Had enough yet

[mark blazejewski]

IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD ENOUGH ALREADY, THIS SHOULD DO IT FOR YOU:

You can be fined $20,000 in New York if you report an illegal alien to the authorities, plus three months in jail.

https://www.facebook.com/vanessa.z.m...5879015462568/

[Lee Chowaniec]

IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD ENOUGH ALREADY, THIS SHOULD DO IT FOR YOU:

You can be fined $20,000 in New York if you report an illegal alien to the authorities, plus three months in jail.

https://www.facebook.com/vanessa.z.m...5879015462568/

Mark, I don't have a Facebook account to actually read what Letitia James' law encompasses. At least for now, it appears Facebook is required.

But before being allowed to read the contents of the law in Facebook mode, I was able to get this much:

Law360 (February 6, 2019, 10:11 PM EST) -- Employers shouldn't be allowed to use the threat of immigration enforcement against workers who call out labor law violations, New York Attorney General Letitia James said Wednesday as she announced a legislative proposal to combat such retaliation.

Sounds different from what you posted. As I don't find much truth in anything I read or hear today, please check it out and let me what is at stake here.

[mark blazejewski]

Definitely will do Lee.

On the video, DiPietro said that NY State Citizens are prohibited from reporting someone they suspect of being an illegal alien, including gang members, to authorities, and he did not qualify it by suggesting that it was limited to the employment aspects of Law360.

I texted WBEN News about this, and so far, got "Crickets."

I can understand (but don't support) NY State prohibiting local law enforcement from cooperating with the Feds under the 10th Amendment, but to restrict a NY State citizen from cooperating with Federal authorities, is bizarre.

If this is true, and the video posted on FB is authentic and complete, I would like the state to restrict me from paying federal income tax too!

[sharky]

well businesses shouldn't be allowed to hire illegals in the first place so there shouldn't be a situation where the threat would matter.

[gorja]

Definitely will do Lee.

On the video, DiPietro said that NY State Citizens are prohibited from reporting someone they suspect of being an illegal alien, including gang members, to authorities, and he did not qualify it by suggesting that it was limited to the employment aspects of Law360.

I texted WBEN News about this, and so far, got "Crickets."

I can understand (but don't support) NY State prohibiting local law enforcement from cooperating with the Feds under the 10th Amendment, but to restrict a NY State citizen from cooperating with Federal authorities, is bizarre.

If this is true, and the video posted on FB is authentic and complete, I would like the state to restrict me from paying federal income tax too!

I'm not doubting DiPietro but I can't find anything else anywhere regarding what he spoke about on the video.

[Lee Chowaniec]

well businesses shouldn't be allowed to hire illegals in the first place so there shouldn't be a situation where the threat would matter.

Indeed, and that's what I find troubling - and that goes for the Trumpster as well.


The hypocrisy and BS on both sides is making America look like the ****hole!

[mark blazejewski]

I'm not doubting DiPietro but I can't find anything else anywhere regarding what he spoke about on the video.

I can tell you I have had no response to several media queries. I should think if it were not true, they would have jumped all over this.

I'm just wondering if the non-talk radio media in NY is truly inhibited with regards to challenging the current Leftist leadership in NY State.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Ship of fools

Partisanship at all costs; country best interests and values at stake and take no priority.

Scary stuff reading the news today. All this from just reading or listening to today’s media outlets:

• Democrats want to cap the number of beds at immigration detention centers. Another 11th hour stall tactic.

• Democrats have problems with ICE and some are calling for defunding Homeland Security.

• "We will not agree to $2 billion in funding for barriers" is the position taken by the Dems.

• Media darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, delivered a draft of her socialist blueprint for America — the “Green New Deal.” CNN raved about the proposal, comparing it to FDR’s New Deal, “only smarter and non-polluting.”

• Ilhan Omar, who became the first Somali-American woman elected to Congress in November and another freshman lawmaker, Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. allegedly post anti-Semitic remarks.

• President Trump maintains there is a crisis at the border and insists he will find the money to build a wall / barrier where needed. Sunday on Showtime’s, “The Circus” former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said President Donald Trump should not declare a national emergency to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border because she argued there was “no national emergency at our border.”

• Border Patrol officials told reporters on Friday that the surge of Central American migrant families are stretching their resources thin. The statement comes as agents reported apprehending 60 “large groups” of migrants so far this year.

• Five million Latin Americans plan to migrate to the United States in the next 12 months, and an estimated 42 million more say they want to enter the country. Those statistics were in a report from Jim Clifton, the chairman and CEO at Gallup.

• Pelosi maintains a wall is immoral, that walls don’t work and that there is no crisis..

• Illegal immigrants have rights equal to that of American citizens.

[Lee Chowaniec]

My kingdom for a rational ‘centrist’

Loons to the left of me, loons to the right of me causing me to ask of you, “Haven’t you really had enough of the blame game, the obstruction tactics and polarization / divisiveness coming from both the Republicans and Democrats?

Enough of an unpresidential president reeking of self- praise, falsehoods / exaggerations, mean-spiritedness, etc.

Enough of the progressive-socialist left whose economic wealth distribution policies best exemplified by Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC) and Bernie Sanders are unrealistic and unaffordable . Cortez was an organizer for Sanders’ insurgent 2016 primary campaign against Hillary Clinton.

Cortez is already a social media sensation and her mystique baffles me. Her ‘Green New Deal’ proposal is absurd and is best explained why in the following opinion piece:

https://www.reporternews.com/story/o...ne/2880034002/

Equally baffling to even the likes of her New York progressive-social leaders (Governor Cuomo and New York City De Blasio) was her involvement and glee in pushing Amazon out of New York.

But what is really disturbing and worrisome to centrists can be summed up in the following report:

“This is a race to the left,” said Dave Handy, a New York-based political consultant and organizer. “Even if people don’t like her or her policies, they will be racing to get her endorsement because it’s a progressive check mark. She embodies the general direction the party is going in.”

Unable to find any reason to vote for Clinton in 2016, I voted for Trump and was labeled a deplorable. Becoming more disenchanted with the Trump antics, it was time to look at the candidates of the Democratic Party intending to run in 2020 for the presidential office.

Six of the Democratic Party individuals running for president have already endorsed Cortez’s policies and the remainder are sure to shift more to the left to stay competitive in the race.

If indeed the party will shift further left in the future and field no ‘centrist’ candidate with any possible likelihood of success, there is little chance of deplorables abandoning ship.

[Frank Broughton]

Only you right Lee, you are the man of the times! everyone else is dog doo doo... But alas, anyone who is looking for someone in the Democratic party to vote for surely is insane. Planks mean something!

[Lee Chowaniec]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tr...cid=spartandhp

Imagine a $77 billion project for a high-speed rail line in California, 13 years behind schedule and with overrun costs. No problem for the liberal blue state or the progressive-socialists. $5 billion for border security, no way. Ah, priorities!

“But let’s be real,” Newsom (Governor) said to lawmakers gathered for the State of the State speech. “The current project, as planned, would cost too much and, respectfully, take too long.

There’s been too little oversight and not enough transparency.

“Right now, there simply isn’t a path to get from Sacramento to San Diego, let alone from San Francisco to L.A.,” Newsom (Governor) said. “I wish there were. However, we do have the capacity to complete a high-speed rail link between Merced and Bakersfield.”

Ten years after voters approved it, the project is $44 billion over budget and 13 years behind schedule.

A state audit in November blamed flawed decision-making, organizational faults and poor contract management by the California High Speed Rail Authority.

Distance from Sacramento to San Diego – 504 miles; 8 hours by car.
Distance from L.A. to San Francisco – 381 miles; 6 hours by car.
Distance from Merced to Bakersfield – 163 miles; 2 hours, 33 minutes.

[Lee Chowaniec]

I used to like Bill Maher for his acerbic sense of humor and political astuteness; used to. Hearing of his latest declaration that people living in ‘Blue States’ are more educated and politically more astute than those living in 'Red States' should have brought my agreement as I am well educated and live in one of the ‘bluest’ states in the nation. It did not, considering:

I live in a state where residents pay the second highest taxes in the country.

I live in one of the most politically corrupt states in the country.

I live in a state with one of the most inept and dysfunctional governments in the country.

I live in a state where public school system proficiency is dismal and the cost of providing such education ranks at, or near, the top across the country.

I live in a state with the likes of Governor Cuomo, New York City Mayor, Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, and now Congress member Cortez – progressive socialists whose priorities should be state management and best interests, but whose main interest is to remove President Trump from office.

I am living in a state presumably educated and intelligent enough to believe taxing the wealthy more will improve the lives of the less fortunate – as the wealthy continue to leave the state.

I am living is a state where full term abortion is legal and never considered ‘infanticide’.

I am living in a state where we now have Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) representing New York. In her brief time in office this adored individual:

• Sponsored the so-called Green New Deal that may tally between $51 trillion and $93 trillion over 10-years; includes between $8.3 trillion and $12.3 trillion to meet the plan’s call to eliminate carbon emissions from the power and transportation sectors and between $42.8 trillion and $80.6 trillion for its economic agenda including providing jobs and health care for all.

• Supports single-payer Medicare for all with no idea on cost or where the money will come from to pay for the program.

• Openly opposed New York agreeing to giving Amazon $3 billion in tax breaks over 10 years, resulting in the loss of 25,000 lost NYC jobs, $4 billion in lost wages and $12 billion in lost economic activity for NY. She openly celebrated Amazon’s decision to go elsewhere; declaring the $3 billion could go elsewhere in helping the less fortunate. What $3 billion, AOC? There is no $3 billion. I am against corporate welfare when it provides no benefit in return. See Solar City and Governor Cuomo.

• Yesterday, AOC suggested on Sunday night that people should consider not having children due to climate change because there is a "scientific consensus" that life will be hard for kids. Life is not hard for kids now?

You can buy an education, you can’t buy morality, integrity, values and most important, common sense.

[Dan Roman]

The one thing I agree with AOC, SHE should never reproduce!

[mark blazejewski]

I used to like Bill Maher for his acerbic sense of humor and political astuteness; used to. Hearing of his latest declaration that people living in ‘Blue States’ are more educated and politically more astute than those living in 'Red States' should have brought my agreement as I am well educated and live in one of the ‘bluest’ states in the nation. It did not...

Nor should it have Lee. Your definition of "education" appears consistent with this:

ed·u·ca·tion
/ˌejəˈkāSH(ə)n/
noun

the process of receiving or giving systematic instruction, especially at a school or university.
"a new system of public education"

Maher most probably is misrepresenting "education" for "indoctrination," defined accordingly:

in·doc·tri·na·tion

/inˌdäktrəˈnāSHən/
noun
the process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically.

[Lee Chowaniec]

Where I find Mark B’s distinction between ‘education’ and ‘indoctrination’ is best exemplified when reading the liberal Buffalo News edition. 80-90% of the first section of the edition features political reports from the uber left editions of the New York Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times, etc.

The great majority of the time the reports are Trump negative, center on Trump’s mental instability, and inability to serve the best interests of the country. The reports reek of leaked Washington inside reports and are filled with feckless stories based on alleged / anonymous sources. Information or biased reporting?

The following excerpts were from the USA edition and more credible and refreshing:

• The House's 245-182 vote to block Trump's national emergency declaration fell well below the two-thirds majority that would be needed to override his promised veto.

• Democrats also said the crisis is a fiction manufactured by Trump to dance around Congress' vote this month to provide less than $1.4 billion for barrier construction.

• Democrats said Republicans repeatedly accused former President Barack Obama of flouting the Constitution, which gives Congress control over spending, but are ignoring Trump's effort to do the same.

• Democrats were driven by politics and a desire to oppose Trump at every turn,

Also found this interesting in Politico:

Progressive House Democrats will unveil their much-hyped "Medicare for All" legislation Wednesday, providing the most detailed blueprint yet for how they would upend the health care system to guarantee coverage for every American — a long-sought progressive dream that is already shaping the Democratic race to challenge President Donald Trump.

The bill, co-sponsored by just over 100 House Democrats, doesn’t include a price tag or specific proposals for financing the new system, which analysts estimate would cost tens of trillions of dollars over a decade.