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Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Illegal Immigrants and CAFTA

How will the recent vote to proceed with CAFTA affect the illegal immigrant situation in America? To better understand these issues, let us first look at them as separate entities and later knit them. Illegal immigrants come to America mostly from Central America, Mexico is the single largest contributor. They are almost all the time employed by Americans, most of who are not from Central America. Illegal immigrants are encouraged by lack of immigration measures from both sides of the border. Illegal immigrants are here because legal Americans employ them, if American’s stop employing non-legal workers, there would be no influx from south of the border. CAFTA essentially lowers the cost of doing business with countries in Central America. CAFTA is sold to the Hispanic communities in America as a step forward in free trade across the border, and to others as an alternative measure to reduce illegal immigration, by creating value added jobs in their respective countries, which might encourage potential immigrants to stay back. Some might even call it a bone for CAFTA countries participating in the war on terrorism. Now for the reality check, trade has never stopped illegal immigration, NAFTA, which is the precursor to CAFTA did not keep the Mexicans from migrating to America. Trade and terrorism are not related in any means or form, if trade with a certain country helps create a sense of camaraderie, then we would not have Arabic pilots flying plans into our buildings, we have a multi-billion dollar trade with them, oil. CAFTA surely does one thing, reduce the cost of already cheap merchandize and encourage industries in Central America to produce more crap for less. For more info. Visit http://www.nafta-sec-alena.org/DefaultSite/index_e.aspx
and http://ita.doc.gov/cafta/

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Thursday, July 21, 2005

Yuan Can Cook

China has finally succumbed to pressure from America and revalued its currency, asserting America’s position as the only true superpower. China announced earlier today that it will revalue its currency Yuan, meaning it will lose precious foreign exchange, about 2.1 percent that is. What that means is- China will no longer maintaine it’s de facto currency pegged to the US dollar, which means that the US will pay 8.11 Yuan for every dollar worth of trade, not 8.28 as before. US is hoping to raise the Yuan by 30 percent. As the news breaks in Beijing Visit http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2005-07-21T122218Z_01_PEK350779_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESS-ECONOMY-CHINA-DC.XML for more
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Social Insecurity

According to the Social Security Administration, I shall retire no earlier than age 70 to obtain full benefit, if I plan earlier retirement (say 67!!!), I shall not qualify for full benefit until age 78.5, this is my calculated break-even-age according to SSA. Interestingly, based on SSA’s Period Life Table I am only expected to live until age 76.84. Are we screwed or what?
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Eminent Domain

Americans are now waking up to the reality that the ultimate ‘master of the domain’ is their elected governments. Your home is yours only as long as the land it sits on is deemed 'financially unfavorable' by the government. Clearly, this is a constitutional obstruction of individual rights to favor state interests, but if history is any indication- America was established on the exploitation of native Indian land, now the citizens get to taste their own bitter medicine. In response to recent developments in Florida State and elsewhere Visit http://www.emdo.blogspot.com/ for more.
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Monday, July 18, 2005

Rove or wander

Karl Rove is the fall guy, shit flows from top down, the real culprit is? I don’t know In response to recent allegations and news media going frenzy over a possible scandal Visit http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/18/politics/18rove.html?adxnnl=1&oref=login&adxnnlx=1121698953-raCZs8tqAA9YVkavvwFO2Q for more
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Friday, July 15, 2005

Zion no more

A recent study concluded that soon, the most populated Jewish state would be... Israel, not New York. Signs that the Promised Land is indeed east of the border.
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Monday, July 11, 2005

Herd Men-tality

In Turkey, more than 400 sheep feel of off a cliff and died, apparently they followed the one that fell off first. In other news, a "leaked memo" (what the Brits do best) suggests that UK is planning a pull out of Iraq, about 40 percent of its troops. Oddly, the US is planning an Iraq pull out too, about 40 percent in 2006. Visit http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4665511.stm and http://news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4668661.stm for more
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Thursday, July 07, 2005

London "Underground"

If one of the underground train is bombed, would you continue operating the other trains looking for three more? Why weren’t the trains stopped and evacuated after the first blast? That is like wanting to fly a plane at 10AM from LGA on September 11th 2001 with a boat load of al-Qaeda operatives joining you for the ride. As the news unfolded in London.
Visit http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/07/international/europe/07cnd-explosion.html for more.

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