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“Those folks are coming here seeking opportunities. Those folks are coming here seeking the American dream.” Pierre told us.
here are an estimated 460,000 ILLEGAL immigrants in Arizona.
These illegal immigrants do not pay taxes on the wages they earn, yet US law allows them medical care and their children to attend school at the expense of [...]

“Unemployment benefits are creating jobs faster than practically any other program, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.”
Talking to reporters, the House speaker was defending a jobless benefits extension against those who say it gives recipients little incentive to work. By her reasoning, those checks are helping give somebody a job.
“It injects demand into [...]

“What we need are consistent job gains, not just a month or two,” said Richard DeKaser, chief economist at Woodley Park Research in Washington, whose confidence forecast was the lowest of those surveyed. “Until we get that, I don’t think we’re going to see any gains in consumer confidence.” — BusinessWeek
Confidence among U.S. consumers [...]

“The reason that consumers are not spending more money has nothing to do with attitudes. The reason that most consumers aren’t spending is the same reason that homeless people aren’t spending much money: They don’t have any money.” — Dean Barker, Counterpunch
Credit cards are the bane of Western society’s existence. Perhaps they are a [...]

Financial advisors are the clowns who are making huge profits off of your money no matter which way the market goes. A very small percentage of these “professionals” could not even predict the crash which happened (it was easy to see coming because of de-industrialization). Now they are pushing for investors to throw more into [...]

They did it! The government of your nation did it! They just turned their backs on over a million people on unemployment and denied the extensions! Congress, in the most nefarious and pernicious move seen since “post economic collapse period,” has walked away, went home for the weekend and did not extend unemployment benefits to [...]

“Right now, the 1.2 million workers who will lose benefits in March are being held hostage by partisan attempts to delay and block this critical legislation,” said Christine Owens, executive director of the National Employment Law Project.
Jobless benefits start ending on Sunday
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Depending on extended unemployment benefits to see you through the [...]

“Unlike other kinds of debt, student loans can be particularly hard to wriggle out of… ditching a student loan is virtually impossible, especially once a collection agency gets involved. Although lenders may trim payments, getting fees or principals waived seldom happens.”

Some governments believe that the future of their country lies in a well educated [...]

The Labor Department said Friday that wages and benefits rose by 0.5 percent in the three months ending in December. For the entire year, wages and benefits were up 1.5 percent, the weakest showing on records that go back to 1982.

Wages and benefits rise weak 1.5 percent in 2009
Wages and benefits rise in 2009 by [...]

“Now we know that January 25th is the date that the state of California has decided to begin jeopardizing public safety with no perceivable financial benefit,” said Weber

The justice system is profit driven and thus wholly corrupt. The problem exists not only in California but throughout the nation. California only escalated their woes by creating [...]

Politicians and academics keep touting that they’re working on a poverty reduction strategy, but what most people forget is that most of the program just steal from the rich and give (after a politician’s cut, of course) to the poor in only small ways. Sarcastically speaking, there’s already been a poverty strategy in place [...]

Do’h it seems we have imbeciles running the show. I know President Obama was busy collecting the Nobel Peace Prize he didn’t earn and doesn’t deserve but Forests instead of Food?

“Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has ordered his staff to revise a computerized forecasting model that showed that climate legislation supported by President Obama would make planting trees more lucrative than producing food.

“As part of the federal stimulus package, the nine-month subsidies made available to the unemployed starting in March have run out for those who collected them from the get-go.”

While Cobra is a reasonable solution in the short term, the fact is that the government is covering part of the costs and health insurance so that [...]

“It’s a horribly complicated system, and most people didn’t pay attention,” Mr. McDermott said of the need for quick Congressional renewal.

Too bad the sheep still “don’t get it” because what we are witnessing is a process that started some time ago — the elimination of the middle class throughout the world (redistribution of the wealth…. [...]

Caseworkers Fear For Their Safety
UPDATED: 5:56 pm EST November 16, 2009 ClickOnDetroit.com
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan caseworkers who deal with food stamps and other aid programs say they have never been so overwhelmed — or so worried about their safety.
Some clients have begun taking their anger out on the very people who are offering help.
One frustrated [...]

University of Melbourne criminologist Dennis Challinger said there were links between a worsening economy and rising crime.

This is easily explained if one understands how “official” unemployment is reported to and by the media in the U.S. Putting aside all the jargon, any person who is on unemployment long enough and then runs out of unemployment [...]

“It is our belief that massive price inflation has already begun.”– PR Newswire

Just remember people, you can only store so much food for so long. It is very important to learn to produce and store your own food and learn how to collect and use wild foods around your area. Only a few generations ago, [...]

“We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move ..” — Quote from Senator Hillary Clinton.

The house of cards is beginning to fall. The numbers and optimism from the White House is unsubstantiated. This morning during Obama’s address he stated there will be even more job losses. These are the first truthful words [...]

“You can get a quality casket for $1,000 rather than pay $2,000, $3,000 or $5,000 in a funeral home. That’s where it helps the consumer,” he said.

It is very odd that now one of the biggest retailers in the country, Wal-Mart, has begun selling caskets. Their marketing department probably saw the demand for caskets [...]

“We recognize these are tough times and more people are food-stamp-eligible,” Costco Chief Financial Officer Richard Galanti

It is concerning that food stamps can be used in a store that requires membership fees. While it is commendable to believe that people should be able to get the most for their money in terms of price paid [...]