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121 [lbo-talk] Immigration and Federalism -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > If anything, Marta, cracking down on Latino immigrants and making > California whiter will make it easier for the state and federal > governments to cut health care and other services. Many of them > English-speaking Anglos don't vote with you and they sure don't > demonstrate with you for the Big Welfare State. But many of the > Latinos -- and occasional disaffected Japanese who come here for a > lark :-> -- ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Apr 19 13:33:17 PDT 2006

122 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2006, at 3:03 PM, B. wrote: > By the same token, I do know that some folks on > disability try to get jobs where they're paid "under > the table"/off-the-books so they won't lose benefits. > That means they don't pay into the system from their > paycheck, either, of course. This is largely out of fear of losing their health care. Disabled people are uninsurable in the private healthcare system. Marta

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 13:23:05 PDT 2006

123 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2006, at 1:14 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: > > >> Don't illegal immigrants (I really hate that term) pay into the >> system? >> > > They sure do. Massey says that the pay more in taxes than they draw > in benefits or services, but Marta doesn't want to believe that. Massey cannot know that because illegals going to hospitals do not a;ways say they are illegals and hospitals do not track such information, therefore the ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 13:21:11 PDT 2006

124 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2006, at 3:37 PM, ravi wrote: > > Once again what does this have to do with immigrants? I need some > dental > work done right now too. My doctor is willing to see me in July. My > insurance company says I am close to exhausting my limits for this > year, > so I may have to wait till next year to get some of the work done. As Los Angeles Times columnist Ronald Brownstein wrote in his December 30, 2003 column Health-Care Storm Brewing in California Threatens to ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 13:16:19 PDT 2006

125 [lbo-talk] Immigrants, the Disabled, and Disabled Immigrants -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2006, at 12:43 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > Marta wrote: > <blockquote> > During World War II when there were less able bodied men in the labor > force, the disabled employment rate improved greatly. The reason for > that was that there were fewer people in the country to take the jobs > and so employers would hire disabled people. When soldiers returned > home many disabled people lost their jobs to the able bodied once > again. We have never re ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 13:15:06 PDT 2006

126 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2006, at 3:37 PM, ravi wrote: > > Once again what does this have to do with immigrants? I need some > dental > work done right now too. My doctor is willing to see me in July. My > insurance company says I am close to exhausting my limits for this > year, > so I may have to wait till next year to get some of the work done. As Los Angeles Times columnist Ronald Brownstein wrote in his December 30, 2003 column Health-Care Storm Brewing in California Threatens to ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 19 13:05:40 PDT 2006

127 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:03 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> The keener view IMHO is that this overcrowding is desirable >> to the ruling elite because it will run the programs into the >> ground and it will cleanse the population of the most ill >> i.e., most costly. >> > > This sounds like Yogi Bera's "No one eats there anymore, it's too > crowded" ... how can encouraging overcrowding cleanse the > population of the most ill? This is akin to eating u ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 18 16:43:49 PDT 2006

128 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2006, at 11:12 AM, John Costello wrote: > > On 4/18/06, Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> wrote: > > With tens of thousands of illegals flooding the country we don't > stand a chance at getting our unemployment rate to improve. That is > just reality. I am looking for justice for disabled people. It > hasn't come. > > I know that the term "disabled" covers a lot of different > disabilities, not just physical disabilities, but neverthele ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 18 11:35:27 PDT 2006

129 [lbo-talk] Immigration and Federalism -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > If anything, Marta, cracking down on Latino immigrants and making > California whiter will make it easier for the state and federal > governments to cut health care and other services. Many of them > English-speaking Anglos don't vote with you and they sure don't > demonstrate with you for the Big Welfare State. But many of the > Latinos -- and occasional disaffected Japanese who come here for a > lark :-> -- ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 18 11:22:20 PDT 2006

130 Immigration and Retirement Re: [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2006, at 10:16 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Marta wrote: > >> What is so wonderful about retaining a national identity? Really? >> >> Doug >> >> How would you like to retire on the Mexican retirement plan -- get >> ziltch? >> > > > How do immigrants prepare for retirement? I'd be very interested in > learning about that. Some of the migrant workers -- say, those who > leave their countries as teenagers and never go back ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Apr 18 10:51:09 PDT 2006

131 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:34 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Marta wrote: > >> Let those able bodied >> immigrants have the jobs cause they are a whole lot less trouble than >> dealing with a deaf, blind or otherwise disabled employee???? >> > > > If you accept the logic of capitalism, there is no denying that > able-bodied immigrant workers are more attractive to employers than > disabled American-born workers, even if immigrant workers didn't speak > E ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 18 10:32:44 PDT 2006

132 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2006, at 11:12 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > > > Man, I gotta agree with Doug about this. I respect all the > political work and consciousness-raising that Marta has done, but > like Marta's take on the Schiavo mess, file this under "fucked up". Yeah Miles what have you done lately to make sure that people on Medicaid get the medical care that they need? I don't see any of you DOING anything to fix things then you whine when a disabled person resents that th ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 18 10:16:51 PDT 2006

133 [lbo-talk] share rental and SSI housing need -- rank: 1000

A message like dozens I get here: "I'm trapped barely able to get anything done and my landlord has sent an eviction note to me to be out by the end of the month. It's a share rental and I'm getting SSI only and cannot get an apartment so I have limited "rights" and options. Frankly I'm screwed and from all the crying I did before for help there isn't much of any for me. ----------------------- San Rafael (Marin County), CA USA Marta

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Date:	Tue Apr 18 09:37:35 PDT 2006

134 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2006, at 7:48 PM, joanna wrote: > As an immigrant and the daughter of immgrants, I'd like to address > a couple of issues: > > Immigrants and the work ethic. > > I don't know of a single immigrant who does not work their ass off. > If you're the kid of immigrants, you absorb a daily mantra of work, > work, work, work. Work in school, work at work, work, work, work. > This is also necessary because a lot of immigrants come over with > just the clothes on t ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 18 09:34:21 PDT 2006

135 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker on immigration -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2006, at 7:36 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > Mike Ballard wrote: > > >> How can a >> government remain a national entity >> > > What is so wonderful about retaining a national identity? Really? > > Doug How would you like to retire on the Mexican retirement plan -- get ziltch? The problem with this list is that you are able bodied people who can work and haven't had the experience of being pushed out of the labor force permanently. You don't seem ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 18 09:31:54 PDT 2006