WASHINGTON – Going before groups of autoworkers and union members, President Barack Obama is trying Tuesday to assure blue-collar audiences that the economy is coming back — and that his administration deserves credit for saving some of their jobs.

Obama is scheduled to meet with workers at the General Motors Lordstown assembly plant near Youngstown, Ohio, where GM recently was able to start a second production line because of demand prompted by the federal Cash for Clunkers program. Later, the president addresses the AFL-CIO convention in Pittsburgh, where he will urge the nation’s largest labor union to support his health care overhaul.

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Face Fwd Comments:

Saved their jobs?  Thanks Obama, for saving their jobs with my kid’s money.  I bet I am paying for that new GM money back guarantee as well, right?

Does this guy ever stay home?  I have something to say to you Mr. President, “You already have the vote of the Union guys, You have already given them my money, twice (auto bailout and cash for clunkers). Why do you think that you need to go back and prostitute yourself to these guys, again?  Shouldn’t you be back in the oval office trying to do something that will help, instead of making another campaign speech?

I know that running for office is all that you have ever done, your whole life.  So, I understand that it must be hard to break the pattern, you know, to do some real work. To help with that and what appears to be a problem with A.D.D., I have prepared list of things you can focus on.  Each time you complete one, you will be allowed to make one trip.  The way I see it, the tax payers will save some money as you won’t be burning fuel, and we will get some real work done to help the tax paying American public.

Here’s your list and remember; when you complete this one, the Tax Paying Americans will have another for you because you work for us.

* Interject yourself into another matter that is none of you business like local police matters or calling  a Rapper a Jackass (Oops you already did that.  You can check this one off of your list.  Sorry for the sarcasm  I just couldn’t resist)

* Build a border wall and enforce immigration laws that will rid our country of unwanted illegal aliens

* Fire all the czars and do some of the work yourself.  If you would stay home more you wouldn’t have to employ so many political apointees to do your job.

* Demand that all of the banks that received bailout money, repay it (with interest) and then return that money to the treasury.

* Admit that Cap and Trade is just a tax program, then drop it.

* Cut federal funding to political/social organizations that are found to be fraudulant.

* Get off of the television. I find Spongebob far more relavant than anything you have said so far.

* Instead of speaking to kids to promote your agenda, stick around Washington and speak to adults like the leaders of the tea parties

* Take all of the stimulus money that has not been spent and put it back in the treasury and don’t ever ask for more.

*Fix the government health care programs you already have, then talk to me about my health care program

*Find a way to cut government spending by 25% instead of finding ways to increase it by 100%.

*Stop apologizing for America being America and lose the attitude.  None of us can help you with your personal identity problems so stop trying to drag us into your Gestalt therapy.

*And finally, just one last thing, if you could see your way clear to produce the real birth certificate…..that would sure shut a bunch of people up.

PHOENIX (Reuters)

Reporting by Tim Gaynor, Editing by Paul Simao

A U.S. government program empowering local police officers to enforce immigration laws undermines their efforts to maintain public safety, according to a report released on Wednesday.

Around 11.9 million mostly Hispanic illegal immigrants live and work in the United States, and Americans are sharply divided over what to do with them.

The report by the nonpartisan Police Foundation criticized aspects of the 287 (g) program run by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, which deputizes officers from local police agencies to enforce immigration laws.

The study, drawing on input from focus groups and police and community representatives, argued that the program created mistrust between local police and immigrant communities.

“The cornerstone of the police operation is public safety, and that is eroded significantly when people are afraid of the police,” Hubert Williams, the president of the Police Foundation, said by telephone.

“Immigration enforcement (by local agencies) … has simply caused people to run and hide. They won’t talk to the police,” he added.

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE54J7OX20090521?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews (see the rest of the article here)

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Gee I wonder why the illegal immigrants distrust the police? Could it be because of the word illegal? If they were not here and if we did not have to deal with their crime, the border states jails populations would be reduced by over 30% and our police force could go back to enforcing laws and investigating our home grown crimes. The Police Foundation could go back to mapping crime areas and get out of politics. Not to mention that the state budgets that have been in the news so much of late would be much closer to being balanced.

If Obama or any other politician wants my vote move the illegals out of our country and do away with Anchor Baby laws.

Want to know what the rest of America thinks?

A Rasmussen Report Poll conducted November 5, 2008 of 1,000 likely voters asked: “Is the government doing enough to secure the border?”

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79% responded “no,”” it is not doing enough.

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10% responded “yes.”

It also asked, “Which is more important: securing the border or legalizing undocumented workers?”

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65% responded that gaining control of the border is more important.

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26% responded that legalization is more important.

Rasmussen Report Poll conducted from October 24-25th of 800 likely voters found that:

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51% opposed the DREAM Act (a form of amnesty for former and present illegal alien students) concept

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68% believe the passage of the bill would encourage more illegal immigration in the future.

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71% believe that illegal immigrants should not qualify for in-state tuition rates at colleges and universities.

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77 % oppose making drivers’ licenses available to illegal immigrants.
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It is past time that our government start listening to it’s citizens. We don’t want Illegals in our country period. That does not mean we are unreasonable. We understand there is a need or a guest worker program, they key being “guest worker”. We do not want their children to be considered Citizens of the US when the parents are here illegally or on a guest visa. We do not want to provide Free health care, education or government assistance. We are not mean, hateful or uncaring….. we simply cannot afford it any longer. If you don’t believe me ask someone living in CA.

A highly trusted former deputy attorney general, who later became Mexico’s drug czar and was embraced by Washington until his death, is accused in a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration report of taking bribes from one of Mexico’s oldest narcotics trafficking cartels.

Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, killed in November in a mysterious plane crash over Mexico City, is among three senior federal law-enforcement officials named in an April 21-page DEA briefing on organized crime and drug trafficking south of the border.

Vasconcelos was never charged with a crime. The other two are being prosecuted by Mexico.

The report, prepared as a primer on drug cartels, does not say when, or how much money was allegedly taken by Vasconcelos, who spearheaded counternarcotics efforts for President Felipe Calderon and had similar duties as deputy attorney general over fighting organized crime for Calderon’s predecessor, Vicente Fox.

He is alleged to have been snared by the Beltran Leyva organization, which the DEA report says is known to use bribery and assassinations to ensure its share of Mexico’s drug trade, and go “toe to toe” with larger syndicates.

When contacted Wednesday, DEA spokesman Garrison Courtney, said the agency could neither refute nor offer a source for the highly charged allegation, which appears in the report as fact. The information was included without being fully vetted for release, Courtney said.

The Calderon administration declined comment.

Sadly, this flag is draped over the coffins of too many honest Mexican soldiers while corrupt Mexican Government Officials get rich

PLease got to http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/6423131.html fo he rest of the story

FaceFwd.com Comments: It should come as no surprise that the reason the Drug/Border war continues is that the government supports it. Should the Drug Cartels be shut down, there would be no retirement program for government employees