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From: Wm F Bennett [wmf.bennett @gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 9:46 AM
To: counciltestimony @co.hawaii.hi.us
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Subject: Don't raise taxes, Pay attention to what Dominic Yagong is try Mig to along with a couple of
others.
This English teacher has phrased it the best I've seen yet.
This should make everyone think, be you Democrat, Republican or Independent
From a California school teacher:
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Mr. Mayor, You veto the cuts and you can count yourself out of a job, because they will start a process
to get rid of you. The people are tired of politicians that can't get the job done because you are worrying
about your special interests and how to get reelected.
East Side must be the Majority as they seem to be able to control the commission pretty proud of you
to speak to the "MINORITY" members...it shows where your loyality lies or is it resides as you have
been caught lying with the wrong side too often.
Something else that I received from a Friend in California....Is this what is happening on the Big Island
also ? ? ??
"As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that
you should be aware of:
I am in charge of the English -as -a- second - language department at a large southern California high
school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and
income levels
Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens , Huntington Park , etc.,
where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools.
Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I'm not
talking a glass of milk and roll -- but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would
make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in
the trash uneaten.
I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75%
or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant
girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for
babysitters or having family watch their kids.
I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even
though there was little need for anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new
computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with
graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in
America.
I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many
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Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of
education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.
Americans, We need to wake up.
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co -pay) health care.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
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illegal immigrant students, here in the country less then 3 months, who raised so much hell with the
female teachers, calling them "Putas "(whores) and throwing things, that the teachers were in tears.
Free medical, free education, free food, free day care etc., etc, etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled to
not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?
To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because
they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the
real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.
It does, however, have everything to do with culture: It involves an American third -world culture that
does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and
that refuses to assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about "political
correctness" that we don't have the will to do anything about it.
If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone you know.
CHEAP LABOR? Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about?
Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage.
Consumers don't want expensive produce.
Government will tell you Americans don't want the jobs.
But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase "cheap labor" is a myth, a farce, and a lie. There is no
such thing as "cheap labor."
Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00 /hour.
At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an
Income Tax Return, he gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free.
If they are, or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI. If qualified for SSI they can qualify
for Medicare. All of this is at (OUR) taxpayer's expense.
He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance.
Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00 /hour in benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6..00 /hour left after paying their bills AND his.
Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT!
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THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO THE CONGRESSIONAL
MEMBERS OF EITHER PARTY. 'AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON'T DO AS THEY SAY,
WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM .
Immigration legislation is to be considered in 2010. This is important to working Americans, our
economy and our American culture and heritage..
Mahalo, Bennett
William F. "Bennett"
PMB #133
68 -1845 Waikoloa Road Suite #106
Waikoloa, Hawaii 96738
808 - 896 -6385
866 - 495 -1501
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