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IMDB rating: 8.00 Plot: Magnolia is the study of nine lives in one day in San Fernando Valley, California. These nine lives all connect and revolve around the game show “What Do Kids Know?”(WDKK), where a team of three kids play against adults and everytime the show is on, there is a new team of adults and the kids remain; if they won the previous game. Earl Partridge (the late Jason Robards) produced “WDKK” when it was first on in the late 60s. He is dying of brain and lung cancer and is being taken care of by Phil Parma (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a male nurse. Linda, Earl’s trophy wife (Julianne Moore) starts to fall in love with Earl for real, despite her cheating. Earl, rapidly dying on his bed, asks Phil to find his estranged son, Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise), who grew up hating Earl and now runs a seminar for single men, which teaches them how to seduce a woman and leave her… The host of “WDKK”, Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall), is also dying, but not as rapidly as Earl. He has a very rocky relationship with his daughter Claudia (Melora Waters), who sniffs crack 24/7 and accuses her father of sexually molesting her. Police Officer Jim (John C. Reilly) goes to Claudia’s house after getting called about a disturbance. He falls in love with her right away… Stanley Specter (Jeremy Blackman) is a contestant on “WDKK”, who is a genius and is being used by his father to make money. If Stanley and his team keep winning, they will set a record on the show and get tons of money. The record Stanley is trying to beat is the 1968 record set by Donnie Smith (William H. Macy), who had the exact same childhood when he was on the show and has now grown up to be a pathetic loser. He’s been recently fired from his job, and is trying to find his way into happiness… |
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Actors: Cruise Tom,Healy Pat,Flannagan Mark,Macy William H.,Flynn Neil,Hoffman Philip Seymour,McLachlan Rod,Graf Allan,Hall Philip Baker,Oswalt Patton,Blackman Jeremy,Gonzales Raymond ‘Big Guy’,Drama,
Does illegal immigration drain the state's budget?
JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - It was the nation’s largest single site raid on undocumented workers.
And when nearly 600 workers were rounded up at Howard Industries in Laurel, it was clear that illegal immigration is no longer just an issue for border states.
"Really, we’re people looking for opportunity," said Roberto, an unauthorized immigrant who works at a Jackson construction site.
But others say, unauthorized workers are a drain on the state’s budget.
In 2006, then state-auditor Phil Bryant issued a report analyzing the costs and population trends of the state’s unauthorized immigrants, estimated to number between 35,000 and 50,000.
Now Lt. Governor, the Republican official has a strong stance on the issue.
"There’s no excuses for it. You cannot violate the law," said Bryant.
The most recent report of its kind, its most significant finding is Mississippi’s "inability to accurately quantify the costs of illegal immigrants" because most agencies don’t record citizenship status.
Still, the report estimates undocumented immigrants cost the Magnolia state $69 million a year in health care, education, public safety, and remittance losses, but contribute $44 million a year through sales and income tax.
That’s an estimated net cost of $25 million each year.
And although schools and hospitals can’t ask for citizenship status, a spokesperson for the University of Mississippi Medical Center tell WLBT that nearly 1300 uninsured patients didn’t have an ID, social security card, or visa in the fiscal year 2008, costing UMC $1.2 million dollars.
Still, that accounts for less than 5% of all patients treated.
"I think that illegal immigrants- people who are not here legally- do pose a cost that is greater than any benefit having them here may have," said Sam Atkinson, director of the performance audit division of the state’s auditor’s office.
But Bill Chandler, of the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance, claims, for every migrant worker in the U.S., one and a half more jobs are created for Americans.
"Undocumented workers or immigrants of any kind are not the reason our economy is bad," said Chandler. "We’re talking about banks on Wall Street that have created the unemployment situation."
And then there’s the controversy over whether unauthorized immigrants should be counted in the census.
"Here’s the trouble: redistricting," said Bryant. "If for example, we’re determining who gets another congressman, Mississippi lost a congressman. So if we’re saying Arizona or California is going to get a new congressman based on illegal immigrants, that’s wrong." said Bryant.
We are not here to take away any jobs or to invade their cities or countries, that we are here to live together, to work for a better country," said Velez.http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=1 1522743
We are not here to take away any jobs or to invade their cities or countries, that we are here to live together, to work for a better country," said Velez.http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=1