By Roy Beck, Thursday, October 15, 2009, 2:00 PM EST - posted on NumbersUSA

This is what I just said in a CNN interview about what Congress has done this week on E-Verify (the top federal leaders of our country once again spit in the eye of jobless Americans). . .
Last summer with tremendous pressure from NumbersUSA activists, the Senate passed several great amendments to the Homeland Security spending bill that would greatly reduce illegal immigration.
But as we had warned and as we learned this past week, the R-O-P-E power bloc strangled these sensible measures behind closed doors. They killed the amendments from appearing in the final Homeland Security "conference committee" bill that was just passed by the House and now goes to the Senate with no chance of amendment.
R-O-P-E (Reid-Obama-Pelosi-Emmanuel) once again caved in to the open-borders lobby and:
R-O-P-E had the power to do that because Democratic Senators and Democratic Representatives give them the power to decide virtually everything once a Conference Committee is put in charge of ironing out differences between a House and Senate bill. The Senate bill had the good stuff in it. The House bill had none of it. Once R-O-P-E decides what the compromise bill is to be, it goes back to both chambers for a vote in which amnendments are not allowed.
3-YEAR E-VERIFY EXTENSION IS OUR VICTORY AND A DEFEAT FOR AMNESTY EFFORT
One very good thing survived the R-O-P-E treatment: The compromise bill includes a 3-year re-authorization of the E-Verify system.
For more than a year, pro-amnesty forces in Congress have kept the E-Verify program on short life-support of only a few months at a time.
Sen. Menendez (D-N.J.) in particular has wanted to threaten ending E-Verify unless it was included with an amnesty.
R-O-P-E had gone along with this stringing-along strategy.
The fact that R-O-P-E instead put a three-year extension into the bill has to be taken as a great victory for all of you who have faxed and phoned so hard in support of E-Verify for the past year.
With no chance now of E-Verify dying in any minute, the pro-amnesty forces no longer can try to use it as a bargaining chip. States, counties, cities and businesses can now be quite confident that they can set policy based on the E-Verify program being around.
E-Verify will next come up for re-authorization two months before the 2012 presidential and congressional elections. Do you think, they will be wanting to use that as a bargaining chip for an amnesty vote at that time!
The program is safe.
Congratulations to all of you.
R-O-P-E'S BIGGEST SLAP IN FACE IS ON RESPONSIBLE BUSINESSES (and the U.S. workers they would like to hire)
I think the meanest and most irrational action of R-O-P-E's killing so many Senate immigration desires was its refusal to allow businesses to voluntarily run their existing workers through E-Verify.
The pro-illegal-worker lobby since 1996 has succeeded in making it AGAINST THE LAW for a business to use E-Verify to discover illegal workers on its payroll.
Outrageous, right? But that is the law.
Businesses are allowed only to use E-Verify for new hires. So, you can have a business that was run carelessly or criminally previously and filled the payroll with illegal workers. Then, it gets new management or gets in trouble with the law. For whatever reason, the business decides to clean up its act and start using E-Verify. Federal law requires that business to continue employing all of its illegal workers! That is why you sometimes hear of an ICE raid on a business that uses E-Verify but still has hundreds of illegal workers caught up in the raid.
Businesses are crying out for the ability to get rid of their illegal workers.
The Senate wisely decided last summer that they should be allowed.
But R-O-P-E decided that the irrational law should continue. Perhaps hundreds of thousands of unemployed Americans would have gotten jobs if employers had been allowed over the next few months to run their existing workforce through E-Verify and fire their illegal foreign workers.
R-O-P-E to jobless American workers: TOUGH LUCK.
ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA
Mary6016 of VA
Sat, 10/17/2009 - 2:46pm
The Senate must do what they were put in office to do, protect our Country, economy and it's citizens. Secure our Southern border and put jobs back into the hands of its citizens, including legal immigrants, by putting provisions into the Home Security bill!!
Making E-Verify mandatory for all jobs, NO additional government dollars, getting OUR unemployed into at least 5-7 million jobs that illegals have and greatly reducing the flow of illegals into our emergency rooms-PRICELESS!!!
If 30-45 business days are not generous enough to verify all employees, it takes less than 2 days to train additional staff. They can call me if they need help.
Mary Steele
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Rosanne7486 of KY
Sat, 10/17/2009 - 12:39pm
Term limits on all members of Congress and the Judiciary would be one way of keeping these people from becoming so entrenched that it seems impossible to prevent them from representing special interests. Elmininating the Reid, Obama, Pelosi and Emmanuel strangle-hold on Congress would be an enormous victory for pro-American representatives in Congress and those of us who support the United States of America and are virulently opposed to current immigration policies and the NAU. Yes, the proposed North American Union being worked out behind closed doors. Keep up the good work, numbersusa and Roy Beck !!!!
Gary4317 of FL
Sat, 10/17/2009 - 11:25am
I'm glad the E-verify system is now here to stay, well for three years at least anyway. That is a good thing.
As far as R-O-P-E are concerned, they are Shanghaiing this country to be sure, but they are not alone. As a life-long Republican I must say we are to blame too. Remember, G W Bush, whom I voted for, was just as guilty of wanting the illegals to remain here free of charge so-to-speak. He refused to build the fence. He did very little to stem the tide of illegals pouring across our borders on a daily basis. He should have commended Ramos and Campion for what they did instead of leaving them to rot in prison. Imagine that, true patriots thrown in prison for protecting the rest of us. Of course that does not mean I would ever vote for a Democrat either. But I'm still waiting to see if the Republicans will go back to their roots for the next election and beyond.
Jeffrey2180 of CO
Mon, 10/19/2009 - 4:12pm
Gary4317 of FL said: But I'm still waiting to see if the Republicans will go back to their roots for the next election and beyond.
Gary - I'm afraid they won't. Being partisan just ensures more of the same. The Democrats and Republicans are different in name only. If we truly want to light a fire under politicians from both sides of the isle with regards to immigration, and many other germane issues facing the nation, we need to put the fear of unemployment into their hearts. Most of these elitist never face real life issues, but if we start to vote in significant numbers of third party candidates, like Ron Paul of the Libertarian Party, they will begin to realize that they do work for us and that they are expendable.
Wanda6357 of MI
Sat, 10/17/2009 - 9:48am
We should place term limits on congress. These people get entrenched for long periods, and get so much power they forget the wishes of the American people. We placed term limits on the President, why not congress?
Valerie1488 of CA
Sat, 10/17/2009 - 4:56am
So let me get this straight-- we have a victory on a 3-year extension of E-verify, but E-verify can generally not be legally used to rid American businesses of the illegals they have/are hiring?? What's the point?
When 4 people are deciding the future of this country it is not a democracy-- it's near Fascism. These people have a hidden agenda to overpopulate the U.S. and destroy the middle class by taxing them to death to pay for the uneducated immigrants who will rely on American tax payers to support and subsidize them. At some point, middle-class wages will be so reduced because of the job competition that the middle-class will melt into the lower class of the immigrants. The rich get richer, and the low-life, People-devouring politicians get the votes of the new sheep. Call it a conspiracy theory, but what else are we to make of their outrageous, blatant support for illegals and the many facets of harm they're so obviously doing to our once great country? The People better speak up before we're steam-rolled and unable to defend ourselves.
Sat, 10/17/2009 - 9:34am
That's right, four people are allowed to call virtually all the shots when a Senate bill and a House bill go into a Conference Committee to be negotiated into a single bill.
It doesn't have to be that way. The negotiators on the House and Senate Conference Committee teams could put down their feet and insist on individually working through all the details with votes, etc. But the majority of the members of the teams are appointed by either Speaker Pelosi or Senate Leader Reid. So, generally the entire system and rules are stacked to put virtually all power in the hands of the Speaker and the Senate leader. The reason Pres. Obama and his top henchman Rahm Emmanuel have power in these negotiations is that the White House always has the option of vetoing a bill. So, the White House gets into the behind-closed-door talks to say what it wants and doesn't want.
Thus, Reid-Obama-Pelosi-Emmanuel hold all the cards.
The only way this stangelhold gets broken in this Congress is if enough Democrats in the House and Senate start demanding open proceedings and that a diversity of Democrats are put on the Conference Committee. (The Republicans have less than zero influence over the outcome of these negotiating committees unless there are a few independent thinkers among the Democrats appointed.)
For example on the negotiating committee on the Homeland Security spending bill, Pelosi appointed no House Democrats who ever vote with us and none who are from more moderate districts. She appointed only Democrats who have virtually life-time ownership of their seats in Congress because she knew that constituency pressure could not move them to protect immigration enforcement amendments passed by the Senate.
Chris5376 of MD
Sat, 10/17/2009 - 12:58am
I do understand the anger I run a small legal service and I have apartment complexs that let these people in, they trash place doing so much damage. Then to top it off they are useing bogus SS cards and ID's of dead and living people. It really dose piss me off.
We should just follow Mexico's example put the guard on southern boarder. We could always use ms Bouncing Betty after a few no one would want to make that trip.
Susie9002 of CA
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 5:19pm
There is a bigger agenda for bringing in illegals and displacing legal Americans out of work. This is to distract Americans from what's really coming. It is much bigger than these uneducated people.
Thomas2924 of IN
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 4:53pm
An incredible argument liberals actually make is that nothing will stop illegal immigrants from coming here and taking jobs, so we should give up and welcome them. They fail to recognize that Congress consistently passes laws that actively obstruct workplace enforcement. The employment enforcement provision of the 1986 amnesty was written to be unenforceable. If not prohibited by law from cooperating, IRS and other government computers could almost instantaneously identify nearly every working illegal immigrant in the United States, including those who practice identity theft. They could notify employers and provide work and home addresses to the authorities. If employers used E-Verify in hiring and with existing employees, and if no-match letters were sent by Social Security and compliance required, the rest of the problem would be solved.
With the electricity it takes to light a single night ball game and the paper for a one-day run of the New York Times we could have 95% of illegal aliens permanently unemployed and voluntarily on their way out of our country. The real problem is that Congress and administration after administration are part of a corrupt criminal conspiracy to create realistic looking pseudo laws and the mere appearance of enforcement.
Albert3441 of PA
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 10:55pm
Although proponents of amnesty are often identified (or identify themselves) as Liberals, there is no reason to believe that support for illegal immigration or high levels of legal immigration are essential parts of Liberal ideology. It is only over the past 40+ years that Liberals began to associate themselves with an open-borders program, and that has more to do with racial politics than with actual Liberal political philosophy.
In the 1920s, many people who considered themselves Liberals (e.g., Samuel Gompers) opposed mass immigration because it was (and is) a leading cause of wage depression among American workers. It wasn’t until the 1950s, when the practice of buying minority votes with tax supported public services became the political currency of urban politics (mostly Democratic party politics á la Richard Daly [pére]), that we began to see the marriage of social contract policies (traditional Liberalism) with open-borders ideology.
I believe it was the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy who, in 1965, officiated at the ceremony.
Please remember that there are traditional Liberals today who oppose mass immigration and illegal immigration for the same reason that Samuel Gompers did almost 100 years ago.
Thomas2924 of IN
Sun, 10/18/2009 - 1:45pm
Albert, I agree with you completely and appreciate the history. I am one of the liberals who opposes mass immigration.
George6899 of RI
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 3:05pm
So who is on this ROPE committee and why aren`t we hammering them for this travisty of representation? They should be exposed.
Donald1284 of CA
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 2:44pm
America is not a Demoracy it is a dictatorship because if only one or two people can tell everyone else what to do than you have a dictatorship! Every Veteran who feels cheated by Obama and Pelosi because they give away what is not theirs to give! This country was founded on the rule of law and the law is being broken millions of times by non-americans who should be immediately deported not pandered by Obama and Pelosi. I as a American have to work very hard to not hate the Latino invaders because in San Diego they actually sneer and openly break laws because they think the President has told them our laws are for Americans not them so they can do what ever they want. They Litter my street. They have taken all the parking spaces because there are up to 10 in one apartment designed for 2 persons. They urinate in public and openly drink in public and then vandelize innocent Americans property, They Sneer and Jade anyone who looks at them while disrespecting native American Citizens So you ask me is it hard to not hate the Mexicans and I say it is very hard to not start hating them all. If this goes on much longer I am afraid of a Retalitation by Americans that will leave many of the Illegals in Dire shape!
Cornelia8828 of OR
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 1:34pm
I disagree with you Roy! It is the employers that are the problem. Employers are not forced to hire ILLEGALS - they hire them to avoid paying the taxes and the regulations that are put on employers that hire legal workers (known as AMERICANS)
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 2:18pm
Cornelia, I'm not sure we are in disagreement. I absolutely hold employers responsible for hiring illegals. Many of them do it deliberately. Others allow themselves to be duped into hiring illegals because they refuse to use E-Verify.
But that is about hiring. When a business decides to be responsible and use E-Verify, there currently is little it can do to get rid of the illegal aliens that already are working for it if they are performing their duties. If the fired employee gets a lawyer to sue, the courts will want to know on what basis the business suspected the person was illegal. Even if the business wins, it gets expensive. There is no excuse for not providing businesses with the E-Verify tool to clean house.
James1658 of TX
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 12:42pm
It doesn't seem to matter who we have in the goverement, they all turn their backs on the votes and listen insted to special interst groups who pay them. The only soulution
we, as voters, have is to throw all the bums out and install new ones. If congress doesn't want to listen to
the people then we will have to take matters in our own
hands and force the term limits on them the old fasion way.
get a bucket of tar and feathers at election time and ride them out of town on a rail from the White house down and then go after the entrenched beauracrats who are worse than the elected officials.
Vernon7542 of SC
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 12:39pm
ROPE-- There is a term Rope-A-Dope. That is what the ROPE
gang is doing to America. Get America tired of hitting at
them, and then punch us out so we can't do anything to stop
them.
Can you believe that, the ROPE gang cares nothing about the US citizens, just the votes they will get from the illegals. How can 4 people get so much power? Lets send
these people home, and vote in people that care about
Americas future.
Larry0265 of TN
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 12:25pm
It no longer matters whether we threaten our Representatives in Congress nor whether we "keep them informed" of our opinions. It is time to completely clean "House" by electing citizens who are completely outside the political system.
I recommend going to www.goooh.com
It stands for Get Out Of Our House. The goal is to completely replace all member of the House of Representatives in 2010!
Check it out.
George5910 of NV
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 11:50am
We are seeing the outcome of action taken by an increasingly progressive fascist government making legislature behind closed doors or in secret meeting without any thought of democratic process.
We the people are no longer necessary except at election time when increasingly corrupt individuals run for office seeking personal gain and power.
Severe change is necessary and manditory in the short term, otherwise we will lose the last treasure we have, our nations soul.
George Mc Grath
Ann7360 of NY
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 11:21am
We need to oust the congress presons & put in citizens - the time is overdue for this. They keep proving they will not carry out the will of the American people but will work for special agendas & big business. We the people need to take matters into our own hands - after arresting these polits for treason.
Jack3478 of OK
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 10:57am
All of this sounds good. Are you letting your congressman know how you feel? Are you telling your friends and relatives to tell their congressman? People in congress want nothing more than they want to stay in congress. That is why they will offer amnesty. It is why they have been using your taxes to breed demorats on welfare. Make it clear what it will take to get your vote to stay there.
Amy0963 of TN
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 10:04am
If the businesses no longer want the illegals working for them, what's to keep them from just simply firing them? I mean it is, afterall, THEIR business!! Most states implement an "at will" hiring and firing. That means they don't really have to have a reason to fire them. Heck, if I had bought a business that I knew had illegals working in it, I would clean house.
Samuel0238 of VA
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 10:19am
You would have the ACLU and Sotomire down on you before you could turn around.
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 2:14pm
Businesses have been sued for firing workers because they believed them to be illegal. If we want businesses to fully cooperate, we have to provide a way for them to use a third-party system (E-Verify) that they don't control and that no matter what the system tells them to do they can't be sued over it -- by government or private attorneys.
Amy0963 of TN
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 6:26pm
Yes, I knew I would get that response. I know they have all their lawyers backing them up. But, if I, an American citizen, gets fired in my state, they will tell me that I was hired "at will" and they can fire me "at will." I am all for E-verify. It's a great tool. I just wish there was more than one way to skin a cat, so to speak!!!
Margaret1722 of OH
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 9:36am
I just finished reading on here about the IMAGE program. One more reason to watch very closely what the Pres wants to do with regard to policing the Internet. This is crucial to all online participants involved in political activism. Please notify our members. You have the ability to track and research this matter and keep us active. Thanks. Keep up the good work.
Marilyn6452 of CO
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 9:04am
these head honcho's need to go and go fast.
They don't seem to be worried about their livelihoods, but can take away the others that need them- the American's.
I hope you, do the right thing when elections come due.
This has gone on much to long already.
We don't want it and we don't need it.
Gene69 of TX
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 8:34am
In response to Kathy0171 of VA below, I can share that one of my employers informed me shortly after I was hired that there were two people in another part of the state that were using my Social Security Number. I contacted my U.S. Representative in that state. Unfortunately for me, that Representative is very receptive to the "open borders" lobby. So, there has been no progress on issuing a "no match" letter to those employers for years. I have been given a bureaucratic runaround in protecting a very important piece of personal property, namely my Social Security Number. I have set up a "freeze" on my Social Security Number with the credit reporting agencies because of this, which makes more hassles for me whenever I need to apply for credit, such as when I was starting a new account with a local utility recently.
I sincerely hope that a long-overdue improvement for E-Verify is finally implemented where the employment validation includes a check for duplicate issuance of a U.S. citizen's Social Security number. I'm confident that the "open borders" lobby included that vulnerability when E-Verify was first implemented.
Kathy0171 of VA
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 8:14am
I just wonder how an individual could find out if their Social Security Number has been or is being used by someone else? I check my SS statements and have seen no unusual activity but what about others? Could victims of stolen SSN's find out (and perhaps prosecute) who or through what employer, their SSN is being fraudently used?
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 9:48am
Beyond looking at your statement, you can call the Social Security Administration and ask about it.
Donald1581 of TX
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 8:24am
Very good point Kathy. Anybody know if we citizens have any protection or rights re: ID theft?
James7427 of IA
Thu, 10/15/2009 - 5:59pm
NumbersUSA Moderator,
Interestingly enough, it seems that with this Congress we are having better luck with the Senate than we are with the House, which is in marked contrast to the last two Congresses. Do you agree? And if so, why do you think this is the case?
James Bowen
Thu, 10/15/2009 - 7:17pm
James, you are right on the money. Quite a change. The Senate and House have almost the same Democrat/Republican ratios. But the House needs only 50% plus 1 vote to pass things while the Senate needs 60%.
Also, the Speaker of the House is far more powerful than the Senate Majority Leader is allowed to be.
Thus, our Democratic friends in the Senate have real power to influence things, particularly through amendments.
In the House, however, our Democratic friends have almost no influence. The Speaker can just run over them with dictatorial powers that allow no amnedments, etc.
James7427 of IA
Mon, 10/19/2009 - 9:29am
Mr. Beck,
I did not know that about the relative power of the Speaker of the House versus the Senate Majority leader. Thank you for that information. That is useful to know. That is also surprising considering that, by Constitutional construction, the House is designed to be the most democratic institution in the Federal Government.
James Bowen
Richard2467 of TX
Thu, 10/15/2009 - 4:26pm
Roy, great article! You have to admit the Obama, Reid and Pelosi never met an illegal alien that they didn't like. The madness in Washington never ends!
Mary6016 of VA
Thu, 10/15/2009 - 2:17pm
The rest of your employees can be verified through the IMAGE Program. Click on the following link.
http://www.ice.gov/partners/opaimage/
Mary Steele
866-887-6629
Martin 1153 of WA
Thu, 10/15/2009 - 2:05pm
The Open Border Anarchists Exclaim
"The Recession's Over", the 2009 Q3 GDP is now +2.2%.
There'll be plenty of future jobs on the burner without E-Verify, for today's 17%+ underemployed/unemployed and worsening condition. LOL
Yet, the total year 2009 GDP Decrease recently estimated by the IMF is a Horrifying 3+%.
But the recent Whitehouse economic data looks rosy for Q3, at a +2.2 [albeit Q1 was decreasing at 6+%]?
The problem with massive shifts down in the GDP and minor shifts up in the GDP is perception. Assuming the massive downward shifts earlier this year were as most economists called, "inventory" burning with no new sales; then the minor "inventory" recovery doesn't mean a return to the real estate bubble and using our homes as ATMs to over-consume, as before. The American Consumer is dead and inventory blips upward are almost completely meaningless compared with the approx 70% driver of our economy unrestored, the American Consumer.
See my proof in this article in part:
"....As Kevin hall at McClatchy newspapers argues, the consumer economy is dead, all starting in September 2008 when the US government seized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy.
Hall writes: "One year later, the easy-money system that financed the boom era from the 1980s until a year ago is smashed. Once-ravenous U.S. consumers are saving money and paying down debt. Banks are building reserves and hoarding cash. And governments are fashioning a new global financial order."
That means recovery will be anemic, economic growth will be around 2% and it would be five years until the economy generates enough jobs to make up for those that have been destroyed.
It will be some time before the US economy becomes competitive again...."
The rest of the URL:
http://www.soxfirst.com/50226711/the_us_consumer_economy_is_dead.php
This is what overpopulation in America did to us. Killing permanent E-Verify was a terrible mistake. Adding in another 10-12 million jobs if amnesty happens would mean 10 years to replace all the jobs lost to date IMO.
Jeff4269 of CO
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 5:24pm
I think it's important to make a distinction between "overpopulation" & "illegal immigration." Judging from what I've heard about the new health care bill, that appears to be exactly one of the shifts in words the propaganda is looking to make. Change the word, change the perception. Psycholinguistics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycholinguistics
"The total fertility rate in the United States estimated for 2008 is 2.1 children per woman, which is roughly the replacement level. However, U.S. population growth is among the highest in industrialized countries, since the vast majority of these have below-replacement fertility rates and the U.S. has higher levels of immigration."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Us_population
When we combine the forced acceptance of illegal immigration that our politicians seem hell bent on trying to get us to accept by shear breaking of will,
in concert with the "we just wanted a really large number" T-A-R-P $700 billion bailout that apparently wasn't large enough, ($23.7 TRILLION -7/20/09 -Bloomberg)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aY0tX8UysIaM
(a trillion is one thousand billions)
Evidently scaled back to $11.6 TRILLION as of 9/25/09:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=ahys015DzWXc
Baby boomers are moving into retirement age with their life savings - if it were possible to implode the economy as Chas. Lindberg Sr. suggested -
("From now on, depressions will be scientifically created." - Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh Sr. , 1913 - Speaking of the "Privately-Owned, Never Been Audited" Federal Reserve)
http://www.politicalbase.com/forums/topic/fed-quotes/13463/
now would certainly be the time to do it.
It's hard to see where they are trying to take us ... unless they are trying to steal everything we have left. Only then does it make perfect sense.
Illegal immigration would certainly be an important piece to that puzzle.
Dave362 of WI
Thu, 10/15/2009 - 1:53pm
I hope we milk this for all its worth so that in the end the Democrats will have given themselves just the right amount of R-O-P-E to hang themselves.
Charles3857 of AL
Thu, 10/15/2009 - 5:26pm
I had to repeat myself....Wake up Americans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are trying to take our great nation away from us. It is time for Americans to put new faces in Congress. We have some wonderful Representative and Senators in Congress who want nothing but the best for the hardworking unemployed American Citizens. It is time that you wake up and discern who these people are and keep them in Congress. Those members of Congress who want to grant amnesty, free healthcare, free education and other free social services to illegal aliens need to be removed from office via the voting process during the 2010 and 2012 elections.
Approximately 15 million Americans are out of work. Congress tells us to be patient, that they have initiated all of these great bail out initiatives for our economy so the Americans can get back to work. Congress says “boy have we got a plan for you.” Well here is what I say to Congress, you need to be afraid of losing your jobs too. Because boy have the “unemployed and employed Americans citizens” got a plan for you. We feel that you need to see how the unemployed American citizens feel. The Democratic controlled Congress has done such a poor job that they need to be fired. Get ready it is coming in the 2010 and 2012 elections.
Companies are not offering jobs to unemployed American citizens but if you are an illegal alien they have a job for you. Companies are not offering jobs to unemployed Americans. They want foreign workers who will work for minimum wages or below if these ruthless companies think they can work around American labor laws.
Now R.O.P.E. is circumventing the process for making laws in this country by removing amendments that have passed in the Senate. I want a congress that is for the people and not for special interest groups, illegal immigrants and for their own personal interests or gains. If you are a Democrat or a Republican who does not have the best interest of the American Citizens at heart, then beware. The Democratic controlled Congress has done such a poor job that they need to be fired. Get ready it is coming in the 2010 and 2012 elections. You need to experience the devastation of unemployment like us.
Vicki1715 of UT
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 9:23am
Any stockholder who has over $2,000 invested in SEC regulated companies is allowed to submit proxy proposals for all shareholders to vote on. The submitter must also have had $2,000+ for over a year, intend to hold for at least a year, limit to 500 words, and submit by company's deadline which has to be xxx days prior to annual meeting, and either present proposal in person or delegate someone else to present.
Yum! is Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC, A&W, and Long John Silver---the largest restaurant business on earth. 85% of employees are part-time. . .often students. NY Times reported (5 Sept 09) teen unemployment around 25%. . .yet I frequently see people with limited English working in these businesses.
For the 4th year I am submitting a proxy to have all Yum! branches required to use E-Verify....they have refused to allow shareholders to vote on my proposal "as it's daily business" yet PETA got their proposal in regarding chicken treatment.
If you meet the requirements and want to submit proxy I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE YOU. If you want to see mine as an example I'll forward. vmrtn@yahoo.com
Richard6783 of MA
Fri, 10/16/2009 - 9:46am
If you are that focused you should consider the use of Alinskyite tactics. Even if you do not have a large enough block to bring a proxy measure to a vote you can still get into a stockholders meeting and disrupt it. Better yet let them know you have people who are prepared to do that and see if they still resist the measure.
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Clyde9710 of TN
Mon, 10/19/2009 - 10:20am
Maybe if everyone were to
Maybe if everyone were to boycott these businesses that knowingly hire illegal immigrants we could put them out of business. We the people have the power to do this if we all stick together. I know one place that needs to stop the hiring of illegals and that's the fast food chain, McDonalds. they not only hire illegals, but they also discriminate against american workers by refusing to hire them even though they when an opening. This is straight from the inside.