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Pope Francis must clarify Church teachings on Sexuality...America es un pais de Inmigrantes!!!....Women in the US take rights for Granted!

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Cardinal Burke: Church teaching on sexuality must be clarified, and only Pope Francis can do it

In an interview with Ireland’s state broadcaster, RTE, one of the Catholic hierarchy’s most outspoken defenders of life and family and the Church’s sexual moral teachings again indicated Pope Francis needs to “clarify” that divorced and remarried Catholics, and active homosexuals, cannot be admitted to the sacraments.
As he did during the course of the contentious Extraordinary Synod of Bishops in Rome last month, Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke told RTE in a video interview, “I believe very strongly that – I’m not the pope, and I’m not in the business of telling him what to do – but in my judgment this needs to be clarified, and there’s only one person who can clarify it at this point.”
The possibility of the Church in any way accepting sexual immorality, whether in the form of divorce, “second marriages” or homosexual acts, he said, must be taken “off the table” for next year’s Synod in a definitive way that only the pope can accomplish.
The cardinal denied that this was an instance of “defying” the pope’s authority, saying that Pope Francis would agree that Church teaching is immutable. But he added that he cannot see how the Church’s teaching is being clarified by the Synod process of protracted discussion and debate. He said that he has heard from lay people that “there’s really just a growing confusion about what the Church really teaches, and we’re not coming to any clarity.
“And the impression now is given that this will now go out to the dioceses and they will express their opinions and the bishops will come and vote on this. But that isn’t the way Church doctrine is formulated. And that’s not the way Church discipline is formulated. The Church is not a democracy,” Burke said.
It is “not helpful that people have this idea now that we’re going to have this broad discussion” on these issues that will be brought to the next session of the Synod in 2015, and put them to a vote, “and somehow this will be the direction.”
“In the end, the Holy Father is the only one who can set the direction, and he will have to pronounce on the matter.”  
Cardinal Burke was also careful to explain that the pope does not have the power to change Catholic teaching: “The pope is the first person called to obedience to the word of Christ. And in the case of marriage we have very clearly the word of Christ as it’s recorded in 19th chapter of Matthew’s Gospel, and we’re all at the service of that, beginning with the Holy Father.”
He refused to comment on whether this pontificate is “in serious trouble” because of Pope Francis’ silence, but restated his previous assertion that “the matter has to be clarified, clearly and now.”
“The Holy Father has his own judgments in these matters. But I as a cardinal, one of his principal advisors, feel the need to urge that this matter be clarified; without entering into judgments about his pontificate. … But to say that this matter in particular, is so serious we need some strong direction.”
At October’s Synod, Burke was one of the most outspoken of the group of bishops to react strongly against the mid-term document, in which it was suggested that the Church should “accept and value” the homosexual “orientation” and cohabitation, and that such relationships could have positive or valuable “elements.”
Cardinal Burke also expressed misgivings about the suggestion by many, including Pope Francis, that a solution could be found by simplifying and “streamlining” the process of declarations of nullity, whereby a decree is obtained that the first marriage had never been valid. It has been suggested that a decision in such cases simply be left up to the local authorities, perhaps even the parish priest.
But Burke, who is known as one of the Church’s most experienced canonists and who until earlier this month headed the Vatican’s Supreme Tribunal, charged with examining cases of nullity, emphasized the need for caution and dedication to the truth. He said, “It’s a very delicate question to pronounce on the truth of a claim of nullity of marriage.”
“Most of these cases are quite complex and it requires a process by which the truth of the matter can be thoroughly investigated, and the judges involved can reach a moral certitude about the claim of nullity.”
He noted that Cardinal Walter Kasper’s position, that those who are in objectively adulterous relationships should be allowed to receive Communion, “is not new” and that he has held it publicly for at least 40 years, since he was a bishop in Germany.
“I believe he has a false conception of the relationship of faith to the culture.” Burke said he agreed with Kasper that the “culture is very hostile to the stability of marriage” but disagreed with his solution. “His idea is that we go to the culture and embrace it…finding ‘good elements’ in things which are fundamentally wrong.”
“We don’t say that the people are evil. The Church has never said that. … The question is when we go out to meet the culture…[the Church] brings the truth of her teaching to the situation in order call the culture to a transformation.”
But more than this, he said Kasper is “fundamentally wrong in his interpretation of the fathers of the Church,” the early interpreters of scripture upon whose theological understanding Catholicism has always based its teachings. Kasper has claimed in support of his campaign that these Christian teachers of the first few centuries of Christianity were admitting people to second marriages, but Burke said “there’s no evidence to show that” in the records of the Fathers’ writing and acts.
Responding to the frequent assertion that Pope Francis represents a more “pastoral” or “compassionate” approach, at the expense of the more “dogmatic” style of Pope Benedict XVI or John Paul II, Burke responded that in the Catholic Church, doctrine and discipline is not regarded as a “block” or “hindrance” to “mercy,” compassion, or pastoral care.
“They’re seen as a gift to us so that we encounter Christ and are disposed to do what is best for our neighbour, especially to those in most need, and for our world. So you can’t have in the Catholic Church this dichotomy…between doctrine, by which we know Christ, and all that He intends for us in his Church, and that discipline by which we are disposed to follow Him.”
Burke, whose specialty is Canon Law, added that the Church’s discipline “is at the service of the highest realities of our life in Christ.”
Responding to the oft-repeated comment from Pope Francis that the Church should not be “obsessed” with the teaching on sexual morality, Burke said, “I don’t know what the Holy Father means by that,” but that “many lay people have said to me, would to God that they had ever heard in a homily about sexual morality … Obsession? We never hear about these things.”
To RTE’s interviewer, Burke again strongly reiterated that, while the Church never rejects persons with same-sex attractions or with other habitual sexual temptations, “the acts themselves are disordered.”
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He made the distinction between valuing people with same-sex attraction based on their inherent human dignity and the sinfulness of homosexual acts, saying that “persons… are not identified by the attraction which they have sexually to persons of the same sex. But are identified in their own human dignity, and that must always be respected in the Church.”
There are, he said, individuals “who are hateful” towards same-sex attracted persons, but “the Church has never assumed that position.”
“But the acts themselves are disordered. All we have to do is look at how God made us. God did not make man for sexual union with man or woman for sexual union with woman. So we can’t suggest that there’s something good in that. It’s simply against nature.
“That people have these attractions and that sometimes they fall in this way, the Church understands and we try to help the individual… But we don’t help somebody by saying, ‘Oh that’s just fine, what you’re doing.’” Instead, the Church works to help people “find a way to live chastely.”
Toward the end of the interview, the cardinal again reiterated his oft-repeated position that Catholic politicians who support legal initiatives, like “gay marriage” or legalized abortion, that are “contrary to the moral law,” cannot be allowed to receive Holy Communion. He cited not only the violation of the Sacrament itself, but the “scandal” that is given, saying that when public figures who are Catholic act in ways contrary to the moral teaching of the Church it “teaches” others to follow suit.
As to his own future, Cardinal Burke said little had changed. “I am a bishop and a cardinal, and my role continues to be the same,” no matter what his assignment. “I will continue to teach and to write. … I have a solemn responsibility to continue to teach and to speak about the Church’s teaching as a bishop and as a cardinal and I will continue in that way.”

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¿Por qué América da la bienvenida a los inmigrantes?

Por la naturaleza misma de los principios sobre los cuales fue fundado Estados Unidos —más que cualquier otra nación en la historia— atrae a su territorio a los oprimidos, a los perseguidos y a todos aquellos “que anhelan respirar en libertad”. Admite a aquellos que vienen a este país honradamente, armados con ética de trabajo, en busca de las promesas y las oportunidades del Sueño Americano. ¿Por qué América da la bienvenida a los inmigrantes?
La clave de la singularmente exitosa experiencia inmigratoria de Estados Unidos tienen que ver con una política deliberada y asertiva de asimilación patriótica: Dar la bienvenida a los recién llegados mientras que se insiste en que aprendan y asuman la cultura cívica e instituciones políticas de América, de modo que se forme una nación hecha de muchos pueblos — e pluribus unum. Mientras que hay muchas diferencias de opinión respecto al número total de inmigrantes y del proceso usado para venir a este país, el punto en el que hay un amplio consenso bipartito es que los que vengan aquí deben convertirse en americanos.
El aplastante resultado de esta política de asimilación, a lo largo de la historia de América, ha sido el fortalecimiento de nuestro capital social, una expansión continua de nuestra economía y la renovación constante de nuestro objetivo nacional. Estados Unidos ha sido bueno para los inmigrantes y los inmigrantes han sido buenos para Estados Unidos.
En lugar de asumir que la base de la obligación cívica fuese alguna antigua pretensión de derecho divino o de identidad étnica o religiosa, los fundadores de América empezaron con la igualdad de derechos y el consentimiento. Según se indica en la Declaración de Independencia: “Sostenemos como evidentes estas verdades: que todos los Hombres son creados iguales; que son dotados por su Creador de ciertos Derechos inalienables; que entre éstos están la Vida, la Libertad y la Búsqueda de la Felicidad”. Todos son iguales —no solo los americanos— ya que todos poseen derechos fundamentales que existen por naturaleza.
Se instituye el gobierno legítimo para asegurar estos derechos fundamentales, derivando sus justos poderes del consentimiento de los gobernados. Como dijo Jefferson: “La humanidad no ha nacido con sillas de montar en la espalda, ni tampoco unos cuantos privilegiados con botas y espuelas listos para montarlas legítimamente, por la gracia de Dios” [1]. Esta nueva forma de obligación cívica no crea soberanos y súbditos sino ciudadanos iguales que a su vez gobiernan. El requisito del consentimiento y la práctica del autogobierno crean las condiciones de la ciudadanía.
La “naturalización” es el proceso legal por el que los inmigrantes se convierten en ciudadanos como si fuera por naturaleza. La idea de la naturalización brota de las ideas políticas de la Fundación. Las personas tienen derecho a emigrar de su patria, pero no tienen derecho de inmigrar a este país sin el consentimiento del pueblo americano según lo expresado en las leyes de Estados Unidos.
Cuando el pueblo americano da la bienvenida a un inmigrante, la naturalización en Estados Unidos no funciona como lo hace en otros países. Un extranjero puede inmigrar a Francia o Japón, pero nunca llegar a ser verdaderamente francés o japonés. Sin embargo, un extranjero de cualquier origen étnico o racial  puede emigrar a Estados Unidos y llegar a ser, en toda la extensión de la palabra, un americano. Semejante transformación es posible en América porque la apertura misma de libertad a diversas procedencias y diferencias de opinión, incluyendo opiniones religiosas, emana de principios políticos compartidos Son estos principios los que hacen posible ante todo el gobierno libre y estos principios son los que los inmigrantes deben aceptar.
Cuando se fundó Estados Unidos, esta teoría de la ciudadanía americana era nueva en el mundo. Aún sigue teniendo implicaciones revolucionarias: Todos los ciudadanos, por nacimiento al igual que por naturalización, poseen libertad civil y religiosa por un inherente derecho natural. Todo lo que se les pide es que se comporten como buenos ciudadanos y sean fieles al gobierno constitucional americano.
Los Fundadores esperaban que los mejores inmigrantes aumentaran el capital moral del país creciente, trayendo consigo las cualidades necesarias para el funcionamiento del gobierno libre. América prometía ventajas “para aquellos decididos a estar sobrios, ser trabajadores y miembros virtuosos de la Sociedad”, decía Washington en 1788 a un holandés con el que mantenía correspondencia. Y agregaba: “No hace falta disimular que el saber que estas son las características generales de tus compatriotas sería una razón primordial para considerar su llegada como una valiosa adquisición para nuestros incipientes asentamientos” [2].
Los Fundadores no temían que los inmigrantes, por sí mismos, subvirtieran la república americana. Mientras que la sensatez y la virtud persistieran sólidamente entre los americanos, el proceso democrático y el ascendiente más amplio de la sociedad atenuarían la posible influencia de principios extranjeros en la opinión doméstica. Fisher Ames de Virginia apuntaba que una vez que “los hábitos de los inmigrantes al igual que sus intereses se integren a los nuestros, podríamos dejar que los lleven en el corazón o que renuncien a los importados prejuicios y locuras de su elección. La opinión pública debe evitar el peligro de que [esos prejuicios] se propaguen entre nuestros propios ciudadanos, si hemos de dejar que el error y el prejuicio prevalezcan o fracasen ante la verdad y la libertad de indagación”.
Los Fundadores entendían que la inmigración traería la necesaria –y deseable– diversidad de creencias a Estados Unidos. Pero también reconocieron que hacía falta una cierta uniformidad de opinión sobre América y los principios fundamentales de la Revolución. Como dijo Hamilton, nuestra política en materia de inmigración debe esmerarse “por posibilitar que los extranjeros se libren de sus vínculos foráneos y adquieran vínculos americanos; que aprendan los principios y se imbuyan del espíritu de nuestro gobierno; y que den entrada, al menos, a la filosofía de sentir un verdadero interés por nuestros asuntos”.
La diversidad es ley de vida, pero la unidad de principios fundacionales es necesaria para el proceso de asimilación, convirtiendo el pluribus en unum. Sin embargo, como Estados Unidos está cimentada en los principios de autogobierno republicano, no puede forzar a sus ciudadanos a ser libres. Los inmigrantes, al igual que todos los americanos, deberán en ultimadamente adquirir por sí mismos las cualidades y convicciones fundamentales del republicanismo. Ellos deben decidir libremente convertirse en ilustrados amigos de la libertad y adeptos del experimento común americano de autogobierno.
A través de sus leyes, el pueblo de Estados Unidos da su consentimiento para que los inmigrantes formen parte del país, bajo ciertas condiciones, como residentes y en muchos casos, como compatriotas. El Congreso tiene la responsabilidad constitucional tanto “para establecer una regla uniforme de naturalización” que ponga los términos y las condiciones de inmigración y ciudadanía como para asegurar la imparcialidad y la integridad del proceso legal por el que los inmigrantes entran al país, establecen su residencia y logran la ciudadanía. Las leyes de naturalización deben ser equitativas y deben hacerse cumplir uniformemente, tanto por el beneficio de los actuales ciudadanos de Estados Unidos como por consideración a los que obedecen la ley y siguen las reglas impuestas para entrar en el país.
“Cada especie de gobierno tiene sus principios específicos” observaba Jefferson. “Los nuestros, quizá, son más peculiares que los de cualquier otro en el universo” [4]. Por lo tanto, debemos tener ocuparnos de que ciudadanos tengan la oportunidad de aprender estos principios.
Para los americanos nacidos en este país, la educación cívica se da sobre todo en casa y a través de la enseñanza escolar. Sin la ventaja natural de haber nacido y crecido en este país, como asunto de política pública, se debería educar a los inmigrantes específicamente en la historia, las ideas políticas y las instituciones de Estados Unidos.
Los inmigrantes deberán saber quiénes somos y en lo que creemos como pueblo y lo que representamos como nación. Deberán conocer los principios de la Declaración de la Independencia : Que el gobierno legítimo se funda en la protección de los derechos naturales iguales y en el consentimiento de los gobernados. Deberán entender y apreciar cómo la Constitución y nuestras instituciones de gobierno limitado funcionan para proteger la libertad y el Estado de Derecho.
Es a través de sus vecinos, amigos y compatriotas –en comunidades locales, iglesias, escuelas y organizaciones privadas, por no mencionar el lugar de trabajo y el mercado– donde los inmigrantes absorben los hábitos, las costumbres y el espíritu de los americanos, fortaleciendo sus virtudes, fomentando su ética de trabajo y creando sus responsabilidades sociales. La educación cívica, en particular, funciona mientras que los inmigrantes observan y luego participan en la vida política americana, viendo la igualdad ante la ley y el consentimiento de los gobernados aplicado a la política local, estatal y nacional. De esta forma, como Washington predijo, los inmigrantes “asimilan nuestras costumbres, reglas y leyes: en resumidas cuentas, pronto se convierten en un pueblo” [5].
“Ciudadanos por nacimiento o por elección de una patria común, esta tierra tiene derecho a que todos vuestros afectos se concentren en ella”, según nos recuerda Washington [6]. La palabra “ciudadano”, que proviene del latín civis, se asocia con la afiliación y la participación en un orden  político específico. Por definición, la ciudadanía americana está limitada a Estados Unidos. Por tanto, ser ciudadano de Estados Unidos por nacimiento o por naturalización necesariamente implica lealtad de primer orden al orden político americano.
Lealtad es la obligación que tienen los ciudadanos con el país que los protege y asegura sus libertades individuales y derechos fundamentales. En Estados Unidos, la lealtad ciudadana proviene de una profunda adhesión y deferencia, no a líderes políticos o al Estado, sino a la Constitución y al Estado de Derecho.
Estados Unidos debe aplicar la asimilación para asegurarse las bendiciones de la libertad y pasarlas de generación en generación. Damos la bienvenida a los inmigrantes por las contribuciones que hacen y porque aceptan la lealtad inherente a la ciudadanía americana.
A fin de cuentas, una política asertiva para integrar a los inmigrantes debe verse como parte de un renacer aún mayor de nuestros principios, una reafirmación de lo quenosotros sostenemos como evidente. Después de todo, no es tanto el requisito técnico de ratificar una colección singular de afirmaciones históricas lo que ata a los inmigrantes a América sino nuestro reconocimiento común de las trascendentales verdades que nos unen a todos y a través de tiempo a los patriotas de 1776.
La versión en inglés de este artículo se publicó en Heritage.org.

Hirsi Ali: Women In US Take Rights For Granted

     
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Writing in TIME for the pre-Thanksgiving "What I'm Thankful For" collection, Somali-born women’s rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali explained that she is “grateful for the things that we take for granted as women living in democratic countries such as the US” and contrasted the freedoms of Western democracies with what is common-place where women and girls “have nowhere to turn.” Hirsi Ali acknowledges that "violence against women is universal" but is thankful for laws in the US that protect women. In other places, the governments are far less kind:
Now imagine if by law:
  1. You need permission from a male guardian to step out of your home
  2. You can’t drive
  3. You have to wear a veil and be fully covered
  4. You are forced into a marriage and you may be as young as 9 years old (the law in Iran and Saudi Arabia)
  5. You receive a divorce but leave with no assets
  6. You are subjected to polygamy
  7. You are subjected to female genital mutilation
  8. You inherit half of what your brother inherits
  9. Your testimony in court is worth half of that of your rapist
  10. Your murder is a lesser crime because you were killed in the name of honor
It is not only the state but a whole society that has declared war on you because you are a woman. Women who are fighting in Saudi Arabia for the right to drive are:
  1. Mocked in the press
  2. Condemned by the clerics
  3. Ridiculed by male drivers
  4. Women who resist their rapists are imprisoned, tortured, and put to death like Reyhanneh Jabbari in Iran
  5. Fathers sell their daughters to the highest bidder
  6. Girls are denied an education. The brave ones like Malala who stand up for their rights are shot.
  7. As a woman or girl you face hostility in the press, the court system, schools, the marketplace, even home and for no other reason than you were born female.
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lunes, 25 de febrero de 2013

Is the US Health System a money scam?...Reforma migratoria....12 Debt Myths!!!

50 Signs That The U.S. Health Care System Is A Gigantic Money Making Scam

….That Is About To Collapse
Michael Snyder
Economic Collapse
Feb 25, 2013

The U.S. health care system is a giant money making scam that is designed to drain as much money as possible out of all of us before we die.  In the United States today, the health care industry is completely dominated by government bureaucrats, health insurance companies and pharmaceutical corporations.  The pharmaceutical corporations spend billions of dollars to convince all of us to become dependent on their legal drugs, the health insurance companies make billions of dollars by providing as little health care as possible, and they both spend millions of dollars to make sure that our politicians in Washington D.C. keep the gravy train rolling.  Meanwhile, large numbers of doctors are going broke and patients are not getting the care that they need.  At this point, our health care system is a complete and total disaster.  Health care costs continue to go up rapidly, the level of care that we are receiving continues to go down, and every move that our politicians make just seems to make all of our health care problems even worse. 

In America today, a single trip to the emergency room can easily cost you $100,000, and if you happen to get cancer you could end up with medical bills in excess of a million dollars.  Even if you do have health insurance, there are usually limits on your coverage, and the truth is that just a single major illness is often enough to push most American families into bankruptcy.  At the same time, hospital administrators, pharmaceutical corporations and health insurance company executives are absolutely swimming in huge mountains of cash.  Unfortunately, this gigantic money making scam has become so large that it threatens to collapse both the U.S. health care system and the entire U.S. economy.


The following are 50 signs that the U.S. health care system is a massive money making scam that is about to collapse…

#1 Medical bills have become so ridiculously large that virtually nobody can afford them.  Just check out the following short excerpt from a recent Time Magazine article.  One man in California that had been diagnosed with cancer ran up nearly a million dollars in hospital bills before he died…
By the time Steven D. died at his home in Northern California the following November, he had lived for an additional 11 months. And Alice had collected bills totaling $902,452. The family’s first bill — for $348,000 — which arrived when Steven got home from the Seton Medical Center in Daly City, Calif., was full of all the usual chargemaster profit grabs: $18 each for 88 diabetes-test strips that Amazon sells in boxes of 50 for $27.85; $24 each for 19 niacin pills that are sold in drugstores for about a nickel apiece. There were also four boxes of sterile gauze pads for $77 each. None of that was considered part of what was provided in return for Seton’s facility charge for the intensive-care unit for two days at $13,225 a day, 12 days in the critical unit at $7,315 a day and one day in a standard room (all of which totaled $120,116 over 15 days). There was also $20,886 for CT scans and $24,251 for lab work.
#2 This year the American people will spend approximately 2.8 trillion dollars on health care, and it is being projected that Americans will spend 4.5 trillion dollars on health care in 2019.

#3 The United States spends more on health care than Japan, Germany, France, China, the U.K., Italy, Canada, Brazil, Spain and Australia combined.

#4 If the U.S. health care system was a country, it would be the 6th largest economy on the entire planet.

#5 Back in 1960, an average of $147 was spent per person on health care in the United States. By 2009, that number had skyrocketed to$8,086.  CONTINUE READING

Reforma migratoria: Los inmigrantes con títulos universitarios



“Nos encanta trabajar [en Estados Unidos]”, comentaba Anurag Bajpayee al Washington Post. Bajpayee tiene 27 años, procede de la India y está haciendo un trabajo de posdoctorado en ingeniería mecánica en el Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT). Junto con su socio empresarial y compañero de estudios Prakash Narayan Govindan, ha desarrollado una máquina que podría ayudar a purificar el agua utilizada en la fracturación hidráulica.

Ambos quieren permanecer en Estados Unidos y dirigir una compañía que fabrique y comercialice su invento después de que sus visas de estudiantes expiren este próximo verano. “Pero hay tantos inconvenientes por los que pasar”, comenta Bajpayee. “Y se corre el riesgo de ser deportado aunque estés creando empleo”.
La inmigración tiene el aspecto de un problema enorme. En este momento hay más de 10 millones de ilegales en Estados Unidos. Algunos llegaron legalmente y se quedaron cuando sus visas expiraron. Otros vienen y van, trabajando en Estados ilegalmente por temporadas y marchándose después de unos meses. Reducir su número, se nos dice, requiere una solución “integral”.

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Pero una de las razones por las que la inmigración parece un problema sin solución se debe a que sería difícil, quizás imposible, resolver la totalidad del problema de una sola vez. Si los responsables políticos desglosasen la cuestión de la inmigración y solucionasen los problemas más pequeños de uno en uno, la situación podría tener un aspecto más prometedor.

Se puede empezar con personas como Bajpayee y Govindan. “El presidente Obama respalda el facilitar que los extranjeros que obtengan una maestría o un doctorado en las universidades de Estados Unidos puedan conseguir “tarjetas verdes” (o sea la residencia permanente), como propone un grupo de senadores de ambos partidos que está trabajando en esa reforma”, comenta Kevin Sullivan en The Washington Post.
“Sin embargo, la solución respecto a cómo redactar reformas integrales que abarquen tanto a los inmigrantes calificados como a los que no lo son, se encuentra estancada debido a luchas partidistas internas”.

Pero el hecho de que haya un amplio acuerdo sobre este tema en particular nos indica el camino a seguir: Los legisladores podrían facilitar el que cualquiera que tenga un posgrado se quede en el país. Eso no resolvería la totalidad del problema de la inmigración, pero sí lo reduciría en cierto modo.

“La reforma de la inmigración puede avanzar en muchos frentes al mismo tiempo, centrándose en algunas iniciativas de sentido común, para que se empiecen a abordar los retos prácticos que afronta nuestro sistema de inmigración”, comentaban el mes pasado los expertos de la Fundación Heritage Matthew Spalding, Jessica Zuckerman y James Jay Carafano. “Un problema diverso requiere de soluciones diversas que aborden por sí mismas cada uno de los retos a los que se enfrenta nuestro sistema de inmigración. Estados Unidos necesita un enfoque integral, no una legislación integral”.

Los inmigrantes que estudian actualmente en el MIT gracias a sus visas de estudiantes están deseosos de crear empleos y oportunidades para los americanos. No tiene sentido obligar a estos estudiantes a abandonar Estados Unidos al mismo tiempo que el Congreso decide sobre cómo actuar respecto a otros grupos de inmigrantes.

Separemos los problemas y pongamos en funcionamiento las mejores soluciones.

12 Debt Myths That Trip Up Consumers

Borrowers too often fall prey to the conventional wisdom. And it can cost them.

Avoid debt if you can.
If you can't, borrow carefully and conservatively.

So the conventional wisdom goes. But if you follow it blindly, you may miss out on key nuances of dealing with debt.

For instance, consider store-brand credit cards. They often offer no-interest financing, and rewards on store-bought products. Sounds great. But did you know those attractive financing terms can come back to bite if you carry a balance after a promotional period?

Then there's mortgage debt. A big down payment may be a great way to steer clear of a huge home loan. But if you get the money for the down payment from relatives, lenders may scrutinize your financials closely.
As many people look to rebuild credit or land loans, it's crucial to know when the conventional wisdom makes sense—and when it doesn't. With that in mind, here are some top myths that consumers fall victim to when borrowing today.


1. Once you marry, you're responsible for your spouse's debt.

Many couples think marrying each other means merging their debt loads, but that generally is not the case. While many couples opt to pay down debt together, neither spouse is usually legally obligated to pay off debt that the other incurred before marriage, says John Ulzheimer, president of consumer education at credit-monitoring service SmartCredit.com.
However, be aware that a spouse could lose that protection. If you refinance a loan with your significant other and put your name on the loan's promissory note, or add yourself as a joint account holder of a credit card, you'll likely become responsible for those debts, even if your spouse took them on before marriage, he says.

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Know also that you may be responsible for debt your spouse takes on after you wed, even if your name isn't on the account.

2. Credit cards from your favorite retailers are a good deal.

The pitches for store-branded credit cards can sound enticing, with lures like interest-free financing and rewards. But the deals may be much less appealing if you tend to carry a balance.

Some of the cards operate like payment plans where borrowers make a purchase from the retailer on the card and then have a number of months to pay it back, interest-free. But if you don't pay off the whole balance in the allotted time, you'll typically have to pay interest on the entire amount you initially charged retroactively—often at a higher rate than a typical credit card, says Odysseas Papadimitriou, chief executive of credit-card comparison website CardHub.com.



For instance, Apple offers customers up to 18 months interest-free on purchases on a card from Barclaycard US. But if you don't pay off that specific purchase in the interest-free period, you'll face a variable annual percentage rate that's currently about 23%, according to the Apple website.

Other cards don't offer deferred interest, but come with fairly high rates, says Ben Woolsey, director of marketing and consumer research at CreditCards.com. "Even somebody with excellent credit will be paying 20-plus percent," he says. For instance, the two cards offered through Banana Republic have variable rates recently at 24% and 25%, higher than the recent average rate of 15% on all variable-rate cards.

3. You're too rich for federal student loans.

Some well-off families figure they won't qualify for federal aid and don't apply. But that means they may have to turn to private loans instead. In recent years, as many as 41% of families earning $100,000 or more didn't file the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, which is necessary to land federal loans, according to a Sallie Mae survey. But passing up on that chance can be a mistake. READ MORE

sábado, 26 de mayo de 2012

Oohh if this was a Conservative...but for Democrats its COOL!

The husband of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President of the United States Bill Clinton, was snapped at a party in Monaco yukking it up with porn stars Brooklyn Lee (on his left arm) and Sasha Reign (on his right).
Lee then tweeted the photo to her Twitter followers.
Oops.
PHOTOS: Brooklyn Lee and Sasha Reign.

The husband of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President of the United States Bill Clinton, was snapped at a party in Monaco yukking it up with porn stars Brooklyn Lee (on his left arm) and Sasha Reign (on his right).
Lee then tweeted the photo to her Twitter followers.
Oops.

Obama and His Pot-Smoking ‘Choom Gang’


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Young Barack Obama
Unlike Bill Clinton, Barack Obama never tried to say he didn’t inhale.
In his 1995 memoir “Dreams of My Father,” Obama writes about smoking pot almost like Dr. Seuss wrote about eating green eggs and ham. As a high school kid, Obama wrote, he would smoke “in a white classmate’s sparkling new van,” he would smoke “in the dorm room of some brother” and he would smoke “on the beach with a couple of Hawaiian kids.”
He would smoke it here and there. He would smoke it anywhere.
Now a soon-to-be published biography by David Maraniss entitled “Barack Obama: The Story” gives more detail on Obama’s pot-smoking days, complete with testimonials from young Barry Obama’s high school buddies, a group that went by the name “the Choom Gang.” Choom was slang for smoking marijuana.
Maraniss portrays the teenage Obama as not just a pot smoker, but a pot-smoking innovator.
“As a member of the Choom Gang,” Maraniss writes, “Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends.”
The first Obama-inspired trend: “Total Absorption” or “TA”.
“TA was the opposite of Bill Clinton’s claim that as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford he smoked dope but never inhaled,” explains Maraniss. Here’s how it worked: If you exhaled prematurely when you were with the Choom Gang, “you were assessed a penalty and your turn was skipped the next time the joint came around.” Read More



A cuento de que los inmigrantes hispanos son en su mayoria Democratas?...eso es lo que nosotros creemos!


Nos han vendido esta idea de que somos una comunidad de ilegales o en raya con la ilegalidad o que nuestro estatus de inmigrantes en los Estados Unidos es de menor categoria que los diferentes grupos de inmigrantes que en olas han llenado este pais de gente honesta y trabajadora. Por este pensamiento creemos que nuestras soluciones vienen de parte del Gobierno...NO es asi!
 
Tenemos que despertar e ignorar aquellos que quieren vendernos valores a cambios de supuestas dadivas con promesas de legalidad o vias para la residencia o ciudadania.

Nosotros somos trabajadores, honestos, con fuertes valores familiares y religiosos, orgullosos de nuestro pasado, respetuosos de las leyes y defensores de los Estados Unidos de America. Nuestra verdadera inclusion sera cuando participemos activamente en nuestro destino politico, no como espectadores siguiendo  agrupaciones que no defienden nuestros ideales sino que estan detras de su agenda politica, sino con nuestra comunidad, en cada pequeña ciudad o municipalidad, defendiendo nuestro entrono, las escuelas y lo que nuestros hijos reciben de educacion, integrandonos a la cultura de nuestros vecinos e invitandolos a que se integren a la nuestra.

 

El futuro de la libertad depende de reivindicar los principios fundacionales de América. “Si una nación espera ser ignorante y libre en un estado civilizado, espera lo que nunca fue y nunca será” como ya advertía Thomas Jefferson. La extendida ignorancia acerca de la historia americana es solamente el síntoma más reconocido del preocupante declive del conocimiento popular de nuestros principios fundamentales. Nos enfrentamos a un sistema educativo que mantiene la mediocridad en nombre del relativismo; a un Estado centralizado, en permanente expansión y desancorado de los límites constitucionales; con jueces haciendo leyes abiertamente y moldeando la sociedad en base a filosofía popular y no a jurisprudencia seria; y a una creciente confusión sobre el legítimo papel de América en el mundo, algo que se ha hecho mucho más evidente debido a la amenaza fundamental que representan los islamistas radicales. En el fondo de todos estos problemas está la duda ubicua sobre los principios básicos que definen a América y que deberían inspirar nuestra política y nuestras normativas.