President Biden , Placater Extraordinaire, says that the federal government henceforth will pay for abortions.
Congress, for 45 years in accordance with the Hyde Amendment, has not paid for abortions.  As a U.S. Senator , Biden voted in support of the Hyde Amendment year after year. Democrats and Republicans consistently voted that the federal government will NOT pay for abortions.
By virtue of its name, the PRO CHOICE movement supports abortion as a choice   ‘When you walk into a bar and choose to have a beer you put your money on the table in exchange of a the beer. ‘ That’s the analogy Charles Freeman uses t on his show 6/2/2021 o describe the original reason why the federal government based has not paid for abortions. People pay for the choices they make.
Why the complete turn around change on Biden’s part? To save his  skin?  Perceived as a senile old man who could not get out of his basement to run a campaign, Biden has put into place  numerous policies which the Progressive-Socialist Far Left Democrats seek:  immediately undo the policies Trump put in place. Trump lowered taxes so Biden raises taxes. Trump stopped most illegal immigration so Biden floods the borders. Trump opposed Critical Race Theory so Biden embraces it.
Whatever the Left wants, Biden sees that they get.  Why such adherence to the Socialist Progressive agenda?  His survival as President?  That keeps the knives in sheathed which otherwise might seek to replace Biden with Kamala Harris.She’s not much of a prize so the Democrats will be slow to act in removing Biden.
Did Biden deliberately choose Harris, a second rater, someone with little political base and not popular over someone such as Elizabeth Warren?
For church members & the public, COPA / Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc. is not a good bang for the buck based on  info from Charity Navigator.
Look at the numbers:
COPA expenses: Seventy-nine percent  or roughly 4 out of 5 dollars pays for Personnel ($288 K) and General/ Administrative ($18.8 K). Only 21% [$80,400 / $387,233] goes for Program Costs. Wow!
$288 K pays for three full-time COPA organizers in the 2018-19 Budget.  Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc. is another name for COPA in the Santa Cruz and Monterey CA area.
COPA/ Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc. is housed at a Lutheran church in Watsonville, CA and pays about $19 K for General and Administrative costs.
 How to evaluate the numbers:Â
Program Expenses: The majority of charities listed by Charity Navigator  – seven out of ten non profits – spend at least 75% of their expenses directly on their Programs. That means the organization should spend no more than 25% of their total expenses on administrative overhead and fundraising costs.
COPA / Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc. reverses the percentages recommended by Charity Navigator with expenses for Program accounting for only 21% and Personnel/ Administrative expenses accounting for 79%. Wow. That’s a reversal!
 Check for evidence of commitment to accountability and transparency:
Website:Â The best charities are transparent and accountable to the public. You should be able to see evidence of this in the information they provide on their web site. Can you readily find information about the charity’s staff and Board of Directors? Did the charity publish its financial information such as its most recently filed Form 990 or audit?
Industrial Area Foundation (IAF) akin to an octopus with legs
Transparency: Low. One must search to find connections to COPA’s  founding organization — the Industrial Area Foundation (IAF) of Chicago, Illinois COPA is a long standing affiliate of IAF.  And there’s no mention of community activist Saul Alinsky who wrote the guiding principles for progressive socialists i.e., Rules for Radicals. One might think it interesting to churches that Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer.
Open Borders is one goal of COPA / IAF / Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc.
Churches connected with COPA in Santa Cruz and Monterey CA fund open border  immigration policies. Exactly how much dues each church affiliate pays COPA is not readily available.
COPA recently  held a conference on immigration “reform” in Monterey, CA (4/9/2018). No specifics as to number of attendees is provided on their website.
The Catholic church in CA is a long time supporter of open borders. Five of the seven churches in Santa Cruz County & neighboring two counties which act as as the governing board of COPA  are Catholic.
Other supporters of COPA include several Episcopal churches, i.e., St. John’s in Aptos, Calvary in Santa Cruz and St. Mary’s by the Sea in Pacific Grove.
Sunday, 9/16/18 at 9 am,  COPA / Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc. lead organizer Tim McManus speaks at St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church in Aptos, CA. You might ask Mr. McManus why roughly 4 of 5 dollars of Expenses goes to pay staff Personnel & Administrative and only 21% pays for Program.
Aptos Psychologist:Â Â Â COPA goes to church leaders and gets their “buy in” and them uses that buy in to contact parishioners and teach Alinsky progressive socialist goals.
What is COPA?   On November 2, 2009 Freedom Advocates wrote, “COPA targets congregations and unsuspecting parishioners…”
What COPA currently says:  It’s Mission is  “to develop the leadership skills of ordinary people …. to engage effectively in public life …with power to negotiate with public and private sector leaders … to change the economic, social, political and cultural pressures on their families …Â
COPA has 22 member institutions in Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito Counties — including “many religious groups” they say.
Per COPA’s website (4/2018) Pete Scudder of Scudder Roofing said about obtaining workers, “there is no system. There is no line. No way anyone come here legally unless they have  a lot of money….Scudder Roofing construction company hires 90% Hispanics. Scudder Roofing seeks to sponsor ‘citizen applications for workers’.
Back to general discussion of COPA / Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc.Â
It’s vital to look at how charities are rated for financial health and transparency. Neither COPA aka Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc is rated by Charity Navigator. That’s because their financials are too small for Charity Navigator.
What if all the legs of the founding organization — IAF — were examined by Charity Navigator? What if COPA was transparent about its socialist progressive agenda? Would parishioners and the public support COPA / Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc?
It’s best to view COPA and Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc. for what they are — community organizing entities which seek progressive socialist goals.
Per D Souza both Barrack Obama and Hilary Clinton — both students of Alinsky — implemented Saul Alinsky’s political tactics.
Remember Obama’s promises that “you can keep your doctors…” and that “insurance premiums costs were going down …” Then Obama took over health care and 1/6th of private economy. Check out D. Souza on YouTube.
What do you want for your children and grandchildren?  That your children learn progressive socialism in church via COPA / Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors Inc?Â
Or that your children learn to think for themselves and seek freedom?Â
written by Aptos Psychologist Cameron Jackson PSY 14762
Is Cory Booker pro Palestine? Just not understand Israel’s need for a defense Wall? Or just fuzzy thinking? His denial does not hold up.
Senator Cory Booker was photographed holding a sign bearing a pro-Palestinian movement slogan. The image appeared on the Twitter feed of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, a self-described “coalition of 330+ groups†working “for a US policy toward Palestine/Israel based on    freedom, justice, and equality.â€
“From Palestine to Mexico, all the walls have got to go,†the sign read.
Trump Wall opposed by open borders Booker
Booker, however, claims he wasn’t aware that the sign called for an end to the border wall between Israel and the Palestinian territory, but rather only a U.S. border wall with Mexico. Â
“In one instance, amid the rush, he was posing for a photo and was passed a sign to hold – he didn’t have time to read the sign, and from his cursory glance he thought it was talking about Mexico and didn’t realize it had anything to do with Israel,â€
So, yes,  the National Guard and or Corp of Engineers can  use a shovel, clean out a drug infested tunnel, build a road.
Trump plans to build a military base along the wall.
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is requesting that the U.S. military build walls for at least one military base along the U.S.-Mexico border, part of President Donald Trump’s plan to fortify the border, U.S. officials say.
“We are looking into options for the military to build a wall on military installations on the border,†Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen told reporters Wednesday afternoon.
Details of the plan, expected to be released later Wednesday afternoon by the White House, come days after Mr. Trump suggested the military could pay for the wall he wants to build along the southern border.
Where might the $25 BILLION to build a WALL come from?  The military got $700 BILLION in 2018 and 716 BILLION for 2019.
President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis have discussed the possibility that the U.S. military front the costs for a border wall, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday.
“The secretary has talked to the president about it,†said Pentagon press secretary Dana White. “Securing Americans and securing the nation is of paramount importance to the secretary. They have talked about it but I don’t have any more details as to specifics.â€
President Trump signed the $1.3 trillion budget into law last Friday. The bill provides $700 BILLION in 2018 and $716 BILLIONÂ in 2019 to the Defense Department, money Mattis and the service chiefs have repeatedly emphasized is critical to rebuilding military readiness and lethality.
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Aptos Psychologist: The “caravan” of 1,200 + coming from El Salvador provided incentive for Trump to send the National Guard. That caravan dissolved after intervention from Mexico providing assistance. What to do abut DACA remains. And what about  the 12-20 MILLION illegals who live and work in the USA?
What say you?  Immigration was and remains the issue that propelled Trump into the Presidency.
Stand in line when entering the USA to live & work. Follow the federal immigration policies.
Why & how U.S. immigration policies must change:
The USA backlog of illegals entering is huge and the USA decision rate for these cases is low.
There is a backlog of 660,000 cases. That’s a lot of cases.  That’s a lot of undocumented individuals running around finding some sort of employment as they stay under the radar.
Legal advise is ‘get a lawyer’ (this improves the odds of winning from 10% to 50% currently) and lawyers cost money. Hence, undocumented person are advised to get a job to pay for the lawyer.
Immigration judges decided 32,000 cases  in 2017.  That rate was the highest in 5 years. Roughly 62% of cases overall are rejected currently.
Do the math. It would take 20 years to decide a backlog of 660,000 cases divided by a rate of 32,000 a year.
The policy of “catch and release” came about under President Obama. Overwhelmed by thousands of undocumented persons – largely from El Salvador and other central american countries — the USA was flooded.
Roughly 330,00 individuals were “caught and released” and these persons went underground and did not go to their court appearances. Many did and continue to get  jobs.
These ‘catch and release’ individuals affect the overall jobs that are available to persons legally in the USA.
Why don’t these economic/ political refugees, largely from El Salvador and central america,  go elsewhere? Mexico rejects rougly 90% of “refugees”.  Same rate for the Philippines. Where to go? Russia only declines 11%.
In March 2018 Attorney General Sessions implemented several major changes in USA immigration policies. These changes may reduce the backlog.
One change:Â Â Judges can now decide cases based on written evidence without a full hearing. That could speed things up.
Another change coming up:Â will “economic refugees” continue to be granted special status?
The overall goal is to reduce the backlog of 660,000 persons sufficiently so that persons who are apprehended for illegal entry into the USA are kept incarcerated until their hearing.
Perhaps — if people who ‘jump the fence’ know that, once caught, they are in a USA jail and not free to get a job, that may slow down the rate of persons who come. Maybe.
Aptos Psychologist: Yes the USA welcomes immigrants. In the 1600’s immigrants came on boats to escape religious persecution. Today the USA continues  to welcome more legal immigrants than any other nation.
Yes, immigrants are welcome. Stand in line. Follow the laws.
Where are we? A Trump Wall?  Control of chain migration? Will the DACA/ the Dreamers get right to citizenship?
Immigration — the control of legal and illegal immigration – which include “chain migration” and “the lottery system”  — are right now on the table for discussion by Congress and the President.
The House, which is likely to support what comes from President Trump, probably  opposes chain migration and the continuation of the Lottery System which allows anyone from anywhere to become an American citizen.
For 40 + years — from 1921 onward  the USA stopped all immigration.
Do we need to integrate those who have come so that they do speak English and have the necessary skills to be successful here in America?
Or do we simply open our doors to all refugees who suffer oppression i.e. “I was a stranger and you welcomed me…”?
What say you?
written by Cameron Jackson  drcameronjackson@gmail.com
Are the Dreamers productive, law abiding and speak English? Look at the statistics ….
What do we know whether the Dreamers are productive, law abiding and speak English.
A majority (74 percent) of U.S. Protestants and Catholics support “Dreamers” receiving permanent legal status, according to a Pew Research Center report released on Jan. 19. Catholic Hispanics overwhelmingly support the Dreamers (92%).
“Dreamers” are persons brought to the U.S. as minors and who have only known the U.S. as their home.
Younger illegal immigrants in Arizona make up a far larger percentage of the state’s prison inmates than their share of the population would suggest, according to a new analysis.
While illegal immigrants ages 18 to 35 — a group immigration activists call “Dreamers†— are about 2 percent of of the Arizona population, they are almost 8 percent of the prison population. The over-representation by a factor of four shows that younger illegal immigrants in Arizona are far more likely to commit crimes than U.S. citizens or legal immigrants of a similar age, says John Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center.
Aptos Psychologist:  America stopped all immigration for 40 years (1924-1965) which allowed for assimilation of all the millions who had come. Perhaps it’s time again to stop immigration and again assimilate those who are here?  To be successful here immigrants need to learn English and learn skills so they can be productive members. What say you? Comments welcome.
Three issues: immigration, taxes and health care. Looks like the “swamp” still runs Washingon D.C. The alligators are strong.
And the world keeps getting less safe in so many ways…. Las Vegas with 50+ dead and 500 sent to hospital. So sad. So terrible.
Trump stumped for a physical  Wall to control illegal immigration, he wants to reduce taxes on the middle class and Trump wants to repeal Obama-Care.
Where are we?
So far, 10 months into his Presidency, Trump  can’t seem get much done on any of these three issues. The ‘swamp’ [big time donors, the ‘establishment’ of both Democrats and Republicans] oppose Trump’s stance on all 3 issues.
Remember Hillary? Hilary opposed a Wall, wanted a single payer system of health care and said she wants to soak the rich – but who knows really what her policies would have been on taxes.
Freedom for the little guy. The small business. The lemon juice stand. People who want to start a business or grow one. How can we help to increase freedom?
And how can people safely go to a Country Western concert and just ‘hang out’ with friends listening to music that heals them? How do we as a People heal …?
written Oct. 7, 2017 by Cameron Jackson  DrCameronJackson@gmail.com
Come  to Christ Lutheran on Sundays  in March at 11:15 for  a series of six classes titled Faith and Public Policy. Location: 10707 Soquel Drive, Aptos, CA.  831 688-5727  www.aptosChurch.org
The classes on Faith and Public Policy  follow  Christ Lutheran’s  10 am Worship service and  time for  Coffee, Food and Fellowship.
Pastor Dale will lead  the discussion sessions based on online lectures and suggested readings by Jim Wallis, President and Founder of Sojourners.
Class 1 is titled  Introduction.  Class 2 is titled  Poverty (Part II) of Jim Wallis’ online lectures.  Class 3 is titled Immigration.  Class 4 is titled Race and Religion.
For information on the online classes available through Jim Wallis:
Start small in changing the world? Â Garden plots are available at Aptos Community Garden, an outreach of Christ Lutheran Church. Â Spade that dirt! Â Turn that soil! Â Make beautiful vegetables and flowers.
PVUSD lost $410 K as students refuse to attend one day — Watsonville, CA sanctuary city
Sanctuary city Watsonville CA school district  PVUSD  lost $410 K  school revenue in one day  —  because 7,600 students failed to attend school on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017.
