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UFB Newsletter Issue #071 Illegal Aliens August 30, 2007 |
The Key To Family Business Success Understanding Family Business brings you articles and tips from Family Business Experts who understand family values and business systems. If you like this e-zine, please do a friend and us a favor and pass it on. If a friend did forward this to you, and if you like what you read, please subscribe at...
August 30, 2007 Issue #071 Illegal aliensOn the macro level, every American is being impacted by the immigration problem. As citizens, we are all being held hostage by politics and politicians who will not act to secure our borders, will not enforce the immigration laws already on the books, and will not stop the financial attack on our economic system (medical, welfare, etc) caused by illegal aliens.
Number of Illegal Aliens in the Country 21,068,096 Money Wired to Mexico City since January, 2006 $36.7 billion Cost of Social Security Services for Illegal Aliens since 1996 $397.5 billion Number of Children of Illegal Aliens in Public Schools 4.1 million Cost of Illegal Aliens in K-12 Since 1996: $ 14.5 billion Number of Illegal Aliens Incarcerated 344,314 Cost of Incarcerations Since 2001 $ 1.5 billion Number of Illegal Alien Fugitives 655,821 Skilled Jobs Taken by Illegal Aliens 10.1 million
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Family eBusinessRetirement and Passion...No!! We're not resorting to supermarket tabloid tactics and sleazy headlines to titillate you! Yes, we could have logically put this topic in the Family Business section of the newsletter... our article on Succession Planning Obstacles shows how succession planning can't move ahead unless the retiring parent's financial needs and interests are provided for. So, how does that succession planning obstacle tie in with family ebusiness? Simple. After financial security, retirement is about pursuing... interests, passions, things that have been left on the sidelines while the family and family business were the prime focus. Exploring interests, writing about them, sharing them with others... even making money from them!... A web site these days, perhaps even a web business... Watch this short video and see how one retiree combines SBI and his passion about amateur radio.
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