The ‘birther’ bill and an image of second thoughts
When state Rep. Mark Hatfield, R-Waycross, dropped his bill to require next year presidential candidates to provide hard proof of their birth on U.S. soil, the paperwork contained the signatures of 93 of his House colleagues – 92 of them Republican.
Word of House Speaker David Ralston’s coolness toward the legislation spread through the Capitol on Wednesday. Those concerned with the Port of Savannah made their opinions known.
By the end of Thursday, at least 23 House members had changed their minds, according to my AJC colleague April Hunt – and the above image of blotted out, former supporters.
For a PDF of the above image, click here. For a look at the original, click here.
John Meadows, chairman of the House Rules Committee, which determines what legislation goes to the floor, was the first to remove his name this morning.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Jingo Riptide
March 3rd, 2011
7:25 pm
It’s the economy, stupids.
cs
March 3rd, 2011
7:35 pm
pussies
Well Duh
March 3rd, 2011
7:36 pm
Didn’t the Georgia unemployment rate go up to 10.4% again today? Seems Georgia lawmakers have more important tasks to focus on.
the mehlman rings twice
March 3rd, 2011
7:39 pm
Nothing like the prospect of federal money for the Port of Savannah to make these clowns throw their loyal tribe under the bus. Hahaha!
Cutty
March 3rd, 2011
7:40 pm
No spine. All talk. Anything for a vote. Raise taxes for the working stiff any which way you can think of. Cut taxes for the suckers in suits who want to talk about socialism, while getting the most from government. Most of these politicians will get reelected.
The feds cut taxes, while the Georgia republicans are scheming up every which way to raise taxes. Without a vibrant opposing party, this is the type of crap you get.
Baker
March 3rd, 2011
7:42 pm
None of them saw this coming?
Holly
March 3rd, 2011
7:48 pm
What’s awesome is that they are passing dumb bills like this when we have REAL issues in Georgia. The best part was all this talk about the Port of Savannah and a Savannah area legislator (Purcell) was one of the original co-signers. I guess she doesn’t want the Port deepened.
bart
March 3rd, 2011
8:00 pm
Why in the name of God aren’t these idiots concentrating on jobs, the economy, education, transportation, and water issues???
Georgia Voter
March 3rd, 2011
8:01 pm
They should all be ashamed of themselves for signing it in the first place.
Public Private
March 3rd, 2011
8:04 pm
Our Public Private Partnerships for transportation are hangng on by the thinnest of threads. After 20 months, Georgia is within an eyelash of concluding the largest project in the history of the state. It’s the $1.2B Wes by Northwest managed lane project fro I-285 north up I-75 past I-575. I means 10,000 jobs and much needed congestion relief to one of the most congested corridors in the south.
Georgia desperately needs the Feds to grant this project a TIFIA loan. It will mean a $100M savings to the state. Georgia’s application was due in Wednesday at 4pm. So what do the morons in the House do? They drop a “birther” bill Wednesday afternoon. I’m quite sure that went over like a t*rd in the punch bowl up in DC. At the LEAST, this just cost Georgia $100M, and at the worst, kills the project along with 10,000 jobs. Nice going 94 GOP morons.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
March 3rd, 2011
8:05 pm
For a “political insider”, you sure harp on non issues like how many co-sponsors a bill has..
MEANWHILE, back under the dome..
Georgia’s House followed Arizona’s lead Thursday, convincingly passing stringent new legislation targeting illegal immigrants and those who harbor them here.
In a largely party-line vote of 113-56, the Republican-controlled chamber approved House Bill 87, also called the Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011.
Hey, Barry Hussein-O,…
YES WE CAN, and YES WE DID!
TrishaDishaWarEagle
March 3rd, 2011
8:12 pm
And we all know Hussein-O is a laughable, horrible, ignorable “leader”, and probably quite the jackass on a personal basis (what kind of narcissistic god complex compels one to write TWO autobiographies after less than 2 years in the senate and basically scaming for ACORN before that), no matter where he was born..thats why I never became a birther..
Whether born in Kenya or Hawaii, we know he was indoctrinated by Biff Soetoro and the madrassa in Indonesia, and even worse, Harvard(white western culture is bad mmmkay? aka..grade inflation U) and the resultant collectivist idiot is still bad..
cborgia
March 3rd, 2011
8:20 pm
We ought to consider what the motivation of our representatives is whenever they engage in this kind of activity. Clearly, their goal is re-election. Just as clearly, they believe that this kind of anile posturing will have a positive impression on a majority of their constituents. This implies that they think Georgia is a poor backward ignorant sort of place, and they we are a collection of credulous idiots with such small experience of the world that we’ll believe any chicken little fairy tale they run up the flagpole. I’ve had to accept being cheated by my representatives from both parties, but I ‘m not accustomed to being openly treated like a fool, and I don’t intend to get acclimated to it.
cborgia
March 3rd, 2011
8:29 pm
Uh, Trish, Harvard grads aren’t by and large socialists. They tend to be quite wealthy and many of them look down on the rest of us from Olympian heights, at least in their own minds. The are on the average hard nosed, ego driven, and quite capable. The problem with Obama is not that he was indoctrinated in a madrassa (laughable) or learned to reject Western culture at Harvard Law (what are you smoking?). Quite simply, he is a Harvard educated lawyer and out for #1. That’s only one step up from being a Yalie skull-and-bonesman.
E.Dunwody
March 3rd, 2011
8:37 pm
Amazing how everyone is ready to complain about federal spending and the taxes that support it—until they’re reminded that some of that Federal largesse could be a useful thing in economic development in their state. Then it’s “may I have some more please”? I’m sure the TPs in the rest of the country would be outraged, OUTRAGED, if they had any inkling THEIR tax dollars were headed to Georgia for a guvmint project.
Do you really care for GA?
March 3rd, 2011
8:42 pm
The citizens of Mississippi and Alabama are now saying, “at least we are not Georgia”.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
March 3rd, 2011
9:04 pm
To the contrary, they are largely collectivist, and anti white western culture(at least until they graduate and make some cash)..and the faculty are far worse, they simply see themselves as the elite who will administer the progressive social order on the masses, for their own good of course..Ask yourself why they have not had ROTC for 45 years, but 35 faculty sponsors for the campus transgender alliance, and the yearly divestment from Israel protests for the endowment, while hosting Islamic fundamentalist speakers.
pn
March 3rd, 2011
9:14 pm
Political theater of the absurd.
The GA unemployment rate continues to climb–now at 10.4%.
And these nitwits pile on any crazed bandwagon that comes lurching their way.
To hell with the public’s pressing business and the unending nosedive of the GA economy.
This state might as well be run by eighth graders.
Kimberly
March 3rd, 2011
9:14 pm
Isn’t the party of “READ THE BILL” , didn’t I hear this chanted endlessly in 2010″ Bahahahhaha
Sexy Chablis
March 3rd, 2011
9:14 pm
Dish it, Trisha Disha! Girlfriend, I know you knows all about them Harvard men. Y’all better listen to her now. Ain’t nobody rolled through the night with more of ‘em than TRISH! She seen them without they legal briefs. Girlfriend! You do me proud.
cam
March 3rd, 2011
9:15 pm
Trisha,
You obviously hate people who are better educated and smarter than you are. It looks like you went to Auburn which explains it. Most people wouild be smarter than you.
Amazing
March 3rd, 2011
9:32 pm
Trish the War Eagle = Charlie Sheen; that is devoid of facts and out of touch with reality!
Flash
March 3rd, 2011
9:40 pm
I grieve for the state of Georgia. Last in education. Last in common sense, First to elect any questionable candidate with an R behind his name. Now, our state officials are more concerned with cheap theatrics than with actually leading at a time screaming out for leadership. Georgia has become an embarrassment to the nation.
td
March 3rd, 2011
9:57 pm
bart
March 3rd, 2011
8:00 pm
Why in the name of God aren’t these idiots concentrating on jobs, the economy, education, transportation, and water issues???
Jobs: If you believe state government has the power to create jobs then you will surely buy my ocean front property in Pickens county.
Economy: Remind me again how the state government can effect the national, no world economy.
Education: Please go and take a look at what Dr. Barge is doing in Education. Things are getting done but it give him a little time. He has been in office 51 days now.
Transportation: I am pretty sure there is a transportation legislation that is working its way through the legislature. Plus, when we get rid of all the illegals then the transportation needs will become less.
Water: I am pretty sure there is a bill for water and Deal has already had meeting (51 days) with Florida and Alabama. What else do you want? Now my solution for this problem and to raise some more transportation revenue is to put toll booths on all our interstates at the Florida boarder and charge $1 per car. We could make millions on all the passers through the state from all over the country and at the same time we would have something to hold over Florida.
EP
March 3rd, 2011
9:59 pm
They are all morons who don’t care about us. Shame on them. We need jobs, not birth certificates. If they can’t do it, then someone else will in the next election
td
March 3rd, 2011
10:00 pm
Flash
March 3rd, 2011
9:40 pm
I grieve for the state of Georgia. Last in education. Last in common sense, First to elect any questionable candidate with an R behind his name. Now, our state officials are more concerned with cheap theatrics than with actually leading at a time screaming out for leadership. Georgia has become an embarrassment to the nation.
If you are so embarrassed you do realize there are 49 other states, the district of Columbia and three territories you can live in?
td
March 3rd, 2011
10:02 pm
EP
March 3rd, 2011
9:59 pm
They are all morons who don’t care about us. Shame on them. We need jobs, not birth certificates. If they can’t do it, then someone else will in the next election
Please explain to me how the state government can create jobs?
ERB
March 3rd, 2011
10:06 pm
During the “Sunday Sales” conversations, I kept hearing about moving on to “more important things”…and this is the kind of bill that our legislators bring up. Sure am glad they’re not concerned about the tax money they’re losing on Sundays, and instead can concern themselves with nonsense like this.
Old Hippie
March 3rd, 2011
10:08 pm
Trisha, you’ve obviously never met or talked to members of the Harvard faculty or (since you went to Auburn), any other well-educated educator. Go back to tending your goat herd and watching Faux News.
Cutty
March 3rd, 2011
10:11 pm
“Plus, when we get rid of all the illegals then the transportation needs will become less.”
Puff, puff, pass!
EP
March 3rd, 2011
10:12 pm
The Financial, today, from a study by the US Chamber of Commerce says that states could produce over 750,000 jobs immediately if regulatory burdens were loosened.Those darn facts just seem to get in the way, don’t they? I thought that it was all about states rights. Are you suggesting that we accept Federal money???
Admit it
March 3rd, 2011
10:21 pm
Everybody knows there is something on Barry’s long form BC he doesn’t want exposed. Same for his school and other sealed records. His idolaters don’t care if he’s legitimate, others are intimidated, bought off or afraid of the consequences. Not surprising really in a nation as morally bankrupt as ours.
td
March 3rd, 2011
10:24 pm
EP
March 3rd, 2011
10:12 pm
The Financial, today, from a study by the US Chamber of Commerce says that states could produce over 750,000 jobs immediately if regulatory burdens were loosened.Those darn facts just seem to get in the way, don’t they? I thought that it was all about states rights. Are you suggesting that we accept Federal money???
Would that be federal or state regulations? I am betting that since it was a report of the US chamber then it is federal. Also, most conservatives are the ones pushing to reduce federal regulations (especially environmental, tax and worker requirements). BTW: just making sure you do understand the difference between the federal and Georgia congress?
Atlanta mom
March 3rd, 2011
10:27 pm
“Do you really care for GA?”
You said it best.
As we say in our house: these guys are really special.
Edward
March 3rd, 2011
10:28 pm
Evidently people like td aren’t embarrassed by being the laughingstock of the nation. They are proud to be represented by the dueling banjos of mediocrity.
Watching the GA state legislature is like the political version of the Charlie Sheen train wreck. Pass the popcorn, its only gonna get better!
Edward
March 3rd, 2011
10:32 pm
BTW, they still aren’t going after the people who HIRE the illegals… you know, all of the major GOP campaign contributors. How many illegals are working on Saxby Chambliss’ farms? All the chicken processing plants? Construction companies? They’re getting exemptions…. WHY?
EP
March 3rd, 2011
10:33 pm
td
It is about state regulators. Just read it. It is easy to google. My job greatly depends on people having jobs, so I really want the legislators to concentrate on jobs, not these crazy things. I’m not picking a fight, this is kinda fun!
red herring
March 3rd, 2011
10:35 pm
any person running for elected office should be required to show any and all documentation that is required to prove that they meet the qualifications of the office they seek in order to be placed on the ballot. it should be just that simple but i suppose the train had gone too far down the track and the democrats couldn’t produce an official birth certificate (not that actually think he wasn’t born in the U.S.. the people removing their names from this bill are cowards for not standing up for what is right. i suppose they grovel for more federal money to be put in the trough.
Real Athens
March 3rd, 2011
10:42 pm
Trish:
You’re right about that grade inflation. George Bush graduated form Harvard Business School.
td
March 3rd, 2011
10:43 pm
EP
March 3rd, 2011
10:33 pm
Just went to find the article and could not find but could not. COuld you post a link?
digging up dirt on obama
March 3rd, 2011
10:47 pm
if the clintons and panettas and bushes and roves – most of whom used to run the CIA – could not dig up enough dirt on Obama in the primaries, then I’m betting my mortgage on the fact that there ain’t no dirt to be found.
having said that – i don’t really give a damn if he was born on mars – if he can provide some good solutions to our spiraling healthcare and LEAD some cuts on entitlements and military (you know, the 70% of the budget that ALL of these wimps conveniently ignore).
BlondeHoney
March 3rd, 2011
10:47 pm
@red herring…oh please. My ancestors go back to the Revolutionary War and my state of New York birth certificate is no “long form”; it has the basics and nothing else. What is a “long form” anyway? I have never seen one. If I, as a white woman whose ancestors trace back to the founding fathers, ran for President I would not be asked for the documentation this President is. Shameful.
td
March 3rd, 2011
10:58 pm
Edward
March 3rd, 2011
10:28 pm
Evidently people like td aren’t embarrassed by being the laughingstock of the nation. They are proud to be represented by the dueling banjos of mediocrity.
Watching the GA state legislature is like the political version of the Charlie Sheen train wreck. Pass the popcorn, its only gonna get better!
This is your opinion and you know what they say about them. The vast majority of this state and around 50% of this nation agrees with my point of view. There are plenty of states that see things your way and may I suggest that if you are so embarrassed by this state that you could look into moving to one of them.
EP
March 3rd, 2011
10:59 pm
td
Yep. http://finchannel.com/Main_News/Jobs/82225_U.S_Chamber_Study_Shows_States_Could_Create_Nearly_750,000_Jobs/ Hope it works.
JustMe
March 3rd, 2011
11:12 pm
Finally – some of these idiots are coming to their senses!
JustMe
March 3rd, 2011
11:16 pm
Edward
March 3rd, 2011
10:28 pm
Evidently people like td aren’t embarrassed by being the laughingstock of the nation. They are proud to be represented by the dueling banjos of mediocrity.
LOL, Edward – I completely agree!
Before 2002 and we started electing Republicans right and left, Georgia was a pretty open minded state and we always had good, southern, conservative (but not too much so) Democrats representing us. Then 2002 happened, Perdue was elected and since then everything has just rapidly and with an ever-quickening pace has just gone completely downhill. I have lived in Georgia all my life and my family lives here, so I won’t leave, but I am really embarrassed by what this state has become.
Flash
March 3rd, 2011
11:18 pm
td If you have a valid point to make then do so. Making claims that can never be proven “50% of the nation agrees with my point of view” will get you nowhere. Telling people you disagree with to move is just plain childish. We just had elections in the state. Just about every single one of the newly elected STATE officials campaigned on creating jobs. Georgia is my home. I will call like I see it. Right now Georgia is a huge embarrassment to the entire nation.
td
March 3rd, 2011
11:19 pm
EP
March 3rd, 2011
10:59 pm
Thank you for the article. I went in to the actual report and it say:
Georgia ranks in Tier I, with a generally
favorable labor and employment-law climate
for new job creation.
It also states:
Factors contributing to the state’s “good” ranking:
Strong at-will employment doctrine
Overtime requirement set by federal law
No state prevailing wage provisions
Prohibition on local governments afecting
the wages and bene”ts provided by contractors
Strong right-to-work guarantees
State law protective of employer references
Acceptance of independent-contractor relationship
Looks to me the Georgia legislature is doing everything it can to set a good business enviroment.
td
March 3rd, 2011
11:22 pm
Here is the conclusion of the study:
Consistent with seeking to expand job growth to accommodate
the increased population, Georgia has few labor and employment
laws imposing additional requirements beyond federal standards.
Georgia’s statutes governing labor and employment matters make
it more conducive to new job creation than any other large state.
Georgia overtime requirements and protected leave
requirements follow federal law. Indeed, state law prohibits
even local municipalities from passing legislation affecting
wages and bene”ts of employers.
A strong right-to-work state, Georgia has a low private-sector
union density, with less than 3 percent of private-sector
EP
March 3rd, 2011
11:24 pm
Unfortunately it is not working, at least not noticeably
Jason
March 3rd, 2011
11:28 pm
I doubt Trish graduated from Auburn or anywhere else for that matter. Like most UGA fans, the sidewalk outside the stadium is the closest people like her ever get to a classroom. I don’t hold the behavior of most UGA fan against those who actually went to Athens for an education. The same courtesy should be extended to the rest of the SEC schools that are stuck with knuckle dragging fans.
Aquagirl
March 3rd, 2011
11:30 pm
td
March 3rd, 2011
10:58 pm
and may I suggest that if you are so embarrassed by this state that you could look into moving to one of them.
Once again, td is incredibly proud Georgia is so freakin’ embarrassing people don’t want to live here. td, when people run screaming from your house or neighborhood, hooting and cackling are not a normal response. Unless you’re proud of your ability to live in a trash heap.
td
March 3rd, 2011
11:31 pm
Flash
March 3rd, 2011
11:18 pm
Here is a news flash for you. Government CAN NOT create jobs. Both sides of the isle was screaming to the top of their lungs that they would create more jobs than their competitor. Guess what? They were all lying to the dumb masses because they do not understand this basic concept and demand the unattainable from their representatives.
As far as moving, I do not tell anyone to move. I am just saying if you are so embarrassed or so angry about what is going on then there is the option to move and live with like minded people. Georgia is a conservative state and if one can not handle that fact then why live here?
Now as for creating jobs. Please go back and read the latest study about how Georgia has created the best big state environment in the country for business. I guess these legislators are doing something right.
Alabama Communist
March 3rd, 2011
11:34 pm
No doubt the bill was dropped when it was revealed that Newt was born on Mars according to a unknown source in the Capital restrooms……..
td
March 3rd, 2011
11:37 pm
EP
March 3rd, 2011
11:24 pm
Unfortunately it is not working, at least not noticeably
I think the article proves the legislature is doing everything that can be done because we know they have no power to actually create jobs themselves.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
March 3rd, 2011
11:38 pm
@Jason,
Auburn University, ‘06 BSME here
The board of Regents won’t even let UGA have an engineering program..gee, wonder why..
And no, I do not care whether people of the leftist persuasion up and die, much less ever try to change their opinions..I simply like to Illustrate their evil and ineptitude for my own personal kicks.,
A REAL Republican
March 3rd, 2011
11:38 pm
What happened to Republicans that wanted smaller government and less wasteful spending? This birther bill and every other nativist / anti-immigrant bill they’re throwing at us INCREASE the scope and size of our state government, and will increase burdens on our taxpayers. Agreed all around that these bills do nothing to solve any of the real problems we Georgians are facing today — I don’t think anyone is being represented by the state GOP party, not voting Republicans, not working people, not fiscal conservatives, no one.
And for the idiot House reps that signed this bill, here’s a copy of the President’s birth certificate, you didn’t have to propose a bill and risk losing fed’l dollars for our port if you just did your research: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/06/obama-birth.html
ELFIN LAID
March 3rd, 2011
11:44 pm
What a colossal waste of time. This whole anti govt trend is getting kinda annoying…
ELFIN LAID
March 3rd, 2011
11:47 pm
Um… Trisha UGA has a few different engineering programs…
td
March 3rd, 2011
11:48 pm
TrishaDishaWarEagle
March 3rd, 2011
11:38 pm
Amen. It is about time some other people started coming on this liberal papers blogs and spread a little truth to the dumb masses that do not understand anything but give me, give me.
EP
March 3rd, 2011
11:50 pm
td
Then who has the power to create jobs, in your opinion?
ELFIN LAID
March 3rd, 2011
11:50 pm
@REAL Republican
The problem is Republicans buckled when a radical more conservative group showed up to counter the first black President. It’s not about spending we have been spending since WWI, it’s not about small govt, govt has been kept in check and the understanding that the govt must do some things in this new age… It’s about the white man finally getting told what to do by a black man and don’t like it… Call it the race card or what ever you want I just call it reality…
Biggus Dawgus
March 3rd, 2011
11:51 pm
Should not have been signed in the first place or even brought up. Dumb A$$ legislators need to focus on real issues…………hello….anybody home under the gold dome?
td
March 3rd, 2011
11:52 pm
A REAL Republican
March 3rd, 2011
11:38 pm
First: I thought we have already established that you are not a real republican.
second: The nice image you conveniently gave us (from the campaign) is the one that is in question and will continue to be until Obama proves it with an original.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
March 3rd, 2011
11:56 pm
td, yes ..glad to see you also.. I am working about 19 hours out of any given day so i take a break now and then to post, and watch the lefties whine about 40 hr workweeks and what not, as if thats their goal in life, doing the minimum.
I notice most the obananauts only talk about what government is going to do for them, services, jobs, some want a big monorial to go from macon to atlanta when a private shuttle van service already does the trick..
me, I only ask what is government trying to steal from me..money, liberty, time.. It’s a totaly different view of the world, and I have no intention of meeting this collectivist trash halfway
Contract you won't see
March 3rd, 2011
11:59 pm
Work environment may look good, but the bosses won’t bring their families to a state run by fringe politics.
jewcowboy
March 4th, 2011
12:00 am
I’m just going to take a shot in the dark and say that “TrishaDishaWarEagle” has never set foot on the Harvard campus, nevertheless spoken to a Harvard alumni otherwise she would understand she was talking out of her ass…much like the jackwad GOP who signed onto this asinine piece of legislative crap.
td
March 4th, 2011
12:01 am
EP
March 3rd, 2011
11:50 pm
td
Then who has the power to create jobs, in your opinion?
The market determines how many jobs are created. This state has done everything possible to make the most favorable environment. The Federal government could do a lot to induce growth. Like stop letting the environmentalist wackos form stopping energy exploration in Alaska, off our coast, develop nuclear and build a few more refineries. But alas the libs still run one branch in congress and have the white house and that will not even be a consideration until after 2012.
jewcowboy
March 4th, 2011
12:01 am
td,
“Government CAN NOT create jobs”
Tell that to the military…they seem to have a few openings…
TrishaDishaWarEagle
March 4th, 2011
12:06 am
@Hopalong Shmendrik…
Oh, I know them..inside and out..once you have dealt with one prick in nantucket reds, you have met them all.
jewcowboy
March 4th, 2011
12:06 am
TrishaDishaWarEagle,
“The board of Regents won’t even let UGA have an engineering program..gee, wonder why.”
Google is your friend…it took me 0.50 seconds to get about 2,600,000 results. Here is #1.
http://www.engr.uga.edu/
td
March 4th, 2011
12:07 am
Contract you won’t see
March 3rd, 2011
11:59 pm
Work environment may look good, but the bosses won’t bring their families to a state run by fringe politics.
Really? The libs have been saying for years that the evil corporations only care about how much money they can make. Why is it different now? If that is so true then why are there so many companies the far left fringe states like Vermont and Mass?
Corporations look at the bottom line (money). If it makes them more money to move to Georgia then they are going to move to Georgia to make more money.
ELFIN LAID
March 4th, 2011
12:08 am
This completely ignorant idea that govt shouldn’t provide services shows a lack of education on the subject. Thinking that Democrats only want hand outs is propaganda(lies) speech and doesn’t deserve a reply.
jewcowboy
March 4th, 2011
12:10 am
“Oh, I know them..inside and out..once you have dealt with one prick in nantucket reds, you have met them all.”
I think this says more about the person that posted it than it does about the subject of the post.
jewcowboy
March 4th, 2011
12:14 am
“Corporations look at the bottom line (money). ”
Which kind of negates the GOP idea of dismantling or weakening oversight and regulation…
td
March 4th, 2011
12:15 am
jewcowboy
March 4th, 2011
12:01 am
td,
“Government CAN NOT create jobs”
Tell that to the military…they seem to have a few openings
“Provide for the national defense” The one few jobs that is legitimate for the federal government to do.
So let me see if I have this right, the state government that has went from revenues of $23 billion in 2007 to around $17 billion this year should go out and hire the unemployed to pick up trash on the street? You do understand that the state (unlike the federal government) is constitutionally bound to balance its budget each and every year? How are they suppose to raise this additional money to hire all of these people? Tax the evil rich. Then the consequences is that these evil rich will lay off more people and then how is the state going to hire all of these additional people?
td
March 4th, 2011
12:19 am
jewcowboy
March 4th, 2011
12:14 am
“Corporations look at the bottom line (money). ”
Which kind of negates the GOP idea of dismantling or weakening oversight and regulation…
Have no idea to what you are trying to say?
jewcowboy
March 4th, 2011
12:23 am
td,
Just pointing out the fallacy in your absolutist statement. Gov’t can, in fact, create jobs.
As to your other questions of how to pay for the jobs they gov’t creates…that is up to the American people to decide. If they decide the services these jobs provide are worth it, then they must ante up through increased taxes. If they decide the services are not worth it then they must live without the services.
The problem lies in the fact that the majority of Americans want the services the gov’t (both Federal, state and local) yet do not feel they should pay for them. It’s put up or shut up time for the American taxpayer…b/c the politicians…on both sides…are going to say anything they feel will help them get re-elected.
It’s time America put on its big boy pants and face reality…and not just reality tv.
jewcowboy
March 4th, 2011
12:28 am
td,
“Have no idea to what you are trying to say?”
The idea that business can “police itself” is negated with your very true statement that the bottom line for any business is the bottom line. The oil industry, financial industry, etc. are incapable by nature of policing themselves despite what many GOP congress people would try to lead us to believe. Gov’t oversight (which means gov’t employees) are required to keep them in check.
There is a sickness in GA
March 4th, 2011
12:39 am
TD
“Government CAN NOT create jobs”
Federal and state governments create jobs when they…
-provide money for road and bridge construction,
-provide R&D funds to the private sector
-add civil servants to the federal work force
-provide states funding to hire more public safety offices
-invests in new technology to upgrade federal facilities
These are just a few ways the Government creates jobs.
ksdb
March 4th, 2011
12:52 am
Doesn’t this eligibility bill create some jobs … that of verifying people who are otherwise not held accountable?? What’s the problem?? This bill would take next to nothing to enact and it would help get rid of the albatross in the White House who’s holding down the progress of this country.
Marvin
March 4th, 2011
4:41 am
I challenge any birther that believes Mr. Obama is an alien to also provide proof that they are not themselves a racist. I would like that in a long form, please. Otherwise, it is not proof. Don’t say you’re not a racist because those are just worlds. LONG FORM ONLY PLEASE.
Mitzymy
March 4th, 2011
5:49 am
We really don’t have time to fiddle around with this birther thing. Obama is as much American as anyone else. Remember that all of our ancestors came over from some country, and the Native Indians are the only real Americans. There are so many other things that our legislators can engage in other than where the President was born. I didn’t hear anyone asking George Bush to show his birth certificate. This crazy birther thing has plagued our President every since he has been in office, and his term is almost up. He is constantly working to help America bounce back from what happened the 8 years before he took office, and he needs help with creating jobs for real people to take care of their families. That is what’s really important.
Melanie
March 4th, 2011
6:08 am
I think any one who runs for office should show their true birth certificate…I thought that was the law anyway!!! obama never showed his true birth certificate so that is why so many, like me feel he was not born in the USA. If he was born here, why did he not show it? He showed a copy of some sort of certificate, but not his true one…if he is telling the truth, then why not show it? IF you have something to hide, this is what happens….i agree to that we have so much more here to concentrate on…jobs for one!!!
Ted
March 4th, 2011
7:03 am
This is legislative crap and makes Georgia even more of a laughing stock than it already is. The so called legislators who put this forward are an embarrassment to Georgia and the Nation. They ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Road Scholar
March 4th, 2011
7:46 am
I just hope that Trisha and td don’t have kids….together. God help us!
I once worked with an Auburn grad in Grad school at GT. We were “teammates” designing a parking deck. This Civil Eng graduate from Auburn had no idea what a “column “was; ya’ know, th thingee that holds the next floor up in the deck!
Willis
March 4th, 2011
7:49 am
Beyond stupid. While unemployment remains high, these people waste time and our money on nonsense like this. Maybe it’s to take attention away from all the ways their figuring out how to raise taxes without saying their raising taxes.
hsgrad
March 4th, 2011
7:50 am
If you don’t like the way your elected officials are behaving, you all may qualify for candidacy.
Georgia
March 4th, 2011
8:19 am
Let’s see we sponsor a bill proclaiming the legitimacy of birth then we want smaller government and we are highest in unemployment. Georgia at it’s finest!
Double Zero Eight
March 4th, 2011
8:20 am
Our legislators know they can count on morons to advise others there
are 49 other states if individuals do not like the way things are done.
Our legislators are wasing time on meaningless legislation.
I am a native Georgian and I am not going anywhere.
Gannon, Haggard, & Mehlman
March 4th, 2011
8:33 am
Road Scholar @ 7:46am
You are so right! I worked with some Auburn engineering grads at a huge project here about 20 years ago when their football program was under investigation for paying a player. Their defense of their school? “We needed that guy so we could beat Alabama.” I kid you not! Not only that, they did not understand why rebar in a concrete beam was important for shear loads.
money
March 4th, 2011
8:34 am
Trish, did you forget to take your medicine today,or is it just an everyday sympton of southern GOP in breeding?
Travis McGee
March 4th, 2011
8:39 am
Georgia’s history of moronic political leadership causes one to wonder how we’ve survived for as long as we have. It, however, causes us to believe that we’ll survive and probably prosper inspite of and not because of anything they do to embarrass, humiliate, and mystify those with an IQ over 40 and the rest of the country. And, so it goes. . . .
Red
March 4th, 2011
8:42 am
For those talking about jobs – what more can this crew do to better the job situation? You keep saying the focus needs to be on jobs. By all means tell us what needs to be done on that front.
Gannon, Haggard, & Mehlman
March 4th, 2011
8:43 am
TrishaDisha, no surprise you are working 19 hours a day. You are an Auburn grad!
Brandon
March 4th, 2011
8:47 am
The only thing WRONG with Obama is his skin is not the right color for certain people. Therefore he cannot say or do anything right. Some people in this country are so ignorant and racist, they are willing to see this country go down in flames, rather than see a black man fix it. The reason you will never be able to hurt him is because, the truth and whats right will always over shawdow hatred, lies,and injustice
GA Driver
March 4th, 2011
8:51 am
I work in Chattanooga but live 8 miles south of the state line in Georgia. Here on the margins of the state, the contrast between Tennessee and Georgia are more and more apparent. Just compare the budgets of the two states, the unemployment rate, (whether you can buy wine on Sunday), job creation, graduation rates and so on…it’s clear they are moving in opposite directions. Although TN elected what looks to be a crop of dyspeptic house and senate members, Georgia’s elected officials demonstrate they are a selfish bunch acting on ideological idiosyncrasies (under the guise of an imagined mandate).
Gannon, Haggard, & Mehlman
March 4th, 2011
8:59 am
GA Driver @8:51am
Not only that, Tennessee has had zero bank failures since 2002, Georgia has had over 50 since 2008. Part of the reason is that Georgia banks invested heavily in risky real estate ventures, but also Georgia’s elected officials called in their markers with the Bush Administration on behalf of their friends in the banking industry to call off the regulatory dogs who were trying to stop some their practices.
td
March 4th, 2011
9:03 am
Brandon
March 4th, 2011
8:47 am
The only thing WRONG with Obama is his skin is not the right color for certain people. Therefore he cannot say or do anything right. Some people in this country are so ignorant and racist, they are willing to see this country go down in flames, rather than see a black man fix it. The reason you will never be able to hurt him is because, the truth and whats right will always over shawdow hatred, lies,and injustice
You see color so much that you really can not see anything. Color has nothing to do with Obama’s problems. He is a socialist at best and probably leaning more to being a communist. He is trying to turn the US from being one of the greatest nations the world has ever seen to another 3rd rate socialistic nation. You are so blind to color that you do not even have a clue is to what is going on. Now if you want to come out and support Herman Cain then we can talk about a black man that could do great things for our country.
NDIrish65
March 4th, 2011
9:05 am
Ijits!! They’re all ijits!!! When they get done destroying this state with their backward thinking, they’ll join us all in the unempoyment line.
Aquagirl
March 4th, 2011
9:07 am
Red, maybe they could address water and transportation issues. Businesses aren’t lured by gridlock in the desert. They also like sane, stable, intelligent employees. When you look at the crazies in the legislature, you really have to wonder “do I want to hire from a pool that elected these morons?”
jconservative
March 4th, 2011
9:14 am
The “birthers”, Obama not an American, etc, and the “9/11 truthers”, 9/11 was a conspiracy by Bush/Cheney, are both cut from the same mold. As a result both live in a world governed by fiction.
The “9/11 truthers” will tell you in an instant that neither they, nor anyone else, has seen proof that 9/11 was not a Bush/Cheney plan executed by the Pentagon. Sure the Pentagon was hit, part of the cover up!
The ‘birthers” will tell you in a minute that they have seen no proof Obama was born in the US.
Oh, almost forgot, Lyndon Johnson had Kennedy shot. That was bigger than the “birthers” and “9/11 truthers” combined.
Living in a world governed by fiction makes almost anything possible.
The puzzling part is that the “birthers” keep voting for the same members of Congress who voted to certify the 2008 election that actually put Obama in the White House.
Private Sector
March 4th, 2011
9:28 am
@ td
“He is a socialist at best and probably leaning more to being a communist.”
Which policy initiative or Bill that he has signed has absolutely shown this. Making the statement void of the facts doesn’t make it true. When there was a populous will to void the huge bonuses to AIG executives because they received TARP funds, the President refused to be a proponent in that debate as contracts are just as sacred in our country as apple pie.
When you throw out baseless claims of socialism and communism while at the same time ignoring that we lost 10 MILLION JOBS in an 8 year span and decreased taxes while borrowing money to fund two wars even LBJ knew we couldnt pay for Veitnam that way.
Do you really care for GA?
March 4th, 2011
9:37 am
Breaking News, national unemployment rate drops to 8.9%, but here in Georgia which has been under GOP rule for several years, it is over 10 %, but of course it is Obama’s fault.
Brandon
March 4th, 2011
9:38 am
td… Got news for ya!! I’m white, and around whites 90% of the time. All I hear is about his color.One of the main things that are said is quote “(I can’t believe they put a black man in the white house). As for being blind, where were you during the bush years? If anyone turned anything third rate it was him.I voted for Obama and will do so again.
Private Sector
March 4th, 2011
9:46 am
Many African-Americans see the ignorance and the thinly-veiled racism of the Birthers when they question Obama’s citizenship. Many African-Americans long for the most basic tribal connection to the continent of Africa. So when you have a President that is only one generation removed from Africa, their is a deep appreciation and affection for this among African-Americans. Many AAs long for that “dual citizenship” status even if only in a cultural status. Even if they are a doctor, lawyer, accountant, soldier, teacher or police officer they know it doesn’t make them less of an American just like the President
td
March 4th, 2011
10:23 am
Brandon
March 4th, 2011
9:38 am
“I voted for Obama and will do so again”
Because he is black or because your personal philosophy is that you believe that government has the responsibility of running the economy and taking care of people (liberal/socialistic)?
ab
March 4th, 2011
10:28 am
Complete waste of our time. We talk about jobs…and the jobless rate just went down…yet we have time for this crap. As I have noted before, if anyone believes the President is not a citizen…have him arrested. Go all the way and ask the Justice dept to arrest an imposter.
Do you have the stones to go all the way?
td
March 4th, 2011
10:29 am
Private Sector
March 4th, 2011
9:28 am
“Which policy initiative or Bill that he has signed has absolutely shown this”
Obama care, bailing out the car industry and then giving the labor unions a large % of the new company stock, increasing all social welfare spending by more than 50%. How many more do you need. Did Bush do socialistic things ABSOLUTELY. He was a patriot on defending us against Islamic terrorism but he was a socialist with TARP, Medicare part D and no child left behind.
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March 4th, 2011
10:46 am
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Brandon
March 4th, 2011
10:54 am
td.. NEITHER
deegee
March 4th, 2011
10:58 am
td, after all that has transpired over the last 2 1/2 years, who could fantasize about a President, Congress, or the Fed running the economy? The banks control the economy; not liberals, not conservatives, not government. The banks are in control.
The fallout of the mortgage mess is that there are fewer smaller banks. The collapse of some large banks like Bear Stearns has created a greater monopoly among the large banks. FinReg does nothing about “too big to fail.”
Banks profits are healthy, bank bonuses are healthy yet they are not lending because the interest rate is too low. They are investing in commodities and now we consumers are paying inflated prices for food. If you think that government has any chance in hell of running this economy, think again.
td
March 4th, 2011
11:20 am
deegee
March 4th, 2011
10:58 am
I agree with 95% of what you said. There is a some corporate and other entities that work along with the banks to control everything.
Last Man Standing
March 4th, 2011
12:33 pm
Do you really care for GA?:
If you believe the BS put out there by the Obamalamadingdong propoganda agents with the regard to the national jobless rate, have I got a deal for you!
Last Man Standing
March 4th, 2011
12:43 pm
TrishaDishaWarEagle:
I enjoy reading your posts but I do have a question for you. Is it really necessary for you to be so polite to these flaming liberals? Can’t you treat them with the disrespect they so evidently deserve?
flintrock70
March 4th, 2011
2:15 pm
@td
Gov’t does create jobs. Fixing transportation problems, water problems and our educational system makes GA more attractive to business. No one wants to open up shop with traffic jams, dirty water and dumb employees.
Government cannot snap it’s fingers and jobs appear, but you can do things to help out. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink is the saying I’m sure you or one of your Faux News pundits would say about me statement, but you at least gotta lead the dang horse or else there’s no chance.
EP
March 4th, 2011
2:17 pm
Last Man Standing
Didn’t you mama teach you, you get more flies with honey than vinegar? Lack of civility goes both ways, we should all try it. Problems get solved faster if we would quit being so partisan and listen.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
March 4th, 2011
2:32 pm
Last man Standing..
I Used to treat the leftist slime the way i truly feel about them..had a blast watching one choke on a blowpop at school once..In the end I gave her the heimlich..I have never forgiven myself.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
March 4th, 2011
2:33 pm
It’s also quite laughable the lies people try to spread about AU, like a civil engineering grad not understanding rebar and sheer stress..but then again, GT grads had to learn to lie, they went to school in a GHETTO and had to learn how to handle the panhandling obama voters..
Last Man Standing
March 4th, 2011
3:07 pm
EP:
“Problems get solved faster if we would quit being so partisan and listen.”
I know, for I have learned. I was pretty much aware of the way of things before I REALLY learned. I have now been taught by the likes of Barny Frank, Nancy Pelosi and B. Hussein Obamalamadingding. I intend to be no more partisan than they are, to tell no more lies about the opposition than they have, to claim no more undue credit than they have and to accept no more responsibility for my actions than they have accepted for their actions. Further, I will scream racism at every opportunity whenever a white person is discriminated against by word or deed.
Thank y’all for teaching me!
Last Man Standing
March 4th, 2011
7:00 pm
Private Sector:
“Many African-Americans long for the most basic tribal connection to the continent of Africa”
Well, let me be the first to tell them that ships and airliners depart every day for Africa. I am so past being tired of this hyphenated American crap. If they want to be Africans, go there. If you want to be an American, stay here. Just make up your minds! The very vast majority of people who incoreectly call themselves African-Americans have never seen Africa and know little about it. They, in many cases, would not like it there as there aren’t “entitlement” programs in great numbers. They are also very good at killing each other off. But maybe it is revenge these people want? Maybe they would like to punish the tribes that captured them and sold them as slaves?
Z
March 4th, 2011
7:26 pm
Here we have 94 Georgia Law Makers that must have been born under a rock, all of them. I don’t believe they are Americans born in the United States under a U.S. rock..nope these fools are not American. No one that thinks like these 94 can be Americans, we just don’t raise people this stupid, or do we.
San
March 4th, 2011
7:47 pm
Thank you for listing this list of the 94 Georgia legislator fools..I hope all Georgia voters make a copy of this list and remember this group of fools are NOT smart enough to make laws and be our legislators. I’ve made a copy and will let all my friends know what a group of ignorant fools we have as legislators and by them signing this document proves it. Save it to your computer and when it comes time to vote, you will have all the info you need to make the right choices, next go around..everyone of them should be recalled, or resign. They are a disgrace to Georgia.
EP
March 4th, 2011
11:23 pm
td
You seem to have most of your facts straight, but remember that it was the previous administration that bailed out the car companies, not this one. If you disagree, look it up.
Private Sector
March 5th, 2011
3:08 am
@ LMS…
I enjoy reading your posts. Although your rants are incoherent, stereotypical and devoid of facts, I find it refreshing that you are at the very least arrogant in your ignorance. Its truly difficult to pull both off. So when you say African-Americans wouldn’t enjoy Africa because of the lack of entitlement programs tells me that you know very little about Africa or your own race that depends on Public Assistance in greater numbers than African-Americans.
Making generalizations of race based on left vs right politics coupled with your faux view of the world makes me feel bad for you
Private Sector
March 5th, 2011
3:14 am
@ EP
Of course facts like that get in the way and also the fact that the TARP legislation came under the previous administration. So if you allow those facts to get in the way its hard to label the President a socialist, communist and a fascist. Although I still haven’t figured out how he can be all of these given the most simplest definition of each
Crimson Crush
March 5th, 2011
4:20 am
Trisha … when you gave your reasons for not caring where the comrade in chief was actually born I must say that has always been my take on the situation as well .
Sort of surprising to find myself agreeing on anything with a Barner lately . Although now that I think about it Auburn is the home for the Von Mises Institute . The place can’t be all bad ( right now Google is getting hit up by some left wing chucklehead trying to figure out what a Mises is
)
If a video surfaced of his Obama’s mother spitting him out sitting astraddle of the Empire State Building I wouldn’t give a rat’s a** about it . The man and and ALL of his comrades of every color are a plague on the nation and for that matter Western civilization itself … where , when or even how one of them was born is irrelevant to me at this point . They all need to go …
And before some left wing clown yanks the oh so predictable race card out of their backside I would work day and night without pay for 8 years as the Whitehouse chewing gum scraper if a man like a Thomas Sowell or a Herman Cain were ever elected to the office ….
Gannon, Haggard, and Mehlman
March 5th, 2011
8:50 am
TrishaDisha @ 2:33pm
I am no GT grad (Univ. of Illiois) and I have photos of near beam failures due to lack of “understanding” by an Auburn grad. But never mind, you are a birther apologist and that is all I need to know.
Crimson Crush
March 5th, 2011
10:52 pm
Trisha posted at the very beginning of the comment section that it was irrelevant if the man was born on the corner of 32nd and Broadway . To her he was a train wreck in motion for the nation and as such questions about his legitimacy as to whether he was or wasn’t born in the US weren’t worth wasting time over .
For the terminally dense she spelled it out in nice clean letters at the end of her very first comments on this article about the TRUE importance of Comrade in Chief’s “birth” place …
” no matter WHERE he was born..thats why I never became a birther..”
Somehow though the fact she dares criticize the socialist messiah at all means she is somehow (in your mind) just a “birther” apologist . That is … according to you …. “all … you … need …to … know”.
Stated like it really is … that is all you are capable of “knowing” .
On the even more COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT side issue of AU engineers competence compared I guess to that of Obama . ( (WTF … does it really matter what your opinion is on that when the nation is swirling down a toilet ? )
If you have an entire scrapbook of supposed “photos” of AU engineering grads ( and Trisha with AU stamped on her forehead ) funneling beer on a job site it doesn’t make that Obama any better for the nation . File that in the “who give’s a rat’s a** ? ” section as well .
TrishaDishaWarEagle
March 5th, 2011
11:19 pm
Crap, I thought I burned that photo!
I am a member of the Von Mises Society, and when I bring up the Austrian school of economics with my liberal colleagues, they start making “throw another shrimp on the barbie!” jokes. it’s so sad, I don’t know where to begin to correct them..
….Courtseys to Crimson Crush
hypocrites
March 6th, 2011
3:01 pm
“GT grads had to learn to lie, they went to school in a GHETTO and had to learn how to handle the panhandling obama voters..”
this basically explains everything you need to know about Trisha
“I am a member of the Von Mises Society, and when I bring up the Austrian school of economics with my liberal colleagues, they start making “throw another shrimp on the barbie!” jokes. it’s so sad, I don’t know where to begin to correct them..”
trisha. your cats don’t speak to you. cats are not colleagues. go see a doctor
alberteinstein
March 6th, 2011
11:20 pm
Poor Trish went to a football program and now thinks she’s educated. No wonder she & td get along so well. I doubt Harvard cares what she thinks. The foolish prattle of the ignorant is an endless source of amazement to me. Trish, do ya think Henry Kissinger is a buddy of Castro? Ever here of a guy named Mansfield who teaches there? There are plenty of liberal faculty at Harvard, but the place has been and is a center for planning and recruitment of intelligence and foreign policy types, many of whom are to the right of Attila the Hun. Harvard, Yale, Georgetown and to some extent Princeton are the major sources of those kin of people. And Trish, that lame old Austrian economics drivel has been skewered by every significant economist from Samuelson to Friedman. Read also Krugman and Sachs. If it had any serious defenders left they were discredited by the events of 2008, caused by the excessively laissez-faire policies of credulous and ideology driven federal administrations. BTW, thank God I’m not a Harvard person, but that would be a lot better than being an Auburn grad.
Carol
March 8th, 2011
6:05 pm
Why do any state need a bill passed to say that the Secretary of State needs to do her job to validate that any Presidential candidate is 35 years old and a natural born citizen according to Art. II, Sect. I of the Constitution? Shouldn’t they have been seeing proper documentation every election?..Guess not, huh? ..and obviously all of them like the majority of you are ignorant of the fact that just because Obama’s mother was an American citizen or the fact that he was or was not born on American soil makes absolutely no difference…you idiots are not aware that the term “natural born citizen” as it applies and is italicized in Art II, Sect I of the Constitution has never been amended nor ever defined as anything other than Vattel’s Nation of Laws definition as an American soil born child of TWO citizen parents ” “the land of the father’s is the land of the child’s.. In Obama’s case that would be .KENYA…whether or not he was born in America by his American mother.”
OBAMA IS THE ONLY PRESIDENT TO EVER HOLD OFFICE THAT HAD A FATHER THAT WAS NEVER AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.
Guess the intent of this Constitutional law by our founding fathers and all letters to and from George Washington is of little importance to any of you just as long as we don’t appear to be smeared as being backwoods racists.”
alberteinstein
March 9th, 2011
8:39 am
Carol:
Stop spouting birther lies. You are making a fool of yourself. I am so depresed by the number of birthers and truthers spewing garbage that I despair for the future of the country. Vattel has never been American Law. The Supreme Court has ruled on this many times. There are specific acts of Congress defining what it means to be a native Amenrican citizen who qualifies for the presidency. They were meant to stop this kind of baloney. From Cornell Law Library (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode08/usc_sec_08_00001401—-000-.html):
TITLE 8 > CHAPTER 12 > SUBCHAPTER III > Part I > § 1401
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§ 1401. Nationals and citizens of United States at birth
How Current is This?
The following shall be nationals and citizens of the United States at birth:
(a) a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof;
(b) a person born in the United States to a member of an Indian, Eskimo, Aleutian, or other aboriginal tribe: Provided, That the granting of citizenship under this subsection shall not in any manner impair or otherwise affect the right of such person to tribal or other property;
(c) a person born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents both of whom are citizens of the United States and one of whom has had a residence in the United States or one of its outlying possessions, prior to the birth of such person;
(d) a person born outside of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year prior to the birth of such person, and the other of whom is a national, but not a citizen of the United States;
(e) a person born in an outlying possession of the United States of parents one of whom is a citizen of the United States who has been physically present in the United States or one of its outlying possessions for a continuous period of one year at any time prior to the birth of such person;
(f) a person of unknown parentage found in the United States while under the age of five years, until shown, prior to his attaining the age of twenty-one years, not to have been born in the United States;
(g) a person born outside the geographical limits of the United States and its outlying possessions of parents one of whom is an alien, and the other a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions for a period or periods totaling not less than five years, at least two of which were after attaining the age of fourteen years: Provided, That any periods of honorable service in the Armed Forces of the United States, or periods of employment with the United States Government or with an international organization as that term is defined in section 288 of title 22 by such citizen parent, or any periods during which such citizen parent is physically present abroad as the dependent unmarried son or daughter and a member of the household of a person
(A) honorably serving with the Armed Forces of the United States, or
(B) employed by the United States Government or an international organization as defined in section 288 of title 22, may be included in order to satisfy the physical-presence requirement of this paragraph. This proviso shall be applicable to persons born on or after December 24, 1952, to the same extent as if it had become effective in its present form on that date; and
(h) a person born before noon (Eastern Standard Time) May 24, 1934, outside the limits and jurisdiction of the United States of an alien father and a mother who is a citizen of the United States who, prior to the birth of such person, had resided in the United States.
The landmark Supreme Court decision United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898) reads in part:
“It thus clearly appears that by the law of England for the last three centuries, beginning before the settlement of this country, and continuing to the present day, aliens, while residing in the dominions possessed by the crown of England, were within the allegiance, the obedience, the faith or loyalty, the protection, the power, and the jurisdiction of the English sovereign; and therefore every child born in England of alien parents was a natural-born subject, unless the child of an ambassador or other diplomatic agent of a foreign state, or of an alien enemy in hostile occupation of the place where the child was born. III. The same rule was in force in all the English colonies upon this continent down to the time of the Declaration of Independence, and in the United States afterwards, and continued to prevail under the constitution as originally established.” Vattel is toast.
See also Perkins v. Elg, 307 U.S. 325 (1939) and Schneider v. Rusk, 377 U.S. 163 (1964).
Any bill passed by Georgia which attempts to amend federal law will only further embarrass us. Don’t like Obama? Vote against him. If you object to being portrayed as a backwoods racist, stop acting like one.