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More Hagan: health care, immigration and more

My colleague Nancy McLaughlin reports (click here) that students were protesting outside of Hagan’s Greensboro office.

The students are upset that Hagan hasn’t shown support for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (Dream) Act.

The proposed federal legislation would give those who came to this country as the children of undocumented workers a chance at citizenship and education options.
In North Carolina, for example, the children of illegal immigrants cannot attend community college.

“Every year, brilliant minds and futures are wasted at dry cleaners, restaurants and construction sites,” said speaker Nayely Perez Huerta, who works for a Latino advocacy group.

Meanwhile, Hagan got on the phone with reporters today to announce she was filing her first bill as a lead author:

RALEIGH — U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan wants the federal government to put in its two-cents — well, probably a great deal more than that — about financial literacy.

The North Carolina Democrat has authored a bill that would give grants to states that create financial literacy programs for students in sixth grade through high school.

“All this economic turmoil has made it clear to me that we’ve got to be doing a better job of educating our students,” said Hagan. She said much of the mortgage crisis might have been avoided if more people had a better idea about how to manage basic finances.

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StokeyBob

June 24, 2009 - 8:36 pm EDT

I think they should uphold the rule of law and govern by the rules set forth by the United States Constitution, as they swore they would with their oaths of office.

Back in the sixties the government came into the schools and brainwashed us with the idea we needed to control the population because it was rising so fast. They said the roads would become crowded and we would run out of things like water.

They unleashed abortions, birth control pills, and other forms of Family Planning.

To allow the country to be over run with the criminals in businesses illegal labor while the criminals in the government aid and abet the invasion is a travesty against mankind.

They have seen to it our children were killed to control the population at the same time allowing the world to export their population problems here.

What about our sacrifices, many made against our will?

P.S. We still haven't recovered from the last time the criminals in business were allowed to bring in their slaves.

StokeyBob

June 24, 2009 - 8:36 pm EDT

Did you ever wonder where the money for things like the subversion of the world’s immigration laws may come from?

It seems to me as long as we allow people to print up fiat money there will be no place in the world where freedom can flourish.

If the Globalist oppose your efforts, paid for with real hard earned money, all they have to do is fire up the presses and shovel the money to any group that will oppose you.

Not only that but it seems they do it in such a way that the money to achieve THEIR goals is borrowed from them. Then we pay interest to a group outside of our country, like the Federal Reserve, on the creation and borrowing of OUR OWN fiat money.

IN ESSENCE THEY BEAT US WITH OUR OWN STICK!

Connie Mack Jr

June 27, 2009 - 6:28 pm EDT

She said much of the mortgage crisis might have been avoided if more people had a better idea about how to manage basic finances.* Senator Hagan showing that she knows nothing about finances also

Good Grief! She sounds like that freak Glenn Beck and the Republicans blaming the Black people on the collapse of Wall Street and America......

Let me get this straight! Somehow millions of people who can't read or write outsmarted high power Wall Street lawyers, Corporate CEO Wizs, International Bankers, the whole dang Federal Reserve board and it's Region Boards, The Educational University System at Harvard and Yale and other Mega educational Centers of financial research, along with the brilliant political leaders of the Republic.......Senator Hagan would have been off by blaming it on Republican leaders who cheated on their wives with Alien Lizards.......