An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Morning Coffee 8/29/07
Up to 10% in Virginia jails illegals
The 13,735 illegal aliens in jail committed 27,148 offenses in fiscal 2007, according to the report. The majority of offenses for which illegal aliens are held in the state’s jails involved alcohol or the possession of fake identification documents.
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The average annual cost to house an inmate in a state prison during fiscal 2006 was $23,123, said Larry Traylor, a spokesman for the Virginia Department of Corrections.
If my calculator is correct, that’s roughly 31 MILLION DOLLARS annually to house, feed and clothe people who should never have been here in the first place!
Help drying up for Katrina evacuees in Dallas
Many remain in N. Texas but struggle to find jobs
Hurricane Katrina relief, once an outpouring of support for evacuees displaced in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, has slowed to a trickle on the second anniversary of the storm.
While no official figures are available, an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 evacuee households still call North Texas home, according to advocacy groups. And countless evacuees still need help paying for basic necessities such as rent and utilities.
The sad thing is, many of those still struggling are those who expect the government to ‘take care’ of them. The cradle to grave mindset created by the poverty pimps in Louisiana did a great deal of harm for these people.
Poverty worsens in city; 26% live below the line
Milwaukee has 8th-highest rate of large U.S. cities
Johnniemae Ashford is a 41-year-old African-American woman caught in a poverty trap.
She is raising five grandchildren and takes home$187 every two weeks as a patient-care worker. She needs pots, pans, beds, groceries and cash for a first rent check so she can move her family out of her sister’s house and into a new home.
While I have great sympathy for this lady, my first question is, where is these children’s mother? Second, FIVE grandchildren at the age of 41?
Persistent Fear Drives Stocks Down
The stock market plunged late in the afternoon yesterday, registering its biggest drop in three weeks as investors were hit by fresh worries over declining consumer confidence, falling house prices, shrinking profits on Wall Street and uncertainty about the Federal Reserve.
I’m no economic genius, but it seems to me that panic selling is only feeding the beast, and creating a worse outlook. Maybe folks should stop and think in the long term before yanking their funds? I don’t know, just a thought.
Taliban free 12 S. Korean hostages in Afghanistan
Taliban militants on Wednesday released 12 of 19 South Korean captives they promised to free under a deal struck with the South Korean government to resolve a hostage crisis that began almost six weeks ago.
I thought the deal was to release all 19, so where are the other 7?
As Ford goes to prison, ethics laws on trial
Even as the book is being closed on former state Sen. John Ford, who is headed to prison for taking bribes, there may be a move to undo some of the state’s new ethics laws that his arrest prompted.
Some state lawmakers are complaining about unintended consequences of the ethics reforms they’ve passed — and proposed changes, possibly loosening some of the newly tightened laws, could come out of a legislative study committee this fall.
Which leads me to ask, what are they afraid of? Is it possible they think they, themselves, might be brought up on charges?
Beethoven’s Doctor Accidentally Poisoned Him, Pathologist Claims
Did someone kill Beethoven? A Viennese pathologist claims the composer’s physician did — inadvertently overdosing him with lead in a case of a cure that went wrong.
What on earth do you try to cure with lead?
Republicans distance selves from Idaho senator
Senate GOP leaders called Tuesday for an Ethics Committee investigation of the Idaho Republican’s June arrest at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in Minnesota.
“He’s disappointed the American people,” former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, for whose presidential campaign Craig was a Senate liaison, told CNBC on Tuesday night. Craig has stepped down from his role in the campaign.
If he’s going to have the morals of an ally cat, he should be a Democrat. They don’t seem to mind such behavior.
Big Source of Clinton’s Cash Is an Unlikely Address
It isn’t obvious how the Paw family is able to afford such political largess. Records show they own a gift shop and live in a 1,280-square-foot house that they recently refinanced for $270,000. William Paw, the 64-year-old head of the household, is a mail carrier with the U.S. Postal Service who earns about $49,000 a year, according to a union representative. Alice Paw, also 64, is a homemaker. The couple’s grown children have jobs ranging from account manager at a software company to “attendance liaison” at a local public high school. One is listed on campaign records as an executive at a mutual fund.
I’d be real interested to find out how they manage to donate so much money without obvious means. Guess it’s another Clintonesque miracle, eh?
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