Ok..

Try reading the tablets Lady Liberty is holding.

All problems solved.



Ya think?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/05/17/the-law-of-unintended-consequences-georgias-immigration-law-backfires/#5ece1d4c404a

The Law Of Unintended Consequences: Georgia's Immigration Law Backfires

To forgo a repeat of last year, when labor shortages triggered an estimated $140 million in agricultural losses, as crops rotted in the fields, officials in Georgia are now dispatching prisoners to the state’s farms to help harvest fruit and vegetables. (Nothing like a little slave labor to solve your problems.. Except a lot of them thar slaves be white boys.. Call it karma.)


The labor shortages, which also have affected the hotel and restaurant industries, are a consequence of Georgia’s immigration enforcement law, HB 87, which was passed last year. As State Rep. Matt Ramsey, one of the bill’s authors, said at the time, “Our goal is … to eliminate incentives for illegal aliens to cross into our state.”

Now he and others are learning: Be careful what you wish for, because you may get more than you bargained for.

Georgia’s law, similar to those in Alabama, Arizona and a few other states, gives police the authority to demand immigration documentation from suspects when they detain them for other possible violations. The law also makes it more difficult for businesses to hire workers and creates harsher punishments for those who employ or harbor illegal immigrants.

The Pew Hispanic Center estimated that some 425,000 illegal immigrants lived in Georgia when the legislation was passed – seventh highest in the nation. Those numbers are now down, as hoped for, but the state’s economy is paying a heavy price.

The dirty secret that everybody knew was that most of the state’s agricultural workers were immigrants, many of them illegal. Some lived in the state; others migrated with the harvest from southern Florida up to New York and back. Some of the former have moved away, while many of the latter are bypassing Georgia. Without them, according to a University of Georgia study, farmers were about 40 percent short of the number of workers they needed to harvest last year’s crop.

Despite high unemployment in the state, most Georgians don’t want such back-breaking jobs, nor do they have the necessary skills. According to Dick Minor, president of the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Grower’s Association, immigrants “are pretty much professional harvesters” with many specializing in particular crops.

Workers are paid by volume, with skilled workers typically earning $15 to $20 an hour. Unskilled workers earn much less, which is why most locals don’t want the jobs.

Georgia’s experience is consistent with economic research on immigration. Although many Americans believe immigrants “steal” our jobs and push down our wages, economists find little evidence of that.

Since 1950 the U.S. labor force has roughly doubled in size, but there has been no long-run increase in unemployment. Most economic studies also find little evidence that increased immigration depresses the wages of U.S. workers. At worst, it might push down the wages of high school dropouts, but even there the effect is small.

You're not British are you?

No? Didn't think so..

For Britts, they are a source of moral inspiration.

Something that this country, today, is sorely lacking.

No what's not funny is, a so-called president wailing against immigrants in public, while secretly behind the scenes filing the paperwork for 150 "undocumented workers" to work in his Florida hotel.

Think he hypocrites much?

What's not funny, it's tomatoes selling for eight dollars a pound. What's not funny is lettuce going for $12 a head. What's not funny is green beans or $15 a pound. What's not funny is the cost of hotel rooms being raised by 150%.

Undocumented workers are fact of life. Just like the IRS. If you came up with a magical way of fitting everyone's taxes on a postcard, think about the infrastructure you would wreck. Every accountancy firm, every CPA, not to mention the employees of H&R Block, Jackson Hewitt, and all their support staff (janitors, secretaries,) overnight would be unemployed. Not to mention every single IRS office in the country, with all their agents and auditors.

It's the same thing with undocumented workers. They are so embedded into the fabric of our society that to try to remove them at this point, would be to cripple the country.

When in Rome...

Oh, never mind, you'll never get it.

Let's make it simple.

If your son has just been murdered, and your daughter has been gang raped in order to prepare her to work as a prostitute, and you have a shovel...

Do you really think some silly wall is going to stop you?

Tunnels are "unrealistic"?


Be sure to keep that a secret from coal miners..

Why? Because Trump wall is supposed to bigger? More "beyyyuuutifull"?

It will just give people something to laugh at as they fly over it.

Ever heard of hang gliders or <gasp> shovels?

As long as people can dig tunnels, all your magical wall will do, is waste money.

Right, because the one in Berlin worked SO well..

People rescued from a burning building, aren't "required" to say thank you to the firemen either.

It's called being courteous. Something that decent people know about.

Why didn't you know that?

No problem..

Donny has to submit his report to his boss face to face.

After all, Vlad still has the hooker pee video.

Be alarmed when a leader tries to make you think of humans as vermin

The other day, our President expressed a remarkable opinion. Democrats "want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our Country, like MS-13," he tweeted, referring to the international gang.

"Infest." Now that's an interesting word, and there are at least two groups of people who are particularly well positioned to appreciate its choice.

The first group is neuroscientists who study a part of the brain called the insula. In most mammals, the insula does something mundane but important: If an animal bites into or smells a piece of food that is spoiled, the insula rapidly activates, triggering reflexes such as spitting the food out, curling the upper lip against the nose, maybe even vomiting.

This is mighty useful in terms of preventing ingesting toxins. Things work the same way in humans; stick a doughty volunteer in a brain imager, give them something fetid to bite into or smell, and the insula immediately activates. And as a measure of our cognitive sophistication, we humans can even activate the insula when thinking about eating something repulsive.
But now, study something more interesting than rancid food. Show someone a picture of a lynching, of bodies piled high in a concentration camp, of Klansmen marching; make someone reflect on something awful they once did; stab them in the back with a betrayal. There's a good chance that the insula will activate as well.
At some time, tens of thousands of years ago, humans evolved the notion that norms of right and wrong behaviors could be systematized into moral systems. And in the process, evolution tinkered and improvised, expanding the portfolio of the ancient insula such that in humans, it not only mediates gustatory and olfactory disgust, but moral disgust as well.
It's why something sufficiently morally disturbing can make us feel sick to our stomach, want to throw up, or be left with a bad taste in our mouths.
This can be great, in that the insula's involvement helps build up the visceral head of steam that can be needed to right a deep moral wrong. But this versatility of the insula carries a danger: The temptation to use moral disgust as a litmus test.

How do you decide if the way someone eats, prays or loves is wrong? Just ask whether it makes you feel disgusted. If it makes you puke, then you must rebuke. The problem, of course, is that moral disgust is a moving target, and one person's moral disgust is another's normal, loving lifestyle. Moreover, visceral disgust is a great stepping stone for more abstract disgust; once you decide that someone eats disgusting things, it's just a hop, skip and a jump to deciding they think and feel disgusting things as well.

We all differ as to the workings of the insula, and this helps explain more than just why only some people would think the milk tastes a little bit off. As a fascinating finding, social conservatives tend toward lower thresholds for disgust than liberals.

They're more likely to be unsettled by wearing someone else's (clean) clothes, sitting on a chair still warm from a previous occupant, or thinking of someone spitting into a glass of water and then drinking it; show them a disgusting picture (e.g., a wound teeming with maggots) and their autonomic nervous systems tend to lurch more than a liberal's would (and as an important control, this lower threshold is not found among economic or geopolitical conservatives).

Perhaps, most importantly, you can manipulate people's moral judgments by exploiting the insula. Prime subjects to think of the United States as a living entity (discuss, for instance, how the United States underwent a "growth spurt" after the Civil War), and then have them read about scary new infectious diseases, and they express more negative views about immigrants.

Stick heterosexual subjects in a room with some smelly garbage, and they express more negative views about gay men. Upon smelling something subliminally vile, the insula confuses tasks and searches for something in your social world to stick with a "that's disgusting" label. It's not so much that old canard that a conservative "is a liberal who has been mugged." A temporary conservative can be a liberal who has been smelling rotting fish.

Scholars of insula neurobiology would likely give special attention to the President's imagery of immigrants "infesting" our land. But more importantly, another group would have a special appreciation of this as well.

When the Nazis urged on their populace toward the final solution, their propaganda was of Jews as rats, the Holocaust as extermination of the disgusting vermin in Germany's basement. For contemporary European white supremacists, it's the image of Islam as a malignancy. For Southern slavers, it was Africans as subhumans. And when the Hutus of Rwanda triggered the 1994 genocide that killed 75% of the Tutsi tribe in under 100 days, their propaganda endlessly shrieked about the Tutsis as cockroaches.

Every effective genocidal propagandist intuitively knows about the insula -- get things to the point where invoking "Them" activates the insula in your followers and you'll have people goose-stepping in no time.

Thus, Trump's tweet prompts not just neurobiological musings, but a historical one as well. He may not intend to create an association between immigrants and disgust but, psychologically, his rhetoric does not inspire compassion or unity -- American values.
So, constituents, be very alarmed when a leader tries to make you think of other humans as vermin. It's enough to make you sick to your stomach.

People like him, push 92 year old ladies in front of buses, so don't sweat it.

Apparently, things like tradition, history, precedent, and legacy have no meaning to some people.

Neither the parents of Hillary Clinton nor Obama were arrested at KKK rallies.

Neither the grandfathers of Hillary Clinton nor Obama started their fortunes by pimping out women and selling illegal whiskey to Alaskan traders, before moving their operation to New York city's Times Square.

Neither Hillary Clinton's nor Obama's family come from illegal immigrants that were deported twice.

Neither Hillary Clinton's nor Obama's family fortune was started by the trafficking of human beings.

Don't you wish Donny could say that?

The guy has more pi$$ in his gene pool than a Greyhound Bus station urinal.

I saw that too. He a;so refused to bow.

And then people wonder why no one can stand the pu$$y grabber in chief.

Sad, Bigly.



And he isn't "presidential" in any way..

Just a POS that's barely human.

Hey Brain Trust, Oswald WAS indicted, he was just killed before he could stand trial.

Trump is the traitor.

In the face of the indictments, he's refusing to cancel the summit, because he needs some face time with his boss.

This guy made the same claim.

The Day the Earth Stood Still. Welcome to the world of awesome.