Hilda Solis is Secretary of Bizarro World

H/T: Weasel Zippers

Democrats Banish the American Work Ethic to the Reservation

A culture of dependency is the keystone of the Democratic Party. Obama’s shock troops are leading the assault on a good work ethic. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis has outlawed an American tradition of kids working on farms. Many recognize the value of hard work, and are fretting what this means for future generations.

In Kansas, Cherokee County Farm Bureau president Jeff Clark was out in the field — literally on a tractor — when TheDC reached him. He said if Solis’s regulations are implemented, farming families’ labor losses from their children will only be part of the problem.

“What would be more of a blow,” he said, “is not teaching our kids the values of working on a farm.”

The Environmental Protection Agency reports that the average age of the American farmer is now over 50.

“Losing that work-ethic — it’s so hard to pick this up later in life,” Clark said. “There’s other ways to learn how to farm, but it’s so hard. You can learn so much more working on the farm when you’re 12, 13, 14 years old.”

And a good work ethic is the last thing a democratic politician wants your children to learn. We’ve entered a new era where food stamps and a government check are as laudable as having a job. Basically, the bureaucratic state needs to expand their tentacles. They want all of us on the reservation, in a state of dependency.

Look at the American Indian. The Department of the Interior purposefully torpedoed the success of these luckless tribes. The reason being, it would’ve been the death of a government agency. Forbes.com reported the following:

Any effort at land reform must go through the Bureau of Indian Affairs. But the bureau, originally part of the War Department and one of the federal government’s oldest agencies, isn’t about to pave the way for its own demise by signing off on an effort to privatize reservation land. The bureau faced this situation before: Under the 1887 Dawes Act, land could be allotted to individual Indians, but by 1934 so much land had been privatized that Congress reversed course and communal tribal property was back in favor. “Allotment threatened the bureau so it had an incentive to end the process,” says Dominic Parker, an economics professor at Montana State University. In any event, tribal councils wouldn’t be keen to give up the patronage and power that controlling vast amounts of land gives them. And the $2.5 billion a year that Washington spends on programs for Native Americans is a powerful deterrent to change. “For the bureau and other narrow interests, staying with the convoluted system of land ownership is safer than improving property rights,” he says. The bureau declined to comment.

Once the work ethic is lost, it’s hard to get back. As one tribal member states:

“Privatizing land is fine but it falls far short of the answer,” says Yellowtail. “Our people don’t understand business. After 10 or 15 generations of not being involved in business, they’ve lost their feel for it. Capitalism is considered threatening to our identity, our traditions. Successful entrepreneurs are considered sell-outs, they’re ostracized. We have to promote the dignity of self-sufficiency among Indians. Instead we have a culture of malaise: ‘The tribe will take care of us.’ We accept the myth of communalism. And we don’t value education. We resist it.”


The United Nations Human Rights Council is scheduled to investigate the plight of the U.S. indigenous population. I wonder if they’ll question the role of the Interior Department. In another 50 years, this same agency will probably investigate the plight of the American farmer.

Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoppisch/2011/12/13/why-are-indian-reservations-so-poor-a-look-at-the-bottom-1/2/

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/house-dem-unemployed-will-vote-obama-welfare/501721

http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/25/rural-kids-parents-angry-about-labor-dept-rule-banning-farm-chores/#ixzz1t6rYJsqb

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/22/un-investigate-us-native-americans

Secretary Hilda Solis Believes Thuggery is a Virtue When Fairness is Applied

The Obama administration is all about fairness. And they’re going to make damn sure their brand of “fairness” will be exacted, whether we like it or not. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis articulated her definition of “fairness” at an Al Sharpton sponsored convention in Washington D.C.:

“It’s about fairness,” Secretary Solis said while explaining President Obama’s re-election platform. “It’s about fairness in the workplace; it’s about fairness in education; and it’s about fairness in terms of what services are provided by government. And if we can’t have say-so in that, then this isn’t the dream that all of us have aspired to be a part of.”

“If people aren’t paying their taxes, those that can afford it, the billionaires and millionaires — even the folks as you’ve heard yesterday that were in the White House that agreed to pay more. They want to pay more because they know it’s their obligation!” she added:

“That’s why he’s putting forward an agenda that says he wants to see an America, an America that helps every single one of us. Not those that are privileged, not those that can afford fancy lawyers and lobbyists but people, everyday people.”

“An America, as he says it, that is built to last for every single one of us and our children and our grandchildren,” she added.



The Labor Secretary continued:

President Obama has said that in the face of our challenges we’re going to have to answer a central question as a country: can we succeed as a country where a shrinking number of people do increasingly well while a growing number struggle to get by?

Or are we better off when everyone gets a fair shot and everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same rules?

That is what is at the heart of this national debate that the president has brought us into –and the other side of the aisle — because this is where we know we have to go. We have to have this discussion.

[...]
So I want to ask you if you’re going to help us march again. I want to ask you if you’re going to help us organize and I want to make sure that we’re accountable and that we are out there and that we not just fire ourselves up, you know, get excited, but I mean that we give it all that we got.

Who knew that thuggery is a virtue, when fairness is applied? Progressives are notorious for co-opting words and distorting the language. Let’s take a look at the definition of fairness by the American Heritage Dictionary:

1) free of obstacles
2) free of favoritism or bias; impartial
3) just to all parties; equitable
4) Consistent with rules, logic, or ethics

I don’t believe Secretary Solis had any of the above in mind when she made her speech. Wait a minute. I didn’t look down far enough in the dictionary. I do believe this is what her definition of fairness is:

Lawful to hunt or attack: fair game

Yes, that is more like it.



Source: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/white-house-labor-sec-millionaires-billionaires-have-an-obligation-to-pay-more-taxes/

Obama's America: Land of the Bureaucrat and Home of the Cowering Populace

I don’t recall a time when I’ve been more concerned for the future of my country as I am now. We Americans have overcome many challenges and hardships throughout our storied history. We’ve been invaded by a foreign country. We’ve had a civil war. We’ve survived a great depression and two world wars. We even faced down the Soviet empire and watched their ideology crash and burn in the trash bin of history. But now we are faced with a foe that is more dangerous and insidious than all the above combined: a federal government that has no constraints.

The Obama administration is infested with a bunch of totalitarians that have no regard for our Constitution. The Secretary of Labor is signing treaties with foreign governments in violation of Article II Section II. Secretary of Health and Human Services is drafting laws and regulations that violate the First Amendment rights of Catholics; and now the Secretary of Defense has just informed Congress that foreign entities have more of a say than our elected representatives when it comes to matters of the military in violation of Article I Section 8.

Let’s face the facts: the Obama administration is a rogue regime. There are serious grounds for impeaching this president and purging ourselves of these contemptible scoundrels who basically have committed a coup.

This coming election is the most important in our nation’s history. If Obama wins, there is no turning back. The land of the free and home of the brave will become the land of the bureaucrat and home of the cowering populace.

Secretary Of Labor Hilda Solis Issues Treaties Without Consent of the Senate

The Obama administration strikes again. Leave it to these statist scumbags to completely subvert the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law. What is the latest offense? Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis has been signing treaties with foreign governments without the advice and consent of the United States Senate:

(CNSNews.com) - U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis today signed "partnership" agreements with ambassadors from a group of Latin American nations aiming to protect what she described as the labor rights of both legal and illegal migrants working in the United States.


During the signing ceremony hosted at Labor Department headquarters in Washington D.C., Solis said the agreements are aimed at educating migrant workers, regardless of how they got here, about their rights under U.S. law and to help prevent them from being abused in the workplace, either through wages, loss of job, or deportation.


When asked by CNSNews.com, she made clear the agreements aim at protecting both documented and undocumented workers inside the United States.


Notice the operative words used: “partnership agreements”. Again, the English language is being abused by the progressives. Now let’s take a look at the word "treaty" under the American Heritage Dictionary:


Treaty: a formal agreement between two or more states containing terms of trade, peace, alliance, or the like; a pact


Is not a partnership agreement the same as a treaty between two or more states?


Now let’s take a look at the U.S. Constitution, Article II Section II:


He shall have the power, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the senators present concur…


I don’t believe the Senate approved these treaties. We have just witnessed a coup by the Obama bureaucratic machine.


Source: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/administration-partners-foreign-gov-s-pr

La Raza Awash in U.S. Taxpayer Money

The Obama administration has been funneling money to one of the biggest subversive groups in the United States:  La Raza.  This racist organization has openly declared a reconquista of the American southwest.  And with Hilda Solis as the secretary of labor, their coffers have been brimming with taxpayer monies.  Judicial Watch reports the following disgrace: 

This week a JW probe has uncovered details of the alarming increase in federal funding that these NCLR groups have received since Muñoz joined the Obama Administration. In fact, the government cash more than doubled the year Muñoz joined the White House, from $4.1 million to $11 million.

Not surprisingly, a big chunk of the money (60%) came from the Department of Labor, which is headed by a former California congresswoman (Hilda Solis) with close ties to the La Raza movement. Since Obama named her Labor Secretary, Solis has launched a nationwide campaign to protect illegal immigrant workers in the U.S. Just this week Solis penned declarations with Guatemala and Nicaragua to preserve the rights of their migrants.

The NCLR also received additional taxpayer dollars from other federal agencies in 2010, the JW probe found. The Department of Housing and Urban Development doled out $2.5 million for housing counseling, the Department of Education contributed nearly $800,000 and the Centers for Disease Control a quarter of a million.

Additionally, NCLR affiliates nationwide raked in tens of millions of government grant and recovery dollars last year thanks to the Muñoz factor. An offshoot called Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC) saw its federal funding nearly double to $18.3 million following Muñoz’ appointment.

Ever since the progressives took over the White House, it’s been one boondoggle after another, and all at the expense of hard working American citizens.  

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/jun/nclr-funding-skyrockets-after-obama-hires-its-vp

Secretary Solis Defends Unions and Illegal Aliens

Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis just had to interject herself into the state of Wisconsin’s dispute with the labor unions. At the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting, she said the following as reported by the Politico:


“The fight is on,” Labor Secretary Hilda Solis told the closing session of the DNC gathering at the Marriott Wardman Park hotel Saturday morning. “We work together. We help those embattled states right now where public employees are under assault.


Solis, a former congresswoman from California, got cheers and multiple standing ovations for her remarks blasting Walker and other Republican governors who seek to weaken government workers’ collective bargaining rights.



“We know many states are facing tough budget decisions,” she said. “We know there’s room for shared sacrifice — shared sacrifice. We’ve seen our brothers and sisters in public employee unions willingly give up their fair share. … The governors of Wisconsin and Ohio aren’t just demanding that they tighten their belts, they’re demanding that they give up their uniquely American rights as workers.”

Where in the hell have they sacrificed? They live better than the rest of us.

Solis loves socialist and illegal aliens. During a visit in Charlotte, North Carolina she attended a meeting that a local builder gave to construction workers. The meeting consisted of two groups: one that spoke English and the other Spanish. That’s right; she attended a meeting in which illegal aliens were given instruction on how to adhere to OSHA safety codes.

You’re wondering how I know this. An associate of mine was at that meeting, and he wasn’t one of the illegals.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/50249.html#ixzz1FJIDXMoQ