The following is an anonymous post from Facebook, posted on X by Old Salty Marine. I am copying it in its entirety, and following that, I will copy some of the excellent comments on that post.
From a post on FB! Read it, Understand it! I promise you it will piss you off! Is this really the America you want?
Joe legal works in construction, has a Social Security number and makes $25.00 per hour with taxes deducted.
Jose illegal also works in construction has no Social Security number and makes $15.00 per hour cash, under the table. Ready?… now pay attention….
Joe legal: $25.00 per hour × 40 hours = $1,000.00 per week or $52,000.00 per year. Now, take 31% away for State and Federal taxes. Joe legal now has $31,231.00.
Jose illegal: $15.00 an hour × 40 hours = $600.00 per week or $31,200.00 per year. Jose illegal pays no taxes. Jose illegal now has $31,200.00.
Joe legal pays medical and dental insurance with limited coverage for his family at $600.00 per month, or $7,200.00 per year. Joe legal now has $24,031.00.
Jose illegal has full medical and dental coverage through the State and local clinics and emergency hospitals at a cost of $0.00 per year. Jose illegal still has $31,200.00.
Joe legal makes too much money and is not eligible for food stamps or welfare. Joe legal spends $500.00 per month for food or $6,000.00 per year. Joe legal now has $18,031.00.
Jose illegal has no documented income and is eligible for food stamps, WIC and welfare. Jose illegal still has $31,200.00.
Joe legal pays rent of 1,200.00 per month or $14,400.00 per year. Joe legal now has $9,631.00.
Jose illegal receives $500.00 per month Federal rent subsidy. Jose illegal pays out that $500.00 per month or $6,000.00 per year. Jose illegal still has $31,200.00.
Joe legal pays $200.00 per month or $2,400.00 per year for car insurance. Some of that is uninsured motorist insurance. Joe legal now has $7,231.00.
Jose illegal says, “We don’t need no stinkin’ insurance.”… and still has $31,000.00.
Joe legal has to make his $7,231.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline.. etc.
Jose illegal has to make his $31,200.00 stretch to pay utilities, gasoline and what he sends out of the country every month….
Joe legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.
Jose illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.
Joe legal’s and Jose illegal’s children both attend the same elementary school.
Joe legal pays for his children’s lunches while…
Jose illegal’s children get a government-sponsored lunch. Jose illegal’s children have an after school ESL program. Joe legal’s children go home.
Now, when they reach college age... Joe legal’s kids may not get into a State school and may not qualify for scholarships, grants or other tuition help, even though Joe has been paying for State schools through his taxes, while…
Jose illegal’s kids go to the, ‘head of the class’ because they are a minority. Joe legal and Jose illegal both benefit from the same police and fire services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not. Do you get it, now?
If we vote for or support any politician that supports illegal aliens,… we are part of the problem. It’s way PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!
Below are some comments from the above post.
Business owner here with one more point: Joe Legal’s legit, legal employer must match Joe’s Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes, and pay unemployment insurance tax. Those amounts total about $4,680 for the year. Also, a legit, legal employer must provide worker’s comp insurance. Since this is probably construction work or some other higher risk occupation that insurance will run about $11,000 for the year. SO, it cost’s Joe Legal’s legit, legal employer $67,680 for Joe to receive $31,231 after tax deductions ON the other hand it costs Jose’s under-the-table employer $31,200 for Jose to receive $31,200
You forgot Joe legal gets laid off because Jose illegal brought his cousin Juan illegal across the border and he was hired by the same scumbag contractor that hired Jose illegal. There need to be consequences for these scumbags that hire illegals.
You forgot that Jose also sells fentanyl, meth, cocaine and heroin on the side and makes tens of thousands more untaxed dollars while he poisons our country and sends his extra money to Mexico or his country of origin.
So, you get the idea. Next time you think the Trump administration is being heartless, deporting all these law-abiding illegal workers, just remember that they are taking food our of your children’s mouths, jobs for those children in the summers, and after college, and Social Security that they are NOT eligible for, reducing your income when you finally become eligible. Also, just remember the Millions of Dollars these illegal workers are sending out of the country to their own families, while yours just scrape by.
This month, the Department of Education released its latest edition of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the standardized tests better known as the Nation’s Report Card. The results have left me blazing with rage.
In my home state of California, for instance, only 30% of public school fourth graders can read proficiently. Fully 41% cannot even read at a basic level — which is to say, they cannot really understand and interpret written text at all. Eighth graders, as you might expect, look almost as bad.
Marsha cared about this very much.
There are some obvious commonalities among the Southern Surge states. White names three, the first of which sounds obvious in retrospect but was in fact novel: The states adopted reading curricula backed by actual scientific research. This led to them adopting phonics-based early literacy programs and rejecting ones that used the debunked “whole language” method that encourages students to vaguely guess at words based on context instead of figuring them out sound-by-sound.
Phonics… how I and my whole generation learned to read. By grade five I was reading at a seventh or eighth grade level.
I can’t think of anything worse than denying a child of the ability to read.
It’s not the “MAGA movement” mourning Charlie Kirk. AMERICA is mourning him.
Millions of Americans are watching his funeral right now. Every city in the US has hosted candlelit vigils. People are flocking to churches in droves. Red states and blue states. Cities and small towns. East coast, west coast, and everywhere in between.
A nationwide revival.
This transcends any political party. It goes far beyond ideology.
This is the good people of this country commemorating the life of an American patriot—a beloved son, a loving husband, an adoring father, a devout Christian—taken from us at far too young an age.
You can call that MAGA if you want. We just call it being an ordinary, decent American.
On Sept 19th it’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
International Talk Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur and Mark Summers, of Albany, Oregon, U.S., who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate.Wikipedia
The iconic word, Arrrr, turns out to be a West Country UK word for yes. It was popularized in the 1934 movie version of Treasure Island. With a parrot upon his shoulder, crying pieces of eight, and a peg leg, Beery brought to life the iconic imagery of Robert Louis Stevenson.
1934 film Treasure Island on Wikipedia
Though I wonder if it would be more popular as “Dress like a Pirate Day!”…
This most years I really think we could all use an excuse to forget this grim modern world for a day and have a little fun.
On this day in 1683 King Jan Sobieski of Poland arrived at Vienna to break the siege of the Turks and rescue the Christian West from the Hosts of Mohammed. The rout of the Ottoman troops before the gates of Vienna by the Polish hussars gave us a little breathing room, a coffee-and-croissants break that lasted for the next three hundred and eighteen years.
The Battle of Vienna in which King Sobieski defeated the 100,000-man army of “Islamic hordes” under Kara Mustafa Pasha was one day after the arrival of the Polish army with their winged hussars – Sept. 12. The western expansion of the Caliphate ended there, but the push back took many years.
“In great deeds, something abides”. Joshua Chamberlain.
Our President behaved on 9/11/01 the same way he responds to every tragedy today – with concern, compassion and practical help.
Donald Trump went in person down to ground zero the day it happened.
And he didn’t just go for a photo op – he went to see how he could help.
After finding a suitable site to set up, Trump sent his hotel staff, equipment, food, sodas, water, etc. and he fed the rescue workers day after day!
A lot of people do not know this but he allowed fire fighters to stay in his hotel for free among others who were there to help. There is an old saying. Put your money where your mouth is. President Trump has more skin in the game than all of Washington put together..
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man.
Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded -- here and there, now and then -- are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck." -- Robert A. Heinlein
Wrath Of Gnon
“In an age where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores.” ー Nicolás Gómez Dávila
On the North River 