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Nothing more much to add here we are funding crimes everyday in America via our tax dollars. We are paying the Cartels money to do the dirty work for illegal immigration to continue. We have no Country and we have no Laws. Good Luck with all of this folks. Legal immigration works I know first hand but it takes time to do things legally. These folks would not know a law if it bit them in their azzes.
https://www.fairus.org/issue/publications-resources/fiscal-burden-illegal-immigration-united-states-taxpayers-2023
The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers | 2023 Cost Study
March 8, 2023
The following is a summary of our cost study findings. To access our full report, including state-specific information, click here
At the start of 2023, the net cost of illegal immigration for the United States – at the federal, state, and local Report by FAIR Research | March 2023
Key Highlights
• levels – was at least $150.7 subtracting the tax revenue paid by illegal aliens – just under $32 billion – from the billion.
• FAIR arrived at this number by gross negative economic impact of illegal immigration, $182 billion.
• In 2017, the estimated net cost of illegal migration was approximately $116 billion. In just 5 years, the cost to Americans has increased by nearly $35 billion.
• Illegal immigration costs each American taxpayer $1,156 per year ($957 after factoring in taxes paid by illegal aliens).
• Each illegal alien or U.S.-born child of illegal aliens costs the U.S. $8,776 annually.
• Evidence shows that tax payments by illegal aliens cover only around a sixth of the costs they create at all levels in this country.
• A large percentage of illegal aliens who work in the underground economy frequently avoid paying any income tax at all.
• Many illegal aliens actually receive a net cash profit through refundable tax credit programs.
Introduction
This cost study report is currently the only comprehensive examination of the financial impact of illegal immigration in the United States. Every day, hundreds of millions of dollars in American taxpayer money are spent on costs directly associated with illegal immigration. Only a small fraction of these costs is ever recouped from taxes paid by illegal aliens, with the rest falling on the shoulders of American citizens and legal immigrants.
Our aim in this report is to show the American people the fiscal burden of illegal immigration at every level and across nearly all aspects of life. These costs range from emergency medical care to in-state tuition; from incarcerating illegal aliens in local jails to federal budgets that pay out billions in welfare every year. Because there are so many different ways that money is spent on illegal aliens at both the state and local levels, the information in our report is otherwise hard to find (or even intentionally hidden). This report supersedes FAIR’s 2017 cost study and highlights massive increases in spending related to illegal immigration that were implemented while American citizens deal with an uncertain economy.
The Number of Illegal Immigrants in the US
Estimating the fiscal burden of illegal immigration on the U.S. taxpayer depends on the size and characteristics of the illegal alien population. FAIR defines “illegal alien” as anyone who entered the United States without authorization or anyone who unlawfully remains once his/her authorization has expired. Unfortunately, the U.S. government has no central database containing information on the citizenship status of everyone lawfully present in the United States.
The overall problem of estimating the illegal alien population is further complicated by the fact that the majority of available sources on immigration status rely on self-reported data. Given that illegal aliens have a motive to lie about their immigration status in order to avoid discovery, the accuracy of these statistics is dubious at best. All of the foregoing issues make it very difficult to assess the current illegal alien population of the United States.
However, FAIR now estimates that there were at least 15.5 million illegal alien residents as of the beginning of 2022. This estimate takes into account drastic, ongoing increases in illegal immigration under the Biden administration. This estimate also includes some categories of individuals without legal status, like DACA recipients and parolees, who are illegal aliens under law but misleadingly excluded from many estimates. For more information on how we reached this figure, refer to the FAIR study “How Many Illegal Aliens Live in the United States?”
The Cost of Illegal Immigration to the United States
At the federal, state, and local levels, taxpayers shell out approximately $182 billion to cover the costs incurred from the presence of more than 15.5 million illegal aliens, and about 5.4 million citizen children of illegal aliens. That amounts to a cost burden of approximately $8,776 per illegal alien/citizen child. The burden of illegal immigration on U.S. taxpayers is both staggering and crippling, with the gross cost per taxpayer at $1,156 every year.
Illegal aliens only contribute roughly $32 billion in taxes at the state, local, and federal levels. This means that the net fiscal cost of illegal immigration to taxpayers totals approximately $150.7 billion.
In 2017, FAIR estimated the net cost of illegal immigration at approximately $116 billion. This means that in just 5 years, the cost of illegal immigration has increased by nearly $35 billion. This rapid increase is a consequence of the ongoing border crisis and a lack of effective immigration enforcement. The sections below further break down and explain these numbers at the federal, state, and local levels.
Total Governmental Expenditures on Illegal Aliens
Total Tax Contributions by Illegal Aliens
Total Economic Impact of Illegal Immigration
Federal
Federal Spending
The approximately $66.4 billion in federal expenditures attributable to illegal aliens is staggering, and constitutes an increase of 45 percent since 2017. This amounts to roughly $3,187 per illegal alien, per year.
FAIR believes that every concerned American citizen should be asking our government why, in a time of increasing costs and shrinking resources, it is spending such large amounts of money on individuals who are not authorized to be in the United States. This is an especially important question in view of the fact that the taxes paid by illegal aliens offset very little of the enormous costs stemming from their presence in the country.
Federal Education?—?$6.6 Billion
Total Federal Medical Expenditures?—?$23.1 Billion
Total Federal Justice Enforcement Expenditures?—?$25.1 Billion
Total Federal Welfare Programs?—?$11.6 Billion
Total Overall Federal Expenditures?—?$66.5 Billion
Federal Taxes
Taxes collected from illegal aliens help offset fiscal outlays and therefore must be included in any examination of the cost of illegal immigration. However, illegal alien advocates frequently cite the alleged large tax payments made by illegal aliens as a justification for their unlawful presence and as a reason itself to grant them amnesty. That argument is nothing more than a red herring. Such claims rarely look at the costs associated with illegal immigration, and instead only focus on the amounts contributed to the economy and paid in taxes.
Most studies grossly overestimate both the taxes actually collected from illegal aliens and, more importantly, the net amount of taxes actually paid by them (i.e., the amount of money collected from illegal aliens and ultimately kept by the federal government). A predominant reason for this is that in recent years, the United States has focused on apprehending and removing almost solely criminal aliens (and since President Biden took office, many criminal aliens are now protected from deportation as well). Because of this, the majority of illegal aliens seeking employment in the United States now live in an environment where they have little fear of deportation even if discovered.
Federal Tax Receipts from Illegal Aliens?—?$24.6 Billion
Net Federal Impact of Illegal Aliens?—?$50.2 Billion
State and Local
The total fiscal burden of illegal immigration on state taxpayers has now reached a staggering $115.6 billion, which is 30 percent more than it was in 2017. The primary reasons for this, aside from a rapid increase in the illegal alien population, are that a number of states have opted to expand access to state welfare, education, and medical programs to illegal aliens. These expansions have led to taxpayers paying tens of billions in additional funding to cover these costs.
Concerningly, as will be seen in the following section, the taxes paid by illegal aliens to state and local governments fall far short of making up for the numerous additional state-funded benefits they are receiving. Moreover, with many states set to begin offering even more benefits to illegal aliens, as mentioned previously, these costs are only expected to increase even further.
State and Local Spending
State Educational Expenditures?—?$73.3 Billion
State Medical Expenditures?—?$18.6 Billion
State Administration of Justice Expenditures?—?$21.8 Billion
State Welfare Expenditures?—?$2 Billion
State and Local Expenditures?—?$115.6 Billion
State and Local Taxes Collected
As with federal costs, state and local costs are offset?—?to some degree?—?by the taxes illegal aliens pay. As noted in the Federal taxes portion of this section, proponents of illegal immigration argue that the taxes paid by illegal aliens result in a net boon to state and local coffers. However, this is a spurious argument. Evidence shows that the tax payments made by illegal aliens fall far short of covering the costs of the services they consume.
It is also important to note that calling illegal alien tax payments a net receipt is a mischaracterization. The overall wage depression inflicted on local labor markets by the presence of large numbers of illegal aliens willing to work for less than market rates has far-reaching fiscal implications that are often not quantified on average balance sheets. Low-wage workers generally access more government benefits than higher-paid employees. Furthermore, illegal aliens also tend to remit large portions of their earnings back to their home countries, and thus less money is incorporated back into local economies and less is paid in local sales and excise taxes. However, because this study looks at the fiscal impacts of illegal immigration, and tax collections are a fiscal offset, we do our best to estimate how much of the fiscal costs borne by taxpayers are reduced by taxes paid by illegal aliens.
Illegal aliens are not typical taxpayers. First, the large percentage of illegal aliens who work in the underground economy avoid paying any income tax at all. Those that do work in the formal economy often receive back more than they pay to the federal government through refundable tax credit programs. Finally, the average earnings of illegal alien households are considerably lower than earnings of legal aliens and native-born workers, thus they typically fall into the lowest tax brackets.
State Taxes Collected?—?$15.2 Billion
Net State Impact?—?$100.4 Billion
Combined Federal State Cost Tables
Federal and State Fiscal Outlays?—?$182 Billion
Federal and State Tax Contributions?—?$31.4 Billion
Net Cost of Illegal Immigration?—?$150.7 Billion
Cost of Illegal Immigration by State (PDFs)
Notes About this Report
A Note on the Lack of Transparency in Government Data Reporting
Summary of Methodology
https://nypost.com/2022/07/22/government-hides-money-for-illegal-immigration-in-charities/
https://cis.org/Oped/United-Nations-Grantee-Uses-US-Tax-Dollars-Fund-Illegal-Immigration
United Nations Grantee Uses U.S. Tax Dollars To Fund Illegal Immigration
Monthly cash for food, lodging, and 'movement' assistance amounts to material support for illegal immigration. It influences decisions to cross.
By Todd Bensman on December 16, 2021
The Federalist, December 16, 2021
AUSTIN, Texas – During a recent trip to a Reynosa, Mexico migrant camp, I took photos of a United Nations-supported International Organization for Migration (IOM) operation to hand out cash debit cards to intending and repeat border crossers.
One of two workers at a plastic folding table inside the Reynosa camp, which was filled to capacity with at least 1,200 mostly U.S.-expelled Central Americans, said they were distributing the cards for IOM to help migrants waiting until they cross the Rio Grande at greater leisure to claim asylum, for which most will be declared ineligible years later. Many parents, for instance, got about $400 every 15 days, I was told, or $800 a month if they were still there to collect it, although the support level varied.
My photos of this posted to Twitter and related dispatch for the Center for Immigration Studies drew outrage among some Republican lawmakers. They saw the images as evidence that the U.S. taxpayer-funded IOM was providing material support to an ongoing mass migration harmful to America’s national interest.
A couple of weeks later, Texas Rep. Lance Gooden, R-Texas, and 11 other House Republican co-sponsors introduced the “No Tax Dollars for the United Nations Immigration Invasion Act” bill. It would prohibit the $3.8 billion in contributions currently proposed in the White House 2022 budget to the IOM and other UN-supported organizations. A Daily Caller story that broke news of the bill’s introduction quoted Gooden citing my Reynosa photos.
When I took the photos, I wasn’t exactly sure of exactly what I was seeing in Reynosa. But here’s what I have learned since: The money card is confirmed beyond doubt, but also “hard cash in envelopes” and “movement assistance”; and an online IOM “Emergency Manual” describes what I saw as part of a program it terms “Cash-Based Interventions,” or CBIs.
Paying People Who Illegally Enter the United States
So, for starters, country-specific IOM “Cash Working Groups” are indeed coordinating the handouts of the cash-holding plastic cards I saw (referred to as prepaid debit cards, e-wallets and e-cards) to intending U.S. border crossers in Reynosa, Mexico. But it turns out that is just an iceberg tip. The IOM is handing out cash and other material support to intending illegal border crossers in as many as 100 other shelters it helped build, expand, or supports from Central America north.
Some form of this has been around for years, but starting with a mass-migration event and Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy in 2019, the IOM supercharged the program and “institutionalized” it. This doubled the countries where it is used in 2020 and increased by 77 percent the number of recipients to 1.6 million worldwide, according to an annual 2020 IOM report. That would include Mexico.
The IOM Emergency Manual document says this cash assistance also includes less-seeable bank transfers, mobile transfers, and e-vouchers that go to intending illegal border crossers en route or at least temporarily blocked like many of those I saw and interviewed in Reynosa. In addition to those and the pre-paid plastic cards, the IOM says in its Emergency Manual that it also sometimes hands out “cash in envelopes (hard cash).” No details are offered on that.
Many payments are given as “unconditional; unrestricted cash transfers” for “multi-purpose use,” the manual says. Still other handouts subsidize the lodging, rent, and utilities of intending border crossers for “safe tenure, to reduce the risk of forced eviction.”
Start Tapping U.S. Taxpayers Before You Get There
Then there is “movement assistance” in the form of conditional or unrestricted cash transfers. The IOM describes this money as providing transportation access after, say a camp is closed, but also simply “to sites and other situations related to onward movement of population.”
To border hawks, all of this looks, feels, and acts like an agency providing the means for illegal border crossings. The IOM’s own stated purpose for cash-based interventions would only reinforce the perception: the money is intended to “restore feelings of choice and empowerment for beneficiaries.”
Migrant advocates defend cash support to aspiring illegal border crossers as a means to prevent death and suffering among populations they believe have no choice but to migrate and would whether or not any UN agency helps out. But the legitimate flip side of that claim is that cash in envelopes or in e-wallets — filled in part by U.S. taxpayer money — can also be said to enable, sustain, or even entice many driven not by urgent dangers but by a desire for better jobs amid reports that Americans would let them in.
Spending U.S. Money to Encourage ‘Invasion’
An aggravating irony among the fast-expanding coterie of Republican congressional critics of the UN largesse is that U.S. taxpayer money is being spent in contravention of American immigration law and national interest in controlling the border against economic migration.
“All of this sounds like they’re using U.S. tax dollars to encourage this invasion into the nation, and it seems strange to me that we would support an organization that encourages and funds this,” Gooden told me. “It’s totally crazy. I am baffled that there’s not more outrage but I think the lack of outrage is due to the lack of knowledge.”
While it may be true that IOM money relieves the suffering of intending border crossers, it is just as arguably true that it creates financial breathing room they need to prepare for more opportune crossing moments. The money enables that highly desired payoff, rather than a forced trip home for lack of funds after, say, an expensive smuggling journey that ended with U.S. expulsion. Those ones arrive in villages with a deterring don’t-try-this message to friends and neighbors.
Regarding the importance of such messaging in the development of mass migration crises, I’ve never met one who didn’t carry a cell phone connected to Internet social media. In interviews with perhaps hundreds of migrants in Mexico and beyond, I learned that this live-time social media grapevine constantly sings with news from the trail upstream that directly informs decisions downstream as to whether to launch north or remain in place.
So when word of these IOM cash, lodging, and transportation benefits spreads via social media to hometowns, friends and relatives undoubtedly feel more emboldened to invest smuggling money for their own journeys to UN waystations. Because of all this, monthly IOM cash for food, lodging, and “movement” assistance amounts to material support for illegal immigration. It influences decisions to cross.
Increasing U.S. Cash Support for Illegal Immigration
It’s unclear just how much the United States gives IOM to sustain intending border crossers until they succeed, or how many got some during 2021. But the cash giveaways have been on a steep skyward trajectory since 2019 and only show signs of continuing upward.
The public reporting as to how much the United States, through the State Department, gives IOM and how many got it is opaque at best. President Joe Biden’s 2022 budget calls for $10 billion in humanitarian assistance “to support vulnerable people abroad.” But there’s no detailed breakout.
A Fiscal Year 2019 summary (starting page 37) by the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), which provides U.S. funding to the IOM and many other United Nations agencies, offers one clue of the pre-expansion levels. IOM spent more than $60 million in 2019 for activities in the northern part of South America, Central America, and Mexico during the so-called “caravan migrant crisis” earlier that year, the fiscal year report said.
State Department-funneled money helped IOM provide 29,000 people in the Western Hemisphere with cash and voucher assistance and supported 75 shelter waystations, the State Department report states on page 42, much like the one I visited in Reynosa. Along the northern border of Mexico in July 2019, at the height of a “caravan” crisis, the IOM provided 600 beds and essential items to the Mexican government and helped it expand existing shelters and build new ones to accommodate the “asylum seekers.”
This came as a response to the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” turn-back policy. That deported economic migrants trying to abuse the asylum system, while others chose to wait for Democrats to take the White House in November 2020 — a sound bet, it turned out.
The IOM decided to increase the size and scope of the program after 2019, even after President Biden took office and ended Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy. The extent is unclear, but the IOM institutionalized cash handout programs in Panama, El Salvador, and Mexico in 2020.
Ambiguously, the IOM’s annual 2020 report on the program showed only that it gave cash to somewhere between 10,000 and 100,000 people in Mexico that year.
Whatever the recipient numbers since 2019, the IOM clearly intends an upward trajectory for the cash giveaways. The IOM’s Emergency Manual stated several times it would do so in alignment with a fairly recent pact among an international consortium of organizations known as The Grand Bargain, of which the IOM is a signatory. The Grand Bargain pact dates to 2016.
An Inter-Agency Standing Committee Grand Bargain website reports that number 3 on the objectives list is “Increase the use and coordination of cash-based programming.” A November 26, 2021 Grand Bargain caucus on cash coordination had all principals agree to increase the use of cash “beyond current low levels” through the use of even more means of delivery.
The section’s first line starts out using familiar language seen in the IOM’s Emergency Manual: “Using cash helps deliver greater choice and empowerment to affected people.”
Here’s the problem: with the greater choice and empowerment that IOM money can buy, aspiring migrants are able to remain within striking distance of the southern border to choose the time of their inevitable illegal border crossings. No one should wonder why border hawks hate this system and open borders advocates love it.
Topics: Illegal Immigration
Op-ed
Santos is distraction-Biden criminal money laundering deals with enemies, what did I say here folks many times all folks who work in D.C. are criminals who represent some of us. It is the length or degree of their criminal activity that sets each one from the other. Bidens do not admit they have a grandchild from Hunter's stripper friend. Poor little person did not ask to be here but if Democrats love abortion what happened here then? Hunter too for that matter.
Mayorkas heads to the southern border with a briefcase which will solve the long lines at the border. What is in the briefcase? (100) starting pistols to hand out to border patrol at the end time of Title 42 at the border entries and river crossings locations. Ready, Set, GO.............
Biden family no one is above the Law is that not your cry over the last six years to others?
Biden Family Too Big forJail.
We need some Brit to tell us all how to think now. We escaped that loser Country years ago to get away from the dang King which still exist!!!! Talk about elitist. “For my friends everything, for my enemies the Law”. The Democrat way.
Same as Trump wanting to show up at the current rape trial as he blasts the judge snd the plaintiff all the while being the idiot who thinks everyone is against him because they do not like him. What a joke this person is. Trump grow a pair will you. Too late I am afraid. Liar, rapist, poor businessman what else can you possibly eff up next. You are like a Train wreck looking for the tracks.
Same as the border is not open. Funniest joke of the century.
Gas stoves now banned in Democratic State of NY after Governor had stated earlier if you like your gas stove you can keep it. Sound familiar, then they do it anyway. Two faced inhuman’s is what they all are. Would not know or understand the truth unless it bit them in the butt. What is next, chewing gum I’ll bet you on it.
Facts of reality versus fear and incorrect facts about our grid. And Biden family has never been enriched by foreign entities in his forty plus years of on the take services. His son has fallen far from this tree heck he’s still growing on that teat. Power usage versus power never having been on the national electrical grid ever in our lifetimes now it will require more plants operated by fossil fuels and the like to be upsized and built. Oil and gas folks and utilities are great investments once again due to this power grab literally. EV Baby all the way to the banksky…. I love long romantic walks yo the bank with my oil and gas companies hand in hand. Get on this bandwagon before they leave the station folks.
Now where did the commies hide that dang pesky little manifesto here anyway? Oh that’s right freedom of speech only exists in other non commie nations but not here right?
I thought America was a freedom of speech Country guess I had better check the map again. I failed geography in school so maybe I have my latitude and longitude numbers wrong here again. Oh well no news is good news anymore. Keep believing stat AI does not exist snd you all will be just fine close your eyes and makes another wish cuz this one’s dead.
Finally someone has caught up to my brain and common sense understanding that nothing on the internet can be trusted for news or factual. You folks love for posters to post links to prove their points. How's that going for you now. Finally I have an astrophysicist agreeing with me now that unless you are physically present when news occurs or know personally someone present when it occurs it just cannot be trusted with links from this internet, it will be gone very soon as AI holds zero credibility relating to new related stories. AI will kill the internet and for now no matter what links one posts even the one below it is fully suspect therefore cannot be trusted.
https://news.yahoo.com/astrophysicist-neil-degrasse-tyson-warns-124406927.html
Totally arguing against them all the way pal. They are going to be a drain on our utility systems once rolled out we will be using double the electricity we use now across our nation. A watt is a watt, and will always be so. Remember that is just one company doing this and it is becoming rampant across America now. Going backwards is never good. Let alone the minerals which produce the materials for the batteries is mostly from the Congo and China. Slave labor in each location that we are supporting and the conditions under which those humans work under to get these out of the ground. But those are the dirty little secrets no one seems to care about as long as they get theirs ,right folks.
Good news for your team here, think again..............
https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2023/04/06/leading-the-charge-walmart-announces-plan-to-expand-electric-vehicle-charging-network
Great job here adding up to roughly requiring possibly a 3000 amp service or more here [per site here added to over 5,200 Walmart/Sams Clubs and Market properties to support EV Charging Stations. What a great way to save energy, no need to build new fossil fuel power plants here folks. Crazy. You know electricity just simple via osmosis comes out of the ground into these new EV units no wires required here, never had this much load on the grid prior. But now hey let's go for it. Somehow I do not see Walmart shoppers as those well enough off to be able to afford an EV Car to begin with but hey who am I here just a common sense person. But I say if you are big enough who cares.
I guess all those companies who over the last twenty plus years who have been saving energy with energy efficient systems and lighting savings have just lost all of it in one fell swoop by one vendor across the U.S. but hey we are about following Biden off the cliff right so here we go enjoy the ride here, nothing to see here folks just adding carbon to our world thanks for playing. Thanks Joey you are the carnival barker for this negative progress on carbon footprints have you asked Al Gore about this fiasco you have created here? Oh well brains was never anyone that is in charge strong points, a little math goes a little way if you have a twenty year old calculator or an old computer with dbase that does simple math.
3000amp times 5,200 plus stores is 15,600,000 amps added to our national grid not there now hmmm....... that is 7,448,000,000 watts divide by 1,000watts to get a KW value is 7,448,000 million more Kw added to our grid nationally. Nice hey. How those new nuclear plants looking now folks, oh that's right Democrap's don't like those either. Time to invest in fossil fuel companies folks and utility companies they will be smiling all the way to the bank making more trips now with those fat checks. Good for America, not good for environment via power plants that no one seems to see or realize create the power for these boondoggle ideas. No its osmosis quick tell the media folks they will believe anything, or is it all AI related? Trust your fact checkers at the AI factories folks, you all love facts from you're AI sources.
This is great then all folks who are not into killing babies will have them and the rest of your kind will be fully depleted from our planet. I for once agree with you. All haters of life and babies guess what we’re given life by their mothers and it was not taken away from this earth. So basically you are all saying that none of you belong here to make such idiotic comments. You all wish you were not given life by your Mother’s. Ok good job and great conversation that you all need to think about. This is why lefties need to indoctrinate their opposition so that they convince them not to give life too. Will never happen. Aldo eith AI on the March to full blown madness none of us will be here much longer anyway. Those who like power with control will lose that power due to their invention of AI losing its control as we have folks without common sense attempting now to make a Godlike AI creation to control everything. This sounds like madness to me, kind of like this board. Oh well you will learn the truth when AI takes over who is really in charge of the universe. Thanks for playing you wanna be baby killers.
You sound fairly well adjusted to me and using those childish swear words like a teenager. Seems normal to me. Hey ho have a beer with your meds and chill out. I am here to help. Good luck with that. People kill people not guns. Glad you can control your depression sounds like whatever you are doing works FOR YOU. Not so much for others that go a tad deeper. But hey you think everyone is the same, but they are not.
People with issues in mental health kill innocent people no matter their weapon of choice. Guns just sit quietly there until a human picks it up to use it. I build a house I buy a hammer among other tools to get the job at hand completed. Those ill folks think they are doing the right thing by shooting innocents, they are wrong to take out their internal battles of their illness out on others. Again guns just sit there until someone picks it up for their purpose good or bad. Sad what happens all the time but little is done to address the real issue of mental health in our nation. And who is allowing many more drugs into our country??? Gee wonder whose policies those are? Hmmm….. hippa laws protect all these I’ll folks and detention on the mentally I’ll is voluntary unless ordered by a Judge or their families, even families it’s voluntary to put a grown adult into a psyche ward. Those folks should be no where near any weapons. But that is the true price of all of our freedoms here. Our minds cannot seem to fathom how these things occur but has zero to do with more gun laws.
They are about self reliance and responsibility unlike your kind. Lessons can be learned by all here. Where’s the payback to small businesses when they have to purchase vehicles where is that forgiveness in their attempts to keep America working? None to be found but let’s payoff lazy rich kids loans another foolish idea. Where is the payback to families that paid their loans off by working g two and three jobs? Oh that is not happening either. Democrats know zero about fairness. “For my friends’, everything’ for my enemies, the Law”. Democratic motto.
Not sure how folks like yourself can be so foolish and out of touch. He was no insider to those who control you and me in DC. Wake up and smell the coffee wake up. You have been duped but now I believe that to be a very easy task. Good luck folks like you help elect folks like Trump get it yet. Geez!!!
Ridiculous argument once again. As he was no insider to the DC insider crowd of thieves and liars and takers. Pray tell me whom he could trust to work in his Presidency? All the insiders turned against him from the onset. He had only those close to him he could trust. Biden has no such issues he knows all these crooks as to himself as well. So basically you are stating that any outsider cannot possibly be the President because they know not how their games are played unless you lived it before. Ok good to know where you stand with our crooked politicians you seem to care for here. They are all devil worshippers to the core. Money, power and takers. Not givers, not for the good of America. You like that sort I guess. I do not like it that way snd it all needs to be changed out.
Mr. Bragg does not even understand that he has just elected the next President of the United States. Tone deaf seems to be a Democrat trait. Good job Mr. Bragg. Next…..
How about considering the nonsense in your thinking. We care about 60,000 dead folks in Turkey but like to see unborn babies snorted and killed. Do you all have two different brains at work here. You either care for life or you don’t there is no in between. Death is death. Or you decide whether or not you like or dislike folks to be able to mourn or not mourn their death? Justify to me that wayward thinking. Ok here but not about to be newborns taking the place of those killed in the earthquake or some war or other tragedy. In your world there are no replacement humans coming along.
Not my country. $760 million yo WHO bu My Country. China $150 million. Yet WHO offers to take medicines produced here and ship to other nations not the Country that gave them millions in support of their work. Now in the billions to protect a border that is not our border. We could care less about the infiltration of bad folks into our society but God forbid any foreigners enter Ukraine not in Biden’s watch. Yes is Turkey and Syria a tragedy yes there are other Countries in the world that can help too not just us. Sad all these deaths but any death is tragic especially the unborn which you folks could care less about. Now that is a real tragedy. But hey are you over there digging the graves for these lost souls? No guess not you just promote the pompous mess of others about such matters. Go ahead move to Palestine Ohio if you care then. We have our own tragedies. Yet for some reason our tax dollars always travel overseas. Nice to be the King I guess. Punishment for sins made comes in many forms during our lives. Money does not solve anything. Needs to be totally done away with.
Here we go again no money in hand yet US pledges $100 million for Turkey and Syria over earthquakes. Where is the aid from Russia, China, Ukraine to help out there?
Biden all of a sudden feeling bad about history of Japanese here in America detained in internment camps. Get out the new Japanese reparations checkbook. It’s empty too right next to our slavery reparations checkbook. It’s called writing checks with no money to back it up. That is a crime. When do Americans get to vote on such extravagant expenditures??? I guess we have no say anymore, long gone are those days.
Biden attacking weather balloons, news at 11:00. While Chinese Nationals cross our border illegally.
Biden sells off strategic oil reserves to highest bidder to make our Country less safe.
Biden does not travel to Ohio while folks there are scared to death about the poison released into their neighborhoods no discipline against Mayor Pete who is more concerned about contractors who are the wrong color in minority areas, that is more important to Mayor Pete than toxins affecting American citizens in Ohio, wrong color again Pete?
No guidance to help the children in Ohio about how to protect themselves in this newly created toxic area. Train company a no show at public meeting afraid they would be attacked by the public at large.
Wear a mask c’mon man!
Biden on lawyer found Classified documents oh those are years old by now and everyone has read them and they do not apply to me anyway. Disaster in the news takes the documents off of the headlines. What a relief it is.
Kamala and border czar say there is no crisis at the border with illegals coming here. Can’t see it from our house. Besides we need America to become more of a third world nation so we can compete with $.20 per hour labor rates in these other third world countries.
China wants their balloons back or they will not come to the birthday party.
Russian forces pound Ukraine some more and Ukraine turns to the rest of the world for more money and weaponry. What else is new. Hey buddy can you spare a dime. I’d gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.
I thought Liberal idiots were environmentalist’s guess they have no commentary on the Ohio toxic disaster. Hmmmm….
We must take away guns from law abiding citizens do China can take over. Regardless of loose cannon crazies shooting humans where the real issues of mental health go unnoticed? Hmmm….,
John Fetteman I guess the naysayers during his election were right on the money about his bad health, he is now officially on the Federal dole pablum where you and me get to pay for this foolish person once again your hard earned tax dollars not at work.
Kevin McCarthy travels to the border with some other GOP lawmakers and guess what they found a border. Idiots all of them. How about fixing it pal.
Penn-Biden Center is awash is Chinese cash where classified documents were being kept, but nothing to see here folks, all is well.
Yes multiple articles can be found on what is known as the World Wide Web but unfortunately not probably listed on those propaganda sites you all follow. But it is out there if you look just a little bit. But don’t do it if it compromised your weakness to do so. Sad you are limited to one sided discussions of hate for others so sad. América will survive it though fon’t you worry. I for one sm watching out for you when the Commies attack you as well.
Federal Petroleum reserves at all time low. Thank you old geezer brainless wonder man. Oh wait a second all part of his plan to give China all they need to finalize its take over of America. Border crossings by Chinese Nationals is up 800%. Geez wonder why? Friends for life Biden and China’s money. Married at the hip. Good luck to all true Americans that see China for what they really are Commie enemies of our Country. Nothing more nothing less they take Biden gives.
All of the tripe you folks spin here. What you folks never look in the mirror at yourselves to see how one sided you all are. It’s pretty sick. I have no heroes in D.D. Unless you’re all in love with the takers in our society. You have made your choice and it’s obvious you love each other so go for it I sm not here to judge just point out simple facts after reading this board for months, you know observational viewpoints. Something it appears from my overall reviews of your commentary here. Constructive criticism you know like you do to me every time I post something you all disagree with.
Spin continues here to slant all so-called news to make liberals look like angels every time, I think when these folks wipe their asses it’s squeaky clean nothing coming out of them. Must be nice to always slant actual news events to your own favor. Glad I am not a part of either of these dumbass parties you all follow like they were in fact worthy of that following and backing. All fools here sucking up to their phones bases.
Maybe as opposed to these being of surveillance nature they are actually downloading viruses before their attack they push a button in Commie Red China and poof our systems do not work once the Red’s awaken the virus and we are made helpless with all of this great technologies we have deployed everywhere now. Why use mudslides at $400 K a shack to down these items when a simple pointed spear will do with a GPS tag on them so we know where they land. Oh well great minds do not think alike. Hey let’s make some huge balloons and paint the Chinese flag on them so they will not think they are ours and surveillance these devils using their own tactics, or North Korean symbols on them. Again great minds do not think alike. Paint a fighter jet with Chinese symbols on it and fly over North Korea and bomb all their missile sites. Paint is real cheap. DONE……
I did not realize we had a grammar instructor on this board. Thanks for warning me. Appreciate your indulgence of my think fingers. Must be from arthritis, one never knows unless in one’s shoes. But good Judge and jury as per all the Liberal’s tell you what you do wrong versus the way we live ourselves hypocrites but that is you in a nutshell.glad to see you maintaining the authoritarian positions. I expect nothing less from your ilk.
Yes with their blood among other putts ces of money at that time.
No that is the one way drive to the actual job site on Sunday night then work 10 hours per night Monday through Friday 2:30p.m. To 12:30 a.m. each day then drive him five hours at end of week.
Been working since 1973 and still even though Today I am a manager back out on a job site on my tools due to other’s not being able to get there so I have to support the mission in their stead. Five hours from my family each week to meet schedules and deadlines, And even though I have my own health condition which doctors so far are unable to fully discern for me and I work in pain everyday to earn my keep so to speak I keep going showing the young men with me what it is like to work for a living and do some OJT for them along with safety aspects of the work at hand. I have zero regrets in the trade that I am allowed to physically continue to work in. Mss as king that Capitalism dream alive for my family. I bid you all a good day.
Then why do you keep wanting to go back in history and make stupid arguments about reparations. Seems you are not in modern times.
There are many attorneys that will take on such cases in America if folks knew they could sue. Understand most folks may not wish to pursue these righting of injustice in order to keep their jobs and for that matter future jobs. As you cannot Sue everybody or no company will hire you. A meeting of the minds and some straight forward conversations need to be had when employee’s face such injustices in their workplaces. No one should be subject to such poor treatment or be taken advantage of. On that we all agree.
That again is part of our history in which the rest of America, other than the North finally woke up to these facts. It took the South awhile to catch up with the times back then. Now we have gotten over the hump snd in the eighties white gills struggled to get jobs as most back then had to go to the disadvantaged folks regardless of abilities snd experience. Been there befor done that. Many great workers were not given jobs snd had to search elsewhere because jobs they would have had sent to others. Now we seem to forget those times did happen then. It was a good thing and we all survived it. More than enough to go around these days especially with our Government handing out payoff cash to the same so called disadvantaged folks. Some folks just do not want to work when handed cash for doing nothing, all races that applies to. Creates total laziness in our society. The Government wants folks to need their pablum.
Public Defenders ever heard of them? Guess not.
You do know that 48% of workers for our outstanding Government are still working remotely tight? Bunch of lazy bustards we do not need them at all is my take on that laziness. What a joke milking us all for every penny eith benefits too. Good job again Joey.
I must have missed that new that the Philippines was under attack??? What by more volcanoes?
I see your wimpy President will not go against his bank of Communist China and allows their invasion of our air space to be violated every day. Now our enemies know what is possible here Iran, N.Korea snd Taliban to name a few. But hey weak is as weak does. See what payoff money from China to Joey’s bank account does for America!!!! Nothing!!! What a show of strength Joe. Infiltrated by a freaking balloon from your a hole buddies with deep pockets. This President is absolutely the worst America has to offer, retire already back to the nursing home you came from please. Let American’s run this Country. You sir are a taker and faker. You fool no one with your total BS idiotic statements. Appeasement is your message weak as hell. Why money talks sand Americans will suffer. China could have their newly created virus on board spreading across America being released as we speak. No one seems to care. Oh well more sit on your hands cannot stop that cash flow into my personal bank accounts now can we fake Joey.
No recourse eh…. What are courts for when folks get taken advantage of in this Country you appear to think folks have zero recourse when being taken advantage of. Same goes for all these special considerations for sexual bias in America these folks are already protected by laws on the books already we do not need special rules for certain orientations they are already covered under existing laws on the books. When one starts creating special laws for certain people that unto itself is discrimination.