posted on January 12, 2006 04:38:19 AM new
"BTW classic, what did you do for the late great state of New York...and how much did it cost me?"
Colin-I worked for the New York State Police at Troop K Poughkeepsie.
How much did it cost you?
probably nothing unless you got a ticket LOL
I worked a lot of O.T. my last 3 years there to boost up my retirement.Now Im making $700 more a month then when I was working and I dont have to pay New York State taxes-hey life is good
btw Colin what do you do? that sounds like a great job
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posted on January 12, 2006 06:23:01 AM new
I'm a dispatcher for a petroleum Company. (Fuel Farm).
I've had the pleasure (or displeasure) of meeting several of New York States finest over the years.
Did you pull over a lot of them outlaw bikes, over the years? You would have remembered me. I had a license plate holder made the said. Kiss my F*** azz.
Actually most of the times I got pulled over it was just to bust azz about the plate holder or when I ran a 1030’s sidecar, (many years ago)...just to see the bike. Things weren't as politically correct Then.....Life was fun.
posted on January 12, 2006 06:40:57 AM new
Colin,
In your post you just proved my point about what Bush says. "MATCH A WILLING WORKER WITH A WILLING EMPLOYER" at $5.15 per hour.
You admit you were forced to take a lesser paying jobs (under Bush's watch) and now you at age 57 brag about making less???
Colin a guy like you is really being a very DUMB AZZ voting Republican.
Under Bush millions of other working and middle Americans have taken pay and benefit cuts. While they see the rich getting much richer.
These Americans aren't happy, they are pissed off at what this conservative form of government has done to them.
One reason these Americans are pissed off is because this conservative government let millions of illegals into the U.S. To do what BUSH says "MATCH UP A WILLING WORKER WITH A WILLING EMPLOYER" at $5.15 per hour.
The conservatives have set a lower WAGE AND BENIFIT bar and are watching how low dummies like you will go.
HEY COLIN HOW LOW WILL YOU GO?
WILL YOU WIND UP LIVING IN ONE ROOM WITH A BARE BULB HANGING FROM THE CRACKED CEILING?
posted on January 12, 2006 07:43:50 AM new
Peebrain,
I admit I make more a year then you do.
I went back to work for two reasons. One, my business failed (thanks to 9/11) secondly I realized I didn't have sh*t for Social security. I've been self employed for about the last 15 to 20 years.
I don't work for 5 or 6 dollars per hour. The truth is this is a great job. If I won the lottery, I'd have a Limo drove me to work. I don't think about retiring any more. I think, I get more holidays off then the State of New York employees.
BTW, I'll bet my starting wage at this job is more then you've ever made at any job. After all, I'm a Neo-con. don't ya know. YES
posted on January 12, 2006 10:24:32 AM new
Damn Colin-peebrain sounds pissed off you got a job instead of being on welfare..sounds like a democrat.
what was your business that 9/11 ruined?
Hey colin-I saw your pic of 18 years ago..I think I recognize you.Didnt I drag you out of the barracks one night in handcuffs with a rain coat over your head?? LOL (just kidding)
So your a dispatcher for a petroleum Company?
We have many dispatchers on our job-99 percent of them are excellent.But you always get one dick head thats just a pain in the azz.Every time you called him,he acted like you were bothering him,he always answered in a grouchy voice-we nicked named him "oscar the grouch" This took place about 20 years ago.One night about 3 in the morning in the middle of winter it was snowing to beat the band.It was a very slow night,so we thought we would have some fun with him.We went into the civilian parking lot and I got in his car as he never locked it-it was some beat up VW bug.I put the car in neutral and the other trooper push it with the troop car behind the barracks.We drove around to the civilian parking lot and turned off our lights so he couldnt see us.We get on the radio and called in his plate,stated the car was wrapped around a tree completely destroyed.We told him to get info on the plate and call the owner to see if he knew where his car was.He didnt realize it was his plate at first,but when his name came up on the computer,he ran out into the parking lot to see if his car was there.When he saw it was gone,he ran back into the barracks with his hands over his head screaming "my car is wrecked,my car is wrecked"! We had the windows down and we could see and hear him screaming.After he went back in,we went around and put his car back where it was.He comes on the radio,and asks us if that was the correct plate number .We said "sorry we gave you the wrong plate,here is the correct one" He again ran out in the parking lot to make sure his car was gone.When he came back out again, and saw his car there-he knew he'd been had.We again could see and hear everything he was saying,and I'll never forget as he was walking back in he barracks screaming "them god d*amn S.O.B'S he must have screamed it five times.We were laughing so hard the tears we streaming down my face.It was hysterical.
He didnt talk to us for over a month.For years after that, everytime that was brought up we would just burst out laughing.He didnt think it was all that funny-I guess he had no sense of humor.
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posted on January 12, 2006 10:47:57 AM new
You got to have a sense of humor.
It wasn't me with the rain coat cause when I wore a rain coat I never wore anything under it.
The business was a bike shop. Rt 67 Cycle. I had the shop and a web business. I'd just took out some heavy loans to buy out some dealers stock.
I still have the website and have started the web business back up but I went from a couple grand a week net to $200 a month gross. I went as long as I could and paid all that I could but business never picked up to above a (heavy) lose. I was selling stuff for less then I paid. Of course there were other factors that added to the demise. Party, Party, Party.
I don't think a lot of these posters realize the fears that sweep the nation and especially here in NYS.
posted on January 12, 2006 01:16:43 PM new
Colin said, "I realized I didn't have sh*t for Social security. I've been self employed for about the last 15 to 20 years."
Colin cheated and never paid Taxes if he doesn't "have sh*t for Social security."
After awhile brash talking NEOCONS like Colin expose themselves TO BE LIARS with their own words.
Guess what Colin. The Self Employed pay into and collect Social Security. Of course prople have to file Federal Tax Returns AND PAY INTO THE S.S.Fund first. I'm sorry and feel bad for you that you made such a poor choice in your life.
COLIN JUST PROVED HIMSELF TO BE JUST ANOTHER BULL ROARING NEOCON.
ITS GREAT BEING A PROGRESSIVE WATCHING YET ANOTHER PHONY CON-SERVATIVE CRUMBLE INTO LIES.
posted on January 13, 2006 01:18:22 PM new
Peebrain says
"Colin said, "I realized I didn't have sh*t for Social security. I've been self employed for about the last 15 to 20 years."
Colin cheated and never paid Taxes if he doesn't "have sh*t for Social security."
After awhile brash talking NEOCONS like Colin expose themselves TO BE LIARS with their own words."
I knew you were stupid but now I have a better idea just how stupid you are.
I worked for many years in the building trades, real estate, Financial planner/registered representative (among other things I won’t talk about here) and always made big money. I've owned bike shops and worked full time since I was 16 years old.
When I said my Social Security was sh*t I meant it could be higher. It goes mostly by your last (so many) quarters.
From what I gleam from your moronic statement, I have to guess you don't file your e-bay “business” on your taxes.
I know I'm correct.
You had better do so this year. EVERYONE IS WATCHING. THIEF!!!
BTW peebrainless, Between a couple year at a community college (in my 20's) and the credits I earned from the Lally business school of Rensselaer Poly Tech I receive a B.A. in Business management through Empire State College. That was in my 40's. It took me a long time but it was something I thought worth working for.
So you see, I know the tax laws. I know them well.
Another thing:
No basket weaving at a second hand college for me or my kids.
posted on January 13, 2006 02:52:41 PM new
Colin,
I get a kick out of NEOCONS like you always trying to clean up their mistakes with more bull roar words.
Colin your nothing but a phony OLD CON and you know it. Get lost light weigh,get lost in your fantasy world.
Don't try to compare yourself with me old man you just ain't got it. I left light weights like you in my dust a long time ago.
ITS TOO BAD CONSERVATIVES LIKE COLIN MAKE SUCH WRONG CHOICES IN LIFE. PEOPLE LIKE COLIN SHOULD HAVE PREPARED BETTER FOR LATER LIFE. NOW LIKE THEIR CONSERVATIVE BROTHERS AND SISTERS SAY ITS THEIR OWN FAULT AND THEY HAVE TO LIVE WITH THEIR MISTAKES.
ITS NICE BEING A PROGRESSIVE WATCHING THE PHONY CON_SERVATIVES DESTROY THEMSELVES WITH THEIR OWN WORDS.
posted on January 13, 2006 06:23:23 PM newImo, this administration has been doing just that....taken stronger measures, spending more money on it...
Oh really now?
President Bush's plan to liberalize the nation's immigration laws to allow millions of undocumented workers the opportunity for legal status appears to be on a collision course with newly aroused sentiment among House Republicans pushing for a crackdown on illegal immigration.
Bush describes his immigration proposal as one of the top goals of his second term, calling it a humane way to get a handle on the nation's mushrooming illegal immigration problem. Republican strategists, led by White House chief political adviser Karl Rove, also see the proposal as an important element in their plan to expand the party's base among the nation's fast-growing Hispanic population.
The key prong in Bush's plan is a temporary-worker program that would offer the nation's estimated 10 million illegal immigrants a chance to earn legal status that would allow them to stay in the country as long as six years. Once they register as temporary workers, they would be eligible to begin the long process of applying for citizenship or permanent residency.
"It's a compassionate way to treat people who come to our country. It recognizes the reality of the world in which we live," Bush said during a news conference last week. "There are some people -- there are some jobs in America that Americans won't do and others are willing to do."
But an increasingly vocal group of House Republicans is threatening to undercut Bush's vision, which the president has discussed with passion but has not formally advanced since taking office in 2001. Many House Republicans oppose any effort to grant legal status to undocumented workers, saying it would have the effect of rewarding law-breakers. Instead, they are seeking to ratchet up enforcement efforts against undocumented workers, an approach with proven voter appeal if unproven results when it comes to slowing illegal immigration.
When the new Congress commences this month, key House Republicans are promising to push legislation to complete a controversial fence along the Mexican border near San Diego, to make it tougher for immigrants to attain asylum and to prevent illegal immigrants from receiving driver's licenses. At the insistence of Judiciary Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.) -- and with the White House's approval -- Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) has promised to attach those measures "to the first must-pass legislation" that moves in the House.
Last month, House Republicans wrested a pledge from Bush to cooperate in enacting tougher immigration provisions by blocking legislation to restructure the nation's intelligence community. The intelligence bill passed only after Bush promised to "work with" House Republicans to enact those measures.
Bush's concession meant that Congress will begin the year on an anti-immigration note, which promises to continue as many of those pushing for the tough enforcement measures also are likely to oppose the president's "guest worker" plan.
"I'm no longer the only person in the caucus bringing the issue of illegal immigration to the American people," said Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), who heads the House's 71-member Immigration Reform Caucus, which has a section on its Web site listing crimes, health problems and other problems it says are caused by illegal immigrants. "Now others appear to be willing to go to the mat on it."
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on January 13, 2006 06:28:12 PM new
Our Border Brigades
The nativist right is wrong.
Tuesday, January 27, 2004 12:01 a.m. EST
Conservatives of a certain ilk are piling all over President Bush's immigration reform, and one of their favorite complaints is that the U.S. has never really tried to "control its borders." One question: Then what is it we've been doing for nearly 20 years now?
At least since the mid-1980s, the federal government has invested steadily more money and effort to stop illegal immigration. It's true that the policy hasn't worked, but not because it hasn't been tried. The crackdown on "illegals" began with the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, which these columns opposed but was a favorite of Ed Meese and Alan Simpson, the main restrictionists of that time.
IRCA traded amnesty for illegals currently in the U.S. in return for introducing "employer sanctions." The idea was to harass employers to ensure the nationality of their new hires, under threat of fines or worse if they hired undocumented aliens. This strategy was always a stretch, since most businesses have more urgent things to do than serve as deputies to a federal agency like the INS. A new false-document industry naturally grew, honest employers had no way to sort the real IDs from the fake, and the illegals kept coming in search of work.
As that failure became obvious in the 1990s, a new generation of restrictionists (Texas Congressman Lamar Smith, former "Crossfire" host Pat Buchanan) focused on policing the border. So we gave that a try. The Clinton Administration began operations like "Gatekeeper" and "Hold the Line," which involved planting motion-detection devices along the border, installing remote-control cameras high atop towers and building three-tier walls that went on for miles.
The number of border patrol agents tripled and the most popular corridors for illegals--San Diego and El Paso--were sealed off. The thinking was that the treacherous mountains and deserts in between would serve as natural deterrents. But once again, the border brigades were wrong.
Between 1990 and 2000, illegal immigration rose by 5.5 million people. Circular migration is now less common, human smugglers have increased their fees, and rather than deter newcomers the mountain and desert "funnel effect" has resulted in hundreds of additional deaths from exposure. As one government official told us, "We underestimated the will of these people."
Nor has any of this been done on the cheap. Walter Ewing, a research associate at the Immigration Policy Center, has run the numbers. In a new paper titled, "The Cost of Doing Nothing," he notes that "Since 1993, the amount of money spent each year by the federal government for border enforcement has more than quintupled from $740 million to $3.8 billion." (See the nearby chart.) And though much of that has been spent along the Mexican border--77% of illegal aliens come from Latin America--undocumented immigration "has continued at a rate of about 500,000 per year," Mr. Ewing writes.
This latest failure now has the restrictionist right endorsing ever more extreme measures. Some suggest spending more billions to build a wall across the entire 2,000-mile Mexican-U.S. border. Others want to deploy the U.S. military, as if an already stretched Army doesn't have enough missions. Somehow draining the terror swamp in the Middle East seems a lot more vital to U.S. security than stopping busboys from crossing the Rio Grande.
But there's no guarantee that even this--so insulting to American traditions--would work. Immigrants would find other ways to make it here, whether by overstaying their visas after arriving by airplane, smuggling by boat, or travelling first to Canada before crossing over. Will we build a wall across Ontario too? Or how about mass roundups and deportations? We suppose the feds could do all of these things, assuming the Republican Party could still win elections trying them, but at what financial and psychic cost?
Conservatives pride themselves on realism, so if a policy keeps failing for nearly two decades maybe some new thinking is in order. That is precisely what Mr. Bush is doing. His temporary guest worker proposal would provide a means for new immigrants to enter the country legally as well as a way for the government to keep track of their whereabouts in the interests of homeland security.
The plain truth is that the U.S. depends on these workers more than the nativist wing of the GOP likes to admit. As Mr. Bush said recently, the reality is that our economy continues to create opportunities for low-skilled workers while the pool of Americans willing to fill these jobs continues to shrink.
In 2001, undocumented immigrants filled 1.4 million jobs in the wholesale and retail trades alone, according to the Pew Hispanic Center. More than one million worked in manufacturing and another 1.2 million worked in agriculture. Without these immigrants, employers would be forced to raise wages to attract Americans, perhaps to levels above what productivity and competition allowed. Certain jobs would simply not get done, as is now the case in Europe, as companies automated or moved more jobs overseas. Far from costing the U.S. jobs, immigrants today allow some industries to survive and expand.
Their entry to America is not without its problems and costs. But a sensible policy would tackle those, as Mr. Bush proposes to do, rather than pursue the fantasy that we can or should close our borders like some isolated ancient kingdom.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on January 13, 2006 07:46:04 PM new
Liar_K,
The whole country knows Bush and the CON-servative lawmakers did nothing but give LIP SERVICE to our southern border for 5 years. All the while Millions of Illegals came into the U.S. to provide cheap labor for industry.
Liar_K remembers Bush saying, "MATCH UP A WILLING WORKER WITH A WILLING EMPLOYER". Then off the record he adds while he snickers, for $5.15 per hour. snicker snicker.
Mingo says about Liar_K, "Linda the great expert on the International scene" I add and all else. LOL
posted on January 14, 2006 06:51:47 AM new
It was Linda would aslo said she would be willing to work as a chicken plucker in her state so the jobs would not go to some illegal.
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
posted on January 26, 2006 01:40:51 PM new
logansdad said: It was Linda would aslo said she would be willing to work as a chicken plucker in her state so the jobs would not go to some illegal.
I never said any such thing. It appears logansdad is just another liberal liar.
While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation:
What would a Democrat president have done at that point? Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack.
Ann Coulter
posted on January 26, 2006 05:25:18 PM new
welcome back Linda...as you can see nothing has changed.HEY crowfart really missed you-she's been picking on me instead,which was big mistake-I made a fool out of her again.
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[ edited by classicrock000 on Jan 26, 2006 05:26 PM ]
posted on January 26, 2006 05:42:36 PM new
Just need a single train from TEXAS to MONTANA...we just tranquilize them and put them on the train. Take them up to the MONTANA/CANADIAN border...when they wake up and RACE across the border...let CANADA deal with them
posted on January 26, 2006 06:31:11 PM new
I wonder how old "Fox Valiante " Is doing....you know the guy lindadope thinks is the Pres of Mexico....talking about fools
