Posted on September 21, 2016 12:05 am
Updated on September 21, 2016 at 12:41 am
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IRT Jacqui Skill Re Refugees – Why should the United States spend millions/billions of dollars on refugees when there are American citizens that need help right here in our own country? Also, how can we ensure that the refugees from Syria will not pose a threat to Americans once here? It was widely publicized that almost 900 people were mistakenly granted citizenship last week. The government can’t ensure that they’re giving citizenship to the right people, so how can they ensure that some refugees will not pose a terror threat?
Agree, and the problem is not always immediate. Down the line when their kids grow older they succumb to the looser mentality and take up evil. And we already have enough homegrown terror as it is.
The Donald is right on this issue: without border security, we have no country.
As for the myth that “The govt already screens refugees”, an increasing number realize this is totally false. With each new Boston, San Bernadino, Orlando type event, it is increasingly evident we have made a number of egregious errors in whom we admit and whom we permit to overstay their visas.
As pointed out by Trump, some 800 who were to have been deported were, thanks to a typical government FUBAR, given full citizenship instead.
We MUST staunch this torrent of illegal aliens and put in place tests and examinations at an excruciating level of detail to see who is FIT to enter our country.
Until we do that, we are asking to be slaughtered by these sub human maniacs who are living the Quran quite literally.
As a government worker yourself you should know better Wiliki.
Baloney over the years we have taken in millions of refugees. From the Vietnam War we have received about 500,000 refugees.
Did we find any Vietcong among them or terrorists? Certainly some may have slipped through. There are always going to be some that will slip through. No system works 100% of the time.
Those who call for the secession of admissions of refugees are just plain racist and playing politics with their lives. Trump is doing that.
Why do refugees need to be moved half-way around the world? Help them closer to their home countries–in safe zones within those home countries or in a neighboring country with a similar culture and from which they can easily return home when the strife is over. BTW: The poem on the Statue of Liberty won a poetry contest. It has little to do with the original intent of Lady Liberty who looks out to the world, spreading the light of liberty far and wide. We are under no poetic obligation to import refugees from the rest of the world. We should not feel guilty when we refuse them entry but help them elsewhere.
Five of the wealthiest Muslim countries have taken no Syrian refugees in at all, arguing that doing so would open them up to the risk of terrorism. Their leaders are obviously much more intelligent than ours.
IRT Jacqui Skill: Lets’ hope our senators and representatives act to insure the safety of all Americans first. Let’s hope our senators and representatives insure that any immigrants are able to be properly vetted beforehand. Let’s hope our senators and representatives can figure-out the difference between who needs to be deported and who deserves to become an American citizen. These are far more important than deciding we simply need more immigrants.
George Soros has written an WSJ op ed piece in which he says he is going to spend half a billion dollars to fund refugee business start up efforts. Let him do so, but not in America.
Lisa Adlong that is an old idea which died in the legislature when the insurance industry claimed providing auto insurance information to the police was too costly and an example of over regulation.
In NY they have a straightforward system when it comes to auto insurance. If you want to cancel your insurance you have to have done one of the following: 1) surrender your plates for any reason (sale, totaled, etc.) to the DMV (or transfer them to a new owner) who gives you a receipt that you take to your agent; 2) you first sign up with another insurer and you take that proof of insurance (insurance binder – standardized DMV form) to the old agent where you want to cancel. Insurance agents can’t legally cancel the existing insurance otherwise.
The system here is nuts. You can get insurance one day, register or renew your car the next and then cancel your insurance anytime thereafter just for the asking.
And if you get somewhere between 10% to 30% of vehicles off the road (estimates of vehicles which are not insured), especially during the “rush hour,” traffic would be a lot better. And if you convert the “rail” into a reversible freeway, that would be even better!
No. When you surrender your plates and give the receipt to the insurance agent your insurance, and payment, stops at that date. And, you get a refund for any unused days left on your policy. Same if you transfer to a new insurance company.
And, if you just stop paying your premium and let your insurance lapse, the insurance company notifies the DMV.
Simple.
The plates aren’t always available.
There on your car.
The Insurance Agencies should be required to monitor lapses in minimum coverage. If someone cancels air is canceled, the Insurance Company should have e a data base where they can input the deficiency immediately. This data base should be available to law enforcement immediately.
The state is still trying to automate their IT. This is not going to happen.
It should if we stop being so complacent and accepting of the status quo.
IRT Darren Holbrook: “It is amazing to me that we keep voting these people into office and giving them two or more chances.”
The other, unspoken, problem is that many of our elected officials run for re-election unopposed. Everyone in their district can stay home and not vote for them but if they cast the one vote for themselves they get re-elected. The question is: Why do all these people run unopposed?
IRT “U.S. should help more refugees”. One o the basic root causes for all of this global conflict is too many people on the planet. I think that there needs to be more global discussion [religious groups in particular] about the advantages of family planning … for example two children … not gamete roulette.
“But here’s the key part: The police should enforce the law. No insurance? No registration? You don’t belong on the road. The result: perhaps 20-30 percent fewer vehicles on the roads.”>>> OR realize more revenue which would stop the increasing burden on those who DO pay …legally – insurance and tax-wise.
They do check when they stop a car. But the real effective way would be to integrate the state IT system with insurance companies. The deadheads just drop their policies after they get their safety checks done.
But what they are really checking is whether you remembered to open the letter from your insurance company and actually managed to get the little form into the correct glove compartment. In this day of information accessibility, the little paper form process is laughable.
Perhaps it would be premature to cancel your insurance before the safety inspection. You would be committing an illegal act by using false documentation.
Afterwards, if you got caught, you could simply say that you were in the process of changing insurers. I think that a lot of deadheads do this.
The police in NY will set up checkpoints, during the day, to check for valid registrations and inspection stickers. They usually do it at a choke point, like the main road out of an industrial park. Just slow down and the look at the stickers. Something expired? They pull you over into a parking lot and other officers do the paper work to give you a ticket.
Anne Zellinger What’s your plan for when the U.S. is attacked? I hope you don’t think it’s our fault that terrorists and others want to attack the U.S. and that if we would just spread the love, evil would cease. As it is and always will be, “Si vis pacem, para bellum.” That is, “If you want peace, prepare for war”. Vegetius (Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus)
Don’t try to use facts and reason on someone like Anne. All she sees is unicorns playing in the beautiful green grass among the fruit trees in a valley bathed by sunbeams. All the people there holding hands and singing and dancing all day because no one would ever consider doing anything wrong or hurting someone else. Then she can have all of Jacqui’s refugees move in too and join in the loving and caring earth friendly group until someone talks to one of the refugee’s females. A pipe dream and only that.
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IRT Jacqui Skill Re Refugees – Why should the United States spend millions/billions of dollars on refugees when there are American citizens that need help right here in our own country? Also, how can we ensure that the refugees from Syria will not pose a threat to Americans once here? It was widely publicized that almost 900 people were mistakenly granted citizenship last week. The government can’t ensure that they’re giving citizenship to the right people, so how can they ensure that some refugees will not pose a terror threat?
Agree, and the problem is not always immediate. Down the line when their kids grow older they succumb to the looser mentality and take up evil. And we already have enough homegrown terror as it is.
The govt already screens refugees. They are just trickling in a very slow rates.
We should not go to war against other countries if we are not willing to in their refugees.
The Donald is right on this issue: without border security, we have no country.
As for the myth that “The govt already screens refugees”, an increasing number realize this is totally false. With each new Boston, San Bernadino, Orlando type event, it is increasingly evident we have made a number of egregious errors in whom we admit and whom we permit to overstay their visas.
As pointed out by Trump, some 800 who were to have been deported were, thanks to a typical government FUBAR, given full citizenship instead.
We MUST staunch this torrent of illegal aliens and put in place tests and examinations at an excruciating level of detail to see who is FIT to enter our country.
Until we do that, we are asking to be slaughtered by these sub human maniacs who are living the Quran quite literally.
As a government worker yourself you should know better Wiliki.
Baloney over the years we have taken in millions of refugees. From the Vietnam War we have received about 500,000 refugees.
Did we find any Vietcong among them or terrorists? Certainly some may have slipped through. There are always going to be some that will slip through. No system works 100% of the time.
Those who call for the secession of admissions of refugees are just plain racist and playing politics with their lives. Trump is doing that.
Why do refugees need to be moved half-way around the world? Help them closer to their home countries–in safe zones within those home countries or in a neighboring country with a similar culture and from which they can easily return home when the strife is over. BTW: The poem on the Statue of Liberty won a poetry contest. It has little to do with the original intent of Lady Liberty who looks out to the world, spreading the light of liberty far and wide. We are under no poetic obligation to import refugees from the rest of the world. We should not feel guilty when we refuse them entry but help them elsewhere.
Five of the wealthiest Muslim countries have taken no Syrian refugees in at all, arguing that doing so would open them up to the risk of terrorism. Their leaders are obviously much more intelligent than ours.
IRT Jacqui Skill: Lets’ hope our senators and representatives act to insure the safety of all Americans first. Let’s hope our senators and representatives insure that any immigrants are able to be properly vetted beforehand. Let’s hope our senators and representatives can figure-out the difference between who needs to be deported and who deserves to become an American citizen. These are far more important than deciding we simply need more immigrants.
George Soros has written an WSJ op ed piece in which he says he is going to spend half a billion dollars to fund refugee business start up efforts. Let him do so, but not in America.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-im-investing-500-million-in-migrants-1474344001
Lisa Adlong that is an old idea which died in the legislature when the insurance industry claimed providing auto insurance information to the police was too costly and an example of over regulation.
In NY they have a straightforward system when it comes to auto insurance. If you want to cancel your insurance you have to have done one of the following: 1) surrender your plates for any reason (sale, totaled, etc.) to the DMV (or transfer them to a new owner) who gives you a receipt that you take to your agent; 2) you first sign up with another insurer and you take that proof of insurance (insurance binder – standardized DMV form) to the old agent where you want to cancel. Insurance agents can’t legally cancel the existing insurance otherwise.
The system here is nuts. You can get insurance one day, register or renew your car the next and then cancel your insurance anytime thereafter just for the asking.
And if you get somewhere between 10% to 30% of vehicles off the road (estimates of vehicles which are not insured), especially during the “rush hour,” traffic would be a lot better. And if you convert the “rail” into a reversible freeway, that would be even better!
And you still have to pay for the insurance? Somethings wrong here…
No. When you surrender your plates and give the receipt to the insurance agent your insurance, and payment, stops at that date. And, you get a refund for any unused days left on your policy. Same if you transfer to a new insurance company.
And, if you just stop paying your premium and let your insurance lapse, the insurance company notifies the DMV.
Simple.
The plates aren’t always available.
There on your car.
The Insurance Agencies should be required to monitor lapses in minimum coverage. If someone cancels air is canceled, the Insurance Company should have e a data base where they can input the deficiency immediately. This data base should be available to law enforcement immediately.
They do it in NY. 12 times bigger than Hawaii. All automatic.
Thats what we need!
The state is still trying to automate their IT. This is not going to happen.
It should if we stop being so complacent and accepting of the status quo.
IRT Darren Holbrook: “It is amazing to me that we keep voting these people into office and giving them two or more chances.”
The other, unspoken, problem is that many of our elected officials run for re-election unopposed. Everyone in their district can stay home and not vote for them but if they cast the one vote for themselves they get re-elected. The question is: Why do all these people run unopposed?
IRT “U.S. should help more refugees”. One o the basic root causes for all of this global conflict is too many people on the planet. I think that there needs to be more global discussion [religious groups in particular] about the advantages of family planning … for example two children … not gamete roulette.
“But here’s the key part: The police should enforce the law. No insurance? No registration? You don’t belong on the road. The result: perhaps 20-30 percent fewer vehicles on the roads.”>>> OR realize more revenue which would stop the increasing burden on those who DO pay …legally – insurance and tax-wise.
They do check when they stop a car. But the real effective way would be to integrate the state IT system with insurance companies. The deadheads just drop their policies after they get their safety checks done.
But what they are really checking is whether you remembered to open the letter from your insurance company and actually managed to get the little form into the correct glove compartment. In this day of information accessibility, the little paper form process is laughable.
Perhaps it would be premature to cancel your insurance before the safety inspection. You would be committing an illegal act by using false documentation.
Afterwards, if you got caught, you could simply say that you were in the process of changing insurers. I think that a lot of deadheads do this.
The police in NY will set up checkpoints, during the day, to check for valid registrations and inspection stickers. They usually do it at a choke point, like the main road out of an industrial park. Just slow down and the look at the stickers. Something expired? They pull you over into a parking lot and other officers do the paper work to give you a ticket.
Simple.
Simple but much too complicated for HPD
A dose of reality for Jacqui….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol2chR2pHiQ
Free preschool for needy kids.
And check to see if their parents have car insurance!
Free jobs as crash test dummies for “needy” kids
As long as it is free of MY taxes and YOU pay for it.
Anne Zellinger What’s your plan for when the U.S. is attacked? I hope you don’t think it’s our fault that terrorists and others want to attack the U.S. and that if we would just spread the love, evil would cease. As it is and always will be, “Si vis pacem, para bellum.” That is, “If you want peace, prepare for war”. Vegetius (Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus)
Don’t try to use facts and reason on someone like Anne. All she sees is unicorns playing in the beautiful green grass among the fruit trees in a valley bathed by sunbeams. All the people there holding hands and singing and dancing all day because no one would ever consider doing anything wrong or hurting someone else. Then she can have all of Jacqui’s refugees move in too and join in the loving and caring earth friendly group until someone talks to one of the refugee’s females. A pipe dream and only that.