In yesterday's Left Angeles Times, a poll was released regarding Californians views of the so-called California Dream Act.
What is important is how this was relayed both in print at the local news rack and online.
The headline in the print edition, and the lead story, reads as follows verbatim:
USC/DORNSIFE/
TIMES POLL
DREAM Act has state voters divided
Nearly 80% of Latinos back government
aid for illegal immigrants at state
universities, versus 30% of whites.
Now for the headline online:
USC/DORNSIFE
TIMES POLL
Survey finds ethnic divide among voters on DREAM Act
Among Latinos, 79% support government financial aid for illegal immigrants who attend state universities, compared with 30% of whites. And 49% of all respondents say UC and Cal State campuses are not very affordable or are unaffordable.
Now, what do you think is wrong with the headline?
Well, if you read the print edition, you would be led to believe that the poll itself is say maybe 50-50. If you read the headline only online, it defines an ethnic divide among voters.
Yet the real story is really buried in the article.
The fact is that among all voters, no matter ethnicity, only 40% of all polled support the California Dream Act. A number of 55% oppose the California Dream Act.
So, where is the division?
Seems to me that the majority of all polled oppose the act. The only group supporting it in any large numbers are Hispanics.
And Whites support/oppose it roughly about 30% to 70%. What I can not find is how the numbers broke down among other ethnic groups. Groups as Asian-Americans and Black Americans. It would seem that if we saw those numbers, while maybe not as negative as Whites, it would show that they do not support the act either. That is why you have a 40% for and 55% against split.
But the way that the Times portrays this as a battle between Whites and Hispanics. No doubt that the California DREAM Act is a boon to illegal aliens in the schools in California. It gives them a break at the expense of just as deserving, American-born Hispanics. These illegal aliens get to pay in-state tuition rather than the out-of-state that they should be paying. Actually, they should be paying what an international student would pay. Since they are not American citizens. And not citizens of the state of California.
And I wonder how many of the American born Hispanics, when they understand what this means for their potential family members, really do support the act?
But I fault a newspaper that should report the fact of the poll. That the majority of California registered voters oppose the California DREAM Act. That the underlying fact is that, again since I do not have access to other ethnic groups polled, only Hispanics seem to strongly favor the act.
But the Left Angeles Times seems to want to bury that real fact. No, they want to fan the flames of raaaaacism. That the eeeeevvvvviiilllll White people want to keep all the Hispanics down.
No, we do not. We want those who can to pursue higher education. And no, I don't want to throw those students here illegally out of the United States. They should just have to pay the higher cost.
And the real tragedy is that this is the Democrat party buying Hispanic votes. Nothing more, nothing less.
It is too bad that the Left Angeles Times used their poll for manipulation and not the facts.
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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Preaching The Gospel Of The Democrat Party From The Pulpit
As an Episcopalian, many days barely, what my local bishop is pushing this Sunday's preachers to support the California Nightmare, er "Dream" Act is beyond offensive and not a Christian thing to do.
Bishop Jon Bruno has delivered his pronouncement from on high that the preachers need to preach on the so-called "Dream" Act that awaits California Gov. Jerry Brown's signature.
Why?
Since when shall preachers promote a clear agenda of the California Democrat party?
Well, since this is the whim of the bishop, I guess.
The background on the "Dream" act is simple.
It will allow the children of illegal aliens to access higher education by paying in-state tuitions instead of at the very least out-of-state tuitions.
And I am sorry, but this is a benefit at the expense of American students and is discriminatory at the least.
Why should a person that is in the United States, California in particular, get a benefit over a equally deserving potential student say from Colorado? Why should said student not pay the out-of-state tuition? After all, they are not legal, right?
But, many on the left want you to believe that this is a civil rights issue.
The dirty fact is that higher education is not a right. And it is something that not everyone can or should have.
I do not want to deny these good students the access to the higher education. If they are trying to do the right thing and become citizens, great. Until that happens, they are not and can not be treated as such. Especially at a time when all we hear from the higher educrats is how they are hurting for money.
You know, these students can do what many of us did.
They can work while going to school. Remember, they are doing two things. Trying to get a higher education and become American citizens. At the very least, these are people that can and should have a work visa and or a green card while they go through the process to become citizens. So they can have the ability to work while going through school.
Now, I ask again, why is the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles blatantly backing extremely partisan legislation?
I suppose it is a combination of "social justice" and being for the underdog.
But, this does come at a price and a cost to just as deserving Americans that have the misfortune of not being California residents. And, it is a magnet for other illegals to come to California, face no consequence for their action, have children and they can eventually benefit from this bad legislation.
The sad fact is if this legislation is signed, the real underdogs will be the American students that will compete for slots against illegal alien students.
Where will the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles be for them?
I believe that I hear crickets chirping on that.
And the other reality is that not all of us that are Christian and members of the Episcopal church support this legislation. On this, my bishop does not speak for me. Nor does my preacher if he or she chooses to preach on the justification of this legislation.
And what is this doing spreading the message of the Gospel? Is this bringing anyone to Jesus Christ?
I leave you with that question.
But I do not support the bishop and those in the Diocese of Los Angeles that support the so-called "Dream" act. For it will be a nightmare, not a dream, for most Americans and Californians.
Bishop Jon Bruno has delivered his pronouncement from on high that the preachers need to preach on the so-called "Dream" Act that awaits California Gov. Jerry Brown's signature.
Why?
Since when shall preachers promote a clear agenda of the California Democrat party?
Well, since this is the whim of the bishop, I guess.
The background on the "Dream" act is simple.
It will allow the children of illegal aliens to access higher education by paying in-state tuitions instead of at the very least out-of-state tuitions.
And I am sorry, but this is a benefit at the expense of American students and is discriminatory at the least.
Why should a person that is in the United States, California in particular, get a benefit over a equally deserving potential student say from Colorado? Why should said student not pay the out-of-state tuition? After all, they are not legal, right?
But, many on the left want you to believe that this is a civil rights issue.
The dirty fact is that higher education is not a right. And it is something that not everyone can or should have.
I do not want to deny these good students the access to the higher education. If they are trying to do the right thing and become citizens, great. Until that happens, they are not and can not be treated as such. Especially at a time when all we hear from the higher educrats is how they are hurting for money.
You know, these students can do what many of us did.
They can work while going to school. Remember, they are doing two things. Trying to get a higher education and become American citizens. At the very least, these are people that can and should have a work visa and or a green card while they go through the process to become citizens. So they can have the ability to work while going through school.
Now, I ask again, why is the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles blatantly backing extremely partisan legislation?
I suppose it is a combination of "social justice" and being for the underdog.
But, this does come at a price and a cost to just as deserving Americans that have the misfortune of not being California residents. And, it is a magnet for other illegals to come to California, face no consequence for their action, have children and they can eventually benefit from this bad legislation.
The sad fact is if this legislation is signed, the real underdogs will be the American students that will compete for slots against illegal alien students.
Where will the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles be for them?
I believe that I hear crickets chirping on that.
And the other reality is that not all of us that are Christian and members of the Episcopal church support this legislation. On this, my bishop does not speak for me. Nor does my preacher if he or she chooses to preach on the justification of this legislation.
And what is this doing spreading the message of the Gospel? Is this bringing anyone to Jesus Christ?
I leave you with that question.
But I do not support the bishop and those in the Diocese of Los Angeles that support the so-called "Dream" act. For it will be a nightmare, not a dream, for most Americans and Californians.
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