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So what type of work did you do?Quote:
Originally Posted by LDAHL
Sneering... kinda reminds me when my kid's teacher years ago called us in because our kid was smiling at her... yikes! Sneering is worse than trying to engage fake electors? Priorities seem off base here.
Yeah, FL and TX should be charged with illegal smuggling. From what I hear these people are transported against their will.Quote:
Originally Posted by LDAHL
I heard someone on MSNBC speculate on that several months ago, turned out there was nothing to it. The only difference I can see between the transports those Governors are facilitating and the ones the US Government are responsible for is that the Feds are bringing them into cities at night in hopes no one will notice.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
I've read that last year there were 2,000,000 migrants processed by CBP personnel, not counting those who evaded capture, and a similar number is expected this year. Does anyone really believe those TX and AZ border areas can absorb those numbers while Martha's Vineyard can't accommodate 50?
No they’re not. They are happy because it gets some further into the United States, further north. At least, that’s what I heard in the radio interview yesterday..I heard an interview with a mayor of a Chicago suburb yesterday on NPR, so you know that it’s all correct because it’s NPR! Anyway, the mayor seemed pretty even handed in talking about the bus loads of illegal immigrants his suburban city received. Maybe is was Burr Ridge? Sorry I can’t remember for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
He said they had been tested for Covid, monkeypox, and then tested a second time for covid. He said that even tho he was told they were getting families in their busloads of 100 illegal aliens, they got some thing like 65 single men 22 single women, a pregnant woman or two, and a few children.
he was irritated with the state of Illinois because he thinks it’s at the state level that’s a deal was made to send illegal aliens to Chicago suburbs. He was annoyed because he couldn’t get any Illinois state officials to talk to him on the phone about it, and apparently that’s true with other suburbs receiving illegal aliens.
He said they had already put two or three of these busting people to work, they found a job for them.
Ummm. The ****ing Republican president planned and executed it with the help of a bunch of shitbags. If he wasn’t the head of the Republican Party at the time please tell me who the **** was.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
The problem is you keep focusing on J6. As if that was the only thing in the attempt to overthrow the government. That was just one piece of your traitorous party’s attempt to overthrow the government. And the whole thing was lead by your ****ing traitorous party’s leader.
I watched interviews of people transported. They said they were taken without any idea of where they were going. I’m sure some did not care but happy to be away but others were not. Think what you will.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan
Personally I’d be curious to know what Florida taxpayers think about their tax dollars being spent to send immigrants in Texas on a trip to Massachusetts.
Actually it is the tourists tax dollars. There is no Florida state tax. Our sales tax ranges from about 6 to 8.5% and hotel tax around 13%. Out toll roads are very expensive as well compared to other states. People spend thousands of dollars for a few days at theme parks and the parks are packed.Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
From the comment section in the newspaper people are overjoyed DeSantis is owning the libs. There is a huge service economy of lawn care, hotel and restaurant workers, Farmworkers, palm tree trimmers and so on. Plus many services that come with large swaths of retirees like housecleaning, driver services like uber and private companies. even Trumps properties were found to have people working without legal status. Many employment opportunities exist where it would be easy to hide people in Florida. Unemployment benefits are very low, no expanded Medicaid and not very generous welfare type benefits as well.
Desantis did not win by much but unfortunately Andrew Gillam, who he ran against got involved in some crazy hotel room nude drug situation which was a huge blow to Democrats. And he was a well spoken, well educated black man so that only serves to fuel the fires of racist leaning people.
So in my opinion this is all about him getting free campaign coverage as he has been all over the news railing against open borders and the lawlessness of sanctuary cities. I sincerely doubt there will be much of a democratic presence in government here in the future.
People often wonder why so many are attracted to Florida. Well the weather is gorgeous year round. And another thing in Florida is if you file for bankruptcy, your home is exempt if it is on less than one half acre. Your retirement accounts and government benefits are exempt. So for the right people it is a very attractive state to own property in. Of course for normal people they just want beautiful weather in their sunset years but many wealthy people find it is a way to have huge amounts of wealth protected.
I mostly worked in local government finance.Quote:
Originally Posted by frugal-one
You may be confusing me with Alan, which I consider a bit flattering.