The Fiestas Patrias Parade in Santa Ana today was a huge success. Massive crowds lined Main St. as a procession of politicians, high school bands, cultural organizations and representatives of many Mexican states marched by. Included also were many participants on horseback. It was quite a show!
Those in attendance showed a lot of appreciation for the participants. They enthusiastically applauded when many of the politicians passed by. Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez got the biggest ovation. She literally ran by as she shook a lot of hands. State Senator Lou Correa walked by as well, shaking hands and speaking to his many fans.
Other politicians who were warmly welcomed included Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido, and Council Members Claudia Alvarez, Vincent Sarmiento, and David Benavides.
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Sounds like a wonderful event. I take my grandkids every year but this year I had to go to the clinic for some tests. Were there any school board members there? How about the Chinita Noji? I love this parade more than the Rose Parade. It may not be as fancy but it’s from the people and more diverse. How many Latinos do you see in the Rose Parade? Not enough in my opinion. Do you have any live video of the parade? Thank you Orange Juice Blog for sending reporters to events like this. You give us the real news that we need and that’s why we read you.
I saw 3 board members and the superintendent in the parade.
I wonder why a lot of mexican have to celebrate their independecy from spain in a foreing country?. May be is a time for a second independency in this case from USA or from a corrup goverment that force them to scape to AMERICA for better life. My condolences to them because they(mexican nationals) are escaping from the missery and corruption from their own”raza or people in the mexican system” force them to autoexile in this wonderland!!!!!!!!!!!.
ditto
@ Rosary:
What you fail to realize is that the parade also celebrates MEXICAN HERITAGE AND CULTURE…which existed for over 300 years in what is now the Southwestern United States and BEFORE the US took it over in what was recognized to be an ILLEGAL war, in the wrong time and against the wrong nation by elder statesmen of the day, for example, Joshua Giddings: “an aggressive, unholy, and unjust war . . . In the murder of Mexicans upon their own soil, or in robbing them of their country, I can take no part either now or here-after. The guilt of these crimes must rest on others. I will not participate in them.”
Americans of Mexican descent have also been fighting misery, discrimination, institutionalized segregation and corruption in the US by corrupt systems here in the USA, while at the same in spite of these struggles, contributing to the well-being, economic prosperity and defense of America.
Francisco Barragan
Orange County, CA
The parade was long this year at 2 1/2 hours.
Seem that everyone at 10th and Main enjoyed the parade very much.
Great pictures.
Exactly Rosary…. Brilliant point! They did not have a massive parade in Santa Ana for the 4th of July but instead celebrate a day of independence for the foreign nation that they tracked across a desert to escape!
It is just infuriating and brings up the point that so many in this country are concerned about – Foreign nationalist’s being lifted and laid by the American people while all a long showing nothing but for contempt for the very nation and people who pay for every social service and educational service they have the great fortune to have. Even though they have no business or right to be here!
Go figure! But really it is the American’s fault that they walk out of their local schools because they can no longer send their kids to a foregin speaking school and say nothing about paying massive taxes knowing that they can’t get the services they pay for!
So of course they are parading in your streets. They know YOU are not going to do shit about it! YOU are too busy working and trying to make a buck!
Rosary&MIchelle,
Who cares? I saw many wonderful happy people who are learning about culture. If there is such a problem with foreign people celebrating and sharing their culture. Maybe YOU should get together with your “Americanized” people and gather donations for a parade in Santa Ana to celebrate your hoildays.
Quote:”they have no business or right to be here”
Everyone has the right to be somewhere. There are no limits to that. People like you are what make the world sour.
Why are you ANONYMOUS when you are saying that?….. Obviously you are ashamed to put your name behind such drivel.
Exactly!
I am not ashamed to write the truth! I don’t need some sleazy Allis to hide behind!
Anonymous:
What culture? Their own?
Maybe YOU should get together with your “Americanized” people and gather donations for a parade in Santa Ana to celebrate your hoildays.
MQ says:
So what YOU are saying-we need to go out side Santa Ana to gather donations for a 4th of July parade in Mexico? Santa Ana is not An American town with American people in it?
See What i mean… Anonymous is the voice of Santa Ana! This is why Americans in this county are so sick and tired of… Foreigner who come here and have no interest in being part of this country and isolate themselves from the rest of the American community. Not what this country needs or wants!
Pure ignorance and arrogance!
I especially hate it when a bunch of drunken Irish gather to celebrate Irish culture like this….
http://nyc-st-patrick-day-parade.org/default.aspx
Irish go home!
FYI anon, Saint Patric is the Catholic celebration not Irish.
Catholics have name days in the calendar my name day is May 7 which is Saint Stanislav.
In Czech Republic Saint Josef is big celebration because there is too man Josefs.
Furthermore, the Irish all came legally, and the do not thrush America, and they speak English, and they are capable to learn in the school, and they assimilated.
There is big difference between celebrating a name and day of independence in foreign country.
Vladimir Iljič Lenin said: Učit se, učit se, učit se!
Illegal? Better if you’re Irish.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-rodriguez8apr08,0,1081193.column
From your article above anon: “There are an estimated 50,000 Irish illegal immigrants in the U.S.; 30,000 of them are thought to live in New York City.”………. Hmmm
I can guarantee you that if there would be 50,000 Mexican illegal immigrants in the U.S there wouldn’t be any talk about it.
However, 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 is a problem.
It is as much as if entire 2 Czech Republic left to America and that is a problem “anon”. And majority are on welfare.
Wherein Stanley Fiala reveals himself to be a liberal moral relativist.
How so?
You’re coming to differing moral conclusions based solely on a relative difference in numbers rather than holding firm to the idea that if illegal immigration is wrong for one person, it’s wrong for all.
And (if I’m not mistaken) anon’s inclusion of the modifier “liberal” was sarcastic. There’s nothing liberal about your positions here. It’s just that liberals are routinely accused of moral relativism, so when we see someone else guilty of that, we like to flip it back at you.
I was about to say that you, Fiala, are very far from a liberal, but I notice you have a strong belief in freedom of speech and other freedoms – and those ARE liberal ideas!
You’re right, Vern. This sort of hypocrisy really turns my stomach.
You are both incorrect because the volume is essential element in the three dimensional world.
Socialists, however, do not recognize individualism which creates a volume. In other words you and comrade Vern are living in non three dimensional world or in the other univers.
Do not forget to post my prior comment comrade Vern.
“I was about to say that you, Fiala, are very far from a liberal, but I notice you have a strong belief in freedom of speech and other freedoms – and those ARE liberal ideas!”…. said comrade Vern.
Wrong!….. These are Libertarian ideas not Liberal.
Big difference Mr. socialist.
Nope, them are Voltaire / JS Mill / Tom Jefferson ideas – the original LIBERALS!!! 🙂
I should add that I am on the public record as an Mayoral candidate that I am for the open borders.
Again Libertarian not liberal concept!
Liberty=freedom!
Liberal=tyranny!
Jefferson and Adams were in life long dispute ever Liberalism and Democracy. I strongly suggest that you will reread some of their papers comrade Vern.
Since I am unclear what Liberal-Moral-Relativism (oxymoron) is, I have consulted the flowing link: http://philosophy.hku.hk/think/value/relativism.php
and took a quiz: http://philosophy.hku.hk/think/value/rel-quiz.php
I am negative!
However, I can’t go into any further datelines of the above because said web-page is written on higher level of the intellect and some wording is prohibited in the OJ because Pedroza and Nelson need to grow up!
The fact that you had to look it up means you exist on a lower level of intellect.
And the way he says “I am negative” shows his unfortunate familiarity with STDs.
The bottom line is that we are kneeling to the Statue of the Liberty and not Statue of Liberality.
Take it any way you want.
Obviously you two are kneeling to Mao, Marx and Lenin.
@ Michelle Quinn:
You say, “Brilliant point! They did not have a massive parade in Santa Ana for the 4th of July but instead celebrate a day of independence for the foreign nation that they tracked across a desert to escape!”
My Response:
The “Brilliance” of the point is so bright, it is BLINDING to Rosary, You (MQ) and like-minded people, who have intentionally or unintentionally put blinders on.
1) I spoke at a city council meeting and asked the City of Santa Ana to get involved in the planning of next year’s Fourth of July Independence Day celebrations, not to exclude anyone but rather to ensure greater DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVENESS of Santa Ana residents as we celebrate America’s Independence and the contributions of veterans and the military families…of which there are many in Santa Ana. This way the diverse community of Santa Ana will also participate, and if a parade is planned for this event, then its success will be more ensured by the participation of the City. The City Council has tasked the City Manager into ensuring the city’s critical involvement.
2) Your willful ignorance is astounding, and OFFENSIVE, assuming that all Latinos, Hispanics or more precisely Mexican-Americans are somehow foreign and that all “tracked across a desert”.
2A) Your comment is offensive because you disregard the contributions of those Americans of Latino; Hispanic and Mexican descent who have died for this country…see the list of key military leaders and their contributions starting from American Revolution to the Congressional Medal of Honors at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
2B) There are about 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US. About 45% percent (about 5 million OVERSTAYED their VISAs). That leaves about 6 million that came through TWO BORDERS (Canada and Mexico) and TWO COASTS (East Coast & West Coast).
2C) Furthermore, Latinos of which Mexicans make up the greatest majority use FAR LESS welfare than Whites and African-Americans; are in the Private Sector (about 75% – where wealth is generated) rather than the public sector; and are primarily in households led by two parents (in far greater numbers than Non-Hispanic Whites and African-Americans). This is borne out by Census data for the last 60 years, and especially holds true in California.
2D) And contrary to popular OPINION, UNDOCUMENTED immigrants pay MORE in TAXES than they use in services; are NET POSITIVE to the US Economy; and are a NET Positive to the pocket-book of Americans. Facts do NOT support this “popular opinion” . . . and no level of blinders will change this fact.
Francisco “Paco” Barragan
Orange County, CA
(My opinions only and not those of any group)
Really, tell that to the 72 people who lost their lives when they were gunned down by a drug cartel or the people who die in the DESERT trying to get here!
It so amazes me that the people who make a living off illegal immigrants are so willing to lose a few for the better good. So much like MAO!
Anon
MQ:
I am home!
St. Patricks day is a celebration of an Irish saint not Irelands independence!
I swear liberals: Now you know folks why the DMV/Post Office is SOOOOO bad!
From the website;
“Celebrate 250 Years Honoring St Patrick, Irish Heritage and Culture in New York City.”
I really hate it when Irish culture gets forced on me in parades.
If I must listen to your liberal garbage YOU can wear green for a day! Believe me it is NOT an even compromise!
🙁
2) Your willful ignorance is astounding, and OFFENSIVE, assuming that all Latinos, Hispanics or more precisely Mexican-Americans are somehow foreign and that all “tracked across a desert”.
MQ says:
And your willingness to LIE is astounding when you know that immigrations to this country requires an education, money and in most cases a sponsor – non of which most low income Mexicans have…. Wise up Mr. F you are insulting your own intelligence!
Mexico has an abundance of the poor not the rich! That is why MEXICO has a drug cartel problem. The people have become as corrupt as the government to survive and the people TRACK across the desert to get out of a corrupt and desolate country!
30% of welfare in this state Mr. F and this state is broke…..You cannot keep lying and distorting the truth for ever because eventually it will come back to bite you on the ass!
@ Michelle Q:
1) You are going back to your old patterns of CHANGING THE ARGUMENT…deal with the merits of my argument with valid DATA and not just misguided OPINION.
Now you claim that I am Lying (you are CHANGING the argument).
I agree with you, in most cases immigrants require a sponsor…I myself sponsored my wife and my step-son, and paid my wife’s way through college (her Bachelors and Masters and she graduated with ZERO debt), and my step-son always paid for his lunch, and I always have had medical insurance for them….(as for me, I worked since I was 12, and I paid my way through college that is why I graduated when I was almost 30; but I am not going to act as a VICTIM and IGNORE reality which is that Undocumented pay more in TAXES than they receive in Services….
TAKE your blinders off Michelle, or at least if you choose to keep it on, don’t attempt to insult our intelligence with misguided opinion when the facts are otherwise.
@ Michelle, True “MEXICO has a drug cartel problem.” And the ROOT-Cause is the HIGH DEMAND for Illegal Drugs in the US…The US is NUMBER ONE in the consumption of Heroin, Coke, and other drugs. That is destabilizing Mexico and eventually the social fabric of the US, because I cannot see how a coked-up society can be successful.
Yes Michelle….that is why I referred to Welfare in California:
The Biggest users of Welfare in California, are in order of highest usage: first African-Americans; second Non-Hispanic Whites, and at the bottom Hispanics (which also takes into account and includes families with undocumented parents, but where the recipients are primarily children)….The DISTORTION AND LIE is by you Michelle because you want to convince us that your misguided opinion can replace the facts.
@ Michelle Q:
1) You are going back to your old patterns of CHANGING THE ARGUMENT…deal with the merits of my argument with valid DATA and not just misguided OPINION.
Now you claim that I am Lying (you are CHANGING the argument).
MQ:
There is no other explanation except that you are lying when you state ridiculous facts that illegal Immigrants pay more taxes than they use in services!
It is completely untrue when you and I both know that most illegal immigrants get paid under the table and if they do pay federal or state taxes they would get it back at the end of the year. Billions alone went to pay for QEIA in California most of that money went to class size reduction in hispanic schools! Caloptima dishes out Millions in child health cost both to illegal Aliens and the children off illegal immigrants. Santa Ana school district in the only district in Orange Country to have a completely free lunch program etc…..
So you can distort the truth all you want the numbers are the numbers! As an Accountant you should be well aware of that fact!
“I agree with you, in most cases immigrants require a sponsor…”
MQ says:
Need I say more. Most illegal immigrants don’t have a Mr. F!
“@ Michelle, True “MEXICO has a drug cartel problem.” And the ROOT-Cause is the HIGH DEMAND for Illegal Drugs in the US..”
MQ says:
If the Mexican people had a country they could proper in they would not need their neighbor for anything that includes supporting the drug habit!
The root cause is the lack of opportunity not drug habits!
“A bad workman always blames his tools!”
1) From CBO (Congressional Budget Office) December 2007, Introduction:
“Over the past two decades, most efforts to estimate the fiscal impact of immigration in the United States have concluded that, in aggregate and over the long term, tax [REVENUES] of all types generated by immigrants—both legal and unauthorized [Illegals]—[EXCEED THE COSTS] of the services… Generally, such estimates include revenues and spending at the [FEDERAL,STATE, and LOCAL LEVELS].
However, many estimates also show that the cost of providing public services to unauthorized immigrants at the state and local levels exceeds what that population pays in state and local taxes…most unauthorized immigrants are [PROHIBITED] from receiving many of the benefits that the federal government provides through Social Security and such need-based programs as Food Stamps, Medicaid (other than emergency services), and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.”
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/87xx/doc8711/12-6-Immigration.pdf
2) National Council of State Legislatures data indicate that an average immigrant pays $1,800 in taxes to local, state, and federal government above what he or she “costs” in services or benefits received. NRC also notes that costs to state and local government are higher.
http://www.ncsl.org/IssuesResearch/Immigration/ImmigrantsintheWorkforce/tabid/13120/Default.aspx
3) The rescue of Social Security will require a good number of immigrants.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/why-more-immigrants-are-a_b_533347.html
4) We are facing an aging people (which is also an issue for the rest of the world), and we will have about 75-80 million retiring in about 3-5 years….and we will need to have a greater labor force working and from which we are collecting taxes to help support the majority that will be retired.
“You’re right, Vern. This sort of hypocrisy really turns my stomach.”
MQ says:
I feel the same way about your teachers union. The “we need to help the children” rhetoric is priceless! The only thing the Union does is make sure the kids are as dumb as possible… more of the federal aid to go around!
Dumber the kids, the more the union makes!
Makes me sick!
Us department of health and human services: administation for children and family
Calfornia welfare use: Hispanic 50.9 whites: 22.4 African Americans 20.7
Check the truth out for yourselves!
Oh, I almost forgot most of the hispanic welfare use is for the children of illegal immigrants, most single mothers or teen mothers!
@ Michelle Q:
Can you please provide the link and I’ll look at the data.
thanks!
If I put internet links on the page it goes stright to spam!
Just look up the US Department of Health and Human Services/Children and Family!
Or go down to the local welfare office in any town in california… eyes don’t lie!
Do it anyway Quinn. We want to see your links. I go in the spam folder and save your butt. If it doesn’t appear for a couple hours post it again.
I already provided Welfare usage to you in the past that comes from the CENSUS data for the last 60 years…
a) I can post it again.
b) I will also wait for your link…to your source.
see below!
In Calfornia the poorest of the poor are hispanic illegal immigrants. It only makes sense that they would be the majority on welfare. Calfornia has 30% of all welfare use in this country! As shown below Calfornia has the largest population on welfare.
The census uses informational data the data below is from the horses mouth!
“It’s elementary my dear Francisco!”
Looking at California for example where the greatest majority of Latinos resides.
For example, “in 1990 Latinos had the lowest welfare use of any group; Latinos receiving public assistance represented 29% percent of all Latinos in poverty. By contrast, in other groups, those receiving public assistance formed a much higher percentage, ranging from 61 percent for non-Hispanic Whites, to 75% for African-Americans. Thanks to welfare reform in the late 1990s, by 2000 the welfare rates for all groups had dropped. Still, continuing the 1990 picture, a far lower percentage of Latinos in poverty received public assistance in 2000 than non-Hispanic Whites or African-Americans.” This was 17.2% for Latinos; 36.8% for Non-Hispanic Whites, and 24.5 for African-Americans.”
For 60 years, three generations, from 1940 – 2000, the data shows “that Latino males have been the most active element in the state’s labor force”.
“Employment in the private sector generates wealth, while employment in the public sector basically redistributes wealth. From 1940 to 2000 Latino males counted in the census have been by far more likely to be employed in the private sector than non-Hispanic whites, Asian/Pacific Islanders, or African-Americans. Again, for nearly three generations, Latino males have been the most active element in the workforce participating in the wealth-generating private sector.”
“Also from 1940-2000, Latino households were far more likely than non-Hispanic white, African-American, or Asian/Pacific Islander households to be composed of couples with children.”
Based on Census data…see “La Nueva California – Latinos in the Golden State” by Dr. David E. Hayes-Bautista pages 74-76.
@ Michelle Q:
It is interesting that advocates against undocumented immigrants are always making a distinction between LEGAL and ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS…and yet when it is convenient to do so, attempt to cloud the issue by combining the two.
Michelle Q you said:
“In Calfornia the poorest of the poor are hispanic ILLEGAL immigrants. It only makes sense that they would be the majority on welfare.”
My Response:
Your response is both ANEDOCTAL and not necessarily accurate.
ILLEGAL immigrants do NOT receive welfare, and therefore would not be the majority on welfare.
P.S. This post is about celebrating Mexican Heritage and Culture which was truly a great event for the community. I look forward to also celebrating the Heritage and Culture of other ethnic groups.
Stanislav Fiala
Posted September 20, 2010 at 6:41 AM
Why are you ANONYMOUS when you are saying that?….. Obviously you are ashamed to put your name behind such drivel.
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Says the guy using a czech architects name.
Of course I am just busting your balls stanley.
It’s just you will never be famous.
TABLE 8
TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES – ACTIVE CASES
PERCENT DISTRIBUTION OF TANF FAMILIES BY ETHNICITY/RACE
OCTOBER 2005 – SEPTEMBER 2006
STATE TOTAL
FAMILIES HISPANIC* WHITE AFRICAN-
AMERICAN NATIVE
AMERICAN ASIAN HAWAIIAN MULTI-
RACIAL UNKNOWN
U.S. TOTAL 1,802,567 26.1 33.4 35.7 1.4 1.8 0.4 0.5 0.7
ALABAMA 19,162 1.2 28.8 69.1 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.6 0.0
ALASKA 3,614 4.1 52.2 9.6 22.2 6.0 3.7 2.2 0.0
ARIZONA 39,369 50.1 29.4 11.0 8.2 0.5 0.2 0.6 0.0
ARKANSAS 8,176 2.8 36.6 59.3 0.3 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.7
CALIFORNIA 449,200 50.9 22.4 20.7 0.4 4.6 0.6 0.4 0.0
COLORADO 14,468 22.8 65.4 9.8 0.8 0.3 0.4 0.6 0.0
CONNECTICUT 18,245 37.3 28.8 33.2 0.2 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0
DELAWARE 5,504 7.7 27.6 64.2 0.0 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.0
DIST. OF COL. 15,717 2.8 0.4 96.5 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.0 0.0
FLORIDA 52,470 17.0 32.0 50.5 0.3 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.0
GEORGIA 30,232 2.9 24.4 72.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
GUAM a/
HAWAII 6,953 6.3 19.4 1.6 0.3 16.1 41.9 14.2 0.2
IDAHO 1,818 17.2 74.6 1.7 4.8 0.1 0.2 1.5 0.0
ILLINOIS 36,573 10.5 20.5 68.3 0.1 0.5 0.0 0.1 0.0
INDIANA 42,471 7.0 49.7 40.9 0.1 0.1 0.0 2.3 0.0
IOWA 16,675 4.7 61.7 14.8 1.0 0.5 0.1 0.8 16.5
KANSAS 17,226 11.6 58.2 25.8 1.7 0.7 0.1 0.4 1.5
KENTUCKY 33,092 1.9 74.1 23.7 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.1
LOUISIANA 11,916 1.8 18.7 78.8 0.2 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.0
MAINE 9,258 0.9 92.6 2.9 1.7 1.0 0.1 0.9 0.0
MARYLAND 20,341 1.8 18.2 79.4 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0
MASSACHUSETTS 46,582 35.1 39.8 20.6 0.5 2.5 0.7 0.1 0.6
MICHIGAN 82,953 4.5 47.4 46.2 0.9 0.2 0.1 0.7 0.0
MINNESOTA 27,479 9.6 36.5 35.2 9.6 7.5 0.0 1.6 0.0
MISSISSIPPI 13,416 0.5 17.4 82.1 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
MISSOURI 38,748 3.0 52.6 43.3 0.6 0.4 0.0 0.1 0.0
MONTANA 3,812 3.4 51.6 0.9 43.1 0.1 0.2 0.8 0.0
NEBRASKA 10,097 14.9 45.0 29.8 6.2 0.5 0.1 0.7 2.8
NEVADA 5,399 26.9 31.8 36.6 1.8 1.8 0.1 1.0 0.0
NEW HAMPSHIRE 6,105 5.5 90.8 3.0 0.2 0.3 0.0 0.2 0.0
NEW JERSEY 40,832 26.3 15.7 56.8 0.2 0.7 0.0 0.4 0.0
NEW MEXICO 16,896 70.0 20.2 3.9 5.5 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0
NEW YORK 134,900 36.4 20.1 40.6 0.4 1.2 0.1 1.2 0.0
NORTH CAROLINA 30,172 4.1 29.2 63.3 2.5 0.6 0.1 0.2 0.0
NORTH DAKOTA 2,678 2.7 32.9 2.5 57.8 0.2 0.0 3.9 0.0
OHIO 79,485 3.2 49.3 46.7 0.1 0.3 0.0 0.3 0.0
OKLAHOMA 10,203 9.6 45.3 32.3 12.4 0.0 0.0 0.4 0.0
OREGON 18,496 15.0 70.1 8.9 3.6 1.4 0.4 0.0 0.6
PENNSYLVANIA 94,696 14.4 36.4 46.5 0.1 1.2 0.0 0.0 1.4
PUERTO RICO 14,325 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
RHODE ISLAND 9,688 24.5 35.4 13.0 0.3 2.8 0.0 0.0 24.0
SOUTH CAROLINA 15,678 1.8 27.1 69.7 0.2 0.0 0.1 1.0 0.0
SOUTH DAKOTA 2,823 1.4 20.8 2.1 72.4 0.1 0.1 3.1 0.0
TENNESSEE 68,129 2.2 40.8 56.7 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.0
TEXAS 71,766 52.2 17.1 29.9 0.1 0.4 0.0 0.3 0.1
UTAH 7,463 19.5 69.3 4.8 4.3 1.3 0.4 0.4 0.0
VERMONT 4,429 0.4 96.5 2.6 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0
VIRGIN ISLANDS 433 34.0 0.9 64.6 0.4 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
VIRGINIA 9,133 3.1 28.7 66.9 0.2 0.6 0.1 0.3 0.0
WASHINGTON 54,167 17.2 56.3 11.6 3.9 2.1 1.3 0.3 7.3
WEST VIRGINIA 10,864 0.4 88.1 10.9 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.7 0.0
WISCONSIN 17,949 9.0 27.3 54.9 2.1 2.6 0.1 1.9 2.2
WYOMING 291 11.6 72.3 5.7 10.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0
NOTES: * = CAN BE OF ANY RACE.
a/ = DATA NOT REPORTED.
SOURCE: NATIONAL TANF DATAFILE AS OF 4/12/2007
Last Updated on 7/15/2007
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I tried to get the link: They told me it is no longer available. I requested it by mail!
They are not too please I asked for it…Let’s see if I get it in the mail!
By the way the statistic are most likely higher!
What you are implying is that your number is NOT the ACCURATE number…so TWO things might be true…that the number is HIGHER or that the number is LOWER.
But I am pretty sure, that If they were higher you would have Most Likely quoted the HIGHER number Michelle…uhmmm I wonder what is going on with these numbers?
No what I am saying is that because of the economic down turn most likely the number is higher!
“But I am pretty sure, that If they were higher you would have Most Likely quoted the HIGHER number Michelle…uhmmm I wonder what is going on with these numbers?”
MQ says:
If you have not noticed the 449,200 is pretty high compared to everyother state! The link is no longer available. The information given is that 30% of all welfare use is in California after 2007.
Do you think the government wants to continue letting the American Citizen know that not only do they know that the largest illegal immigrant population is in California but they are also paying for it!
The numbers are the numbers!
By the way – I hope it is not higher but I am using logic to assume it is!
California March 521,211 10.4%
Colorado March 10,532 14.6%
Connecticut May 18,235 0.2%
Delaware March 5,236 20.5%
Dist. of Col. June 16,015 8.5%
Florida June 56,109 14.2%
Georgia April 20,671 -5.0%
Hawaii May 6,096 -2.8%
Idaho May 1,648 9.0%
Illinois May 27,911 3.0%
Indiana April 34,464 -5.3%
Iowa May 16,202 4.4%
Kansas April 12,973 3.7%
MQ says:
I was right it did go up! Go figure!
The above is for this year…Does not give race YET!
TABLE 8
TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES – ACTIVE CASES
PERCENT DISTRIBUTION OF TANF FAMILIES BY ETHNICITY/RACE
OCTOBER 2007 – SEPTEMBER 2008
STATE TOTAL
FAMILIES HISPANIC* WHITE AFRICAN-
AMERICAN NATIVE
AMERICAN ASIAN HAWAIIAN MULTI- RACIAL UNKNOWN
U.S. Total 1,629,345 28.0 31.5 34.2 1.3 2.3 0.6 1.2 0.9
Alabama 17,737 1.4 28.8 69.0 0.2 0.1 0.0 0.5 0.0
Alaska 3,058 5.1 50.2 11.5 18.9 6.3 4.7 3.3 0.0
Arizona 36,249 52.6 26.8 11.3 8.2 0.3 0.2 0.6 0.0
Arkansas 8,514 3.8 36.2 58.9 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.5
California 486,066 50.6 20.8 19.0 0.5 5.6 1.1 2.3 0.2
Colorado 8,816 25.7 62.5 9.5 0.7 0.3 0.6 0.8 0.0
Connecticut 19,090 37.2 29.1 32.3 0.5 0.7 0.3 0.0 0.0
Delaware 4,023 7.9 26.5 65.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0
Dist. Of Col. 5,375 0.0 0.3 99.4 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.1 0.0
Florida 48,702 16.6 32.7 48.8 0.2 0.0 0.1 1.6 0.0
Georgia 22,063 3.1 25.9 70.3 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.4 0.0
Guam 927 0.3 1.9 0.3 0.1 0.6 94.7 0.0 2.1
Hawaii 5,560 6.6 17.4 1.8 0.2 15.6 38.2 20.2 0.0
Idaho 1,492 18.9
MQ says:
They tried to hide it. But I am the Queen of search and find….So here is the number 2007-2008 TANF by race!
OK 🙂
When I can get 2009-2010 I will give you that too!
OK 🙂
Good night!
SILENCE!
My Response:
Your response is both ANEDOCTAL and not necessarily accurate.
P.S. This post is about celebrating Mexican Heritage and Culture which was truly a great event for the community. I look forward to also celebrating the Heritage and Culture of other ethnic groups.
MQ Says:
ILLEGAL immigrants do NOT receive welfare, and therefore would not be the majority on welfare.
Anyone want to tell Mr. F that in the WHOLE State of California NOBODY is using the SAVE program!
Wise up Mr. F and get off your soap box… over half of all welfare recipients are illegal immigrants getting checks in their children’s name!
“P.S. This post is about celebrating Mexican Heritage and Culture which was truly a great event for the community. I look forward to also celebrating the Heritage and Culture of other ethnic groups.”
MQ says:
Sorry if they had something actually worthwhile to celebrate I would be all for it. The fact is that WE THE POEPLE are paying for THEM THE PEOPLE of another country!
If I as an immigrant do not like the fact that I am paying for a bunch of obvious half wits to celebrate a country in which they themselves got up and LEFT. Then you can understand why SOOOOOOO many American’s want their butts back to Mexico!
Again I do like the Mexican people but truly they are their own worst enemy and of course their advocates like yourself do nothing but infuriate the American people even futher with your ridiculous irrational facts and figures!
So my suggestion to the Mexican people is either take yourself home to your beloved land or join the rest of us immigrants and citizens who celebrate this country above all!
And get the hell of welfare… Have some self respect!
2009 Federal funds spent on TANF = 21 billion
Federal funds spent on TARP (corporate welfare) since 2008 = 700 billion
Now you tell me, Ms. Quinn, which program has a greater impact on this country’s fiscal health?
And if your answer is TARP, then I would suggest that you get some perspective.
@ Anon:
EXACTLY, this is why we need Comprehensive Immigration Reform because this issue of immigration is being used to distract and divide the people to the detriment of America, and in spite of the fact that all independent studies show the positive Financial impacts that undocumented immigrants have on America, regardless of the rhetoric.
Actually the real bailout is as follows:
a) $1.1 TRILLION of DIRECT Cash to the Financial industry.
b) $18.5 TRILLION of INDIRECT GUARANTEES which will eventually become a liability.
http://www.newsweek.com/blogs/wealth-of-nations/2009/09/22/tracking-the-19-trillion-bailout-funds.html
About $18 TRILLION was given away in the last couple of months of the Bush Administration, with NOTHING for the Taxpayer to show for it.
Now for perspective compare $21 Billion vs $19 TRILLION (for perspective the total US Economy is about $13-14 trillion).
Separately, when President Obama spent about $350 billion of the Stimulus money, he got something back for it. For example, he bailout GM at one time the largest auto manufacturer in the world, and saved thousands of job and the auto industry (Even Ford Company which was NOT requesting a bailout spoke on behalf of GM and Chrysler THEIR COMPETITORS getting a bailout because Ford understood that if GM and Chrysler went under, some of their common vendors would go under and thereby also impact Ford’s viability as a going-concern).
Now President Obama structured GM bailout as follows:
1) LENT them money.
2) Took about 60% Equity/Stock.
So jobs and the auto industry were saved, and the TAXPAYER has been collecting the INTEREST and principal payments on the LOAN; and as GM improves the Taxpayer will benefit from EQUITY/STOCK Appreciation.
Definition: The Troubled Asset Recovery Program (TARP) was created in October 2008 as part of the $700 billion Bank Bailout bill. TARP originally gave banks the right to submit a bid price to sell their toxic mortgage-backed securities to the Treasury Dept. as part of a reverse auction. Banks would offer to sell each MBS package, and TARP administrators would select the lowest price offered. However, Treasury could wind up paying too much, and banks were afraid they wouldn’t get enough, so the plan was shelved.
Instead, Treasury used $105 billion of TARP funds to buy preferred stock in eight banks: Bank of New York Mellon, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and State Street. The Capital Repurchase Program required banks to give the government a 5% dividend that would increase to 9%, encouraging banks to buy the government out. The government would make a profit, as bank share prices should be higher later.
TARP funds were used to buy preferred stock in, or loans to:
MQ says:
There is a reason why you are a union head and I run a business!
Two things to learn:
1. Why Fannie and Freddie Mac are responsible for the mortgage crisis: HINT… They where pushed to give the AMERICAN DREAM to every Tom, Dick and Juan!
2. How many of the banks have paid back the loan because they do not want BIG BROTHER watching over their little rich heads!
And I suppose I should have made it 4: Illegal Immigrants are not the bank and don’t mind getting all the freebies. Stepping up, MOMS, Family commission, coalition of community clinics, department of education of illegal immigrants and all the other non-profits and scumbags who live in big homes and drive fast cars because of the Federal welfare to the poor, underserved and the vulnerable!
The next parade, will not be so happy I except because the freebies are about to end!
SO HELP ME GOD!
🙂
Quinn, if you think that welfare for individuals even comes CLOSE to what is doled out in corporate welfare, you are seriously delusional.
You do not understand economy and international financial structure anon!……
Virtual no one understands Federal Reserve and no one knows what happened to trillions of missing dollars and why the Fed was never audited.
Therefore, you are gravely pathetic to talk about the corporate welfare if even US Treasury has no clue.
Otherwise, I like your liberal talking points.
Good job MQ
I would rather invest my money into a company than invest it in a welfare Queen!
Listening to the idiots telling President Obama that he was not doing enough to pay of their loans, homes and credit cards makes me LOVE men like Trump even more.
Two things in this country are going down the tubes: personal responsibility and morality…also known as the Obama fan!
I am so disgusted with people in general all over this world from the idiot Irish for sending the stupid boat with a bunch of thugs on it to Israel to scumbag unions who would use the education of children as political tool!
I have had enough and If I have not one friend left in this world because of my views so be it… It’s not very popular these day NOT to be politcally correct!
Back to the parade: So diverse!