This health care reform bill does, without a doubt, have a cap on how much you receive on your healthcare plan if you have diabetes, cancer or any long term health problems; this proposed bill has a limit they will pay. What does this mean to us? It means that you will be broke, and in the end will have no health care at all. Read the bill. Again, illegals will receive health care when Americans won't. Some of you may think that I am against Mexicans; I will tell you "no," I do not have anything against Mexicans, and I am for anyone trying to better themselves, but what they don't understand is they are working to the detriment of themselves and U.S. citizens by working for next to nothing! ...more

December 15, 2009

Growers are already discovering this year's harvest is smaller. They'll have to wait until next year to determine if there will be enough pickers. ...more

December 8, 2009

The party that ruled Mexico for seven decades appears to be making a comeback in midterm congressional elections. ...more

July 6, 2009

Regarding the Letter of the Day, March 30, "Economics 101:" Hugh Williamson asked, "Would you want your garbage man or your auto mechanic to be so wealthy he didn't need to work?" ...more

April 1, 2009

Irv Friedman of Bayonet Point disagrees with op-ed page columnist Rich Lowry regarding U.S. restrictions on border crossings by Mexican long-haul trucks. ...more

March 28, 2009

World trade more or less quadrupled from 1982 to 2008. Most economists either did not foresee the universal array of economic calamity which dramatically manifested itself in the fourth quarter of 2008 or chose to remain mum. ...more

March 6, 2009

Immigration agents this week conducted their first work-site raid since President Barack Obama took office, but it was news to their boss, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who on Wednesday ordered a review of the action. ...more

February 25, 2009

Net migration from Mexico, mainly to the United States, plunged by more than 50 percent in late 2008 compared with a year earlier as fewer Mexicans left their country in search of work, the government said Thursday. ...more

February 20, 2009

Since you have had all kinds of writers sending thank you letters I thought I would add my thanks to Mr. Bush: For lying to us about WMD that Iraq had so you and your ilk could go to war and make certain people wealthy. For giving all those tax breaks to the wealthy and lying to us how a trickle down economy would work for me. For letting all those good jobs run offshore to make jobs for the Asians and Mexicans. For giving tax breaks to the wealthy and then borrowing money from foreign nations that my grandchildren are going to find difficult to pay back and blame me. ...more

February 7, 2009

"Should I stay or should I go." To quote the band "The Clash," illegal immigrants to Avon Park and its environs must be asking just that question. If they stay here, they risk arrest, deportation, exploitation or worse. If they go back to Mexico, they risk greater poverty, starvation, exploitation even murder by corrupt thugs, drug dealers and cops. Nice choice, eh? I recently witnessed a demonstration against illegal immigration at the intersection of US 27 and SR 64 in Avon Park. Truck drivers were honking their air horns presumably in support of the demonstrators who proudly waved American flags next to a pickup truck with a sign against illegal immigration and for drilling domestic oil. In attendance was the former mayor of Avon Park, a huge enemy of illegal immigration. I don't know him, never met him, but I've heard him speak. Nice to know paranoia is alive and well in America. ...more

September 8, 2008