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| Where Are The Workers? Feb. 29, 2008 While citizens complained about the illegal (undocumented) aliens who where depriving citizens of jobs, businesses continued to hire anyone who wanted to work. But eventually the complainers won - the laws were passed and job sites are posted with notices to employers that they can be arrested and fined for hiring someone who does not meet the criteria established by the Homeland Security. In the state of Arizona Sheriff Joe is making sure these laws are enforced - and he intends to arrest these illegal workers. But alongside the postings to warn employers, the U.S. Department of Justice has a posting advising everyone that they cannot be fired from a job or even challenged just because they are apparently from another county. Not only is this confusing to workers, it is double confusion for employers. The results, in many places of business, is that workers of questionable legal status are leaving their jobs and the American citizens are NOT stepping in to fill those positions. In restaurants and at constructions sites, there is a shortage of hired help and in many instances the owner of the firm is back working behind the counters due to a lack of employees. The economy is hurting (it is a recession) but those with big incomes don’t notice it as much as the factory worker or the tradesmen or the small merchants. The big money people won’t realize there is a problem until they can’t find someone to wash their car or serve the food at their favorite restaurant. The jobs American citizens have complained about losing to foreigners were not the jobs taken by immigrants to this country (legal or not) - they lost their big jobs to the outsourcing to foreign countries. This outsourcing was the result of taxes on American firms and so-called “free trade” agreements with other nations. Wake up America! The media and the politicians are lying to us - they always have and this election year is not any different! Get Mecham Right! | Feb. 29, 2008 Numerous stories are in print about former Arizona Governor Evan Mecham – however, most continue to slander him even as his memorial service is being held on Saturday. Governor Mecham tried 5 times before he succeeded in winning the governor’s chair in 1986– much to the chagrin of the Arizona Republic newspaper. Mecham ran as an independent in a 3-way race and the Arizona Republic’s “scientific polling” showed that Mecham would only get 15 percent of the vote – and that poll was taken just a few days before election day. The state’s largest daily newspaper had egg on it’s front page face when Mecham garnered more than one-half of the votes and won the election. Nobody had ever been elected governor of Arizona without the endorsement of the Republic newspaper. Immediately after the election, anti-Mecham forces attacked – he was berated for “canceling” the Martin Luther King holiday – when in fact he merely cancelled the fact that it was a “paid Holiday” created by his predecessor, Gov. Bruce Babbitt. In Arizona the governor’s office does not have authority to create “paid” holidays – it has to be done by the legislature. Mecham finally got that point across to some close followers of MLK, but the general media still carries the same old story. When the media stories point to Mecham’s subsequent impeachment, they fail to mention that more than half of the state lawmakers who voted to impeach were all on the “take” from special interest groups and within a couple of years, those same legislators were caught, on camera, taking payoffs in the controversial ABSCAM sting operation. Before they could force him out of office, Mecham pointed out to the governors of the Western States Governors Conference the trickery being played on all states that caused them to reduce the speed limits to 55 mph. Immediately following that revelation, the Federal government backed-off and states once again took control of their speed limits. Many other distortions and omissions about the political career of the Honorable Evan Mecham are perpetuated and probably will be forever. But this week we want to thank Evan Mecham for all he did to make this world a better place to live. |