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The Demographics of American Newspapers:
1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.

3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country and who are very good at crossword puzzles.

4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.

5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country -- if they could find the time -- and if they didn't have to leave Southern California to do it.

6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.

7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.

8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.

9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores.

10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there is a country . . . or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped, minority, feminist, atheists who also happen to be illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy, provided of course, that they are not Republicans.

11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.

12. The Pensacola News Journal is read by people who have recently caught a fish and need something in which to wrap it.

Then there is my paper the Gazette: It is too stiff to wipe my tail on, to small for a small dog to piss on, all its news is taken off the UPI and the only reason I subscribe to it is to find the local store specials, the funnies and the Obits. If i'm not in the Obits, I read the funnies and my wife checks the local store specials and then we trash it.

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The Kalamazoo Gazette my local paper. I don't subscribe to it because; what is not local news is taken off the UPI. The sports are half hearted. There is hardly any Detroit professional teams or any other professional sports, little if not for University of Michigan or Michigan State. Business news, just as much of a joke as the sports section, a very limited selection of stock and mutual fund results. Just another newspaper headed for the same business health of the New York Times and the Los Angles Times. Losing significant numbers of readership that puts out their opinion, while disregarding their readerships opinion.

My Senator Replied that He was In Favor of the Amnesty Bill

Dear Mr. Piet Van:

This is in response to your recent correspondence regarding the subject of immigration. I appreciate receiving your views on this important matter.

Our immigration system is broken and needs reform. Undocumented immigrants flow through our porous borders. Employers hire them with near impunity. Our government lacks the ability to adequately detect unauthorized employment, while employers in sectors such as agriculture, Michigan’s second largest industry, fear that their crops will go unpicked for lack of legal, authorized workers. The bipartisan compromise bill before the Senate was an opportunity to reform this broken system.

The first step in immigration reform must be stronger border security. Although there were some provisions in the bill before the Senate that I did not support, this legislation had strong border security measures, even stronger than the ones we debated a few weeks ago. In fact, it contained the funding for the enhanced border security.

We need a more secure, more sensible, and fairer system of immigration. Because of filibusters in the Senate we were unable to fully consider and amend the bill. We do not know what the final language might have been, and we were unable to get a vote on a number of amendments because of the filibuster. We should have finished the consideration of those amendments to determine whether or not the final product was an improvement on the status quo. I’m disappointed the Senate was thwarted in that effort.

Thank you for taking the time to share your concerns with me.

Sincerely,

Carl Levin

Bloggers Response:

Thank God there were enough Senators that listened to the people versus my Senator! I must agree that we must get border security first. I must disagree that there are not people that are willing to do the farm work with out the illegal immigrants. There are people willing to do the job, just not below minimum wage or possible the wage that the farmers want to pay.

Making the 2002 Tax Cuts Permanent - A Letter to My Senators

To the Honorable Senator Debbie Stabenow & Carl Levin:

I would like to know when would you be pushing the legislation to make the 2002 tax cuts permanent? Failure to make the tax cuts permanent will be a significant tax increase on my family and other families in our great nation.

One of the biggest tax cuts was the child tax credit. I am sure you are in favor of doing things for the children of this great nation. The next measure that directly impacted families was the raising of the minimal taxable income.

As I remember there were also provisions in those tax cuts that revised the depreciation schedules advantageous to businesses. By making these depreciation schedules permanent this is advantageous to re-investing in your business. Additional measures included the lowering the capital gains taxes. Right now Michigan manufacturing needs this help. Michigan manufacturing has taken such a beating in plant closures; jobs moving down south and internationally. This is very depressing. In quoting for jobs as an engineer, the deprecation costs sometimes is the make it or break it factor in keeping these jobs in Michigan and the United States. Without the revised deprecation schedules made permanent, you cannot depend on using the current deprecation schedules; we must use the old schedules.

I’m sure you understand that Michigan has some of the highest unemployment in the nation. Tax cuts and making the tax cuts permanent is one of the biggest things that the federal government can do to stimulate the economy. I grew up in Michigan. I returned to Michigan after honorable service in the United States Navy and I would like to raise my family in Michigan. The Great Sate of Michigan needs your help right now!

Sincerely,

Pieter J. Vande Vusse

The People Spoke

What a great thing happened this week in the Senate. The people spoke and the Senators had no choice but to listen. The people did not want was what congress had come up with for immigration reform.

This incident goes to show how powerful the voice of the people is. It told the people the importance of writing your Congressman/woman and Senators. If you are upset with what congress is doing, you must call or write your legislator.

Have you written your legislator to tell hem how you feel about making the 2002 tax cuts permanent? I have young kids and those tax cuts equals $3,000 a year to me. What else is important to you?

By the way, the Senators were not happy about this mass of calls, e-mails and letters. They are blaming Talk Radio, and they are right. Talk Radio did stir up a lot of the people, but it is the job of the legislators to listen to the people too. In response to the Amnesty bill failure by the Senators having to listen to the people. There are Senators that are trying to write legislation that would kill Talk Radio. When this happens, it will be time again for the American people to tell their senators what to do again.