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Birds, Something to Think About

I bought a bird feeder.

I hung
it on my back porch and filled
it with seed.

What a beauty of
a bird feeder it is, as I filled it
lovingly with seed.

Within a
week we had hundreds of birds
taking advantage of the
continuous flow of free and
easily accessible food.

But then the birds started
building nests in the boards
of the patio, above the table,
and next to the barbecue.

Then came the poop.

It was
everywhere: on the patio tile,
the chairs, the table ...
everywhere!

Then some of the birds
turned mean.

They would
dive bomb me and try to
peck me even though I had
fed them out of my own
pocket.

And others birds were
boisterous and loud.

They
sat on the feeder and
squawked and screamed at
all hours of the day and night
and demanded that I fill it
when it got low on food.

After a while, I couldn't even
sit on my own back porch
anymore.

So I took down the
bird feeder and in three days
the birds were gone.

I cleaned
up their mess and took down
the many nests they had built
all over the patio.

Soon, the back yard was like
it used to be... quiet, serene
and no one demanding their
rights to a free meal.

Now let's see.

Our government gives out
free food, subsidized housing,
free medical care, and free
education and allows anyone
born here to be an automatic
citizen.

Then the illegals came by the
tens of thousands.

Suddenly
our taxes went up to pay for
free services; small apartments
are housing 5 families; you
have to wait 6 hours to be seen
by an emergency room doctor;
your child's 2nd grade class is
behind other schools because
over half the class doesn't speak
English.

Corn Flakes now come in a
bilingual box; I have to
"press one" to hear my bank
talk to me in English, and
people waving flags other
than "Old Glory" are
squawking and screaming
in the streets, demanding
more rights and free liberties.

Just my opinion, but maybe
it's time for the government
to take down the bird feeder.

If you agree, pass it on to Congress;
if not, continue cleaning up the poop!

Would Congress PLEASE Read This Post?

I have today written two letters to the President and some other members of the Administration including my Senators and Representative. Below are the two letters.

LETTER ONE: S-CHIP
As I have tried to inform you, from my experience working with S-CHIP in the State of Georgia, Congress has not spoken to people who have actually worked with the "working poor." I have and I give my advice freely.

Many of the parents of S-CHIP children do not expect the coverage to duplicate Medicaid. They expected the program to be much like one of the Employer Health Care Coverage Plans that most State Employees have. They expected to pay a monthly fee for their children, based on their income, and then a co-pay at the doctor's office, the pharmacy and the hospital. They are not looking for any kind of "national" or "universal" health care.

Parents who can afford health insurance through their employers usually do not have dental coverage for their children and would like to see S-CHIP offer Dental Coverage for children separate from the Health Care Coverage. They're willing to make a monthly payment for this coverage and pay a co-pay.

S-CHIP does not need to extend coverage for those "reportedly" uninsured children not currently covered. The majority of those children have parents who can obtain Family Health Care Coverage from their employers but who are waiting on the "dole" from the Federal Government because they refuse to budget or reduce their spending habits in order to pay for the Employer offered Health Insurance.

The Bottom Line with this entire situation is that the U.S. Citizen does not know how to live within his net income and expects the Federal Government to be his "Santa Claus" or "Sugar Daddy" and come to his rescue. The Federal Government has my permission not to continue to be an enabler of poor financial planning by families who have access to health insurance coverage through their employers.

Thank you for reading my email.

LETTER TWO: AMNESTY – specifically the Dream Act
As I have tried to inform you, from my experience working with documented (legal green card) immigrants and undocumented immigrants (illegal aliens) and the Medicaid Programs for Children and Pregnant Women in the State of Georgia, Congress has not spoken to people who have actually worked with these families. I have and I give my advice freely.

Nearly 100% of documented immigrants do not support the USofA giving Amnesty to any illegal aliens. Documented immigrants went through the long procedure to obtain green cards for themselves and their spouses and children. They worked for their green card status and they look down on those who enter the USofA without benefit of a green card.

They also believe that in many cases, employers who hire both legal and illegal aliens pay lower wages to the legal aliens because they know the illegal alien has no recourse if he is paid below minimum wages. If the Legal Alien complains, he is summarily dismissed and an illegal alien willing to accept lowered wages is hired. Legal immigrants believe they would be paid better if there were no Illegal Immigrants willing to work for low wages.

Employers are hiring illegal aliens. I live in an area where illegal aliens work in construction, chicken houses, landscaping and greenhouses. And they're paid cash which means the employer doesn't have to account for them, pay any taxes for them, cover them with Worker's Comp, offer Health Care Coverage, retirement benefits, etc.

So my questions are: Why do you want to reward Illegal Aliens and give them benefits that Legal Immigrants often are ineligible for? Why reward what you call "innocent children" just because their parents were too lazy or self-centered to follow the appropriate procedures to gain entry into the USofA?

Charity begins at home. And the USofA is not the home of illegal aliens.

So, now it's your turn to write to your Congresspeople.

DREAM Act part deux?

Emails sent to
Durbin (Asst. Maj. Leader) -- 202-224-2152
Reid (Maj. Leader)-- 202-224-3542
Shelby (AL)-- 202-224-5744
Hagel (co-sponsor) 202-224-4224
Lugar (co-sponsor) 202-224-4814
Brownback (KS) 202-224-6521
Grassley (IA) 202-224-3744
Lott (MS) 202-224-6253
Cochran (MS) 202-224-5054
Hutchison (TX) 202-224-5922
Byrd (WV) 202-224-3954

Copy below:
Dear Senator:

There is a dictionary in the Library of Congress which clearly delineates the definition of the term “illegal” as “forbidden by law or statute” and “contrary or forbidden by official rules, regulations, laws, etc. The term “illegal” informally means “illegal alien or illegal immigrant.” And no matter how you try to re-write history, an illegal alien is no different from a burglar who has broken into someone’s house, stolen his insurance card, his Social Security card, and his credit cards and has illegal access to the benefits thereof. The banks protect a customer from illegal, illegitimate use of a credit card. We, the People, expect Congress to protect US Citizens and legal aliens from illegal, illegitimate access to our benefits. We were born here or we entered legally. We are being robbed and Congress is helping the robbers.. We are the victims of Congressional malfeasance. Congress defends the criminal act of entering the United States unlawfully.

We, the People, of the United States, do not understand why our grassroots opposition to any style of amnesty for illegal aliens is so hard for you in Congress to comprehend. The majority of US Citizens and the majority of legal aliens do not want amnesty for any illicit, unlawful, illegitimate, criminal aliens who have not followed the lawful process of obtaining a “green card” in order to enter the United States.

We, the People, will respond to Congress’s failure to shelve the amnesty issue indefinitely at the ballot box. Vote NO on cloture for Senate Bill 2205.

Thank you for finally listening to the voice of voters.

Editor's note: Because I am sick and tired of emailing you over and over again about this issue. It's dead. It's moot. Build the d@mn Fence!