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Non-political post of the day: Deadbeats denied passport

What an awesome idea! Every once in a blue moon, the feds get something right. Then again, even a broken clock is right twice a day. From the Denver Post:

The price of a passport: $311,491 in back child-support payments for a U.S. businessman now living in China, $46,000 for a musician seeking to perform overseas and $45,849 for a man planning a Dominican Republic vacation.

The new passport requirements that have complicated travel this summer also have uncovered untold numbers of child-support scofflaws and forced them to pay millions.

The State Department denies passports to noncustodial parents who owe more than $2,500 in child support. Once the parents make good on their debts, they can reapply for passports.
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“For us, it’s been amazing to see how people who owe back child support seem to be able to come up with good chunks of money when it involves needing their passport,” said Adolfo Capestany, spokesman for the state of Washington’s Division of Child Support. “Folks will do anything to get that passport, so it is a good collection tool.” …

Planning on an international vacation with that honey you ran off with while leaving your wife and children behind? Cough up that delinquent child support first, jerk! Think you’re going to flee to China to escape child support liability? Think again!

In short, I abso-freakin’-lutely love it!

August 16, 2007 Posted by | non-political | 5 Comments

Obama: Not everything is Bush’s fault

If the LA Times’ “Magic Negro” has any hope to win the Dem nomination, he can’t go ticking off the meds-taking moonbats that make up the base by saying crazy things like this:

Not all the nation’s ills can be blamed on President Bush, Democratic candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday as he called on Americans to change the nature of politics and institute more openness in government.

“Part of the problem here is not just George Bush and the White House,” Obama told a crowd of hundreds gathered at a park in Cedar Falls. “We can’t just change political parties and continue to do the same kind of things we’ve been doing. We can’t just go about business as usual and think it’s going to turn out differently.”

August 16, 2007 Posted by | moonbats, Obama | 7 Comments

Border Patrol shames Newark for being “sanctuary city”

From Debbie Schlussel:

Border Patrol agents have directed my attention to a letter their union, the National Border Patrol Council, sent to the City of Newark:

August 10th 2007
Dear City of Newark

If your city officials had reported Mr. Carranza as an illegal alien to DHS while he was in your jail for raping children, the three young people murdered by Mr. Carranza would be alive. Other sanctuary cities pay heed, because it is only a matter of time until it happens to someone in your town.

Several promising lives snuffed out in an instant by Jose Carranza. All might have been prevented. Very tragic.

Raping children and executing teenagers…the “jobs Americans won’t do”, eh, Dubya?

By the way, Hot Air has a post (with video snippet) about last night’s Hannity & Colmes (with some libtard chick filling in for Colmes), whereby Geraldo the Criminal Alien Shill argues with Sean over the Carranza thing. According to the libtard chick, had the feds deported Carranza the first time he f’ed up, the executed kids in NJ would still be alive…but (sit down for this one, folks)…then he would have been terrorizing Peru instead of New Jersey and “we should have no preference between those two options.” Wow. Just…wow.

August 16, 2007 Posted by | illegal immigration | 2 Comments

Ramifications of having a welfare state

Look at our pals in Great Britain:

Nearly ten million people in Britain are out of work – more than six times the official unemployment rate – it was revealed last night.

The ‘hidden army’ of jobless accounts for a quarter of the working-age population.

Critics said the staggering numbers represented a ‘huge pool of wasted talent’ and fuelled concerns about the drain on the economy.
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But in the small print, the ONS figures reveal that the real total is 9.6million, because a further 7.95million people in Britain are classed merely as ‘economically inactive’.

They are not listed as unemployed but do not go to work because they are sick, looking after family or simply refuse to find a job.

Oh my. “Economically inactive” is quite the euphemism to describe people who “simply refuse to find a job”, wouldn’t you say? That’s like saying that Bubba is “loyally inactive” because he simply refuses to leave the interns alone. Continuing:

… Kieran O’Keeffe, policy adviser for the British Chambers of Commerce, described the increase as ‘worrying’.

He added: “Whilst we accept that many people cannot work for valid reasons, such as those with caring responsibilities or in early retirement, there are many more that are claiming welfare in one form or another.

“These represent a “hidden unemployed”, lost within the complexity of official statistics.

“This underlines the urgent need to find a long-term solution to welfare dependency, which, if left unchecked, will condemn a growing proportion of the working population to a cycle of low aspiration and worklessness.”

This one galls me:

“Many of these people could work, and would want to work, if given the right incentives and support.”

How’s this for an incentive? “No work, no money!” There. Problem solved.

Obviously, those who are sick or are primarily responsible for a child or someone sick are not who I’m talking about here. But I have a real problem with people who refuse to work and live off of the public dole to fund their chosen lifestyle of lethargy. No scratch that: I don’t have a problem with that…the UK does.

If you reward bad behavior, you will get more of it.

August 16, 2007 Posted by | economic ignorance | 1 Comment

   

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