LOOK... it's TouristSenator!!!
It shows up in more places than TouristGuy,
only with less style and substance...
she's Vaporware, just an empty crusty.
(Please spread me around like the parasite that i am...)
Posted on 01/17/2008 4:59:41 PM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
Sen. Clinton has inroduced legislation, S 1757, that allows some Puerto Rican residents who pay no federal income tax, to get child-credit refunds on their Social Security and Medicare taxes. Her bill has no cosponsors - not even her New York colleague Chuck Schumer.
If enacted into law, Hillary's tax refund plan could end up paying out more than $50 million over the next five years. She is framing her bill as a way to offer Puertan Rican residents the same child tax credits available to other Americans.
"Due to a quirk in the law, Puerto Rican households with more than two children are eligible to claim the refundable child tax credit, while households with only one or two children cannot." Hillary claims that "Providing this tax equity is good policy."
However, many pundits think that Clinton is simply playing politics. After all, Puerta Rican support is useful to her 2006 re-election, and would come in handy for a potential 2008 presidential run, as Peurton Ricans are born American citizens and eligible to vote when they move to the United States.
During her 2000 campaign for the Senate, her husband granted clemency to 15 members of the Puertan Rican terrorist group FALN, so this would not be the first time that the Clintons have pandered to the Puerto Rican constituency for support.
People have been asking Sen. Clinton what she has done to fight for the children over the past 35 years.
Why does she not bring this bill up in response? (rhetorical question)
It should not surprise anyone that she was for, then against, then for, then against drivers licenses for illegals.
IT’S COST THE TAXPAYERS $2.3 BILLION TO KEEP HILLARY IN THE SENATE
LA TIMES - To fuel her rise, Clinton has relied on the controversial funding device known as “earmarking.” The earmarks enabled her to win favor with important constituents, many of whom provided financial support for her campaigns. . . Since taking office in 2001, Clinton has delivered $500 million worth of earmarks that have specifically benefited 59 corporations. About 64% of those corporations provided funds to her campaigns through donations made by employees, executives, board members or lobbyists, a review by the Los Angeles Times shows.
All told, Clinton has earmarked more than $2.3 billion in federal appropriations for projects in her state since her election to the Senate, much of it for public works projects funded in conjunction with fellow Democratic Sen. Charles E. Schumer and others in the New York congressional delegation.
$2.3 BILLION TO KEEP HILLARY IN THE SENATE
Bill it to New York State, they voted for her.
Cuban “diplomats” and Puerto Rican Terrorists
News/Current Events News Keywords: ELIAN, CASTRO, RENO, HILLARY, PUERTO RICAN TERRORISTS
Source: The Miami Herald
Published: November 2, 1999 Author: Juan O. Tamayo
Posted on 04/19/2000 10:47:32 PDT by Prodigal Daughter
Published Tuesday, November 2, 1999, in the Miami Herald
Cuban linked to terrorists may get diplomatic visa
BY JUAN O. TAMAYO
jtamayo@herald.com
WASHINGTON — A Cuban diplomat linked to Puerto Rican terrorists will receive a U.S. visa to work in Washington once Cuba agrees to let in two State Department officials assigned to Havana, U.S. officials say. The FBI initially filed a formal veto to Fernando Garcia Bielsa’s assignment to the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, but later reviewed its decision and withdrew the objection, the officials added. Sen. Jesse Helms, R-NC, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has called Garcia Bielsa ‘’a notorious Cuban intelligence operative’’ and hinted at Clinton administration pressures on the FBI to reverse itself.
The State Department ‘’now has no legitimate reason to deny [Garcia Bielsa] a visa, but they’re waiting for reciprocity for the people waiting to go to Havana,’’ said one congressional source knowledgeable about the controversy.
The State Department and the Cuban Foreign Ministry maintain there’s no official link between the Garcia Bielsa case and the delays on Cuban visas requested by two State Department officials assigned to Havana.
REPORTED MEETINGS
U.S. officials said the FBI has intelligence reports showing Garcia Bielsa met often in Cuba in the 1970s with two radical Puerto Rican pro-independence groups, the Macheteros and Armed Forces of National Liberation, known as FALN. A wave of FALN and Machetero terror bombings around the United States in the early 1970s killed six people and wounded more than 60. Police suspect the Macheteros of four bombings that injured one person in Puerto Rico last year.
Garcia Bielsa was a top official of the Americas Department of the Cuban Communist Party in the 1970s, then tasked by President Fidel Castro with training and arming leftist guerrilla groups around Latin America.
The FBI based its objection of Garcia Bielsa on his 1970s meetings with the Puerto Rican radicals. Under U.S. procedures the veto would have forced the State Department to deny him a visa.
Queried by the State Department, the FBI later reviewed its evidence and procedures and decided that meetings alone were not enough to deny the Cuban a visa, congressional officials said.
FBI spokesmen declined to explain either decision. The Cuban Interests Section in Washington said only that Garcia Bielsa is still awaiting a State Department reply to his visa request.
LETTER TO ALBRIGHT
Helms, in an angry letter to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright Sept. 21, hinted that Garcia Bielsa had done far more than meet with the Puerto Rican radicals but offered no details. A conservative Washington magazine, Insight, three days later quoted a U.S. intelligence official as saying that Garcia Bielsa ‘’personally oversaw the funding and direction of the Macheteros.
Cuba has long been on the State Department’s list of nations linked to international terrorism, along with others such as Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, Syria and North Korea.
The 1998 list notes that while there was ‘’no evidence’’ Cuba sponsored any attacks in the previous year, ‘’it continues to provide sanctuary to terrorists from several different . . . organizations.’’
Among the some 90 U.S. fugitives alleged to be living in Cuba are several Machetero and FALN members and former Black Panther member Joanne Chesimard. Washington and Havana have no extradition agreement.
Note: The Puerto Rican terrorists involved in those crimes were pardoned by Clinto/Hillary to pander to the Puerto Rican vote in New York at the prodding of Castro’s long time apologist, Congressman Jose Serrano.
For more information please open www.cubanet.org/Cnews/y99/sep99/27e9.htm
A Visa for Castro’s Terrorism Chief in Washington? By J. Michael Waller, Insight on the News Online, Sep 24/99
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