What to do on May 1st???

[pwd72s]

Guys, I just tacked this on the end of another thread, but maybe it deserves it's own. This just came in from a friend...and it seems a pretty simple concept to me. A way to protest against the protestors without demonstrating, burning anybody's flag or cracking anybody's skull. Yep, I'll be out there on May 1st...

Great American Boycott, May 1st,2006

WASHINGTON (AFP) Immigrants' rights advocates, elated by the resounding success of Monday's "National Day of Action," which drew the backing of hundreds of thousands of protesters across the United States, now are planning a national boycott which they hope will have an even greater resonance. Organizers are planning the May 1 "Great American Boycott," urging illegal immigrants -- who cannot vote and who have only limited political power -- to flex their economic muscle. Protesters are being urged to refrain from shopping, and to stay away from school and work.



You should take a moment to let that sink in.



This is a movement orchestrated by people who entered the US illegally,and then want to scream about their "rights." WHAT RIGHTS? YOU DON'T EVEN BELONG HERE!



Let's take a look at some of the many benefits that illegal aliens have blessed our great country with: Street gangs, graffitti, drugs, skyrocketing healthcare, depreciation of property value, illiteracy. The list could go on. What they actually have to offer (cheap labor) pales to what they have given our country to deal with. I'll take expensive vegetables over expensive healthcare anyday!



And now, like terrorists, they are going to attack our economy -- the one entity that makes our nation stand out from all the others. The backbone of our nation. The country they came to like locusts so they could reap the benefits is now the focus of their boycott. You've seen it on TV: Marching on our American streets waving their Mexican flags, boldly showing that they can be more racist than who they accuse of, and yet the obvious is totally oblivious to them..... IF YOU'VE GOT IT SO BAD HERE, THEN LEAVE!!!



To all the real Americans, you can do one small thing on May 1st, 2006. It won't be racist, nor will it be violent. It will not be boastful, arrogant, selfish, nor distasteful. It will not be any of those things that our "guests" have already displayed. What it will do is nullify a movement.



All you have to do is buy something on May 1st. Make up for what they will try to take away. It doesn't have to be a new car or house (unless you were already planning on getting one). It simply needs to be a day of trading.



Hold off grocery buying until May 1st. Take your wife out to eat that night. Get the kids pizza, hamburgers, whatever! Make several trips to the convenience store. Buy your meals at work. Fill up your tank. Shop for clothes, furniture, outdoor equipment. If it needs to be bought, BUY IT MAY 1st!



Those are just a few suggestions. We're not asking you to spend your inheritance that day, but just to spend more than you normally would Even if it's only a few dollars, this will help soften the blow that the Mexicans will try to inflict on our economy that day. It sounds trivial at first, but if this idea gets around, what the Mexicans set out to do will fail.



NOW COMES THE HARD PART: This email will not self-destuct if you don't send it to someone. It will not cause bad luck, nor will it make you impotent. It will not do some trick or show a cute little animation if you send it to "X" amount of people. You will not get paid for doing it.



It will not spread the message though, if it just gets deleted. Forward at will.....

[Don Ro]

I like it. Good idea. I have a list of what I can buy on May 1.

But I hope that taxpaying legal citizens do watch some TV that day to view the abject arrogance of this crowd, and the pro-illegal immigrant supporters and the militant Hispanic groups behind it all, in full bloom.

Oh, and feel free to be entertained by all the spin and duping that you'll see/hear...waving of Old Glory, the white shirts, the sad tales, the hollow arguments, etc. Maybe a threat or two, here and there.

[Racerbvd]

I'm goin to eat out, work my job, spend some cash & join the Minutemen and call the INS on any illegals I see matching!!!

[RANDY P]

WA STATE WILL PAY FOR YOUR SEX CHANGE AND CARE FOR THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

CHECK OUT THE TAB!!

Audit faults $1 billion in Medicaid spending

BY BRAD SHANNON

THE OLYMPIAN

State auditors have issued another annual audit critical of the $6.2-billion-a-year state-run Medicaid program, saying they had questions about nearly $1 billion of the spending. The most politically sensitive expense was $28 million for the medical care of illegal immigrants.

While treatment of illegal resident children or adults in emergencies is covered by federal law, some spending on adults went for things such as dental care, according to the report.

Of the $1 billion in questioned spending, up to $32 million might have to be repaid to the federal government.

Auditors also found $326,000 in cosmetic procedures such as breast enlargements, which weren’t adequately documented as medically necessary, and $97,000 in disputed costs for sex-change procedures.

And the state paid anywhere from $48 to $5,061 per dose for one steroidal medication, Somatroin, used to treat growth disorders.

Spokesmen for the Department of Social and Health Services downplayed the bad news in the audit reports of the past two years, which cited 28 problems with Medicaid alone.

“This will sound bad, but this is a better audit than last year,” state Medicaid director Doug Porter said in an interview. Last year, $6 billion in spending was disputed or “disclaimed.”

Porter and his boss, DSHS Secretary Robin Arnold-Williams, said the audit reflects a changing relationship between their agency and the auditor.

“We share a common goal of ensuring the proper use of public funds,” Arnold-Williams said in a prepared statement.

The audit raises serious questions, State Auditor Brian Sonntag said, but he generally agreed that DSHS is moving in the right direction.

“What raises the alarm is the fact we are identifying a lack of documentation; we’re identifying coding errors, the kinds of things that should be answerable and resolved,” Sonntag said. “What reduces the alarm is that DSHS is very responsive to the auditing process, to the findings of this audit and the issues contained.”

That’s a sharp contrast to past years, when the two agencies clashed publicly over access to records.

Gaps in documentation

Still, the audit by Sonntag’s office found numerous deficiencies in the state’s grasp of payments in many programs — everything from the timeliness of Department of Health surveys of hospitals to the level of controls in place to ensure proper billing for such things as motorized wheelchairs or the care of developmentally disabled adults.

Some highlights:
• From $28 million to $32 million in nonemergency services might have been provided to illegal residents of the country, echoing findings of a year ago. Sonntag and Medicaid’s Porter both said it is the most serious audit finding.

“This is one of those areas where we’ll probably have a perpetual dispute,” Porter said, explaining that separate federal rules require the state to get a Social Security number from anyone seeking services, even though a separate rule won’t let the state deny services solely for lack of a Social Security card.

So while DSHS might help a person get a Social Security number, if eligible for one, the agency in the meantime is providing medical services that eventually get questioned by the auditor under the other rule, Porter said.

“We keep saying, ‘There will always be people for whom we don’t have a number yet, and we’ll get it,’ ” Porter said. “What the auditor wants to see is a level of perfection that our system will never afford.”

A new computer in 2007 might help cut down on some disputes, he added.

The agency also has been redrafting its rules defining an emergency situation to limit incorrect charges, DSHS spokesman Jim Stevenson said.

The federal inspector’s ongoing audit is due in September, Porter said, and it will be given to other federal regulators who can consider what the proper state action is. In past cases, no repayment has been required when the state shows it is reforming its practice, according to Porter.

• Medicaid’s oversight of payments for the care of the developmentally disabled was seen as lax. It included payments for $129.8 million to intermediate care facilities without adequate assurance that the care provided met federal standards, auditors said.

• The Department of Health failed to carry out adequate hospital surveys related to more than $583 million in state and federal payments for care. Only 50 of 102 participating hospitals had received the appropriate annual survey in 2004, and 73 percent of facilities were not surveyed on the new 18-month cycles that state law now allows. But DSHS said the Department of Health is on target to meet the new 18-month goal.

Sex-change surgery

State Rep. Bill Hinkle, R-Cle Elum, blasted DSHS over the audit, but he also ripped fellow lawmakers for not drafting laws this year specifically barring use of state funds for illegal or undocumented workers or for sex-change surgeries.

DSHS contends it has no evidence of purely cosmetic breast surgeries, finding the augmentations were done after breast cancer treatment, and breast reductions were done because the patient’s condition caused serious back pain or there were osteoporosis concerns.

As for sex-change surgeries, the agency does not allow them by policy. It has allowed two since 2001 only after an administrative law judge ordered them, according to DSHS; three other cases are pending, and the state is resisting payment in all three.

While Hinkle said the Legislature rejected his Republican caucus’ effort to outlaw payment for sex-change surgeries, Porter said states that did have run afoul of federal courts.

And Medicaid’s medical chief, Dr. Jeff Thompson, said Washington’s approach is following the lead of Iowa, which has passed muster with federal appellate courts. It recommends treatment with hormones and psychotherapy instead of surgery, finding them more effective for the patient, less costly and less risky than sex-change procedures; Washington argues that the approach is based on evidence compiled in a state-paid consultant’s report.

More accountability

Hinkle blamed the governor and lawmakers for not holding DSHS more accountable. The state needs its own Office of Inspector General who can take a step beyond what the auditor does and force agencies to comply with law, he said.

It’s fair to ask whether the state should mimic the federal Department of Health and Human Services by having its own inspectors, Porter said.

“I think it’s a fair public policy debate as to how many guard dogs you want guarding the hen house and how much you want to spend on auditors and oversight capacity,” Porter said.

Despite his criticism, Hinkle said he thinks Arnold-Williams is making progress in holding DSHS accountable. “The problem is that DSHS is like an 800-pound gorilla with a choke chain,” he said. “Who’s going to pull the choke chain?”

And who do we have to thank for WA State funding sex change operations?

http://159.54.227.3/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060314/NEWS0402/60314059

Freking brilliant.

All Democrats must hang.

[legion]

Buy a hat and shirt that say "INS".

[Don Ro]

And I have plans to visit WA/OR area to find my 100 retirement acres.
But the liberals up there are freakin' whacked!!!...as they are here in Mexifornia.
Free drivers license for illegals in WA.
It's a friggin' social disease.
Coming to a state near you.
.
Info from up there:
March 18, 2006

"Last month, it was announced that the Oregon Department of Human Services is $172 million over budget just five months into the biennium. DHS administers the Oregon Heath Plan.

Despite being $172 million over budget, DHS sends out employees on Saturdays and pays them overtime to attend events that, by agreement with the Mexican consul general, are only open to Mexican nationals. At these events, DHS shows Mexican nationals how to access Oregon state benefits."

[Jim Richards]

I think I'll get up and have some breakfast. Then I'll go to work. Then I'll come home. After I have dinner and hang out with my wife for a few hours, I'll go to bed. Repeat.

[pwd72s]

Hate to clue you on this Don, but Oregon is one of the 7 states that issues driver's licenses to illegal aliens. Along with every license, an "honor system" voter's registration is handed out, postage pre paid. By honor system, I mean the card is filled out, "yes" is checked next to the "are you a citizen" question, and mail it in. ALL elections in Oregon are by mail balloting. Meaning, the ballot arrives in the mail, it's filled out, then mailed back. But..our Secretary of State assures the press that only citizens vote in Oregon...that he has found no evidence of fraud.
I think it might help if he actually looked for some, but what do I know?

[tabs]

VIVA LA RAZA

[rouxroux]

Round 'em up for civil disobience if they try to "shut down" the cities, then get plenty of zip ties and school busses...Dang, I wish the I-69 corridor was already open, we could have both sides headed south for a mass deportation.

[Zeke]

Tough crowd. This, too, will pass. The LA Riots of '93 are the only thing that scared me. More than the riots of '68. Life as usual unless the torches come out. Then, it's all out war.

Lock and load.

Excuse me, that was 1965, the Watts Riots.

[Por_sha911]

Put up a sign that says:
"No hable espańol AND PROUD OF IT!"

[74cookiecutter]

So, they take one day off from purchasing something. Tue they will fill their tank pay their water, and electric bills buy their groceries and hallmark will sell them a card for their children's birthday which they have the money to celebrate. Buy nothing today and spend twice tommorrow.
I hope gas prices go up 20cents in their area Tue morn.

Oh yeah and by the way while they are "out" let some legal residents apply for their jobs and start working to reduce the unemployment strain.
They gotta come up for air sometime.

Will my favorite mexican restrn't be open tommorrow? It's owned by Mexican's???

[yellowline]

Do nothing unusual. Changing your life to respond to them means they're important enough to interest you, right?

In some ways, just ignoring this is the best way to go, IMO.

[Vipergrün]

Si se pueda? No you CAN'T!!

[Jims5543]

Originally posted by yellowline
Do nothing unusual. Changing your life to respond to them means they're important enough to interest you, right?

In some ways, just ignoring this is the best way to go, IMO.

I wish I could agree with you, really. I really want to ignore this but I cannot. I hope their "take America to its knees" backfires.

Grocery shopping today - Check
Going out to lunch with some co-workers - check
A run to Home Depot for some stuff for house - check
Taking family out to dinner this evening - Check
Maybe even a movie - Check

[Vipergrün]

I think the best thing that could happen is to see a huge headline on CNN saying "A Day Without An Immigrant Has No Impact, Business As Usual". However, we all know that the bleeding heart will be making stories out of stories to give them the exposure and to pump up ratings. So, even if the protest fails, it will succeed....

[VINMAN]

Looks like our "Illegal" friends are boycotting the boycott. Ha Ha!They are out in force standing on the corners, looking for work.

Oh well, like they say, Money talks, B.S. walks!

[temo79]

Here are only a few people making comments but La Raza is so many more! VIVA!

[pwd72s]

Originally posted by temo79
Here are only a few people making comments but La Raza is so many more! VIVA!

So many more what ?