STUDY FINDS AMERICANS MORE PROGRESSIVE THAN MEDIA SAYS

[From a survey by the Campaign for America's Future]

On Health Care: 69 percent of Americans think it is the responsibility
of the federal government to make sure all Americans have access to
health coverage; 76 percent find access to health care more important
than maintaining the Bush tax cuts; three in five would be willing to
have their own taxes increased to achieve universal coverage.

On Energy Policy: 52 percent of Americans believe "the best way for the
U.S. to reduce its reliance on foreign oil" is to "have the government
invest in alternative energy sources"; 64 percent are willing to pay a
higher energy tax to pay for renewable energy research; 68 percent of
the public thinks U.S. energy policy is better solved by conservation
than production.

On the Economy: 77 percent of Americans believe Congress should increase
the minimum wage; 66 percent believe "upper-income people" pay too
little in taxes; 53 percent feel the Bush administration's tax cuts have
failed because they have increased the deficit and caused cuts in
government programs.

On Government's Role: 69 percent of Americans believe the government
"should care for those who can't care for themselves." Twice as many
people (43 percent to 20 percent) want "government to provide many more
services even if it means an increase in spending" as want government to
provide fewer services "in order to reduce spending."

On Immigration: 62 percent of Americans believe undocumented immigrants
should be given a chance to "keep their jobs and eventually apply for
legal status." 49 percent believe the best way to reduce illegal
immigration from Mexico is to penalize employers, not more border
control.

http://home.ourfuture.org/reports/20070612_theprogressivemajority/

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THE IMMIGRATION HYSTERIA
On the page linked below we have posted a chart showing immigration to
the US since 1820 as a percent of total population. We have added a red
bar representing the 500-800 thousand estimated annual illegal
immigrants over the past decade. In short, we are back to a level of
immigration roughly that of the mid 1970s.
http://prorev.com/immigrate.htm
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FBI TERRORIST WATCH LIST HAS A HALF MILLION NAMES

JUSTIN ROOD, ABC NEW BLOTTER - A terrorist watch list compiled by the
FBI has apparently swelled to include more than half a million names.
Privacy and civil liberties advocates say the list is growing
uncontrollably, threatening its usefulness in the war on terror. . . A
portion of the FBI's unclassified 2008 budget request posted to the
Department of Justice Web site, however, refers to "the entire watch
list of 509,000 names," which is utilized by its Foreign Terrorist
Tracking Task Force.

A spokesman for the interagency National Counterterrorism Center, which
maintains the government's list of all suspected terrorists with links
to international organizations, said they had 465,000 names covering
350,000 individuals. Many names are different versions of the same
identity -- "Usama bin Laden" and "Osama bin Laden" for the al Qaeda
chief, for example.

In addition to the NCTC list, the FBI keeps a list of U.S. persons who
are believed to be domestic terrorists -- abortion clinic bombers, for
example, or firebombing environmental extremists, who have no known tie
to an international terrorist group. . .

"It grows seemingly without control or limitation," said ACLU senior
legislative counsel Tim Sparapani of the terrorism watch list. Sparapani
called the 509,000 figure "stunning." . . . "If we have 509,000 names on
that list, the watch list is virtually useless," he told ABC News.
"You'll be capturing innocent individuals with no connection to crime or
terror."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/06/fbi_terror_watc.html

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