B Ortega

Builder of Things/Familia/Localist/#Zacatecano por la gracia de Dios/

[B Ortega @soybortega]

The Sovereign Individual Thesis:

The mass power of the nation-state is destined to be privatized and commercialized

It's happening right before our eyes

[B Ortega @soybortega]

So long as there is upward mobility across the generations America's more recent arrivals generally do fine

Upward mobility harder to do in other countries including those in Europe

[shefails2follow @shefails2follow]

@TheAliceSmith It's so foreign to an American because if your parents move here and have children, the children are American. Sure, you could be of Mexican descent (or whatever), but you're an American and we'll treat you like one. Not how that works in France, apparently.

[B Ortega @soybortega]

Likely why you do not hear our area's reps like Rob Kauffman and Doug Mastriano say too much on deportations in Franklin and Adams County, PA

Economic impact is real. Sometimes what is not said is more important than what is

[Camilo Montoya-Galvez @camiloreports]

ICE whiplash: ICE sources tell me officers received guidance to limit arrests to those with criminal histories.

But that was quickly rolled back, and DHS has now come out and said, "Anyone in our country illegally will be arrested and deported."

The backdrop here is important: Ahead of the midterms, some GOP lawmakers and business leaders have been expressing concerns about the political and economic consequences of ICE's crackdown.

But officially, the administration says its mass deportation policy has not changed: Those found to be in the U.S. illegally will be arrested, irrespective of whether they have criminal histories.

[B Ortega @soybortega]

Chambersburg PA

[LM @loyalmoses]

Download it now. Every one of you. Go!!!

Flock are tyrants, they all of a sudden want their “private” information kept offline when… remember their cameras are in the public.

Go download it. Don’t let them hide this.

https://t.co/vOELbFNegz

[cece @CeceRey]

try asking the eurpean americans since they claimed these occupations were being stolen from them.

it’s your time to shine, escargots!

[B Ortega @soybortega]

I understand now...parallels the founder vs. operator mode in tech

The Hamiltons/Madisons/et al. that today's originalists/strict constructionists look up to as the ones booting up the US, just as the likes of Joel Berry would likely look up to the Henry Clays/Quincy Adams, giving way to the great 19th-century industrialists, to scale up the country to compete with Europe...heavily relying on immigrant labor to achieve those means, which continues to this day

[B Ortega @soybortega]

@MrAlexisPereira Another generation or two Diwali will have an impact on many Americans and most will have no issue with it

Just as Dia de los Muertos does today

Just as St Patrick's Day did in years past

[B Ortega @soybortega]

@CStephen122023 @Newstalk1037fm Pennsylvania law requires millages to be rolled back so revenues are roughly the same
https://t.co/0D3m9troYk

https://t.co/MrKvW1G2qo

[B Ortega @soybortega]

A reassessment in Franklin County, PA wouldn't produce an across-the-board tax increase

Pennsylvania law requires jurisdictions to roll back millage rates so total revenue stays roughly the same as the prior year

Individual bills rise or fall based on how much each property’s value has changed relative to the county average since 1961

https://t.co/u7nPA7FGQB

[B Ortega @soybortega]

Source: https://t.co/rEhO98xJnu

[B Ortega @soybortega]

A reassessment in Franklin County, PA wouldn't produce an across-the-board tax increase

Pennsylvania law requires jurisdictions to roll back millage rates so total revenue stays roughly the same as the prior year

Individual bills rise or fall based on how much each property’s value has changed relative to the county average since 1961

https://t.co/u7nPA7FGQB

[Newstalk1037fm @Newstalk1037fm]

Your Big Talk with Attorney Clint Barkdoll also features Franklin County Commissioner John Flannery as Chambersburg Council sets the table to sue over countywide reassessment. Hear about that, the latest on a possible Fetterman oppo dump, and more. Hear it all on demand below.
💻https://t.co/rOtVqjmGoN

[B Ortega @soybortega]

Rosenbaum represents the 2nd ward which has one of the higher rates of homeownership in all the borough's wards (below):
https://t.co/0FE995kOBe

[Newstalk1037fm @Newstalk1037fm]

Chambersburg Councilmember Austin Rosenbaum asked, "why should the borough... of 23,000 residents, why should we be able to force this on the entire county population? I don't think that's right. That was not in our duties when we signed up, and whether we like it or not, it's the county's responsibility to do this when they see fit."
💻https://t.co/6EYI0hXWx3

[B Ortega @soybortega]

A reassessment in Franklin County, PA wouldn't produce an across-the-board tax increase

Pennsylvania law requires jurisdictions to roll back millage rates so total revenue stays roughly the same as the prior year

Individual bills rise or fall based on how much each property’s value has changed relative to the county average since 1961

https://t.co/u7nPA7FGQB

[B Ortega @soybortega]

@PMCMex @CoolGeographic @vileTexan Last sentence affirmed that...

[B Ortega @soybortega]

@BraydenRowe8 @theswordofmars @HueyR5475 Frijoles/corn tortillas are a $1/lb Modelo is cheap
And the foreman asks if I know anyone looking for work...suerte!

[B Ortega @soybortega]

@RyanMNeuhaus @SteveDeaceShow Do you really think the US justice system imposes the same universal moral code on the Trumps, Bidens, and Blankfeins (Brahmins) of the world as they do to some repeat offender (untouchable) in and out of the system and can't access a good lawyer? At least the Hindus admit it

[B Ortega @soybortega]

@CoolGeographic @vileTexan Crazier to think that a century before that it was all Hispanics

[PA Senate Library @PaSenateLibrary]

#OTD in 1784, Franklin County became an independent jurisdiction. The county was named after Benjamin Franklin.