Washington Examiner could find it. They can give it all kinds of fancy names like Earned Income Tax Credit but it's a subsidy for Democrat votes for all to see.
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author of article didn't understand the census report or the reality of non citizen households
a lot of households have one or more members working and supplement that with other household members getting benefits - frequently the household members are not related -- it is very complicated
having said that BPebble's points are certainly valid, in particular the cost of medical care for non citizens is enormous and typically funded by complicated cross subsidies -- education of children of non citizens is another subsidy that is difficult to quantify but certainly significant, especially for some local school districts
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They're natural conservatives. All the best people have told me so.
Never mind the approval of benefits for five household members with only one or no SSN. (Shhh!)
[American Thinker] Perhaps the media and the various "experts" should reconsider salivating over the recent information stemming from the Michael Cohen plea agreement in light of the lawsuit filed by Jerome Corsi. According to Fox News, "Corsi filed a 'criminal and ethics complaint' against Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team, accusing investigators of trying to bully him into giving 'false testimony' against President Trump." If this is true, Michel Cohen's "admissions" will be rendered virtually meaningless, and Robert Mueller's investigation should be immediately terminated.
As part of his plea agreement, Michael Cohen admitted to making false statements in a letter to Congress in 2017 regarding a 2016 Moscow building project that was being considered by the Trump administration. According to Cohen, the discussions regarding the deal continued until June 2016, as opposed to January 2016, as he previously stated in his letter.
Many well respected legal scholars have opined that Cohen's admission has no bearing on President Trump and the Russia investigation. According to Alan Dershowitz, "special counsel Robert Mueller's probe is creating crimes rather than uncovering past ones," and the "devastating" report he will write will be based on people "who have lied." Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett agreed with Dershowitz. According to National Review's Andrew McCarthy, Mueller is building a report as opposed to a legal case. Said McCarthy, "With respect to the president and 'collusion,' Mueller does not have a crime he is investigating. He is investigating in hopes of finding a crime, which is a day-and-night different thing." Together, these comments paint a picture of an investigation that is reeling and a prosecutor hoping to find something he can use against the president that would justify his interminable investigation.
Despite the fact that Mueller's investigation appears to rely on the statements of people whose credibility is, at best, highly questionable, Corsi's recent lawsuit, if verifiable, adds an entirely new problem for Robert Mueller and his team. According to Fox News, and pursuant to Corsi's complaint, "they wanted him to demonstrate that he acted as a liaison between Stone and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on one side and the Trump campaign on the other, regarding the release of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee." Furthermore, Corsi alleged that Robert Mueller's office is "knowingly and deceitfully threatening" to charge him with providing a false statement unless he provides "false testimony" against Trump and others.
[Guardian] The collapse of civilisation and the natural world is on the horizon, Sir David Attenborough has told the UN climate change summit in Poland.
The naturalist was chosen to represent the world’s people in addressing delegates of almost 200 nations who are in Katowice to negotiate how to turn pledges made in the 2015 Paris climate deal into reality.
As part of the UN’s people’s seat initiative, messages were gathered from all over the world to inform Attenborough’s address on Monday. "Right now we are facing a manmade disaster of global scale, our greatest threat in thousands of years: climate change," he said. "If we don’t take action, the collapse of our civilisations and the extinction of much of the natural world is on the horizon."
"Do you not see what is going on around you?" asks one young man in a video message played as part of a montage to the delegates. "We are already seeing increased impacts of climate change in China," says a young woman. Another woman, standing outside a building burned down by a wildfire, says: "This used to be my home."
Attenborough said: "The world’s people have spoken. Time is running out. They want you, the decision-makers, to act now. Leaders of the world, you must lead. The continuation of civilisations and the natural world upon which we depend is in your hands."
Attenborough urged everyone to use the UN’s new ActNow chatbot, designed to give people the power and knowledge to take personal action against climate change.
1) Please make some movies about penguins.
2) Shut up about the climate.
Mike
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The sky is falling.
People who live a life of emotions and fears.
Another Al Gore.
Media darling of the day.
Another false prophet of the day.
Into the sewer of despair we go.
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Dear Sir David:
If, in your opinion, Civilization reached its absolute apex in the Reign of Queen Victoria then you should ... sit down for a 'cuppa and realize that The War To End All Wars ended a century ago and Civilization continued on.
[Spectator] Camille Paglia is one of the most interesting and explosive thinkers of our time. She transgresses academic boundaries and blows up media forms. She's brilliant on politics, art, literature, philosophy, and the culture wars. She's also very keen on the email Q and A format for interviews. So, after reading her new collection of essays, Provocations, Spectator USA sent her some questions.
You've been a sharp political prognosticator over the years. So can I start by asking for a prediction. What will happen in 2020 in America? Will Hillary Clinton run again?
If the economy continues strong, Trump will be reelected. The Democrats (my party) have been in chaos since the 2016 election and have no coherent message except Trump hatred. Despite the vast pack of potential candidates, no one yet seems to have the edge. I had high hopes for Kamala Harris, but she missed a huge opportunity to play a moderating, statesmanlike role and has already imprinted an image of herself as a ruthless inquisitor that will make it hard for her to pull voters across party lines.
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An off word at work or school will get you booted to the gallows. This is the graveyard of liberalism, whose once noble ideals have turned spectral and vampiric.
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the deep state is probably equally populated by Republicans
Ahh, the good old false equivalency "they all do it". I thought she would go beyond that.
Yes there are so called Republicans there (see also RINOs) but what it really is is the unified inner party of the beltway that is dominated by the Left since the antidote is individualism and the Left don't do that.
[Prairie Farmer] China needs to walk the talk, and farmers can look for more farm bill details in next two weeks, Perdue tells Illinois farmers.
When USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue addressed the delegate session of the Illinois Farm Bureau on Dec. 3, he didn’t mince words on what President Donald Trump’s negotiations with Chinese leader Xi Jinping means to the heartland.
"We want them to start buying our stuff and stop stealing our stuff," he said, to much applause from several hundred IFB members. "That’s really what it’s all about."
Perdue said he was excited about the weekend’s trade developments, where Trump agreed not to hike tariffs on $200 billion worth of goods to 25% on Jan. 1, leaving them at 10%. And China agreed to purchase a "very substantial" amount of agriculture, energy and industrial goods, including soybeans, beef, oranges, pistachios and red wine.
Noticeable prayer bump in the pic
[The Federalist] This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court essentially cemented the execution of America's least known Islamic terrorist. Jihadist convert Alton Nolen is now set to be put to death in Oklahoma, likely by nitrogen gas inhalation.
The Supreme Court's October 1, 2018 rejection of Nolen's final death penalty appeal went unremarked upon by news media so, partly as a result, I missed it. But the Nolen case is very much worth remembering, along with all terror attacks that occur on U.S. soil, if not just for the victims and their survivors but for lessons that can and must be learned.
The September 24, 2014 attack in Oklahoma is somewhat notable in the annals of many officially uncalled terrorist strikes in that Nolen emulated a favorite ISIS death tactic no doubt learned online: he fully beheaded a co-worker - the beloved wife, mother, and grandmother Colleen Hufford inside the Moore, Oklahoma food processing plant where they both worked. Shouting "Alluah Akbar" throughout the attack, Nolen used the same oversized butcher knife on the neck of a second co-worker, Tracy Johnson, when the company's chief operations officer, a reserve law enforcement officer named Mark Vaughn, burst in with an AR-15 rifle. He shot and wounded Nolen as Nolen disengaged from his second victim and charged at him with the bloody knife.
Such an attack must generate a particular horror in its witnesses and, when Nolen is finally put to death, one should keep in mind what Hufford must have experienced in her last moments. RTWT including: The Benefits of Calling Terror Attacks "Terror Attacks"
This article starring:
Alton Nolen
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Wash Examiner via American Thinker] Anyone who thinks illegal aliens and "asylum" applicants are coming here to work is living on another planet.
[American Thinker] Perhaps the media and the various "experts" should reconsider salivating over the recent information stemming from the Michael Cohen plea agreement in light of the lawsuit filed by Jerome Corsi. According to Fox News, "Corsi filed a 'criminal and ethics complaint' against Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team, accusing investigators of trying to bully him into giving 'false testimony' against President Trump." If this is true, Michel Cohen's "admissions" will be rendered virtually meaningless, and Robert Mueller's investigation should be immediately terminated. 
[Guardian] The collapse of civilisation and the natural world is on the horizon, Sir David Attenborough has told the UN climate change summit in Poland.
[Prairie Farmer] China needs to walk the talk, and farmers can look for more farm bill details in next two weeks, Perdue tells Illinois farmers.
