Earmarks and Illegal Immigrants

I can't verify whether it is all true or not. Illegals aren't the only ones who put up grafitti, topple tombstones, litter the countryside and rape and commit murder.

Some of them may fall into the same class like Representative Schock who put up these "doozies" of earmarks in the "stimulus" bill:

Institute for Principled Leadership-Bradley University: $100,000. Bet the professors get this money added on to their paychecks.

Manufacturing Lab for next generation Engineers at Bradley, $2 million: Who gets this money? The Professors? Oh, that's right, that will be determined by the receipients.

Peoria Riverfron Museum, $750,000. How will this taxpayer money be used? To pay for the $640,000 "Educational Promotion (Advertising Campaign)?

Lakeview Museum Construction, $500,000??? What lakeview Museum construction are they talking about. You mean the Lakeview Board is going to remodel Lakeview before they abandon this rent free building and become the PRM? Or is this going to pay for the PRM $640,000 promotion expenses?

What's this Glen Oak Park Open Space Acquisition: $1.2 to buy a "Friend of the Parks" land at an inflated price? And why does the PPD need more land when they can't take care of the 8.000 acres they have now?

Proctor Center Park Redevelopment: $2 million. This is owned by the Peoria Park District and the site loses about $400,000 a year and is totally underutilized. Oh, I forgot, it houses the African American Exhibit open by appointment only. Can't overlook minorities, can they?

Peoria Park District Building Construction: $1.4 million. Will this money help make up the $5 million shortfall for a parking lot and entrance for the delayed June oepening of this huge money losing newly expanded zoo that cost $17 million, $22 million, $27 million or %32 million, pick one of the above, mostly taxpayers money.

Grandview Drive, $1.8 million? For what? They recently spent millions of taxpayer dollars to redo the streets and sidewalks on GD. Those movers and shakers really know how to shake the taxpayer tree.

Bel-Wood Nursing Home - $1 million for sprinklers. In 2007, the county budgeted $200,000 for sprinklers at Bel-Wood. Where did that money go?

$5 million for Millionaire Glen Barton's and friends Next Generation Biodiesel Construction in Mapleton to be built while alternate energy Aventine just declared bankruptcy. Anybody know who many taxpayer dollars Aventine received in taxpayer grants and subsidies?

What really pisses most the little guy off is that the politicians know where they get their campaigns funds and they pay these "donors" back in amounts 1000 fold.
Then Republicans like Schock and Leitch get before the Republican "faithful" and tell them how the Democrats are spending the state broke.

Bear in mind, Schock and company have little of this money on hand; it will be coming from taxes on us. It is being printed now by government presses running 24/7 with nothing but "projections" to back this paper.

No need to wonder why people don't get out to vote. They feel helpless and ususally are as this "phony" money talks. What real jokers most our politicians are. And what suckers the general populace are. But still, poll show that 30% of the populace prefer a Socialist type government. They are happy as clams to see the money spread to everyone with their hands out.

And politicians will tell you, "if we don't shake this money tree, those other "big
spenders will". This money is 90% earmaks and another 90% deadend producing no other project and mainly temporary jobs.

So sad, but read on.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007 3:12 PM
> Subject: Fw: What a shame!!!
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>> CHEAP TOMATOES
>>
>> This one tells it like it really is...........Hope you read it
>> all.........
>>
>> THIS HAS GOT TO BE PASSED ALONG TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE OR WE WILL ALL GO
>> DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE A FEW DON'T CARE.
>>
>> This English teacher has phrased it the best I've seen yet
>> Tomatoes and Cheap Labor
>>
>> CHEAP TOMATOES?
>> This should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or
>> Independent
>>
>> From a California school teacher - - -
>> "As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal
>> immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:
>> I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large
>> southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school,
>> meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels.
>> Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens,
>> Huntington Park, etc., where these students are protesting, are also
>> Title
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>> 1
>> schools.
>> Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program.
>> When I say free breakfast, I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll --
>> but
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>> a
>> full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a
>> Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and
>> trays
>> of it being dumped in the trash uneaten. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
>> I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least
>> moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school
>> also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some
>> as
>> young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having
>> to
>> arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids. (OUR TAX
>> DOLLARS
>> AT WORK)
>> I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding
>> for
>> the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my
>> budget
>> was already substantial.. I ended up buying new computers for the
>> computer
>> learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with
>> graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and
>> grateful to have a free education in America. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
>> I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers
>> whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here in the
>> country
>> less than 3 months who raised so much hell with the female teachers,
>> calling
>> them "Putas" whores and throwing things that the teachers were in tears.
>> Free medical, free education, free food, day care etc., etc, etc.
>> Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to
>> demand rights, privileges and entitlements?
>> To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants
>> contribute
>> to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they
>> like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of
>> illegal
>> immigration and see the TRUE costs.
>> Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more
>> crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new
>> diseases etc., etc., etc. For me, I'd rather pay more for tomatoes.
>> We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster because
>> we
>> won't have the guts to enforce it.
>> Does anyone in their right mind really think they will voluntarily leave
>> and
>> return?
>> There are many hardworking Hispanic/American citizens that contribute to
>> our
>> country and many that I consider my true friends. I encour age and accept
>> those Hispanics who have done it the right and legal way.
>> It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world
>> culture
>> that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and
>> dropping out of school by 15 and that refuse to assimilate, and an
>> American
>> culture that has become so weak and worried about "politically
>> correctness"
>> that we don't have the will to do anything about it.
>>
>> If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone
>> you
>> know.
>>
>> CHEAP LABOR? Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about?
>> Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage.
>> Consumers don't want expensive produce.
>> Government will tell you American s don' t want the jobs.
>> But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase "cheap labor" is a myth, a
>> farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as " cheap labor."
>> Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He
>> takes
>> a job for $5.00 or $6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays
>> no
>> income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return,
>> he
>> gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free. He qualifies for
>> Section 8 housing and subsidized rent. He qualifies for food stamps. He
>> qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care His children
>> get
>> free breakfasts and lunches at school. He requires bilingual teachers
>> and
>> books. He qualifies for relief from high energy bills. If they are or
>> become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI. Once qualified for
>> SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this is at (our) taxpayer's
>> expense. He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or
>> homeowners insurance. Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs,
>> bulletins
>> and printed BR material. He and his family receive the equivalent of
>> $20.00
>> to $30.00/hour in benefits. Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or
>> $6.00/hour left after paying their bills and his. The American taxpayers
>> also pay for increased crime, graffiti and trash clean-up.
>> Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people.
>> THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO THE PRESIDENTIAL
>> CANDIDATES FOR EITHER PARTY. 'AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON'T DO AS
>> THEY
>> SAY, WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM AT ONCE!'
>> THIS HAS GOT TO BE PASSED ALONG TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE OR WE WILL ALL GO
>> DOWN THE DRAIN BECAUSE A FEW DON'T CARE.

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