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I have come to the conclusion that thinking like a modern politically progressive liberal is an art and a science that takes many years to acquire and hone to perfection. As evidenced by this morning’s Los Angeles Times, it is an ability that I have failed to develop a true appreciation for and it is quite possible that I will never comprehend the full complexities of this complex process.

Every morning when the paper is delivered I pull out the main news section, the business section and throw the rest in the trash without even looking at it. I quit reading the comics section when it ceased to be funny and became another outlet for simple-minded political expression. Truth be told, I despise the Los Angeles Times, but I switched to it from the Orange County Register because the Orange County paper eliminated most of the news to make room for more advertising, they abandoned their Libertarian mission statement and became more liberal than the “Socialist Weekly,” so I figured that as long as I my choices were going to be limited to a selection of left wing propaganda rags I may as well pick the one that had at least some relevance, however small it might be.   The Los Angeles Times is not a step up from the Orange County Register, but it does supply me with more packing material when I need it and it soaks up paint and wood stain as well as any paper around, and for someone who works diligently towards an understanding of liberal thought, the Los Angeles Times is a veritable gold mine of politically correct bullshit.   With that being said, I must admit that I still have much study to do before I figure out the idiosyncrasies of the liberal thought process and this morning’s edition made that fact very clear to me.

On A34 of this morning’s LA Times there appears an article entitled “The enduring wisdom of Special Order 40″ praising the new police chief’s dedication to the city’s long standing policy of not enforcing immigration law and prohibiting the police department from cooperating with the federal government’s immigration authorities. This appears to be one of the cornerstones of California’s liberal communities and similar “sanctuary” policies have been adopted in more than 23 large California cities. Essentially, these policies allow convicted illegal alien felons, rapists, murderers, pedophiles and all sorts of other violent criminals to do their time in the state’s prison system and be released into the neighborhoods they were arrested in rather than being deported. From a liberal standpoint, this is viewed as a benefit because more than 30% of the nation’s illegal aliens reside in the state,  and contrary to popular belief,  they participate in all state and federal elections by loyally supporting the Democratic candidates who are the primary source of the entitlement programs they depend on.   If they all voted for conservative candidates, the Liberals would hunt them down like plague carrying ground squirrels and get rid of them, but that’s not the case so they are portrayed as a beneficial part of our society regardless of the burden they pose to the California tax payers and the drain to the state’s rapidly dwindling finances.

On A5 of this morning’s paper there appeared an article that clearly demonstrates the actual cost of Special Order 40 in much more personal terms. That article included the security video image of a 72 year old legal immigrant seconds before he was fatally shot in the back of the head by three armed gang members holding up his 98-cent store in the Pico-Union area. Ironically, “The enduring wisdom of Special Order 40″ explains the vital importance of Special Order 40 in the Pico-Union, the Westlake District and Temple-Beaudry areas of Los Angeles which are all busting at the seams with illegal aliens from southern Mexico and Central America, and this is the same Pico-Union area where Fereidoun Kohanim, 72, a kindly old man known for handing out free candy to children at his 98-cent store was shot in the head.

As far as the liberals of Los Angeles are concerned, there is no correlation between Special Order 40 and the rampant crime that plagues the predominantly illegal alien neighborhoods of the city. Sixty percent of the city’s gang members are illegal aliens and they spend most of their time preying on the other legal and illegal aliens who live and work in these areas. When they are not busy waging turf wars with competing gangs of illegal aliens they concentrate on expanding their territory by intimidating, harassing and often killing the African-Americans who live nearby. The liberals who control the positions of authority in Los Angeles consider the murders and the high crime rate in these areas as a simple coincidence rather than a consequence of the laws and policies they have created. I suppose it is a matter of perspective that I have yet to fully comprehend. If I survive long enough maybe I will figure it out. If I live to be very old it is possible that senility will help me appreciate this perspective.

Fifty years ago, before common sense was over-ruled by political correctness, problems like these could be dealt with. Raids would take place and people would be rounded up and locked away in deep dark dungeons. They would be prosecuted, deported, gassed or electrocuted and the law would be enforced, justice was done, sometimes in the courts, sometimes in the streets. Regardless of where or how it happened, the bad guys got the idea, and even a lone ten year old white boy like me could walk the streets of downtown Los Angeles without being victimized. Fifty years later we’ve progressed to the point where law enforcement no longer holds the shackles, it wears them. Criminal gangs can’t be rounded up without the appearance of racial profiling, mass protests and outraged community activists, demands for investigations, possible riots and certain repercussions. The citizens are no longer safe, not on the streets and not even in their own homes. This is an improvement? This is the legacy of enduring wisdom? If so, the logic escapes me so I will wait for senility to make it easier to understand, and in the meantime I will merely watch and marvel at the genius of liberal thought.

Elderly shopkeeper fatally shot in ‘senseless crime’

The enduring wisdom of Special Order 40

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The federal government has reported a drop in unemployment for November. The current unemployment rate is estimated to be approximately 10%, however, to get a more comprehensive measure of unemployment the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) developed the U-6 measure. The official unemployment rate reported by the politicians in Washington uses a methodology referred to as U-3. U-3 is less accurate because it only counts the individuals actively enrolled for unemployment benefits and it does not count those who have exhausted their benefits and those who are no longer considered eligible because they have given up looking for work. The U-6 method gives a more precise measurement because it reflects both those receiving unemployment as well as those who have fallen between the cracks. The U-6 measurement indicates a much darker but far more accurate picture of unemployment in America, and from the looks of things, the American economy has gotten a lot worse than the Democrats want us to know.

The Democrats are sweating bullets over the skyrocketing unemployment rate. They are afraid that if they don’t do something and do it quick, the 2010 mid-term elections may spell doom for their total control of the American government. They’ve done everything possible to discredit the E-Verify program and reduce immigration enforcement, and as a result, millions of American citizens, including high percentages of blacks and Hispanics are out of work while millions of illegal aliens have replaced them. Union members are being laid off by the thousands and their jobs are going to illegal aliens. The labor leaders don’t care as long as they keep getting those union dues. Dues money, I might point out that is going into the coffers of the Democratic Party to campaign for the Democrats immigration reform measures and amnesty that will encourage even more illegal immigration.

Ironically, there is absolutely nothing the Democrats controlling the federal government can do to create jobs, so don’t hold your breath waiting for things to get better. Jobs are created by businesses, not politicians, and as long as business owners are feeling threatened by potentially higher taxes and the threat of having to pay a larger chunk of their employees medical care in the future, they are not going to start hiring. In fact the larger the threat becomes the more layoffs there will be. It isn’t just the threat of higher taxes and increased medical costs that’s scaring the business owners, the Democrats have a whole horde of environmental items on their agenda that will make it nearly impossible to manufacture anything inside the United States, and when you get right down to it, there is no legislation the Democrats are considering that will do anything even remotely beneficial for business owners. Financially speaking, the Democrats have already shot their wad. Generations of future Americans will be working to pay off the debts they’ve already created and if they push for more foreign loans they could end up bankrupting the entire country.

While common sense tells most of us that you can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip, the Democrats are not characterized by their strong grasp of common sense. Despite the tight financial situation most Americans are currently in the Washington brain trust is planning to raise taxes across the board. Businesses will be hit especially hard and that will result in higher prices for consumer goods, food and other necessities. The Neanderthals among us believe taxing the “rich” and the big corporations is good thing for the government to do, but those of us with a few brain cells left realize that the “rich” and the big corporations simply pass those increases along to the middle class and poor in the form of higher prices and more lay-offs, and ultimately the people who end up getting hit the hardest by every tax increase, regardless of where it is aimed, are the people who can least afford it, the poor and the borderline middle-class citizens struggling to make ends meet and failing miserably. Every time the liberal’s talk about raising taxes on the wealthy what they are really saying is that they intend to screw everybody, some directly and the rest by consequence.

The liberal’s demand for more relaxed lending standards to help individuals with poor credit histories and few or no assets qualify for home mortgages they could never hope to pay off is what brought about the subprime mortgage crisis. Their attempt to fix the problem by throwing vast sums of money at the banking industry has accomplished nothing but create a massive debt that will take many future generations of American citizens years to pay off. The foreclosure rate is still increasing, new home construction has dwindled away to nothing and more Americans are out of work than ever before and the financial problems facing American citizens are getting worse by the minute with no indication of relief at any point in the future. While the middle-class, American born construction workers, once the backbone of the American economy, are sitting at home doing nothing, the illegal aliens are filling their former positions for less than a third of the income and the government tells us that this is a sign of growing economic stability.

Amidst the bleak, gloomy landscape of economic ruin building up around us, the Democratic controlled United States Congress has re-doubled their push for health care reform. The proposed legislation has grown to nearly four thousand pages in length and it reads like a Christmas list of benefits for the insurance companies and the large pharmaceutical concerns that have bought and paid for most of it. Despite the revelation that the majority of American citizens do not want this legislation to pass, the Democrats forge ahead with their agenda. Sure it will increase the tax burden of the American citizens, it will reduce the quality of health care in the U.S. and raise the cost of medical insurance for everyone, but the Democrats have too much invested in it to back down now. They have come to see the failure of health care reform as a loss of their political power, and to get their proposal to this point they have made so many secret deals with lobbyists that failure could leave them embarrassingly exposed. What is good for the nation is not a concern because the future of the Democratic Party is at stake and that is their only concern at this point. Reversing directions is not an option. They will pass the proposed legislation regardless of the consequences. Like they have tried to do with the economic situation, they will falsify the data to show improvements where none exist. They will ignore the problems caused and inflate everything that can be made to look like a benefit whether it is or it isn’t. The insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry will fund the propaganda that will fill the airwaves, and for the most part, the gullible American citizens will believe what their told because that’s all they will be hearing about. By the time the 2010 mid-term elections roll around a new crisis will be invented. The liberals will be out in front with the only possible solution. Their opponents will be demonized for causing the problem and the American people will unfailingly swallow the bait, the hook, the sinker and maybe even the bobber as they turn out in droves to vote for more of the same. Obviously, fifty years of dumbing down America’s public school system has worked well for the Democrats.

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