Lalo Alcaraz for August 16, 2011

The presence of several million illegal aliens,primarily from Mexico has driven down the standard of living for the legal residents. Why don’t you encourage the citizens of Mexico to stay home and work to fix their nation before they decide to take the illegal path ? Your cartoons are full of half-truths that appeal to the uninformed………..

There’s a push in California to do away with public libraries, and turn them all over to corporate control. An assemblyman (Democrat, obviously) is trying to block that effort with AB 438.

The REAL numbers in Texas, just like most fact checking with current “republican” claims, gets pretty depressing. We should always make them show, and let us count, their “WMDs” before we let them hatch.

“47% of all government jobs added in the US between 2007 and 2010 were added in Texas.The chart shows that Texas employment wasn’t down much at all in these years, as the state lost only 53,000 jobs. But looming behind that number are large losses in the private sector (down 178,000) and large gains (up 125,000) in government jobs.Now, this was a period when the nation lost close to eight million jobs, so this churning in Texas is a very small drop in that bucket. But it sure doesn’t match the Governor’s anti-government rhetoric.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jared-bernstein/texas-and-the-government-_b_929096.html?ir=Business

It is a miracle that Texans elected him three times..

And one of these days, Vortex, maybe you’ll tell us where all the jobs are that were created by the Bush tax cuts.Or more likely, just keep repeating lies like you did here: http://www.gocomics.com/dicklocher/2011/08/14/

Lalo left out that big ol’ deficit Texas has been operating in for some time now. I thought Republicans were all about the balanced budget?

But how could they have lagged, Howie? Remember, the Bush tax cuts gave more money to the rich, and obviously the rich wouldn’t have done anything with that money except create jobs.

Hold on there, Tony. You can’t expect these “Job Creators” to do much job-creating at all, while that non-white, Muslum, un-American Marxist is in office. Republicans promise: Put the Perry/Bachman ticket in the White House, and there’ll be plenty of (new, lower-than-low) minimum wage jobs for everybody!!

If you really think cutting taxes on the wealthiest few while cutting services to the poor isn’t class warfare, you are down right stupid.

^ You have to remember the mentality of some of those Tea Party folk. Keep your government hands off their Medicare!