Saw the jeep pull up and he was already getting out of his car. And at that point i knew. This is obviously brought to light, and, again, reemphasizes debate were having on illegal immigration. When somebody says to you, well, steve, these people are just coming here for a better life, how do you respond to them . Some are. Absolutely, some are. But others, others are wanting commit crimes and they want to be able to live the high life because they can get rid of them. They can get away with it, i should say. We have a certain amount of them that are abusing our system. Its not right. Its not fair. They have no right to be here if theyre going to commit the crimes that theyre committing. You and i discussed before the program, and i want to get this out there right off the citizenship for people here illegally. You are not a hater. Absolutely not. You want to get that out there. Bebecause people will immediately paint people who bring up this topic as haters. Absolutely. Is it not reas
Saw the jeep pull up and he was already getting out of his car. And at that point i knew. This is obviously brought to light, and, again, reemphasizes debate were having on illegal immigration. When somebody says to you, well, steve, these people are just coming here for a better life, how do you respond to them . Some are. Absolutely, some are. But others, others are wanting commit crimes and they want to be able to live the high life because they can get rid of them. They can get away with it, i should say. We have a certain amount of them that are abusing our system. Its not right. Its not fair. They have no right to be here if theyre going to commit the crimes that theyre committing. You and i discussed before the program, and i want to get this out there right off the citizenship for people here illegally. You are not a hater. Absolutely not. You want to get that out there. Bebecause people will immediately paint people who bring up this topic as haters. Absolutely. Is it not reas
Ed bloodsworth has a look at the weather. We have a cold front but not much rain associated with it. Weve had a few showers in the morning and got off to a warm and steamy start. Max defender 8, weve had a few light sprinkles through portions of citrus and Hernando County but that is it. Not much more than that here. This is a a cold front that continues to lose a lot of its punch. Still a lot of scattered cloudiness and very warm. Already up to 80 at lake more of a mostly cloudy sky and humid. 77 tampa. Note the cooler air, 60s for crystal river. Cooler and it is starting to dry out in our northernmost communities. Lower dew points are located there. The cold front continues to ease through. Well keep a 20 rain chance for the afternoon. Just a few spot showers, temperatures hit 79 in tampa as we go into the afternoon. Well tell you what you can expect and give you a preview for the upcoming weekend in a breaking news from jacksonville, were learning a robber is holding several people
Minutes. Our ongoing series spotlighting magazines continues today with the recent edition of Washington Monthly online. Steven rose our guest wrote this piece miss placed no stat gentleman for the good old days, are largely based on myth. Mr. Rose, so explain the myth that its based on. Sure. Theres two ways to look at it. Number one is the kind of rosecolored glasses in which we look at the past. As they say, things are worse today than they were in the past. So a lot of people evoke the 50s and the 60s as a time when somebody did this and everything was fine. In 1960 the overall poverty rate was 22 . The elderly poverty rate was 35 . While women made half of what men did and blacks made half of what whites did. So it wasnt so good old days. The comparable figures today is the overall poverty rate is 14 to 15 , the elderly poverty rate is 11 , and men women make 75 of what men make and blacks make 75 of whites. So the whole notion of how bad it is today relative to how good it was in
Our ongoing series spotlighting magazines continues today with the recent edition of Washington Monthly online. Steven rose our guest wrote this piece miss placed no stat gentleman for the good old days, are largely based on myth. Mr. Rose, so explain the myth that its based on. Sure. Theres two ways to look at it. Number one is the kind of rosecolored glasses in which we look at the past. As they say, things are worse today than they were in the past. So a lot of people evoke the 50s and the 60s as a time when somebody did this and everything was fine. In 1960 the overall poverty rate was 22 . The elderly poverty rate was 35 . While women made half of what men did and blacks made half of what whites did. So it wasnt so good old days. The comparable figures today is the overall poverty rate is 14 to 15 , the elderly poverty rate is 11 , and men women make 75 of what men make and blacks make 75 of whites. So the whole notion of how bad it is today relative to how good it was in the past