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CAN YOU COMPARE OBAMA’S GOOGLE+ CHATS TO FDR’S FIRESIDE CHATS?

January 31, 2012 by 1 Comment

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President Obama expanded his social media experience by holding a Google+ video chat room interview on Monday afternoon with questions chosen by Google from among the most top-rated. Google maintains the White House had no role in the selection of the participants. Obama also held a similar Facebook town hall in Palo Alto, California, in the spring, and a YouTube town hall at the White House in February. The President’s campaign stated that the Social Media used in 2012 will make the 2008 election seem prehistoric.

Although President Obama could have taken some pointers about pumping up the country from his predecessor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR was on a mission and worked with his administration to find ways to counteract the feeling of defeat that was sweeping the country during the Great Depression. His action plan consisted of having every type of media agree to run positive stories, churches to deliver sermons guaranteed to inspire the congregations, and at least for the first 100 days even got the leaders of both parties and both houses of congress to set aside political differences and support an upbeat spirit of winning and being positive.

Furthermore, the most popular effort was his radio broadcasts that became known as President Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats. However, what’s even more commendable is that FDR began his term accepting the hand he was dealt, he didn’t blame the past administrations, rather his focus was to lead the people of this great nation. Additionally, Roosevelt was also in charge of giving the classic/famous line during his inaugural address, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.”

President Obama has also been good about engaging with Americans via Social Media and even caused the “Change” and “Yes We Can” revolution. However, as strong as his administration is in using Social Media, they tend to focus on it during the elections. In my opinion, the President would have done better had he focused his use of Social Media during the first 100 days, especially, to unite Americans. Additionally, his administration could have done Live Chats explaining the President’s “high expenditure” policies that has caused unbelievable debt.

For example, FDR began his radio broadcasts while he was governor of New York, and those had been so effective that when he became president they were reinstituted as a way to inspire and encourage people to believe in themselves and their country. From the first broadcast being a month after he took office, April 12, 1933 to the final broadcast June 12, 1944, a year before he left office.

While President Obama has not been as fervent as President Roosevelt in engaging with his fellow Americans during his term, his social media tactics have caused him to receive an incredible following. It’s no longer simply the young generation on-line, but it is the majority of the country. President Obama figured out that the power of Social Media wins elections just as companies are slowly finding out that Social Media is the majority of future revenue.

Yesterday, the President’s LIVE video chat room included five Americans in cities across the country. Participants were able to follow-up with the president after his answers in real-time. Jennifer Wedel in Fort Worth, Texas, asked the president why the government continues to extend visas for immigrant workers when there are many people, like her husband, who have been out of work. President Obama offered to look at her husband’s resume to help him find an engineering job.

“Forward me his resume,” he told her. “The word we’re getting is someone in that high-tech field should be able to find something right away. I want to follow-up on that.”

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THIS DAY IN LATINO U.S. HISTORY JAN 31ST

January 31, 2012 by 1 Comment

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ON THIS DAY IN 1914:

President Woodrow Wilson declares Phoenix’s Papago Saguaro National  Monument, now Papago Park, a national park for its “Splendid examples of the  giant and many other species of cacti and the yucca palm, with many additional  forms characteristic of desert flora (that) grow to great size and perfection  and are of great scientific interest, and numerous prehistoric photographs of archaeologial and ethnological value.

ON THIS DAY IN 1938:

12,000 San Antonio pecan shellers, mostly Hispanic women, walked off their jobs to protest a wage cut, beginning a three-month strike. The pecan-shelling industry was one of the lowest-paid in the United States, with a typical wage ranging between two and three dollars a week. In the 1930s Texas pecans accounted for approximately 50 percent of the nation’s production, with nearly 400 shelling factories in San Antonio alone. Working conditions were abysmal, and San Antonio’s high tuberculosis rate–148 deaths for each 100,000 persons, compared to the national average of 54–was blamed at least partially on the fine brown dust that permeated the air. The original strike leader was Emma Tenayuca Brooks, a well-known figure in San Antonio politics. In March 1938 both sides agreed to arbitration and reached an initial agreement on hourly wages of seven and eight cents, but shortly thereafter Congress passed the Fair Labor Standards Act, which established a minimum wage of twenty-five cents an hour. Concerned that the new law would encourage mechanization and displace thousands of shellers, the Congress of Industrial Organizations sought an exemption for pecan workers. The Department of Labor, however, denied the exemption, and over the next three years cracking machines replaced more than 10,000 shellers in San Antonio shops.

As a passionate Latina, I will continue to do everything in my power to inspire nuestra gente to “Get Out The Vote!”

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LATINOS WE WERE BORN TO FLY!

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WHAT ARE OBAMA’S VIEWS ON IMMIGRATION AND THE STUDENT DEBT CRISIS?

January 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment

STUDENT DEBT CRISIS

Student debt rises to its highest & exceeds $1 Trillion. Thus, I’m informing my fellow Latinos on the impact as federal loans are not to be messed with. The government can garnish one’s income tax refunds and eventually one’s Social Security checks unless undue hardship can be proven. FYI less than 1% ever do. Thus, President Obama wants to introduce a Student Loan Forgiveness plan, which reduces payment to 10% of student’s income. After paying consistently for 20 years, then the debt is completely forgiven. Moreover, if the student chooses work in the service industry, his/her debt is forgiven in 10 years rather than 20. With more discretionary income, the government counts on consumer spending to increase. What do you think? Should students be forgiven of their debts? Also keep in mind a large percentage are middle aged.

DO LATINOS PREFER ROMNEY OR OBAMA?

According to polls conducted by Univision, Romney leads Latino vote in FL 46% to 43%, although nationwide the President leads 67% to 24%. Here’s where Romney stands on Latino issues. Immigration: Romney is strongly opposed to any reform, the *DREAM Act and *Sanctuary Cities. Border Security: Romney supports a fence at the border, is for system that makes employers certify workers are documented. Economy: His plan is to stay out of the way of corporations, overhauling federal tax, regulatory, trade and energy policies. He wants to increase trade, energy production, human capital, and labor flexibility by taking tough stances on China and labor unions. Healthcare: Repeal healthcare also known as Obamacare, and replace it with market-based reforms so states and individuals can reduce health care costs.

WHAT IS OBAMA’S STANCE ON IMMIGRATION? FYI this is simply his stance not necessarily what he has done for the Latino community. Currently, Latinos will inform you Obama broke most of his promises and thus why we as Latinos must make it our priority to GET OUT THE VOTE!

Immigration: Stop expelling undocumented workers. (01/11) Send 1,200 National Guard troops to southern border. (11/10) Anti-immigrant bitterness stems from joblessness. (01/10) Crack down on employers who hire illegal immigrants. (07/08) America has nothing to fear from today’s immigrants. (06/08) Comprehensive reform (06/08) Recognize humanity of immigrants (06/08) Encourage every student to learn a second language. (Feb 2008) Need to look at different aspects of immigration reform. (Feb 2008) Have border patrolled, surveillance, and deploy technology. (Feb 2008) Increasing the legal fees on immigrants is not helping. (Feb 2008) Deporting 12 million people is ridiculous and impractical. (Feb 2008) Immigration raids are ineffective. (Feb 2008) Solve the driver’s license issue with immigration reform. (Jan 2008) Immigrants are scapegoats for high unemployment rates. (Jan 2008) Health plan: not enough resources for illegal immigrants. (Jan 2008) Illegals shouldn’t work; but should have path to citizenship. (Dec 2007) Don’t deputize Americans to turn in illegal immigrants. (Dec 2007) OK to provide government services in Spanish. (Dec 2007) Comprehensive solution includes employers & borders. (Nov 2007) Undocumented workers come here to work, not to drive. (Nov 2007) Support granting driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. (Nov 2007) Fact Check: Lightning IS likelier than employer prosecution. (Nov 2007) Illegal immigrants’ lack of ID is a public safety concern. (Oct 2007) Immigration system is broken for legal immigrants. (Sep 2007) Reform must include more border security, and border wall. (Sep 2007) Sanctuary cities show that feds are not enforcing law. (Sep 2007) Pathway to citizenship, but people have to earn it. (Aug 2007) Let’s be a nation of laws AND a nation of immigrants. (Aug 2007) Do a better job patrolling the Canadian and Mexican borders. (Jun 2007) Give immigrants who are here a rigorous path to citizenship. (Jun 2007) Extend welfare and Medicaid to immigrants. (Jul 1998)

*Dream Act – legislation that gives minors a path to citizenship if they were brought into the country and are either attending college or enlisted in the military.

*Sanctuary cities – localities that refuse to share local police information with a federal immigration database.

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CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THE THE SCOTUS RULING ON TX REDISTRICTING?

January 20, 2012 by 4 Comments

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Basically, the Supreme Court sent the case back to the three-judge court in Texas to redraw congressional and legislative lines using Texas’s own plans as a starting point. The Court held that the three-judge court should deviate from Texas’s maps only if it is likely that parts of the maps violate the Voting Rights Act.

“On the contrary,” the opinion continued, “the state plan serves as a starting point for the district court. It provides important guidance that helps ensure that the district court appropriately confines itself to drawing interim maps that comply with the Constitution and the Voting Rights Act, without displacing legitimate state policy judgments with the court’s own preferences.”

SCOTUS — cited its 1996 decision in Lopez v. Monterey County — said that a District Court may not adopt “as its own” a state plan that needs Washington clearance but does not yet have it. However, the precedents “say nothing about whether a district court may take guidance from the lawful policies incorporated in such a plan for aid in drawing an interim map.” Turning then to its 1982 decision in Upham v. Seamon, the Court said that a district court has a duty to “defer to the unobjectionable aspects of a state’s plan” even in a situation where clearance was sought but had been denied.

The Justices flatly rejected the declaration of the San Antonio court that it was “not required to give any deference” to what the legislature had crafted. The lower court was wrong, the Court added, “to the extent” it “exceeded its mission to draw interim maps that do not violate the Constitution or the Voting Rights Act, and substituted its own concept of ‘the collective public good’ for the Texas legislature’s determination of which policies serve ‘the interests of the citizens of Texas.’ ”Further, the Court wrote, “because the District Court here had the benefit of a recently enacted plan to assist it, the court had neither the need nor the license to cast aside that vital aid.”

As far as Section 5, requiring some states and local governments to get Washington legal approval before they may put into effect any change in their election laws; Justice Thomas spoke for himself citing his belief that it is unconstitutional.

What does this mean? The opinion favors the state’s maps. This decision only affects the interim maps and this is not necessarily a defeat for the redistricting plaintiffs.

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