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Comment by Ted Johnson on September 18, 2011 at 8:37pm

Roma & Tom, good questions. If you've heard of William F. Buckley, he had a rule. Pick the best Conservative candidate that can win. He, or she, doesn't have to be perfect, like so many want, just the best Conservative that can win. And, in our case now against Obama that includes just about anyone. Name recognition, and being in front on a poll means very little. Keep doing your homework, and inform everyone what you have found. Then vote for who you decide, but when a person is picked by our majority then get behind that person 100% and make him/her win the prize. I more than agree with you on Nelson. I wrote him so many times, and at times I wouldn't even get a form letter back. I finally wrote and told him if he kept voting way he did I was personally going to do everything I could to get him fired. Well, it's time. I hope I see some of your research.

Comment by Ted Johnson on September 18, 2011 at 2:28pm

CJ, Roma & Tom, you "boys" sound like the "gang" of three on the playground that doesn't like the one guy who won't play by "your" rules. "Ooooh, I don't like you calling us names." You don't like it then shut up and go home to mommie. She'll kiss and hold you. I'm so tired of panty waist metro-sexuals trying to make others into what they want. Like I said already, if you disagree with my ideas as written, get over it, and go to something you can handle. Like crying on eachother's shoulder. At this point I'd almost be willing to believe all of you have no problem with homosexuals and worst serving in the military. "Please Joe tell it ain't so."

Comment by w. lee dungan jr. on September 18, 2011 at 6:31am

In florida several months after E-verify was put in place for all gov. hiring, florida's unemployment rate dropped.  The jobs  that E-verify  would open up to legal citizens would send a huge wave of tax dollars to Washington, possibly enough to fill obummers class warfare pie hole.

Comment by CJ on September 17, 2011 at 9:09pm

Sir your thoughts can be conveyed in a more mature manner like the rest of us God loving, flag waving Americans do in this forum and what I accept is that you appear to be a very sour and lonely man 

Mr. with a capital J

Comment by Ted Johnson on September 17, 2011 at 8:49pm

CJ

First of all my Consitution says I have freedom to speak as I please within reason (not calling fire in a theater when there is no fire). So if I offended your sensibilities I say, to bad get over it and grow up. You're not some lord of the english language, and I don't care about your sensibilities in the first place. So if you took one, or more, of my words as an insult, good, sounds like you needed it. As the old saying goes, if the shoe fits wear it. It's to bad you couldn't get past them, and the idea they presented. Since you probably would've learn something you didn't learn during your life time. And, it sure doesn't sound like "everyone" is an adult here. I didn't write it to have a conversation. I wrote it as my thoughts to get an idea out there. So someone, anyone, might get the grey matter between their ears in gear and start thinking as Americans. As I was trained, when someone says something there's two things you can do with it. Accept it or throw it away. And just so you know, my name is spelled with a capital J.  

Comment by CJ on September 17, 2011 at 6:02pm

Mr johnson with all due respect we are all adults here and as far as I know name calling went out with childhood no matter how much we want to say it, we dont.

Can we have a conversation?

The ideas you present are viable and yet after the first paragraph I dont care any more, and its a shame because you sound like a smart guy.

Comment by Ted Johnson on September 17, 2011 at 5:39pm

All you liberal "dimocrates" need to READ and then try, with what brain cells you have left, to understand the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. As I read some of the comments I see there is lack of knowledge in this area. Such as Art. 1 Section 8 Para. 4; The Congress shall have Power...To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization..... Now, if you sneak into this country and STEAL from it's citizens, not coming here by asking for permission to enter like every other sovereign country requires. Then you have done so ILLEGALLY, and have broken our laws. You liberal dimwits need to understand we, this country, are under assault. Why?? Because we have what others don't. We have a Constitution, that no one is taught or reads anymore. But, it seems like we have one hell of a lot of experts running around. We have a Capitalist system that provides more things, or at least we use to, that people enjoy but won't protect anymore. You allow anyone who wants to burn and desecrate our flag, but let them demand that we honor their flag and customs, on our soil. The liberal "dimocrates" have destroyed our educational system, which is destroying this country. How many of you have looked into your child's history book lately? Oh, you ask, WHAT history book? There is, maybe, something in one of the books about something to do with this country. But, is it real history and about our country's heritage. I doubt it. So how do YOU expect them to have honor and love of this country. Let me say this for your thoughts, Liberal thinking has no mental boundaries. Conservative thinking does set boundaries. It uses past experiences, history, and human common sense as to what will, or will not, work for the common good. This is from a man of 66 years of age, retired military, and retired Florida law enforcement. So this old man says to all of you. If any of you think you are an American, and put a hyphened name in front of your name, ie; African-American, Mexican-American, etc. Let me make this very clear, YOU are not an American and I would deport you in a heart beat. When you, or your ancesters, came here, you or them took an oath to this country. When you place that hyphened name in front of your name you are showing you have a divided allegiance. Here is a speech of Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants and being an American in 1907.

"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." 

Teddy Roosevlt made more speeches on the subject of imigration and immigrants of which you can read very easily if you go to http:www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/troosevelt.asp

Now WAKE UP AMERICA!!! 

Comment by Debbie G on September 17, 2011 at 1:05pm

Found the following information on the Department of Labor website, not directly related, but it does smell of something bigger than what the article conveys.

 

Retrieved 18 August from:  http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/whd/WHD20110991.htm

 

News Release

WHD News Release: [08/18/2011]
Contact Name: Michael DeAquino or Michael Wald
Phone Number: (404) 562-2076 or (404) 562-2078
Release Number: 11-991-ATL

2 Jacksonville, Fla., restaurants and owners ordered to pay more than $934,000 to 30 workers following US Labor Department investigation

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Two La Nopalera restaurants in Jacksonville and their owners have been ordered to pay 30 employees $934,425 in back wages and liquidated damages under the terms of consent judgments. The agreements resolve a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit based on an investigation by its Wage and Hour Division that alleged violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum wage, overtime pay and record-keeping provisions.

“All workers deserve to be paid fairly, and the Labor Department will hold accountable employers that take advantage of their employees,” said Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis. “We want workers to know we will defend their rights under the law to compensation for all hours worked, and we want companies that play by the rules to know we will take action against those that use illegal tactics to gain a competitive advantage.”

Investigators found that kitchen employees were improperly classified as exempt from FLSA overtime pay provisions and consequently paid salaries that did not include compensation for hours worked over 40 in a week.  Additionally, every week, tipped employees would receive their tips plus a paycheck that together equaled the minimum wage; however, management required the employees to sign and return the paychecks, and would then cash the checks and put the money back into the restaurant. Through this process, while it appeared that the owners were paying wages, the employees actually were allowed to keep only their tips. Finally, the employers did not maintain accurate records of the hours worked by employees.

The department’s suit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Jacksonville Division. The following parties agreed to consent judgments resolving the suit: LAJAL Inc., doing business as La Nopalera No. 7 on Beach Boulevard; its owners Javier Valencia, Augustin Hernandez and Maria Hernandez; La Nopalera Mexican Restaurant No. 10 Inc. on Phillips Highway; and its owners Javier Valencia and Luis Cuevas. The judgments hold the restaurants and owners individually and severably liable for future violations of the FLSA and payment of the back wages.

The employees will receive $584,425 in back wages and an additional $350,000 in liquidated damages. The restaurants will be allowed to make the payments in installments over 13 months to the Wage and Hour Division, which will distribute the payments to workers. Other La Nopalera restaurants located in Florida and Georgia were not part of the investigation.

The Wage and Hour Division has several ongoing enforcement initiatives throughout the nation to address similar noncompliance issues that are common in the restaurant and other industries.

The FLSA requires that covered employees be paid at least the federal minimum wage for all hours worked, as well as one and one-half times their regular rates of pay for hours worked over 40 per week. If certain conditions are met, the FLSA permits an employer to take a tip credit toward its minimum wage obligation for tipped employees. The employer must pay tipped employees a cash wage of $2.13 per hour or the state mandated cash wage, whichever is higher; all tips must be retained by the employee exce

Comment by Armando Delgado on September 16, 2011 at 1:51pm

This law sounds like another step into Big Brother State. Even if this law were to make a difference in employment for Americans in the short term, once passed, it'll stay on the books forever, and who knows what future interpretation will be given to it when the state desires to invade business privacy for other purposes. This law is not the way to deal with the illegal inmigration problem.

Comment by G richard hill on September 16, 2011 at 12:59pm

Illegals take the jobs Americans won't do?   Who did them before?  Americans don't want the rotten jobs until the um-employment benefits run out and then the jobs have been taken by illegals.  If we cut back unemployment  benefits to 6 mos there would be no jobs for the illegals.

In the construction industry the only calls we get for work are from people who are running out of their benefits.  I read that as people who have been on extended vacation on my dime which is coming to an end.

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