Thread: Is the bad economy making you sick too?

Living in California doesn't help. Everyday they are reporting on the news that California is broke!...Of course the cost of supporting millions of illegal immigrants and their children never comes up...Also thanks to the idiots in the California state legislature who couldn't control their over spending.

Thanks to the cost of all the millions of bad sub-prime loans, the whole country is now broke. With unemployment growing and everybody wondering whether they are going to lose their own job, it's getting really scary out there. I've been noticing alot more local businesses shutting down... I have two grown children and a son and law, and all three have been telling me they are afraid of losing their jobs...My daughter is a school teacher and her husband is a computor programmer and both are scared of getting laid off...My son is an auto tech repairman and he tells me things are really slow, people just aren't fixing their accident damaged cars much anymore. They are taking the insurance money instead of fixing their cars. I feel bad for my son, he bought a house last year with a 20% down payment he saved. Now he fears whether he will even have a job to pay the mortgage.

I'm angry at the government for causing this whole economic mess... I wonder if we will ever recover from it?

Way to many Americans are in this boat, why? Taking care of Americans first attitude is not ever used.

Originally Posted by Molly

Living in California doesn't help. Everyday they are reporting on the news that California is broke!...Of course the cost of supporting millions of illegal immigrants and their children never comes up...Also thanks to the idiots in the California state legislature who couldn't control their over spending.

Don't forget that plain old fashioned corruption played into it:

http://myflandersfields.blogspot.com/20 ... es-to.html

Thursday, July 31, 2008
City of L.A. "Selling" 4 Ambulances to Mexicans for $4


City of L.A. "Selling" Four Ambulances to Mexico for Four Dollars -- And Selling Out
By Walter Moore, Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles, http://waltermooreformayor.com/


Mayor Villaraigosa and the City Council are supposedly too busy even to put Jamiel's Law on their agenda, or to otherwise show the least bit of respect to the Shaw Family, whose son was murdered by an illegal alien gang banger.

How many murders and other crimes could Jamiel's Law prevent? Well, U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein estimates that 80% of the 18th Street Gang members in California are illegal aliens from Mexico and Central America. But Villaraigosa and the City Council haven't had time yet to consider denying "sanctuary city" status to these violent sociopaths who control our streets and kill our children.

So what are our "leaders" doing instead?

Villaraigosa is "on vacation," a condition which is, in his case, indistinguishable from not being on vacation.

The City Council, meanwhile, has raised our trash fees, put yet another proposed tax hike on the ballot to fund more "Big Weasel" programs, banned the construction of new fast-food restaurants in one part of town, and is working feverishly to "protect" Britney from paparazzi, without whom, she would not exist.

Today, Council Members Reyes, Garcetti and Huizar focused the City Council on another issue of vital concern to the entire populace: a labor dispute at a car wash. Apparently some of the witnesses from whom the City Council heard today needed interpreters since, you know, the City Council Members don't all speak Spanish yet.

And tonight a supporter sent me yet another glaring and offensive example of our Vichy California government in action: a Report of the Chief Legislative Analyst to the City Council's Budget and Finance Committee, dated July 29, 2008.

The report recommended adoption of a motion, made by Council Members Huizar and Alarcon, to authorize "the below market value sale of four ambulances to the municipality of Tlaltenago, Zacates, Mexcio.

"You read it right: They want to sell four of our ambulances, below market price, to a city in Mexico.

Makes sense. After all, no one in L.A. needs an ambulance any more. There's no violence and no accidents any more. And they just licked that nasty fast-food crisis, so you can kiss heart attacks good-bye, too. Plus, what are the odds that some freak event like, say, an earthquake would ever hit here and hurt someone? Nil.

Hey, guess how far "below market" the "sale" price will be? Would you believe four dollars for four ambulances? It's true. The people who brought you the one-dollar-a-year lease of your city buildings to "Aztecs Rising" -- that's a real name, by the way -- now bring you the one-dollar-ambulance deal, as long as the "buyer" is from Mexico.

This isn't funny any more. It's obscene.

The Shaws' son was murdered by an illegal alien gang banger. Then the Bologna Family in San Francisco lost three family members the same way. Who knows how many families lose loved ones each month due to preventable murders -- murders that could be avoided if we stopped giving sanctuary to gang members?

Does ANYBODY give a damn about this City any more?

Anyone?I ask, because I hear a lot of people complain, but I don't see a lot of people contributing to my campaign, sending for bumper stickers, and getting on the waiting list for yard signs. It's taken me over a year to raise $115,000. It probably took Villaraigosa about 10 minutes to raise that much at a cocktail party fund-raiser in Chicago hosted by the developers whose projects he subsidizes with your tax dollars.

The next time someone complains about Villaraigosa and City Hall, stop them, and ask one simple question: What are YOU doing about it? Then slap him around -- metaphorically speaking -- until you see him write a check to the Committee to Elect Walter Moore.

Whining doesn't cut it any more. Nor is it worth our time to keep asking these corrupt politicians, pretty please, to do the right thing.

We don't need to persuade them. We need to REPLACE them.

If you have not contributed already, do so right now. You can do it online. And for Heaven's sake, spread the word. Get involved, get your friends involved, but take action. We don't have to put up with these continual, obscene abuse of power.

This is literally life and death. If you think that's hyperbole, just imagine for a moment that you become the next Anita Shaw, Jamiel Shaw, Sr. or Danielle Bologna. Every day Villaraigosa and the City Council stay in office is another day that they are playing a city-wide game of Russian Roulette, where the gun is pointed at you and your loved ones.

http://web.mac.com/waltermoore/WalterMo ... nteer.html

I know how you feel Molly, but let's not give up the hope that we can turn this all around for the better.

Originally Posted by Molly

I'm angry at the government for causing this whole economic mess... I wonder if we will ever recover from it?

Another article I found. Until we rise up and stand up to crooks and leeches like this, things will get worse and worse and we will never recover:


http://www.laweekly.com/2008-07-17/news ... tax&page=4


Antonio Pinocchiosa and His Police Tax

The mayor gets caught with his hands in a $137 million cookie jar

By David Ferrell

published: July 17, 2008

EVERY POLITICIAN SHOULD BE as wonderfully clear and direct as Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was two years ago, when he unveiled his grandiose plan to hire 1,000 new police officers and pay for them by imposing a whopping hike in fees for trash collection.

Stealing a line from Al Gore, Villaraigosa stood at a press conference and vowed to put the trash fees in a “lock boxâ€

millere: And then there are the privately corporate owned jails and prisons. Don't we just love the Federal Reserve System financing these corporations?

Originally Posted by Molly

Living in California doesn't help. Everyday they are reporting on the news that California is broke!...Of course the cost of supporting millions of illegal immigrants and their children never comes up...Also thanks to the idiots in the California state legislature who couldn't control their over spending.

Thanks to the cost of all the millions of bad sub-prime loans, the whole country is now broke. With unemployment growing and everybody wondering whether they are going to lose their own job, it's getting really scary out there. I've been noticing alot more local businesses shutting down... I have two grown children and a son and law, and all three have been telling me they are afraid of losing their jobs...My daughter is a school teacher and her husband is a computor programmer and both are scared of getting laid off...My son is an auto tech repairman and he tells me things are really slow, people just aren't fixing their accident damaged cars much anymore. They are taking the insurance money instead of fixing their cars. I feel bad for my son, he bought a house last year with a 20% down payment he saved. Now he fears whether he will even have a job to pay the mortgage.

I'm angry at the government for causing this whole economic mess... I wonder if we will ever recover from it?

Empower yourself instead of making yourself sick over what this government and all of the crooked politicians are doing to us, our State and our country. Go to NUMBERS USA and send a free fax to Schwarzenegger. Tell him what you think about him taking away from hard working CITIZENS and in the meantime allowing this state to continue to hemorrhage billions of dollars in freebies for illegals!! I send him a fax a day. Makes ME feel GOOOOOD!

It is a terrible shame that these criminals run LA and are draining it of all that was good about it.

As for the kids, I know, my oldest is in school, but otherwise she would not be able to make it right now. Even after college, I wonder what it will be like for her, and also my other younger ones.

Molly, my van is having transmission problems, and I am taking it to my local guy, who has been in business here for almost 30 years. I believe in going to someone like that as Americans often go to these "fast food" car places and wind up having terrible problems with no good fix. We need to be supporting the local businesses as much as possible, and shun the fast fix, fast food industries that have sprung up.