Out of Work, Out of Luck, Out of money...and hope fades...

Anyone anywhere (if I have to beg, might was well beg for help from a 'red state') who needs a cabinetmaker/trim carpenter and is willing to help with relocation expenses. My wife and I  are about to lose our apartment (lost the house in Dec 2008) and are just about out of hope. Cheri's not been able to find steady work since Spring of 2008, and I work in construction/manufacturing, an industry that has been devastated by the huge influx of illegals.

I have sixteen years experience in commercial and residential custom cabinetry, countertop manufacture and installation.  I have training and experience in all facets of the industry.  In connection with this I have completed two apprenticeships, the first being a State of Florida vocational-technical school, a one year full-time apprenticeship in carpentry and cabinetry  with well over one thousand hours of classroom and hands-on instruction.  The second being a more traditional apprenticeship to a high end, master craftsman who builds custom colonial furniture and specializes in hand-made reproductions of colonial furniture using traditional hand tools and techniques. 

I can be reached via phone at 443.835 9949 or ravail136@aol.com to answer any questions you may have.  I am available for video interviews via Skype, as rvail136 on that free internet service.  References available upon request.

Here's a portion of my resume:

2014          Trim Carpenter/Installer

      United Services Available                                                Reisterstown, MD

                              Installation of high end custom commercial cabinetry and millwork

      in residential and commercial properties. 

                 

2014          Master Cabinetmaker

      Beaubois/Arcade Millwork Install.  Quebec, Canada/Beltsville, MD

Fabrication and installation of cabinetry and millwork in high end commercial applications.

2013          Master Cabinetmaker,

Key Wookworking,                                              Springfield, VA

Fabrication of custom commercial cabinetry and millwork, as well as custom countertops including veneers, laminate and solid surface materials in a privately held,  high-end custom cabinetry shop

            2012          Shop Coordinator

                              Consolidated Medical Services, Inc.           Hunt Valley, Maryland

Fabrication of commercial custom cabinetry and millwork, countertops using laminates and solid surface materials and including millwork in a custom commercial millwork shop. Coordination with various sub-contractors and installers in connection with ongoing projects.

            2011          Master Cabinetmaker

Novak Birch                                                     Baltimore, Maryland

Fabrication of custom trade show displays, cabinetry and countertops including aluminum extrusions, veneers, laminates and solid surface materials as well supervision of installation of exhibits and displays in nationally recognized exhibit/display manufacturing company.

Don't Mess With Texas: Dallas Edition

In Texas there is a huge problem with illegal aliens driving cars without insurance.  So...the City of Dallas had a solution.  Via Lynda D.:

Don’t mess withTexas ***The City of Dallas, Texas passed an ordinance Stating that if a driver is pulled over by law enforcement And is not able to provide proof of Insurance, the car is towed. To retrieve the car after being impounded, they must show Proof of insurance to have the car released. This has made it easy for the City of Dallas to remove uninsured cars. Shortly after the "No Insurance" ordinance was passed, The Dallas impound lots began to fill up and were full After only nine days. Over 80% of the impounded cars were driven by illegals. Now, not only must they provide proof of insurance to have their car released, they have to pay for the cost of the tow, A*$350 fine, and *$20 for every day their car is kept In the lot. Guess what? Accident rates have gone down 47% and Dallas' solution gets uninsured drivers off the road *WITHOUT* making them show proof of nationality. I Wonder how Attorney General Holder's US Justice Department Will get around this one. * * * * * ** Just brings tears to your eyes doesn't it? ** *** GO Dallas *** AMEN TO THAT I can't stop smiling!

That's a hell of a way to deal with a problem!

Reciprocity...

Via Roger's Rules

Dear President Obama:

I’m planning to move my family and extended family into Mexico for my health, and I would like to ask you to assist me.

We’re planning to simply walk across the border from the U.S. Into Mexico, and we’ll need your help to make a few arrangements.

We plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. I’m sure they handle those things the same way you do here.So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Calderon, that I’m on my way over?

Please let him know that I will be expecting the following:

1. Free medical care for my entire family.
2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not.
3. Please print all Mexican government forms in English.
4. I want my grandkids to be taught Spa nish by English-speaking (bi-lingual) teachers.
5. Tell their schools they need to include classes on American culture and history.
6. I want my grandkids to see the American flag on one of the flag poles at their school.
7. Please plan to feed my grandkids at school for both breakfast and lunch.
8. I will need a local Mexican driver’s license so I can get easy access to government services. 9. I do plan to get a car and drive in Mexico, but, I don’t plan to purchase car insurance, and I probably won’t make any special effort to learn local traffic laws.
10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from their president to leave me alone, please be sure that every patrol car has at least one English-speaking officer.
11. I plan to fly the U.S. Flag from my house top, put U S. Flag decals on my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th. I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals.
12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, or have any labor or tax laws enforced on any business I may start.
13. Please have the president tell all the Mexican people to be extremely nice and never say critical things about me or my family, or about the strain we might place on their economy.
14. I want to receive free food stamps.
15. Naturally, I’ll expect free rent subsidies.
16. I’ll need Income tax credits so although I don’t pay Mexican Taxes, I’ll receive money from the government.
17. Please arrange it so that the Mexican Gov’t pays $4,500 to help me buy a new car.
18. Oh yes, I almost forgot, please enroll me free into the Mexican Social Security program so that I’ll get a monthly income in retirement.
I know this is an easy request because you already do all these things for all his people who walk over to the U.S. from Mexico.
I am sure that President Calderon won’t mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely.

This is what we give illegals from Mexico when they come here, they should offer Americans exactly the same thing.

The Dream Act

With Mr. Obama weighing in with his version of the dream act giving citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants brought to this country by their parents, and thus seizing moment from the stupidity of the GOP, he has attempted to influence the Hispanic vote in the upcoming election.

My take?  Before any sort of "Dream Act" can be discussed, we, as a nation must secure the porous Mexican border prior to any sort of discussion on illegal immigration.  It's that simple.  No ifs, ands or buts.  Close and secure the border, and only then talk about what to do with the 12-20 MILLION illegals currently here.

My view is that those individuals must return to their home countries and apply for a visa, just as everyone else who entered the country accourding to the laws passed by Congress and signed into law by past presidents.  Circumventing those laws to enter the country makes every damn one of them a felon in my view.  They broke the law of the land, that being set forth by Congress.  Ask any one who has taken 5 or more years to get a residence visa and see just how vehement they oppose amnesty for illegals.

This president has proposed his version of the "Dream Act" in order to pander to the Hispanic community here in America.  It's not about "fairness" it's about gaining political favour with a voting block that just might shore up his stumbling candidacy.

How to end Illegal Immigration

There is constant argument on how to eliminate the huge problem we have with illegal immigrants in this country.  This post stems from a comment on made on a Daily Caller article.  You want to end illegal immigration?   There are five simple steps to do so:

1. One year manadatory jail term and $10,000.00 fine for each illegal worker who is found in your employment.
2. Revoke business license for 1 year for each illegal worker who is found in your employ
3. On third violation...sieze all property owned by that company...
4. Eliminate the "anchor baby" citizenship loophole...by stating that those children born to parents who are here illegally do not have citizenship.
5. Eliminate ALL federal funding to municipalities and counties that are "santuary" areas. (If you don't wish to enforce federal laws...then you don't get federal dollars.).

Those five simple steps would eliminate any and all insentives for hiring illegal workers.

Tax Credits For Illegal Aliens

Evidently, the Obama administration is giving tax credits to employers who hire illegal aliens. 

A blistering Treasury Department audit released Friday found that "individuals not authorized to work in the United States were paid $4.2 billion in refundable credits." Those credits are meant to zero out any taxes paid by the poor, and often amount to checks as high as $1,000, courtesy of other taxpayers.

In the last five years, some 2.3 million illegal immigrants decided they, too, were "entitled" to that money, and the IRS paid them. Word got out and the payouts to illegals grew fourfold over the last five years.

The Treasury report noted that paying these credits to illegals is explicitly prohibited by U.S. law, which holds that those unauthorized to work here cannot receive federal benefits.

You just have to love the hypocrisy of this administration...they want to create jobs, they just don't want Americans (or legal residents) to have them. The only way to end illegal immigration is to have a genuinely defensible-defined and patrolled border. The only way to curb illegal immigration is to harshly punish those who HIRE illegal immigrants.  If you fine and revoke the business licenses of companies who hire illegals, you remove the incentive to do so.  When you can't conduct business legally, because you've been fined, lost your liscense, or imprisoned for hiring illegals...then the problem will solve itself.

Additionally, the federal government, through the Democratic party has not helped the matter...if those counties and cities who have become "sanctuaries" were to lose ALL federal funding for ALL programs...they'd rapidly repeal their "sanctuary" status!  Any city or county that refuses to follow federal laws in this should lose any and ALL federal funding.  No ifs, ands or buts...

Bankruptcy 101

Bankruptcy 101


A Real Eye Opener



WHY is the USA BANKRUPT?



Informative, and mindboggling!





You think the war in Iraq was costing us too much? Read

this:



A friend of mine sent me some stuff on just how we as a nation are wasting money...the usual meme has been it's the illegal "foriegn wars" that have pushed us into bankruptcy.  The following is what we as a nation spend on illegal workers every single year.  EVERY YEAR. I think that the seven budgetary items below with help change your mind.  I have the URL's for checking those  facts below each item.

1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year by state governments.
Verify at
http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=iic_immigrationissuecenters7fd8

2.  $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
Verify at:
 http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML

3.  $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid  for illegal aliens.
Verify at:
http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.HTML

4.  $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!
Verify  at:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt..0..HTML

5.   $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
Verify at
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML

6.   $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.

Verify at:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
http://transcripts.cnn.com/%20TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML 

7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
Verify  at:
 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANscriptS/0604/01/ldt.01.HTML
http://20w.drdsk.com/articleshtml
 https://webmail.east.cox.net/do/redirect?url

If you do the math, you'll find  that we're blowing $338.3 billion dollars each and every year...and that number is climbing with inflation.  By not spending that money, that would close almost one-fifth of the deficit.  That's a significant amount of money.  If we spent it in one year on securing the US-Mexican border, we'd not have to spend that money ever again...think about that.

Prescott Square Apartments, Pikesville, Maryland

I live just outside of Baltimore, Maryland in a suburb called Pikesville.  It's nice place to live for the most part.  But the apartment complex I live in mystifies me most of the time.  With record numbers of construction workers out of work.  They only hire contractors who use illegal workers.

First it was the roofing contractor.  They were here for a week.  The only person on the crew working here who spoke ANY english at all was the foreman, and he only spoke broken english.  When I tried to ask them where they were from...they literally fled for the day.  I called/contacted the various agencies in the county before giving up and trying the local corrupt Congresscritter, John Sarbanes (son of the former Senator for Maryland, and "Senator" in waiting when Ben Cardin decides to retire)...nothing happened.

Now, the carpet is being  replaced...and once again, not one of the men doing the work can speak English.  As a cabinetmaker who hasn't worked regularly in two years, this really pisses me off.  I know carpet layers who are out of work, and this contractor is using illegals.  There are carpenters who can't find work, and all the crews I see...doing what little work there is, are illegals...it's well past time that we do something about this. 

I would like to see significant increases in the amounts of fines for employers who hire and use illegal workers.  Additionally, I'd like to see a secure border.  Fortunately, the DREAM Act was voted down, or we'd have a flood of ever more illegals coming north.  But, alas, none of these things will happen as long as unions and their Democratic party enablers see illegal workers as a resource (i.e. potential voters) to be exploited. 

Protest by Illegal Immigrants in Phoenix Saturday 7/31/10

Here are some pictures from the Illegal Immigrants protesting AZ's new law.

Border Fence: 68% Voters Support It, 67% Political Class Oppose it...

Rasmussen Reports new poll on illegal immigration shows that 68% of likely voters support the continued building of a secure border barrier along the Mexican border.  Just as predictably, while more than 3/4ths voters (76%)  want Congress to build a secure border, only 67% of the "political class" (our ostensible rulers) oppose just such a barrier...and just a predictably, CBS News, is reporting that there is no violence along the border.  They soft soap report below shows.  This is what our political elite believes, yet, voters are strongly opposed.  This is yet another example of the "political elite" flouting the will of the people.



However, a large majority of voters are opposed the the DoJ's lawsuit against Arizona's recent law requiring police to check the immigration status of those they arrest for other crimes.

Fifty-six percent (56%) of voters nationwide oppose the Justice Department’s decision to challenge the Arizona law, and 61% favor passage of a law like Arizona’s in their own state.


Fifty-four percent (54%) say the Justice Department instead should take legal action against cities that provide sanctuary for illegal immigrants. Even more think the federal government should cut off funds to these “sanctuary cities.”

Most voters ages 40 and older say it is possible for the United States to end illegal immigration. Republicans by better than two-to-one are more confident than Democrats that it’s possible. Voters not affiliated with either party are more closely divided on the question.

Most members of the Political Class, however, say it can’t be done. Fifty-six percent (56%) of Mainstream voters say it is possible to stop illegal immigration, but 58% of the Political Class disagree.

But, here's the money statistic, and this is how highly Congress, and our political leadership are held on this as well as many other matters: 

Sixty-eight percent (68%) of voters say the Political Class doesn’t care what most Americans think anyway.

That just goes to show that it's way past time, regarless of party, to vote them ALL OUT IN NOVEMBER!

White House Tresspassers

Here's an  interesting take on White House Tresspassers last December.

Reach Robers in a a opinion piece published in the Arizona Republic has proposed the following plan to secure the border and then "reform" our immigration system...

No. 1. Stop holding our security hostage and get control of the border now. On Thursday, Obama said the border is "more secure today than at any time in the past 20 years." A few hours later, 21 people died in a shootout among rival gangs just 12 miles south of Nogales. Put down the talking points and fix it so that people with AK-47s aren't running through the desert. Fix it so that the people we've deported stay deported. Fix it with National Guard troops who are actually allowed to do what they are trained to do. That is, guard.


No. 2. Once we have control - and only after we have control - take up the issue of how to offer a chance of legalization to those who can prove they have been here since some set point in time that begins before any last-minute rush to the border to get in on the deal. They would need to have a clean criminal record, pay a fine and learn English. Yes, some hard-liners will try to stall on what "control" means. Yes, it's unfair to those who seek to come here the legal way, and yes, it's "amnesty." But it's also an acknowledgement that they are here and that we had a hand in their arrival. At least, our employers did, and we certainly never complained about the cheap labor.

No. 3. Create a tamperproof ID card and put employers on notice that if they're caught with ineligible workers, they're in big trouble.

No. 4. Establish a guest-worker program that fills the need for immigrant labor but only after being fair to the American worker, who will do most jobs, I suspect, if he or she is paid a living wage.

And No. 5. Along with securing the border now, pass the DREAM Act now.

The part where I disagree is on the Dream Act...you don't reward bad behavior with citizenship, much less "permanent residency."  They broke the law to come to this country and by rewarding them for that act is contravention to the rule of law...but then, since when does the rule of law figure into what ANY politician does in this country.






Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2010/07/03/20100703roberts0703.html#ixzz0se519ssX

Illegal Immigrants Protest At Montebello High School In California

Here's a story you won't see in any of the MSM outlets.  The protestors at Montebello High School took the American flag off the school's flag pole and hung it upside down while putting up the Mexican flag over it.

This story will never be covered by the liberal media because it doesn't fit the narative they're building of a hard working, law-abiding "future" citizenry...it is in fact just the opposite.  Never before in our history have we permitted immigrants to remain apart.  For the first time in our history we have not demanded that immigrants not assimilate into the melting pot that is our culture.  In the past 30 years we have jumped into a politically correct abyss that permits and encourages seperatism...and this is a result.

Take a close look at the sign...we will all pay for this eventually.