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The Chinese Are Building US Roads And Bridges

Michael Redbourn — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:59:51 +0000

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“Help us rebuild this bridge! Help us rebuild America”- Obama

But U.S. Bridges And Roads Are Being Built by Chinese Firms!

Diane Sawyer reporting on U.S. bridge projects going to the Chinese and NOT to Americans.

abcNews News Condemns the US for employing Chinese companies and workers to build bridges and roads in the U.S. but doesn’t mention Obama even once!

Why is that?

We might have forgiven ABC 4 years ago, but now Obama’s been tried and tested, and has failed big time.

So why is the left wing media still supporting Obama who is a known catastrophe?

The bridges are right here in the U.S. and yet Obama has approved Chinese contractors to come in and do the work.

What about his jobs for Americans???

At the end of his report, ABC News reporter Chris Cuomo says,

“That’s why the Buy America laws were passed. If states can get around them, Diane, we’ll never bring America back".

Cuomo is the son of former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, and is a Democrat

If you’re aren’t getting Obama hand-outs then there are at least eighty reasons why you shouldn’t vote for Obama in November.

But if you’re enjoying the entitlements and works scares you, then I understand your vote for a man that is destroying the country.

But remember, "he’s destroying the country", and ask you self how long the hand-outs can last.

The average age of a democracy is only around 250 years, so how many years to go?

And what causes the collapse?

Politicians promising people what they don’t have to give!

Oh, and did you know that US funded electric cars are currently being built in Finland?

Why Obama Will Lose The 2012 Elections

Michael Redbourn — Sun, 13 May 2012 12:55:30 +0000

Election 2012: The long, slow retreat of Obama for America. | RedState

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This is a map that obviously Team Obama would like to see being the reality on the ground in September of 2012… and, indeed, it was probably the reality on the ground in September… of 2010. I'm showing this map partially because I do think that it was expected by the Democrats that this would …. practically already there. How many of us are reliant on government assistance at this point? I think we have lost a lot of major battles but we wont stop fighting the war.

Media musings: Could Obama actually lose? « Hot Air

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Obama campaign officials have been anticipating an upward tick in the minority share of the electorate for 2012 to compensate for the expected loss of older, white voters, and they are counting on college students to organize …

ObamaNomics and ObamaCare will determine the outcome of the 2012 election, and Barack Obama knows it.

And that’s why he so desperately wants to talk about something else.

Anything else!

A failed stimulus.

Shovel-ready jobs that even President Obama later admitted didn’t ever exist.

Auto company takeovers. Which dealerships were closed and why.

Bank bailouts.

Mythical green jobs.

And a historic American credit downgrade.

More than 80 reasons why Obama shouldn’t be reelected.

Unemployment

According to stats, America is in its third year of recovery from the Great Recession, but would you want to try convincing voters of that?

The average unemployment rate in Obama’s first three years was 9.3%

Can President George W. Bush be blamed for that?

Do you remember that the Democrats mocked Bush in 2004 for delivering a "jobless recovery"?

Even though the average unemployment rate in his eight years was only 5.3%.

The present U-6 measure of unemployment which includes discouraged plus part-timers who wish they had full time work and is perhaps the truest measure of the labor market’s health, is a sky-high 14.5%.

Since Obamanomics was unleashed there have been:

Increased taxes
Increased regulations
Wildly increased spending
A weak-dollar monetary policy
A million fewer jobs now exist in America, and the median household income has dropped nearly 10%
Housing prices have hit an almost ten-year low
Gas prices have doubled
A record number of Americans are now on food stamps
The federal debt races toward $16 trillion (around $140,000 per taxpayer

So anybody that still believes in Obama’s Hope and Change should maybe check in for a reality check.

He failed big-time!

So What’s The Answer?

Well the only way out of this Obama created abyss is.

Private-sector economic growth.

In the aftermath of the recession of the early 1980s, President Reagan’s economic strategy was exactly the opposite of Obama’s:

Lower taxes

Lower spending as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP)

Reduced regulations and strong-dollar monetary policy.

All of which produced an average GDP growth rate of 7.1%.

And now, three years into Obamanomics, America’s GDP growth rate has slowed to a crawl of around 2.2%.

The Obama administration would like you to believe that we’ve turned some mythical corner under Obama’s watch.

But the above facts show the opposite, so don’t be fooled by rhetoric.

And Now A Look At ObamaCare

Obama’s supposed signature accomplishment, ObamaCare, is now so widely unpopular, that many Democrats are openly hopeful that the Supreme Court will rule it unconstitutional.

They want it out of the way before the presidential election.

Rasmussen Survey of 1,000 Likely Voters on April 28-29, 2012

Favor Repeal 55% Oppose Repeal 36%

Why?

Its price tag has doubled and most Americans remain adamantly opposed to it.

And most of the public now know that the following are lies.

ObamaCare will allow you to keep your current insurance and doctor and lower your monthly health insurance premiums.

It will reduce the deficit and create millions of jobs.

So What Must Obama Do To Try And Win?

Obama will have to avoid talking about ObamaCare and ObamaNomics at all costs!

He will have to talk about any of the following.

Student loans.

Birth control.

Hooded sweatshirts.

Romney carrying his dog on the top of his car.

Anything other than defining his non-presidency and threatening our republic.

The Importance Of The 2012 Election

The 2012 election will most likely be the most consequential of our lifetimes, and probably of our children’s and our children’s children’s lifetimes too.

Because we will all have to choose between Mitt Romney’s opportunity society and Barack Obama’s government-centered society.

So please weigh up the pros and cons before you vote, and hopefully choose a self-made billionaire ahead of someone that benefited from entitlement programs his whole life.

Romney is now being painted as the evil 1% – whereas not long ago he represented the American dream.

Is your dream is to live off of entitlement programs and Obama Money? The Alexandra video is well worth watching!

Then vote for Obama!

But if your dream is the American one, then vote for Romney!

The Choice Couldn’t Be Clearer!

Barack Obama Comes Out Of His Racist Closet

Michael Redbourn — Fri, 11 May 2012 11:01:27 +0000

If you already knew that Michelle Obama was a racist, (see excerpts from her Princeton thesis, or download it if you want to) then this should come as no big surprise.

On Jan 31, 2012 Join African Americans for Obama put out the following video.

Barack Obama says:

Today, we’re announcing the 2012 launch of African Americans for Obama.

There’s no better time than African American History Month to consider the tremendous progress we’ve made through the sacrifice of so many—or a better time to commit to meeting the very real challenges we face right now.

Visit africanamericans.barackobama.com for more information about all the ways you can get involved—from attending HBCU organizing workshops to becoming a Congregation Captain—and say you’re ready to keep making history.

Thanks, and see you out there.

And that’s about as racist as you can get!

So where is, or was, the MSM outrage?

Can you imagine Santorum or Romney or Newt or Paul putting out a call for all the white brothers and sisters to vote for him because he’s white and so are they?

And how did YouTube viewers react to the video?

Seems like the viewers know better than the MSM

How will you react?

Did Enhanced Interrogation Get Results?

Michael Redbourn — Wed, 09 May 2012 21:48:52 +0000

'Hard Measures' offers hard look at enhanced interrogations – CNN …

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By Suzanne Kelly and Pam Benson Two months after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Pakistani forces captured and handed over to the U.S. a Libyan who was fleeing Afghanistan and was suspected of having …

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We're getting some new insight this week into the enhanced interrogation techniques that were formally used by the CIA, which setup a nationwide controversy when they were made public back in 2009.

President Obama has stated numerous times that he has banned the use of enhanced interrogation techniques.

But now the president is trying to take credit for finding and killing bin Laden.

It’s unlikely however that bin Laden would ever have been found without the use of enhanced interrogation.

Former CIA official Jose Rodriguez, Jr. spent 31 years in the CIA and after the 9/11 attacks, he led the agency’s counter-terrorism center.

Rodriguez says the CIA received much information that led to finding bin Laden by using these methods on detainees.

“These tools saved us and saved lives. I am convinced that they saved lives".

"They allowed us to stop plots against us".

"They allowed us to go after all these terrorists".

"We don’t capture anybody anymore, so we don’t get the intelligence anymore".

Ex-CIA head Jose Rodriguez discusses enhanced interrogation techniques.

Did Obama’s TelePrompter Stop Working?

In his new book, “Hard Measures", Rodriguez defends the enhanced interrogation techniques like water-boarding that were used on some Al Qaeda leaders and says that they helped lead to the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Rodriguez also says that the techniques led to the interruption of at least ten large scale plots and the capture of many more terrorists.

In the video he describes interrogation techniques such as the attention grasp, the insult slap, stripping them of clothes, sleep and food deprivation, stress techniques and so on.

The goal is to make them as uncomfortable as possible in order to extract information.

Water-boarding he says, was only used on three people: Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.

Rodriguez described the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, saying,

“He is a very tough individual. He gave us some early information and then he stopped talking".

In 2002, Rodriguez says there was a wave of information that led the CIA to believe a second attack was coming, though they did not know when.

He later enlisted the help of a psychologist that trains U.S. soldiers on how to resist giving information if they are ever taken prisoner, and that in turn led to the use of water-boarding.

The US Labor Participation Rate Is Down To A Shocking 63.6%

Michael Redbourn — Sun, 06 May 2012 19:16:52 +0000

This Is Heartbreaking!

The following chart should be terrifying, and the fact that the MSM won’t go near the stats makes it even worse.

The worker participation rate started falling after the dot-com bust, and leveled off during the credit boom with hardly any job gains, and then it fell off a cliff when the recession started.

And not only hasn’t it bounced back, but instead, we’re now deep into pretty much unprecedented territory.

Was the participation rate ever this low before?

Yes, but back in 1981 and that was during the decades when women were seriously moving into the labor force.

Only 115 Million Full-Time And 27 Million Part-Workers In The US!

Mike Konczal who is a fellow with the Roosevelt Institute, working on financial reform, unemployment, inequality and a progressive vision of the economy said:

"A key indicator of labor recession is still in force: if you’re unemployed, you’re still more likely to drop out of the labor force entirely than you are to find a job. And as Dan Alpert noted, in a country of 314 million people, there are only 115 million full-time workers and 27 million part-time workers. It’s really hard to get a robust recovery when the number of people earning money is so anemic".

For demographic reasons, the retirement of the baby boomers, the labor force participation rate is naturally going to fall over the next decade. But go back just one year, to March 2011, and look at the official CBO projection of the labor force participation rate. The CBO saw a rate of 64.6% in 2012, a full percentage point higher than we’re at right now. The participation rate wasn’t expected to fall to today’s level of 63.6% until 2017"

Does the above shock you?

Because it should!

The Jobs Created Smokescreen

The paltry 115,000 jobs created in April 2012 is saddening to say the the least, and so is the unemployment rate of 8.1% but both figures are hiding a horrific truth.

A total of 342,000 people left the labor force in April 2012 and the working-age population grew by 180,000, both of which mean that the total number of people no longer in the labor force actually went up by 522,000.

And when more than a half a million people in one month decide that they’re not even going to bother looking for work any more, there’s absolutely no way you can say that the US in a healthy recovery.

The Obama administration will point to hope and change of course.

The Employment Rate Numbers

Politically speaking, the unemployment rate is still the number that most people concentrate on.

But increasingly, being unemployed is little more than a halfway house between employment and dropping out of the labor force altogether.

Until the labor force participation rate stops falling and starts rising, then the so-called recovery will remain a theoretical economic entity and not a real-world reality for hundreds of millions of Americans.

So What Is The True State Of The Labor Market?

1. The U-6 measure of unemployment which includes discouraged plus part-timers who wish they had full time work and is perhaps the truest measure of the labor market’s health, is a sky-high 14.5%.

2. If the size of the U.S. labor force as a share of the total population was the same as it was when Barack Obama took office, 65.7 percent then vs. 63.6 percent today, then the U-3 unemployment rate would be 11.1%.

3. If you take into account the aging of the Baby Boomers, then the participation rate should be trending lower; and it has been doing just that that since 2000.

Before the recession, the Congressional Budget Office predicted what the participation rate would be in 2012, assuming such demographic changes and using that number, the real unemployment rate would be 10.7%.

4. It’s true that the participation rate usually falls during recessions, but even if you discount for that, and the aging issue, then the real unemployment rate is at 9.3%.

5. If the participation rate just stayed where it was last month, the unemployment rate would have risen to 8.4%.

6. And given that real disposable income has been flat the past two years, it stands to reason that many of the jobs being created are in low-wage sectors. Indeed, hiring in sectors such as retail and leisure has accounted for 40% of the jobs added over the past two years.

The US needs jobs, and needs them now, but Obama and his extreme leftist administration can’t create them.

And the best quote that I read in a while about Paul Krugman was;

"Stimulus works in exactly the same way as trying to raise the level of a swimming pool by drawing a bucket of water out of the deep end and pouring it into the shallow end".

Did Ted Turner Endorse Romney?

Michael Redbourn — Sat, 05 May 2012 07:43:17 +0000

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CNN founder Ted Turner said something Thursday night that was guaranteed to cause a shudder down liberal spines, not only at the White House, but also at CNN, and at many other places too.

"Piers Morgan Tonight"

PIERS MORGAN, HOST: Let’s talk politics briefly, Ted. The election’s coming up in November. Mitt Romney is the likely Republican nominee for all intents and purposes. Who’s going to win, do you think?

TED TURNER: I don’t know. When I started CNN, I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the viewers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn’t going to come from me. The other networks were all telling everybody what to do. But I wanted to be different and let people make up their own minds.

So I didn’t, I would talk about candidates. And I can say this about Mitt Romney, I think he’s a real gentleman. I think he’s been very successful. I think he’s really smart. I don’t agree with everything that he believes, but I agree with a lot of it. And I think that he’d probably make a good president.

MORGAN: Are you ….

TURNER: But I’m not endorsing him.

Islam Is A Threat To America!

Michael Redbourn — Thu, 03 May 2012 20:20:33 +0000

CLARE LOPEZ: THE U.S. MILITARY BOWS TO ISLAM …

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… the U.S. military currently is involved in is the one which has top Pentagon officials ordering Defense Department schools to purge all training content that would actually inform military students about the enemy threat doctrine of Islamic jihad and its shariah origins. The stated objective of the dhimmified behavior is to ensure that American warriors never get the idea that the U.S. is at war with Islam-or apparently any realization that Islam is at war with the U.S. either.

Britannia Radio

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Fighting Sharia Law MUST be a Strategic Objective for the US By Tawfik Hamid www.tawfikhamid.com. Some see Sharia Law (Islamic Law) as a threat to human rights, discriminating specifically against women, g***, and …

On February 27, 2012 the Middle East Times, which is an America-based pro-Arab publication, ran an article with the following headline.

"The Majority of Muslims Oppose Attacking Civilians".

The publishers obviously wanted to portray a positive image of Islam, but apparently didn’t realize that they were also providing information to the contrary.

To support the notion that the majority of Muslims oppose attacking civilians, five countries, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Indonesia and Pakistan, along with the West Bank and Gaza, were listed alongside the percentages of their respective populations that opposed killing civilians.

And according to the article, the number of Muslims that support killing civilians as a tactic, ranges from a tiny fraction up to 50% of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims.

Those who consider themselves more liberal tended to lean toward the tiny fraction estimate, whilst conservatives leant toward the larger numbers.

According to the report.

The percentage of the respective populations that opposed killing civilians was as follows:

Egypt: 80% of 78 million
Azerbaijan: 70% of 8 million
Turkey: 70% of 71 million
Indonesia: 70% of 246 million
Pakistan: 60% of 166 million
West Bank/Gaza: 60% of 4 million

Conversely, while the article did not include specific statements about those who weren’t opposed to killing civilians, the implied deduction is that the remaining percentage favor it.

They range from Egypt’s comparative low of 20 percent, to Pakistan and the West Bank and Gaza which had the highest percentge.

By taking the current population of each referenced location, and turning the percentages into actual population figures, here’s what the numbers look like.

Those who may be said to support killing civilians:

Egypt: 20% or 15.6 million
Azerbaijan: 30% or 2.4 million
Turkey: 30% or 21.3 million
Indonesia: 30% or 73,8 million
Pakistan: 40% or 66.4 million
West Bank/Gaza: 40% or 1.6 million

Cumulative total: 181 million Muslims.

And the percentage that supports killing civilians is 31.6%.

So Let’s Expand The Six Places To All Muslims

The above quoted figures refer to only the six places referenced in the report, but if you take an average from this group then:

The percentage of Muslims that support killing civilians is 31.6%!

So How Many Muslims Condone Killing Civilians?

And if we extend the above stats to the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims, then the figure comes close to:

500 million Muslims condone killing civilians in order to attain their goal.

But What Is Islam’s Goal?

Islam’s "goal" is world domination and universal Sharia law for all, of course.

And if there’s one thing that I admire about Islam, it’s that its leaders openly proclaim their goal.

Most of the West still says however, "Oh, they’re just saying that".

Jihad For Allah

Jihad for Allah is considered the single holiest act of a true follower of the faith!

The martyr-killer is considered a hero and the martyr’s family is showered with gifts and held in a place of honor among fellow believers.

Former terrorist Noman Benotman says:

"If any Muslim appears and says ‘Okay, there is no jihad in Islam whatsoever’, please believe me, he is a liar".

"A pure liar. ”Osama bin-Laden insists on inflicting pain to his enemies".

"Beyond your imagination. You can’t miss it when you talk with him".

And Benotman said bin Laden’s top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was even more ruthless.

"Pay no attention when Muslims speak of ‘Inner Jihad’, Muslim terrorist groups are obsessed with destroying the United States. And they don’t care how many innocent civilians are killed in the process".

Will Non-Islamic Countries Wake Up?

Much of Europe is waking up, but it’s too late now for France, Belgium, Holland, Spain, and several other European countries too.

The Roman women mostly only wanted one child or a maximum of two whereas the minimum number to sustain a population is 2.1

The Roman men tired of working and fighting and imported slaves from Africa to do the job.

Rome fell, and so will most or all of Europe.

And America?

That depends on you.

It isn’t Islamophobia when they are really trying to kill you.

Muslim terrorist groups are obsessed with destroying the United States.

And they don’t care how many innocent civilians are killed in the process.

How will you vote in November 2012?

Voter ID Would Disenfranchise Democratic Voters

Michael Redbourn — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:52:55 +0000

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On Sunday’s State of the Union, CNN anchor Candy Crowley interviewed two governors, Virginia Republican Bob McDonnell and Montana Democrat Brian Schweitzer.

Crowley pounded McDonnell with a set of questions about that state’s voter ID bill and whether it disenfranchises Democrats.

But she skipped asking Schweitzer about his crack about Romney being born in a "Mexican polygamy commune", which implied that Romney’s father or grandfather were polygamists, which they weren’t.

And she could have asked Schweitzer about whether he felt it was in some way relevant, since Barack Obama’s father was a polygamist, but she didn’t.

CROWLEY

"Governor, let me move you all on to some issues key in your state. You have a voter ID law that is either near or sitting on your desk. You had criticized it in its current form, saying that you really worried it would disenfranchise some people who otherwise would have votes that counted. Are you going to sign that or not?".

McDONNELL

"I’m still working through it. I mean, we’re entitled to one man, one vote. Not two votes, but not no votes, and I’m trying to make sure that the bill I got back strikes that proper balance with some of the things (inaudible)".

CROWLEY

"You know what’s in it, though, and you have been opposed; you didn’t; you wanted to soften it a bit, make it slightly easier.

McDONNELL

"I wanted to make it easier to have a signature comparison".

CROWLEY

"Sure".

McDONNELL

"As opposed to making a voter come back. So I’m meeting with our state board of elections, with the attorney general, to find out whether or not this, whether or not we can make …".

CROWLEY

"Democrats say it would disenfranchise their voters".

McDONNELL:

I don’t think it. I don’t think it would. It would create an additional burden to have to come back and be able to show subsequent identity. We’ve had a number of cases of voter fraud. Most of them in the registration stage, and we want to make sure we have good clean elections. That’s a fundamental of democracy".

CROWLEY

"Sure. Leaning one way or the other? You know what’s in this".

McDONNELL

"I’ll let you know in a couple of weeks".

CROWLEY

"O.K. Come back in a couple of weeks".

Why Do Men Earn More Than Women In America?

Michael Redbourn — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:12:41 +0000

Alex Castellanos Denies Women Make Less Than Men

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Despite Castellanos' claims, new research shows that women make considerably less than men in the workplace. A study published by American Association of University Women, based on U.S. census data, found that on …

On Equal Pay Day, Women Still Make 77 Cents to Men's Dollar …

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It's Equal Pay Day again—the day that symbolizes how many additional days women working full-time would have to work to make as much as men working full-time did during the previous year. (The wage gap exists both across sectors—that is, … According to a recent study by the American Association of University Women, recent female college graduates made just 80 percent of their male counterparts' salaries. Here in Washington State, meanwhile, the median …

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Sunday’s Meet the Press tried to advance the bogus liberal position that women in America still only make 77 cents on the dollar compared to men.

And my first reaction on seeing her in this video was.

"Wow this woman so much wants to be a man, but she’s so far over the top".

"Over aggressive and and highly neurotic".

And then I discovered that she’s g** meaning that my first impression was right on.

Alex Castellanos however came across as laid-back and patient and he easily won the night.

In spite of Maddow hardly allowing him to speak.

Fortunately for viewers actually interested in the truth, Republican strategist Alex Castellanos was on the panel to correct her after marvelously teasing.

"I love how passionate you are. I wish you were as right about what you’re saying as you are passionate about it. I really do".

RACHEL MADDOW: Women in this country still make 77 cents on the dollar for what men make. So if–

ALEX CASTELLANOS: Not exactly.

RACHEL MADDOW: Women don’t make less than men?

ALEX CASTELLANOS: Actually, if you start looking at the numbers, Rachel, there are lots of reasons for that.

RACHEL MADDOW: Wait, wait. No.

ALEX CASTELLANOS: Well, first of all, we–

RACHEL MADDOW: Don’t tell me what the reasons are. Do women make less than men for the (UNINTEL PHRASE)?

ALEX CASTELLANOS: Actually–

REP. CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS (R-WASHINGTON): Not the same work.

ALEX CASTELLANOS: -because.

RACHEL MADDOW: No? (LAUGH) Okay. No.

ALEX CASTELLANOS: Well, for example–

(OVERTALK)

ALEX CASTELLANOS: –men work an average of 44 hours a week. Women work 41 hours a week. Men go into professions like engineering, science and math that earn more. Women want more flexibility–

(OVERTALK)

Illegal Aliens Are Illegal So We Can’t Drop The I-Word

Michael Redbourn — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:35:43 +0000

Monica Novoa, who is, or perhaps was the spokeswoman for the Drop the I-Word initiative came across as very foolish on the "The O’Reilly Factor".

To be fair to her, how could she come across as anything else, when trying to support such a foolish initiative.

Novoa tried several times to weasel out of answering O’Reilly’s questions but he nailed her to the proverbial cross.

The interview will hopefully bring to an end to her fifteen minutes of fame (Andy Warhol), because she came across as dumb, unprepared, and unable to undergo any kind of serious scrutiny.

And we don’t need any more people like that involved in politics.

Having said that, the aim of the initiative is to make the term "illegal alien" morally on a par with a racial slur, and anyone who signed up to the initiative would have to be even dumber than her, so maybe she’ll keep the majority of her followers.

Novoa began the interview by cockily asserting that while America was a "nation of laws", it was also a nation of ”humane laws” and that laws that weren’t also humane could be changed, and apparently thought that raising the politically correct banner would be sufficient, but it wasn’t.

O’Reilly was smart and rather than challenge her implicit premise that U.S. immigration law is inhumane, O’Reilly took a different tack.

"So change the laws and don’t demonize people who are accurate in the description as using a slur or using a hate word, ’cause that’s not true’".

Then laughing somewhat mockingly, Novoa pointed out that Fox News Latino didn’t use the word "illegal".

"Fox News Latino will not join the bandwagon of dehumanizing people who are immigrants".

O’Reilly was unphased however and proceeded to probe more deeply.

"I don‘t think I’m dehumanizing everyone by describing what the reality is. Do you believe we should have open borders here, that anyone who comes to the United States should be able to come?”.

And it was at this point that Novoa made her first major mistake.

"I think that what we should be doing right now is looking at the reality".

And then O’Reilly pounced.

"Miss Novoa, Miss Novoa, Miss Novoa, what you did is just dodge a question, and now you’re filibustering, that‘s two things we don’t allow on this program".

Over the course of the next minute or so, Novoa continued to spout platitudes as O’Reilly continually tried to push her for specifics.

An at one point O’Reilly even appointed her the hypothetical "Czar” of immigration, and asked her what her policy would be.

Then, once he shot down all her preplanned answers, and Novoa literally sat silently, completely stumped.

O’Reilly delivered his harshest criticism of the segment.

"You haven’t even thought this out, Miss Novoa", O’Reilly said coldly. "You have not even thought this out. And with all due respect, because I appreciate you coming in here, you come in here with a very hot campaign, alright? Run by a far-Left website, demonizing people like me who are accurately telling the people what’s happening. And you don’t even know what you want. You don’t even know what you want".

And perhaps amazingly, Novoa still hadn’t realized she was bleeding.

"Fox News Latino agrees with us, maybe you can talk a little bit to them?”.

O’Reilly curtly responded that he could do his own show regardless of what other shows or channels he was affiliated with did.

Novoa responded by simply asserting that "the I-word” was racist.

O’Reilly shot that down by pointing out that not all illegal immigrants were Latino, but that many were in fact Asian, Russian, and from many other countries too.

The simple point was, that they were crossing the borders illegally, hence they were "Illegal aliens".

"I have to say, I’m very surprised that I gave you the opportunity to define for millions of people, what you want the law to be, and you can’t!”.

To which Novoa responded sassily.

"We’re here to talk about the I-word today".

But O’Reilly cut her off with what many would see as a killing blow.

"No, we’re not. You’re here to talk about what I want to talk about. This is my program".

Twenty five years ago I used to defend illegals on what I considered were moral grounds and suggested that, "In the same way that water finds its own level, that illegals would return home if there was no work for them".

But I later realized that taking jobs is only one facet of a much bigger problem.

In total illegal aliens may be costing the US as much as a half-trillion (not million) dollars a year and America is already on the ropes economically.

Is a half-trillion dollars a year correct?

It would appear that it is, but if it’s only two thirds of that, then it’s a huge amount.

Check out How Many Illegals Are In The US And What Is The Cost? and make up your own mind.